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Uffington White Duck Those zany National Truss People really had me going then. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/second-chalk-figure-discovered-near-uffington-white-horse?campid=Social_Central_Twitter_Conservation_Duck-010417 |
Posted by Howburn Digger1st April 2017ce |
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Environment Agency LiDAR - open data "From September 2015 all our LIDAR data will become Open Data and everyone will be able to use it for free." Although primarily used for flood risk assessment, there will be lots of archaeology to see. https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/16/free-mapping-data-will-elevate-flood-risk-knowledge/ |
Posted by thesweetcheat16th July 2015ce |
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English Heritage to become charity by 2015 English Heritage has been given £80m in the government's Spending Review as part of plans for the organisation to become a charity. Some of the £80m awarded by the government will help to set up the charity so it will be fully operational by March 2015. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23064356 |
Posted by Chance28th June 2013ce |
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English Heritage and British Museum commission study into illegal metal detecting English Heritage and the British Museum are so alarmed they have commissioned a £100,000 study into the practice. It could lead to new legislation to combat offenders. Spotted at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/08/nmetal108.xml |
Posted by Robert Carr 10th July 2007ce Edited 10th July 2007ce |
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Some information that may be of use to TMA-ers looking at OS maps of England and Wales, from "Field Archaeology - Some Notes For Beginners Issued by the Ordnance Survey" (1963 - Fourth edition), chapter entitled "Tumuli": "Today the term tumulus is reserved for those earthen mounds either known or presumed to be covering burials. Formerly a class of larger mounds, now known to belong to early medieval castles also received this name in error ..., but now are given their correct technical description or are described as 'Mound' in the appropriate type. All piles of stones are called cairns whether their funerary character is known or not, but the use of an 'antiquity' type will mean that the Survey believes it to be sepulchral. In some very lofty situations it will be obvious that they are not graves. Where a mound has a local name which clearly indicates the belief that it is a burial place the descriptive name tumulus is not added." |
Posted by thesweetcheat 20th January 2009ce Edited 20th January 2009ce |
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ADSYou can download EH's Archaeological Monograph on 'The Neolithic Flint Mines of England' (1999) by Topping, Barger and Field, from the ADS website. |
Posted by Rhiannon12th December 2014ce |
Ancient CraftAncient craft is dedicated to the archaeology of primitive crafts and technologies that encompass the three prehistoric ages: STONE; BRONZE and IRON. This includes working with materials such as stone (also known as "flintknapping"), wood, bone, horn, leather, metals and cloth (plant fibres, and wools). Follow Ancient Craft on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AncientCraftUK |
Posted by Chance 8th April 2014ce |
Portable Antiquities Scheme Database"The Scheme's database holds records of artefacts and coins found by the public, whilst pursuing a wide range of activities (the majority from metal detecting). We do not record details of objects found by archaeologists, and these data can be found within the local Historic Environment Office." "The half a million objects recorded mark was reached on March 21st 2010." |
Posted by Chance 25th July 2012ce Edited 25th July 2012ce |
Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and SitesA Lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, at Hereford, September, 1921, by Alfred Watkins Download complete book in pdf format |
Posted by Chance 10th July 2010ce |
Grave-mounds and their contentsGrave-mounds and their contents a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt Published in 1870, Groombridge (London) Download the complete book in pdf format |
Posted by Chance 25th March 2010ce |
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Cerne Abbas Giant (Hill Figure) — News |
Cerne Abbas Giant: Snails show chalk hill figure 'not prehistoric'Snails have shown an ancient naked figure sculpted into a chalk hillside is unlikely to be prehistoric as hoped, archaeologists have said. Tests of soil samples extracted from Dorset's Cerne Abbas Giant to determine its exact age have been delayed by the coronavirus epidemic. They are not due until later in the year. However, land snail shells found in the samples suggest it may date to medieval times, separate tests have found. More: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-53313064 |
Posted by ryaner8th July 2020ce |
Old Castle Hill (Stone Row / Alignment) — Links |
The Smell of Water - Haredale |
Posted by fitzcoraldo5th July 2020ce |
The Rollright Stones (Stone Circle) — Links |
Taylor and Francis OnlineThe Rollright Stones and their Folklore, by Arthur J Evans. From Folklore v6, 1895. More folklore and etymological speculation about the stones than anyone can handle. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
The Hoar Stone (Chambered Tomb) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Througham (Long Barrow) — Miscellaneous |
Witts, in his 'Archaeological Handbook of the County of Gloucester' (1883) says:It is 100 feet long, its greatest width being 50 feet, and height five feet; its direction is east and west, the highest portion being towards the east. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Pole's Wood South (Long Barrow) — Links |
The British MuseumA little pottery vessel found at the east end of the barrow. It's only about 10cm across. Check out the variety of impressions made to decorate it. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Pole's Wood South (Long Barrow) — Images |
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Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Eyford (Long Barrow) — Links |
The British MuseumThe lovely flat shale bead found in the long barrow at Eyford. I love a nice shale bead. Imagine how nice it would feel in your hand. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Twizzle Stone Long Barrow — Miscellaneous |
| Not really tea-time viewing, but I've posted a photo of an apparently 'trephinated' skull found in a long barrow at Bisley (perhaps this very barrow... it's a bit confusing). It was found by Dr. W. H. Paine from Stroud, in 1863. We read: "this is only a partial trephination, the operation having been abandoned either on account of the death of the patient or an unwillingness on the part of the priest-doctor to proceed with it." How about the unwillingness of the patient?! This 1923 paper by Thomas Parry even has some photos showing his (patientless) experiments into how it might have been done. A fascinating and ghastly subject to ponder on. |
Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
Twizzle Stone Long Barrow — Images |
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Posted by Rhiannon 1st July 2020ce |
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