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Gloucestershire |
Iron Age coins found in 1990s declared treasure troveA hoard of 17 Iron Age coins has been declared treasure trove by a coroner. More Info : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-61348636 |
Posted by drewbhoy9th May 2022ce |
Cambridgeshire |
Flag Fen Iron Age roundhouse building work is under wayWork is under way on a replica Iron Age roundhouse on a large Bronze Age causeway dating back 3,500 years. More info : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-61322631 |
Posted by drewbhoy 6th May 2022ce |
Eildon Hills |
Archaeologists dig into Eildon hillfort's secretsSome of the country's leading archaeologists have spent the week on top of one of the south of Scotland's most iconic hills. More info : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-61258228 |
Posted by drewbhoy 2nd May 2022ce |
Callanish (Standing Stones) |
Report of damage at the Cnoc An TursaVia Facebook, report and images of damage (presumably fire) at the Cnoc An Tursa. :-( https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=386260970177129&set=pcb.386261190177107 |
Posted by 1speed19th April 2022ce |
Margaret Curtis obituaryMegalith enthusiast who did much to further understanding of the Calanais stone circle and other ancient sites of the Isle of Lewis Mike Pitts When Julian Cope, the musician and antiquary, met Margaret Curtis on the Isle of Lewis in the 1990s, he was impressed. Curtis, who has died aged 80, was a “living legend” and a “psychic queen”, said Cope, who filled him with “a real sense of awe”. He devoted a chapter in his bestselling 1998 book The Modern Antiquarian to her and to Calanais, one of the most extraordinary ancient monuments in Europe. Near the Atlantic coast in the remote Outer Hebrides, Calanais (pronounced as in the anglicised spelling, Callanish) is a stone circle at the centre of five rows dating from around 3000BC. The tallest of nearly 50 megaliths is over five metres high, and all are made of a distinctive streaked gneiss that glows against stormy skies. Curtis did much to further understanding of this and other overlooked sites on Lewis, becoming the island’s unofficial archaeologist and sharing her enthusiasms with an appreciative visiting public. She found many more stones under the peat as she walked the moorland, probing with a metal bar. One, at Calanais itself, was re-erected in 1982, and she spotted the broken tip of another in a wall. Archaeologists sometimes followed up her suggestions. Patrick Ashmore, who led excavations at Calanais for what is now Historic Scotland in the 1980s, praised the fieldwork and record-keeping of Curtis and each of her two husbands. On one occasion, quartz pieces she found when a road near her house was straightened led to the discovery of a bronze age burial cairn. More: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/07/margaret-curtis-obituary |
Posted by ryaner7th April 2022ce |
Highland (Mainland) |
Search for hunter-gatherer sites high in the CairngormsA new project has been set up to help uncover ancient hunter-gatherer sites high in the Cairngorm mountains. More info : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-60755710 |
Posted by drewbhoy 17th March 2022ce |
News |
The Old Stones of the North Exhibitionhttps://teessidepsychogeography.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/the-old-stones-exhibition-march-2022/ |
Posted by fitzcoraldo2nd March 2022ce |
Highland (Mainland) |
New Caithness broch will reach 50 feet and follow plans devised in 600BCIf Ken McElroy gets his way, a very unusual feature will soon be added to the wild Caithness landscape at the northern edge of mainland Britain. He plans to re-create a 50ft-high iron age “skyscraper”, known as a broch, one of the most intriguing and mysterious types of building ever constructed in the British Isles. More info : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/20/new-caithness-broch-will-reach-50-feet-and-follow-plans-devised-in-600bc |
Posted by drewbhoy 21st February 2022ce |
Fyfield Down (Natural Rock Feature) |
Fyfield Down in Wiltshire delisted as a nature reserveOne of Wiltshire’s most important wild landscapes has been delisted as a nature reserve. Fyfield Down, just east of the famous stone circle at Avebury, was leased to the Nature Conservancy (a predecessor of Natural England) in 1955 and declared an NNR in 1956. It has been described as the “best assemblage of sarsen stones in England”. The site lies within the Avebury World Heritage Site and the North Wessex Downs AONB. https://tinyurl.com/mr2smb2 |
Posted by moss17th February 2022ce |
Ness of Brodgar (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) |
‘Every year it astounds us’: the Orkney dig uncovering Britain’s stone age cultureArchaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artefacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition If you happen to imagine that there’s not much left to discover of Britain’s stone age, or that its relics consist of hard-to-love postholes and scraps of bones, then you need to find your way to Orkney, that scatter of islands off Scotland’s north-east coast. On the archipelago’s Mainland, out towards the windswept west coast with its wave-battered cliffs, you will come to the Ness of Brodgar, an isthmus separating a pair of sparkling lochs, one of saltwater and one of freshwater. Just before the way narrows you’ll see the Stones of Stenness rising up before you. This ancient stone circle’s monoliths were once more numerous, but they remain elegant and imposing. Like a gateway into a liminal world of theatricality and magic, they lead the eye to another, even larger neolithic monument beyond the isthmus, elevated in the landscape as if on a stage. This is the Ring of Brodgar, its sharply individuated stones like giant dancers arrested mid-step – as local legend, indeed, has it. More: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/15/orkney-ghosts-of-past-world-of-stonehenge-british-museum?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other |
Posted by ryaner 15th February 2022ce |
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