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18 posts Aveline's Hole Cave / Rock Shelter	1 post Banner Down Long Barrow Long Barrow (Destroyed)	7 posts Banwell Bone Caves Cave / Rock Shelter
3 posts Banwell Fort Hillfort	18 posts Bathampton and Claverton Downs Standing Stones	11 posts Bathampton Camp Hillfort
6 posts Bathampton Downs barrows Round Barrow(s)	1 post Beacon Barrow Round Barrow(s)	1 post Berwick Hillfort
5 posts Burledge Hill Hillfort	7 posts Cadbury Camp (Nailsea) Hillfort	5 posts Cadbury Hill (Congresbury) Hillfort
1 post 2 sites Charmy Down Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork	1 post Claverton Down Barrow Round Barrow(s) (Destroyed)	5 posts Cleeve Toot Hillfort
25 posts Dolebury Warren Hillfort	1 post Durley Hill Henge	1 post Englishcombe Manor Barrow Round Barrow(s)
5 posts Felton Hill Longbarrow Long Barrow	1 post The Giants Graves Cist (Destroyed)	2 posts Hayes Wood Enclosure Enclosure
1 post Herriotts Bridge Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork (Destroyed)	1 post High Barrow Hill Round Barrow(s)	1 post Hinton Charterhouse Barrow Round Barrow(s)
1 post Knowle Hill Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork	22 posts 9 sites Lansdown	37 posts Little Solsbury Hill Hillfort
1 post Loxton Hill Barrow Round Barrow(s)	34 posts Maes Knoll Hillfort	1 post Monkswood
12 posts Nempnett Thrubwell Long Barrow	1 post Nempnett Thrubwell Round Barrow Round Barrow(s)	6 posts Portbury Standing Stone / Menhir
1 post Radstock Round Barrow(s)	2 posts Redhill Long Barrow	2 posts Redhill Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
17 posts Round Hill Tump Round Barrow(s)	6 posts Sand Point Round Barrow(s)	1 post Shoscombe Long Barrow Long Barrow
11 posts Stantonbury Hillfort	121 posts Stony Littleton Long Barrow	13 posts Temple of Sulis Sacred Well
4 posts 1 site Tunley Farm Hillfort	9 posts Walborough Round Barrow(s)	1 post Wallmead I and II Round Barrow(s)
1 post Walton Common Hillfort	7 posts The Water Stone Burial Chamber	3 posts 5 sites The Weddings at Stanton Drew
1 post Winford Big Barrow Round Barrow(s)	1 post Winford Twin Barrows Round Barrow(s)	35 posts Worlebury Hillfort
9 posts Yarberry Farm Standing Stone / Menhir

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Dundry Stones Stone Row / Alignment

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Nempnett Thrubwell Horse Barrow Round Barrow(s)

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Three Shire Stones (Reconstruction) Burial Chamber

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'Britain from the air' - street exhibition in Bath

For anyone who lives within travelling distance of Bath, this street exhibition is well worth catching - in the square by Bath Abbey:

http://britainfromtheair.info/

Sponsored by Ordinance Survey and wecommunic8... continues...

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Posted by tjj
12th September 2010ce

Edited 12th September 2010ce

Free lecture on Monkswood Hoard

"The Monkswood hoard was found in the St Catherine's valley near Bath during the construction of a reservoir in the 1930s. It contains 38 pieces of Bronze age metalwork... continues...

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Posted by Rhiannon
7th February 2009ce

Ancient Landscapes, Pastoral Visions

Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists..
An exhibition that has opened at the Victoria Gallery, Bath.

Paul Nash's Eclipse of the Sunflower is there, also Druid Landscape, Megalithic Landscape and work by Graham Sutherland, and The Ruralists of course who lived in Wiltshire, Inshaw painted Silbury and the Owl... continues...

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Posted by moss
31st July 2008ce

Edited 1st August 2008ce

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Stony Littleton (Long Barrow) — Fieldnotes

Fortune favours the old.

This years winter solstice has obligingly fallen on a Sunday for me, quite a feat as any other day and I would miss it, so even though I've been at work before 5am all week, I'm happy to get up even earlier and drive the drive on my own down to Somerset, and seeing as I hit fifty last month, happy chance benefits the aging.

Even though I went too far on the M5 and ended up going the long way round Bath and Bristol, I still got to the custom made car park for Stoney Littleton before sunrise. But it was full, a motor home gleefully took up half of it and five cars took up the rest. Consternation.
I knew there would be other people here, but I expected to be able to park. So I did, in a one car space along side the road further up. Then I walked back to the car park, crossed the little foot bridge, and went up the hill.

It's been such a long time since I was last here, so long ago that I don't have any digital photos of the place, it was a winter solstice that last time too, but it was a grey day and the sun never showed up. So with a mix of blue sky and fluffy whites I was feeling pretty fortunate. As I pass the sign pointing to the mound I can see there are indeed other people here, A guy with a cowboy type looking hat stands atop the chamber, as I pass over the stile I start to hear things, a heart beat? the rhythm of the universe perhaps? I approach the entrance of the chamber, there's a woman in an oilskin coat, we nod at each other, the noise is louder now, the heart beat has quickened, the pulse of nature? No.
It is a twat with a drum, funny, there was a plonker with a drum here last time too, and he spoke like a Bristolian too, grooooan does he come here every year and take up the end of the passage, I think this is the case.

So, bereft of the best seat in the house, I walk round the structure, stand on top of the structure, then pick a spot to stand by the entrance and wait for the sun. It finally arrives at about a quarter to nine, quite late right? The chamber is on a slight hill looking up the hill, so you have to wait for the sun and when it gets here it wont be a big beautiful orange ball, but rather a bright white light, this presumably was intentional, they didn't want the faint wan light of first rising, but the strong light of a risen sun.
Just then a bloke erupted from the chamber, he looked at me, I looked at him, then I looked at the open entrance, and in I go. My chamber was the first on the right, opposite me was a woman, the mate of the bloke that just left, then she left, uncomfortable alone in the dark. Further into the passage I suspect each chamber has a body in it, the drummer takes up the back of the passage, the best seat in the house. An older man then comes past me making for the light at the end of the tunnel, so I move deeper into the chamber and take up a seat in the middle left chamber. The sun is doing it's thing, it looks phenomenal streaming along the passage and lighting up perfectly some twat with a drum, I decide upon some photos and then exit the chamber myself, am I reborn, can I see the place in a new light, hard to tell, so I go on walkabout to see the place from a different field. Up hill the walk takes me, then round and then back, not a long walk, always keeping the chambers entrance in sight, when I get back it's all empty and I'm alone with the edifice, I get into every chamber, and finally take up the best seat in the house. It's wet, dripping, they were definitely not sitting on the floor. Oddly, maybe, the bit I like best inside the passage is where it narrows to the width of a slim man, me. Purpose made.

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