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blog of 2009 dig

A little article about recentish surveying of the many earthworks, illustrated by photos and maps. It’s no wonder it seems confusing up there.

All the details about the remains of this fort which is situated just east of the highly spectacular ruins of Findlater Castle.

Webpage describing the latest discovery.

Wikipedia page.

Some aerial images of the fort.

Many digital images and descriptions of many finds from the Bronze/Iron age, Roman and more recent.

Entry about the undated defended enclosure

Alexandra Shepherd’s extended notes for the many findings. Lots of helpful pictures and diagrams, plus a map showing some of sites surrounding the barrow. Great stuff!

A handy .pdf file in English, kindly provided by the ‘Friends of The Parc La Mutta’. In a box by the car-park, there are laminated printouts of the file, which is nice.

All of their finds at this site.

Three out of four stones and no pictures.

“This chapel is built on a definite platform which could have been made originally for the pagan temple. But the chapel we see today was built in the expansionist 1300’s. Wessex first became Christian around 800. It seems unlikely that a pagan temple could still be active 500 years after the conversion of Wessex to Christianity, so today’s building presumably replaced an earlier Christian structure.

It would be interesting to try to guess the original pagan dedication. We suspect that Abbotsbury was the site of a Roman villa, if only because it is one of a small number of sites in Dorset – indeed in Britain – that are very fertile and have easy access to navigable water; in this case, the Fleet, a 10 mile stretch of semi-tidal water that runs behind the Chesil beach from Portland harbour. The Roman Army in Britain depended heavily on sea borne transport for its supplies, so Abbotsbury might have been a military farm providing grain for the garrisons at Exeter, Chester, Dover and Colchester. It is possible that the visible foundations of the medieval mill in the village are Roman. The Fleet is famous today as the home of a herd of swans who used to belong to the Abbey (a swan is theologically a fish and can be eaten on Friday). They are known to have lived here for at least 600 years.”

All the exact measurements for the unfinished fort.

Some more aerial images.

Several excellent aerial photographs on this site.

An english description of this search facility: raa.se/cms/fornsok/about_fornsok.html

The interface is only in swedish. «Län» and «Landskap» makes it possible to select geographical locations.

The scheduling and rescheduling of this ancient fort. Good aerial photography.

The magnificent Gilded solistice’s light Butterfly.

Another look to Ancient Ligurian’s Rites.
An Archeoastronomical site.

All the technical stuff, finds and most importantly the OS references! Funny at the end they say this site has 3 scheduled kerb cairns, yet in their descriptions they count more. Strange!