From E L Barnwell’s ‘South Wales Cromlechs’ in Archaeologia Cambrensis January 1874.
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Rhiannon
From ‘Excursions in South Wales’ by Mr and Mrs SC Hall, in the Art Journal for April 1859.
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From Archaeologia Cambrensis, October 1846.
“The size of the Buckstone is about twenty-two feet extreme length, as seen in the sketch; on the top it is nineteen feet long by thirteen feet wide, and about fifty-three feet in circumference. Its height is thirteen feet, and in figure is somewhat of an inverted pyramid poised on its apex, which is about three feet in diameter, where it touches the pedestal.”
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From the Saturday Magazine, July 28th 1832.
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From Edward Pugh’s ‘Cambria Depicta’ (1816).
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From Edward Pugh’s ‘Cambria Depicta’ (1816).
Artistic license explained in ‘folklore’ entry.
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From ‘Cambria Depicta’ by Edward Pugh (1816).
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From ‘Cambria Depicta’ (1816) by Edward Pugh.
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It’d be nice enough to have one wedge tomb. But two in a small area? Oh no, there’s not two here, or three, but FOUR.
and...
also a cup marked stone... and a holy well. It’s enough to wear you out. All within 100m.
One of the tombs looks quite visible and upright. For the others, the stones are quite embedded in the bog? – photos and descriptions are available through the Historic Environment Viewer.
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From ‘The dolmens of Ireland’ by WC Borlase, 1897.
archive.org/stream/dolmensirelandt00borlgoog#page/n49/mode/1up
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From Archaeologia Cambrensis, January 1864.
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From Archaeologia Cambrensis, October 1866, in an article by Hugh Pritchard.
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From ‘Cromlech, Bodowyr, Llanidan’ by W Wynn Williams in Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1869.
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From ‘The Portfolio’, v20, January 1889, in an article on Dartmoor by J LL W Page.
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From ‘Dartmoor’ by J LL W Page, in ‘The Portfolio’, January 1889 (v20).
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From ‘Dartmoor’ by John Ll W Page in ‘The Portfolio’ v20, Jan 1889.
Note traditional inclusion of casually placed rustic.
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From ‘Celtic Monuments’ by ELB in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Jan 1861.
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From ‘Grave mounds and their contents’ by Henry Longueville Jones. In Archaeologia Cambrensis, October 1870.
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From an article about the Cheesewring in Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1896.
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From Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1896, in an article about the Cheesewring.
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A beautifully crisp drawing in an article about an excursion to the Cheesewring, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1896.
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A beautifully crisp sketch in a report on an excursion to the Cheesewring, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, July 1896.
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From: The Cheesewring, Kilmarth Rocks and Trevethy Stone, Cornwall. Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Jan 23, 1836, 28-29.
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From: The Cheesewring, Kilmarth Rocks and Trevethy Stone, Cornwall. Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Jan 23, 1836, 28-29.
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THE CHEESEWRING, KILMARTH ROCKS, AND TREVETHY STONE, CORNWALL.
Knight, Charles (ed.). Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Mar.1832-Dec.18455.244 (Jan 23, 1836): 28-29.
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From The English illustrated magazine 181 (Oct 1898): 48-51, in a jolly article called ‘Rocks with Funny Faces’. There’s also a photo of Brimham’s ‘Dancing Bear’ rock which I do hope still exists.
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From ‘The Four Stones, Old Radnor’ by Richard W Banks, in Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club 1886-1889.
archive.org/stream/transactionsofwo86wool#page/212/mode/2up
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If this is the right place, it’s quite a different view from today’s. From “On the St Lythans and St Nicholas’ Cromlechs and other remains near Cardiff.” JW Lukis, in Archaeologia Cambrensis 6.22 (April 1875).
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From “On the St Lythans and St Nicholas’ Cromlechs and other remains near Cardiff.” JW Lukis, in Archaeologia Cambrensis 6.22 (April 1875).
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From The Celtic and Other Antiquities of the Land’s End District of Cornwall’ by Richard Edmonds. In Archaeologia Cambrensis 3.11 (July 1857).
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From ‘The Celtic and Other Antiquities of the Land’s End District of Cornwall’ by Richard Edmonds. In Archaeologia Cambrensis 3.12 (Oct 1857).
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From ‘The Celtic and Other Antiquities of the Land’s End District of Cornwall’ by Richard Edmonds. In Archaeologia Cambrensis 3.12 (Oct 1857).
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From ‘The Celtic and Other Antiquities of the Land’s End District of Cornwall’ by Richard Edmonds. In Archaeologia Cambrensis 3.12 (Oct 1857).
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From ‘Cromlech on Mynydd Cefn Ammwlch, Caernarvonshire’ in Archaeologia Cambrensis vol. 6, April 1847.
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From From ‘Rodda’s Guide to Penzance...’ by the Rev W S Lach-Szyrma (6th edition 1894).
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Labelled ‘Men-An-Tol’ but evidently the Tolvan Stone. Pedants will insist it is a ‘men an tol’ nevertheless. Perhaps that child is about to get passed through.
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From ‘Rodda’s Guide to Penzance...’ by the Rev W S Lach-Szyrma (6th edition 1894).
access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv365fcacb
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From ‘Rodda’s Guide to Penzance...’ by the Rev W S Lach-Szyrma (6th edition 1894). access.bl.uk/item/pdf/lsidyv365fcacb
Mr R and I went to Treryn Dinas (and both drew it) last summer. It was one of the most superb places I have ever been and I cannot recommend it enough.
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This is taken from Archaeologia v2, opp. p360.
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From archive.org/stream/briefhistoricald00lamp#page/n65/mode/1up
- A brief historical and descriptive account of Maidstone and its environs, by S C Lampreys, 1834.
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The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, 1862.
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from the August 25th 1827 edition
books.google.co.uk/books?id=iHEEAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA233
- it seems like a pretty sensationalist publication. Nothing changes.
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From the article in the ‘links’ section, 1880.
This is how he spotted the barrow:
“Most of the members of the Society, being in carriages, kept to the roads. I was on horseback, and in taking a short cut through Buckholt Wood, with my mind intent on archaeology, I suddenly saw before me a huge mound! I rode to the top of it, and around it, and after a careful examiniation, came to the conclusion that it was a Long Barrow, and a very perfect one. Before many hours were past, in fact before I returned home that night, I had obtained permission, through the kindness of Lady Cromie and Mr. W.F. Beach, to have it opened and examined, and had also obtained [...] promises of funds sufficient to commence the work.”
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archive.org/stream/magazineofnatura03londuoft#page/426/mode/2up
From the Magazine of Natural History, v3 (1830), possibly reproduced from ‘A geological survey of the Yorkshire coast’ by George Young.
Includes two people pointing.
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