The film documents a small research excavation carried out at Glastonbury Lake Village in 2014.
The site is the best-preserved prehistoric settlement ever discovered in the UK.
Waterlogged peat ensured the incredible preservation of Iron Age wooden structures.
Cadw CGI reconstruction......
Like a tortoise’s carapace, new technology reconstructs Pentre Ifan.
Twice yearly, around the time of the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes, the rising sun sends a ray of light into this 5,650 year-old monument.
The spectacle is visible for a week or more either side of the actual Equinox and the light takes a slightly different course through the barrow each day.
Clear sunrises are not common: this was the only one of September 2013.
Video by Steve Marshall
Inspiring new generations?
This is how I like my popular art.... analogue synthesizers... and the Tursachan!
Incidentally..... the Ultravox video that first inspired me to one (small) day make the pilgrimage to Callanish is (@April 2021) here:
youtube.com/watch?v=NL3CNiKtaYY
Thank you, gentlemen.
Michaela Strachan relates some spooky stories (and what sounds like the coblynau) in her ‘Great British Ghosts’ series (begins 13 minutes in).
Came across this flyover video of Stowe’s Pound. Shows Stowe’s Pound nicely in the landscape.
Josh Pollard talks about new National Trust research at Avebury.
Presentation from Megalithic Portal Live event at the Bullring 30/7/2011 of Kirsty Whitalls Archaeology Bsc dissertation regarding the barrow at the bullring, including resistivity survey results which were “not diagnostic of a barrow”. Interestingly her magnetic survey also had issues (see link for EH geofizz survey at bullring)...
Short video I produced featuring Hordron Edge stone circle in the Peak District (inc night timelapse). A real hidden gem.
Short film I made of the wonderful St Lythans. Easy to find … detailed on most road atlases or follow Juilan’s directions in TMA
Room 101 from the movie 1984 showing Oliver’s Castle and the Roundway landscape
