I really liked this, it’s a very good barrow in a lovely location. I haven’t been to many long barrows that look out over the sea.
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October 11, 2026
Big skies over the barrow at NZ77171390, October 2024.
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Stone visible on top of the barrow at NZ77171390.
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Another fine barrow at NZ77171390, the northern of a pair in the middle of the moor.
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The top of the round barrow at at NZ77121381.
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Barrow at NZ77121381, looking west-ish.
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Fine round barrow at NZ77121381, one of a pair in the middle of the moor.
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Decent round barrow at NZ76721367.
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Round barrow at NZ76721367, towards the western end of the group. Looking south-ish.
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Visited on glorious Autumn day 10.10.26. I dowsed the energy lines here and powerful line running north south through the false entrance stone and into the barrow
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Information board about the barrow, spelling out that this is an ancient sacred site.
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The barrow looking north with protective stones now placed to stop people driving over it
Photo taken 10.10.26
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Visited 10 October 2026. Much damage through tyres tracks running right over the barrow..To the extent that several boulders have been placed over the barrow to prevent further damage.
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October 9, 2026
An abandoned gatepost with visible hinge at around NJ 93628 54597. Nice tall stone, I wonder if it had a megalithic usage. I think it’s the same one Thelonious wondered about back in 2012.
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October 8, 2026
“In a churchyard on Boa Island, you can still look the old gods in the face. They watch you in silence. They want to speak to you of their power.”
Join Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney as he explores the islands of Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. He encounters an ancient and mysterious stone statue and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like. The monastic round tower of Devenish Island is a reminder of those early Christian missionaries who, “startled the nature gods and put them to flight.”
This is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders.
Originally broadcast 14 June, 1972.
October 7, 2026
A metal detectorist has revealed his “quite extraordinary” discovery of a second Bronze Age hoard in the Scottish Borders.
Mariusz Stepien found his latest haul of 3,000-year-old treasure in 2022 at a spot seven miles from where he discovered the Peebles Hoard in 2020.
October 5, 2026
October 4, 2026
Long zoom on Hinderwell Beacon from Stang Howe round barrow, which is inter-visible with both Danby Beacon on the moors and Hinderwell Beacon on the coast.
Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2024)
Long zoom on Danby Beacon from Stang Howe round barrow, which is inter-visible with both Danby Beacon on the moors and Hinderwell Beacon on the coast.
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Looking down Borrowby Dale, which frames the coastal hilltop location of Hinderwell Beacon round barrow, distant centre.
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