In the Reliquary, for 1905.
archive.org/stream/reliquaryandill13unkngoog#page/n285/mode/1up
where the designs are likened to some of the carvings in the Wemyss Caves.
themodernantiquarian.com/site/774/wemyss_caves_the_court_cave.html
This could be less fuzzy. But I’m always a sucker for photos of visitors to sites in ages past.
Here we have “Mr Benjamin Harrison, a worker whose long-continued researches in and around his native village have been attended with interesting and valuable results.” Also he “has been a most industrious and patient collector of palaeolithic and neolithic implements of undoubted authenticity.”
From The Reliquary, January 1905.
archive.org/stream/reliquaryandill13unkngoog#page/n39/mode/1up
From ‘The Holed Stones of Cornwall’ by J T Blight, in Archaeologia Cambrensis October 1864, p292.
The stones marked are A) “At the base of the westernmost block lies the stone which Dr. Borlase speaks of as the ‘cushion or pillow.’ Twenty-one feet to the north west is another prostrate stone (B), and six feet from it an upright block (C) 3 ft 4 inx. high. From the positions of these stones it seems probable that they are the remains of a circle.”
So says Mr Blight; you would have to make your own mind up.
From ‘The Holed Stones of Cornwall’ by J T Blight, in Archaeologia Cambrensis October 1864, p292.
From ‘The Holed Stones of Cornwall’ by J T Blight, in Archaeologia Cambrensis October 1864, p292.
From the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, v43 (1927).
I suppose this photo is technically still in copyright. But I hope Mrs Keiller wouldn’t mind as it’s in the right spirit.
You can read about the excavations here
archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo431925192#page/n295/mode/2up
A casual visitor at the North stone.
In ‘The Naturalist’ for 1903.
archive.org/stream/naturalist1903west#page/34/mode/2up
From Naenia Cornubiae (1879), by William Copeland Borlase.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/25/mode/1up
Maybe the style of this suggests the 18th century W. Borlase??
From William Copeland Borlase’s ‘Naenia Cornubiae’ (1879).
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From a photograph by Mr. Lobb, of Wadebridge. In ‘Naenia Cornubiae’ by Willam Copeland Borlase (1879)
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From William Copeland Borlase’s ‘Naenia Cornobiae’ (1879) – the original sketch by “J.T. Blight, Esq., F.S.A.“.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/47/mode/1up
So sad this enormous structure doesn’t look like it does in the sketch. Perhaps the next person to visit could just pop the capstone back up.
Can’t believe I missed this when visiting the fantastic Giant’s Rock, which can’t be far away.
In ‘Naenia Cornobiae’ by William Copeland Borlase
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From ‘Naenia Cornubiae’ by William Copeland Borlase (1879).
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
Two stones in William Copeland Borlase’s day, it would seem, but only one now? or is the drawing showing a bit of artistic license and the other still remains?
“..the tallest (13 feet 6 inches in height) on the summit of the beacon hill, and the shorter (eight feet high) on a less elevated slope, some eight or nine hundred yards to the east. Both these stones are spar stones, common to the country, rudely pitched on end in the ground, the largest of the two inclining considerably to the north.”
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
Is the taller one still there but fallen over?
William Copeland Borlase’s sketch of the stones in 1871, in Naenia Cornubiae.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
You’d think this must be the right stone, but it looks much more grand in this drawing than in the photo (the top seems to match though). William Copeland Borlase says it stands 11 feet 6 inches and nearly 20 feet round, but was only 6 inches into the ground (rather frightening).
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From Naenia Cornubiae.
From William Copeland Borlase’s 1879 ‘Naenia Cornubiae‘
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From William Copeland Borlase’s 1879 ‘Naenia Cornubiae‘
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From William Copeland Borlase’s ‘Naenia Cornubiae’ (1879).
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From William Copeland Borlase’s 1879 ‘Naenia Cornubiae‘
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/277/mode/1up
From William Copeland Borlase’s ‘Naenia Cornubiae’, 1879.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/280/mode/1up
Illustration in William Copeland Borlase’s 1872 ‘Naenia Cornubiae’.
archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/278/mode/2up
From volume three of John Britton’s ‘The Beauties of Wiltshire’ (1825).
From The Archaeological Journal, volume 31 (1874).
archive.org/stream/archaeologicaljo31brit#page/n12/mode/1up
From ‘Travels Round Our Village’ by Eleanor G Hayden (1902).
archive.org/stream/cu31924029931296#page/n151/mode/1up
From ‘A guide to the antiquities of the early iron age of central and western Europe’ (a British Museum guide), 1905.
In WAHM volume 52, 1947.
archive.org/stream/wiltshirearchaeo52hage#page/270
From Richard Colt Hoare’s ‘Ancient Wiltshire’.
history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/gettextimage.php?id=1886
Snappy view from the churchyard, looking NNE-ish.
Snappy view, looking Northish. The mound is on the other side of the water, rising up on the left. The river is somewhere off towards the right.
From volume 2 of Joel Cook’s (US) travelogue of England, 1900.
archive.org/stream/cu31924088013788#page/n199/mode/2up
From the Journal of the British Archaeological Society, v42, 1885.
archive.org/stream/journalofbritish41brit#page/n259/mode/2up
From an article in Proc Bath Nat Hist + Antiq Field Club (1903).
archive.org/stream/proceedingsofbat10bath#page/318/mode/1up
Miss Noble’s plan from 1902, reprinted in The Naturalist (1903) archive.org/stream/naturalist1903west#page/228/mode/1up
but her original paper is in the Trans. Cumb. and Westmorland Antiq. and Arch. Soc. 1903, p265.
From v7 of ‘Science Gossip’ (1901).
archive.org/stream/sciencegossip07lond#page/194/mode/1up
From ‘Science Gossip’ v7, 1901.
archive.org/stream/sciencegossip07lond#page/193/mode/1up
Very orderly sheep in front of the figure, in Science-Gossip magazine, December 1899.
archive.org/stream/sciencegossip0667lond#page/199/mode/1up
From the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1872.
archive.org/stream/proceedings18some#page/n67/mode/2up
From Archaeologia Cambrensis, v2 (third series), 1863.
archive.org/stream/archaeologiacam32moorgoog#page/n123/mode/2up
A photo from c 1906, from volume 20 of the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club.
From an article about the nearby cairn, in the 1887 edition (v4). This picture can be found on the Welsh Journals Online website.
welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:2919943/llgc-id:3007332/llgc-id:3007376/get650
From an article in the volume for 1887.
welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:2919943/llgc-id:3007332/llgc-id:3007368/get650
From v10 of the Reliquary, 1904.
archive.org/stream/reliquaryillust02unkngoog#page/n74/mode/2up
From The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, v12 (1906).
archive.org/stream/reliquaryillust00unkngoog#page/n62/mode/2up
From his ‘Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall’ (1769).
books.google.co.uk/books?id=R2dTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA346
From v2 of ‘The Dolmens of Ireland’ (1897).
archive.org/stream/dolmensofireland02borl#page/372/mode/2up