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… untrodden Ceredigion.

Some would have you believe Pumlumon is a boring, sodden wilderness... and not an upland cairn aficionado’s dream destination.

Cairnucopia... upon Rippon Tor, Dartmoor

A summer moment upon the Bronze Age summit cairn of Pen y Garn, Cwmdeuddwr Hills. Don’t be deceived by the blue sky... it was freezing.

The large Bronze Age cairn can be seen beyond, to the approx south-west.

Glorious – if rather wobbly – panoramic views from the great cairn upon Carneddau Hill

Might as well be on another planet.... Ground Control to Major Tom.............

A very rough shufty of what it’s like upon Carn Hyddgen...

The folktale from the stones enacted (followed by Ronald Hutton).

YouTube report by thejournal.ie on the discoveries at Brú na Bóinne in summer 2018, with some good footage of the excavation at Dowth Hall.

YouTube video of a talk by Dr. Stefan Bergh, surveyor and excavator at Mullaghfarna.

Documentary film (11:14 m) on this reconstructed circular earthwork. In German only, but with some great shots by drones.

Survey work by David Strange-Walker of Trent & Peak Archaeology and Marcus Abbott of ArcHeritage. Thanks to Dr Steve Davis of University College Dublin, and the Office of Public Works, Ireland, for funding this project.

This is a very British (i.e. a somewhat awkward, but rather endearingly so) trumpeting of the stone. The besuited Mr Chadwick is an accomplished musician in his other videos, so it must be nice for him to add Blowing Stone to his list of instruments.

I was struck by how similar the sound is to the carnyx – like those on the Gundestrup cauldron (you can hear some on this video ) – or is that just me overthinking things :)

Computer reconstruction of Roman Baths Temple Courtyard

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

Link from Aerial-Cam; Rather beautiful tourist video of the achaeology of Orkney. Enjoy.

What’s the meaning of Stonehenge?

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.

Tara Lidar HD.

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.