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From “An Account of a Barrow with Kist-Vaen, in the Parish of Sancreed, Cornwall” by J Blight, in Archaeologia Cambrensis July 1864.
Image credit: J T Blight
Image credit: Lieut.-Col. Forbes Leslie.
Image credit: Originally from Borlase?
From volume 45, 1912 – ‘Archaeological Gleanings From Killin’.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’, in PSAS v45 1912.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’, in PSAS v45 1912.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’, in PSAS v45 1912.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’, in PSAS v45 1912.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’, in PSAS v45 1912.
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From the 1912 v45 of PSAS, in ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’ in v46 of PSAS.
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From ‘Archaeological Gleanings from Killin’ in v46 of PSAS.
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From ‘Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire’ 1869 – Ancient Arwystli.
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The two arrowheads found in 1855, as Postman mentions.
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From series 2, volume 5 of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society Proceedings.
From ‘The Cup and Ring Stones on the Panorama Rocks, near Rombald’s Moor, Ilkley, Yorkshire’ by Nathan Heywood. In ‘Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society’ v6, 1889.
From ‘The Cup and Ring Stones on the Panorama Rocks, near Rombald’s Moor, Ilkley, Yorkshire’ by Nathan Heywood. In ‘Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society’ v6, 1889.
From HW Young – The Graves of Ardkeiling, Strypes, Elginshire, N.B., Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 3 (1897:Jan.) p.41
From HW Young – The Graves of Ardkeiling, Strypes, Elginshire, N.B., Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 3 (1897:Jan.) p.41
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From ‘Cup Marked Stone found near Edinburgh’ in The Reliquary Oct 1897.
“It has now been lifted from the ground and removed to an adjoining toolhouse, where it now lies.” (I do hope it’s somewhere safer now ??)
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From ‘Cup Marked Stone found near Edinburgh’ in The Reliquary Oct 1897.
“It has now been lifted from the ground and removed to an adjoining toolhouse, where it now lies.” (I do hope it’s somewhere safer now ??)
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Which stone is this? I’m confused about Panorama stones completely. How can this be west of the panorama stone but also be the panorama stone... bother.
In the text it talks of three stones in a line about 100yards west of the Panorama stone – and that this is one of them. And it was 10ft by 7ft, at least when properly uncovered. And it sounds like it got moved to behind some railings opposite St. Margaret’s church in Ilkley. Poor Mr Allen reports, it was DEPLORABLY chopped up into several pieces to do so.
From ‘The Cup-and-Ring Sculptures of Ilkley’ by J Romilly Allen, in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1896.
I’m guessing this is the Badger Stone. The drawing is from ‘The Cup-and-Ring Sculptures of Ilkley’ by J Romilly Allen, in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1896.
At least I can recognise this one.
From ‘The Cup-and-Ring Sculptures of Ilkley’ by J Romilly Allen, in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1896.
The text says ‘About 150 yards west of the Pancake Rock is a stone with cups, rings, and connecting grooves distinctly visible (see fig. 2).
From ‘The Cup-and-Ring Sculptures of Ilkley’ by J Romilly Allen, in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1896.
(Which tma page does this match, if any ? (sorry)
From ‘The Cup-and-Ring Sculptures of Ilkley’ by J Romilly Allen, in the Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, 1896.
The text says “A quarter of a mile south of the Cow and Calf, higher up the moor, on the comparatively level plateau above Pancake Ridge, is the sculptured boulder shown on fig. 1. It is 1,000 feet above the sea, and is 15 feet long by 12 feet broad by 6 feet high. A central ridge runs along the whole length of the stone, and on the sloping surfaces on each side are carved between forty and fifty cups, in at least nine cases surrounded by a single ring.”
(Does anyone know which tma page this should be on?!)
From David Macritchie’s ‘Two Midlothian Souterrains’ in The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist 1899.
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From ‘Dolmen des Pierres Plattes, Locmariaquer’, in the Illustrated Archaeologist 2 p251 (1894).
Image credit: F S Tremlett
From ‘Dolmen des Pierres Plattes, Locmariaquer’, in the Illustrated Archaeologist 2 p251 (1894).
Image credit: F S Tremlett
The prominent barrow at the edge of Scratchbury. Cley Hill is on the horizon behind.
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From ‘The Archaeological Journal’ for 1854 – the article all about the tump is at archive.org/stream/archaeologicaljo11brituoft#page/n367/mode/1up
Another drawing shows an imaginative ‘cut-away’ of the chambers.
From A D Robertson’s ‘Druidical Altar, Craigmaddie, Parish of Baldernock, Stirlingshire’, in the Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society v2, 1883.
