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November 14, 2003
November 11, 2003
Bill Thayer has put the text of this Victorian antiquarian’s book onto the internet. In places he has kindly linked back to this site. Though I don’t think George Witts himself thought of this.
[With thanks to Bill Thayer himself for updating this link].
November 5, 2003
Poldowrian Site and Archaeological Museum
Poldowrian is a multi-aged site ranging from the late Mesolithic to the Iron Age (c5,500-200BC), situated between Coverack and Kennack Sands, (NGR SW 74851690).
It was discovered in 1967 by the late Mr Peter Hadley and Mrs Hadley who had moved to the farm in 1964. Mr Hadley had always felt that the area had possibilities for archaeological discoveries with its close proximity to the Lankidden Iron Age Cliff Castle and a cliff fire in 1967 was to be the beginning of remarkable discoveries.
Description and directions
Description, directions and opening times
Article about the modern stone carvings
Description, references etc
Description and directions
Lots of details about the bronze age bridge found at Testwood Lakes, including how you can see the artifacts discovered, and so on....
November 4, 2003
This website has a photo and some information on the fort.
I don’t know what the fairies would think of what was done in 1953: to mark the coronation trees were planted to form ‘ER’ when seen from the air.
A panorama of Moel Arthur and surrounding landscape.
Aerial photo, artist’s reconstruction, information and access details.
October 30, 2003
Aerial photo and some archaeological details.
October 29, 2003
Masses of information on stone tools and technology.
More on the double sunset viewed from Leek.
Although the place to view it from today is Glutton Bridge.
A picture of the stones at Auldearn – maybe once part of a stone circle. The area has stories of witchcraft connected with it (but as most confessions of witchcraft were extracted with torture I am loathe to credit them with any truth).
A photo of the site. Five large stones remain upright.
October 25, 2003
A really nice site which gives reliable directions to many sites.
October 21, 2003
Photograph from 1902 of this stone circle, it is only visible in periods of severe drought, and some fieldnotes.
Mosley Height stone circle in all its glory in words and pictures
October 20, 2003
As the name suggests, this is the official (contemporary) Bodrifty Iron Age Settlement home page. It includes photos of the reconstructed round house and a plan of the site and links to more info (such as the invaluable Building a Roundhouse page).
October 17, 2003
A site about the findings of a joint project run by Archaeoptics and Wessex Archaeology who scanned some of the Stonehenge sarcens with lasers to record the known rock art. In the process of the survey they found some new carvings.
October 16, 2003
A brief description of the site indicating the site’s origins.
October 11, 2003
This page from a travel site is of interest because it shows a picture of the cairn on top of Maeve’s Tomb in 1999 (About 2/3 of the way down the page) as well as an account of a visit to Carrowmore Cemetary.
Compare the cairn in 1999 with the 2003 picture:
themodernantiquarian.com/post/20158
October 10, 2003
Acres of browsing and research: search for online articles, journals and their location etc. plus a wealth of links.