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We make videos covering history and folklore of ancient sites in Wales. Here is one we made on The Hanging Stone. Hope you enjoy :)

Video covering the folklore and legends of this site

So what do you call a hill topped by a large cairn/barrow? How about Cairn/Barrow? That’ll do.

Just goes to show you never know what’s up there, do you?

The transmitter station is offputting, granted. But then the cairns were here first.........

If you happen to be passing… use your loaf: there’s a hill fort up there. No, really.

If you decide to come check it out … see if you can find an easier approach!

A monument fit for a king? Nah, it’s much better than that.

Boy did they try... but they couldn’t destroy the ‘sense of place’ of this one....

Pretty ironic that perhaps the largest monument in the area is the one no one can see… or almost no one.

Seek and ye shall find, as they say

Sometimes you just can’t see the monument for the trees.........

Certainly a ‘long barrow’, to be fair

The site is tricky to photograph so I made a short video. Like me it lacks focus at times.

If the midges don’t get ya... the vibe will.

Not marked upon the map... and all the better for it

Short video of the excavation and recording of the tomb before resealing.

Taken from the website of Robjn Cantus – Inexpensive Progress. If you like/love Paul Nash’s artistic work it is fascinating. But also as a historical footnote. Enjoy.

youtube.com/watch?v=DyqIDGDPTqw

Tiptoe through the bluebells. No hang on, that’s not right. But it’ll do.

Didn’t think I’ll like it – but I did

Recommended should one perhaps fancy a respite from this ‘brave new world’...

Not many Wombles up here on Frensham Common... but plenty of wombats. Nevertheless, four impressive round barrows, together with some nice views.

Breathing Life into the Embers at Knock Iveagh – The Importance of Community Guardianship in Protecting Heritage at Risk.

The Friends of Knock Iveagh came together in September 2017 following the discovery of the erection of an unauthorised telecommunications mast and flawed Planning Approval for a single wind turbine adjacent to a Scheduled Neolithic hilltop burial cairn on Knock Iveagh, Rathfriland, Co. Down. The Friends are a group comprising working parents with a shared interest in archaeology, Gaelic history, Irish mythology, built heritage, and music.

This video explains the background to our campaign & the importance of Knock Iveagh as the central point of a ritual landscape. It also details the many challenges we have faced as a community group navigating #systemfailni , provides information about new research into the area by Eamonn Kelly and gives details of the Friends’ significant new archaeological discoveries in South Down.

#saveknockiveagh

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