From the Rev’s ‘Reliquiae Diluvianae’ (1823). You can see the skeleton next to its mammothy companion. Curiously the drawing shows a skull, yet it wasn’t in the Oxford museum??
I was inspired to find this after watching the superb ‘History of Ancient Britain’ on the BBC with the intrepid Neil Oliver, who abseiled down to the cave.
Image credit: William Buckley
‘This drawing was made anno 1776, and communicated by Major Hayman Rooke.
From v2 of the Antiquarian Repertory (1808).
From Francis Grose’s ‘Supplement to the Antiquities of England and Wales’ (1777). They look very exotic don’t they, a bit like pineapples. The caption says ‘The Bartlow Hills, raised over the Slain after the Victory obtained here by Canute King of Denmark, over King Edmund Ironside, in the Year 1016’.
This 1755 picture of the rings appears in Francis Grose’s 1777 ‘Supplement to the Antiquities of England and Wales’. I feel a bit irked that I overlooked this place when I visited Maiden Castle last year. I blame it on the totally roman-centric brown ‘amphitheatre’ signs everywhere. (plus no research on my part).
That’s a gallows on the horizon which is a bit ghastly. Grose says that the bank is “somewhat injured on the side next the gallows, by the trampling of men and horses at executions... At Mrs Channing’s execution (A D 1705) there were supposed to be 10,000 spectators present, who filled the sides, top, and area of this work...” Very unpleasant.
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This must be one of the casualties of the last couple of centuries, as it features in the Rev. John Skinner’s ‘Ten Days’ Tour through the Isle of Anglesey’ (1804), but its site doesn’t seem to get a mention on Coflein.
It’s interesting because it’s very near the cromlechs at Presaddfedd, and JS suggests this could have been a two-chamber structure too.
I took two sketches of a very perfect cromlech the upper stone measuring about three yards across supported by two uprights the larger six feet high the other not above four and a half which cause the cap stone to recline in a slanting direction. Another long stone now lying on the ground appears to have been formerly used as a supporter. Near at hand also are three or four flat stones lying promiscuously.
Whether these were ever employed int he formation of a second cromlech like at Praes Addfed I cannot pretend to determine.
From the Rev. John Skinner’s ‘Ten Days’ Tour through the Isle of Anglesey’ (1804).
Here are the stones looking considerably more upright. You can also see the three stones from the ‘Llanfechell Triangle’.
From Rev. John Skinner’s ‘Ten Days’ Tour Through the Isle of Anglesey’ (1804).
Prior to the undignified shoring-up. As with the other drawing I’ve posted, you can see extra large stones that don’t seem to be anywhere around any more. The poor long-suffering structure.
From Rev. John Skinner’s ‘Ten Days’ Tour through the Isle of Anglesey’ (1804) – he describes one of the extra stones as 17 feet long and 3 thick.
How it looked Before, courtesy of the Rev. John Skinner and his 1804 ‘Ten Days’ Tour Through the Isle of Anglesey’.
[The owner’s gardener] accompanied us over the fields to the object we came in search of. We here found three immense stones two of them above fifteen feet high and nearly the same in width standing upright in the ground, another of a flatter form leant against them.
I cannot imagine there is anything artificial in the arrangements of these ponderous bodies but that their position is one they were placed in by the hand of nature. Whether they ever were or were not employed by the Druids I do not pretend to determine. And here we may observe the word cromlech is applied by the Welsh indiscriminately to stones either natural or artificial if they are only found inclining in such a direction that there is a hollow underneath.
From the Rev. John Skinner’s ‘Ten Days’ Tour through the Isle of Anglesey’ (1804).
Image credit: sketch by John Skinner
From ‘Ten Days’ Tour Through the Isle of Anglesey’ by the Rev. John Skinner (1804).
I have endeavoured to be as exact as I could in my drawings of this cistfaen (which without doubt it was) and employed as the grave of some considerable personage in ancient times, though Mr Rowlands appropriates the carnedd to a very different use and connects it with the religion of the Druids.
In his time three skeletons were discovered in digging near the surface of the carnedd which gave him an idea of its being a place of sacrifice but he had never an opportunity of viewing the interior (the opening having been discovered within these few years) he was unable to speak with certainty on the subject.
Can you imagine him all squashed up with his notebook in the chamber, sketching away? (while his brother, no doubt, wondered when he’d be finished). He lived not far from me and if I was alive 200 years ago I would invite him for tea, I think he’d have been cool. He didn’t like talk of fairies though, he said ‘I could only be silent when I heard these opinions [about fairies and knockers in the mines]’ and was surprised the stories were believed by Gentlemen and not just peasanty locals.