Frances Scott's photo shows you that the split stone is pretty big.
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Michaela Strachan relates some spooky stories (and what sounds like the coblynau) in her 'Great British Ghosts' series (begins 13 minutes in).
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Shape-shifting: the changing outline of the long man of Wilmington.
An article by Rodney Castleden, in the Sussex Archaeological Collections 140.
The figure was bricked in 1873, and there was some argument about what the proper outline should be. It had long been grassed over but could still be seen albeit indistinctly - in 1800 it was called 'The Green Man'. The earliest known drawing comes from 1710.
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The very lean-to stone mentioned in Halliwell-Phillipps's book, taken by 'Trepolpen', plus other photos of the carn - the ones without people in shot belie the size of the stones.
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A description of the Round ('called the Cryglas') when it was more intact, in J O Halliwell-Phillipps's 'Rambles in Western Cornwall' (1861).
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Pitt-Rivers himself dug into the settlement here, as he describes in his Wiltshire Arch. + Nat. Hist. Magazine article of 1894. A modern summary of the site is on Pastscape.
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A photo taken by George Love Dafnis in 1925.
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Information plus videos of work at the site.
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A particularly superb thing about this archive is the 'Query' section, via which you can bring up photographs of many wonderful things.
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Carl Weaver's photo of the stone.
Christopher Tilley and Wayne Bennett's article "An Archaeology of Supernatural Places: The Case of West Penwith" suggests that there are two 'solution basins' on the west side of the granite.
J of the Royal Anthr. Inst., v7, no.2 (Jun 2001).
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Glass beads from between the fourth and first centuries BC, which were probably made at the Meare Lake Village site in Somerset.
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A Middle Iron Age brooch from Moel Hiraddug.
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Photos and information about the Wizard's Stone.
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I rather like how this website also takes the 'show sites' and gives them their own map for each region.
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Don Clode's photo of the chambered cairn.
Canmore's description here says the largest stone is 6 feet high, and formed the south side of the cairn's polygonal inner compartment.
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Discoveries in a Barrow in Derbyshire. In a Letter from Hayman Rooke, Esq. to Mr. Gough.
An article from Archaeologia v12 (1796).
The barrow was on the summit of Fin Cop.
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Some neat little drawings of the stones, in an article by W Wynn Williams called 'Early Remains at Penrhos Lligwy, Anglesey' - in Archaeologia Cambrensis v13, s3 (1867).
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William Borlase's descriptions of his excavations at the fogou between 1863 and 1867, in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London (series 2, volume 4).
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From the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, v3 (1856) - strange sounding barrow-like and subterranean excavations up on Therfield Heath. In all likelihood not as old as the barrows? - although flint tools were found in one, interestingly. But maybe inspired by them and their location?
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The Sites and Monuments Records for Denmark.
Click 'Kort' to search by map, or 'Tekst' to type in a place name or choose a period of (pre)history. Think of the usefulness in planning your megalithically themed Danish holiday :)
For the folklore obsessive, the most exciting section is here. Yes it's in Danish. But many hours of translationy fun could await.
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This hill, it has a meaning that is very important for me, but it's not rational. It's beautiful, but when you look, there's nothing there. But I'd be a fool if I didn't listen to it.
-- Alan Garner.
...I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn...
-- William Wordsworth.
Some interesting websites with landscape and fairy folklore:
http://earthworks-m.blogspot.co.uk
http://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.co.uk
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