Brochure of the area with aerial view and maps.
Rhiannon
Grimspound features in one of Richard Long’s time/space-spanning artworks: “Dartmoor Time”.
Great Gnat’s Head cairn features in one of Richard Long’s time/space-spanning artworks: “Dartmoor Time”.
The Caburn – Hillfort or ritual enclosure? Article by Mike Haigh.
Article on and diagram of the site.
Summary of the excavation of a causewayed enclosure found at St Osyth’s in Essex.
The Gray Hill Landscape Research Project: A stone circle, possible stone row or standing stones and prehistoric cairns were known on the hilltop, but a GPS-based assessment survey carried out in 1999-2000 by Graham Makepeace on behalf of Monmouthshire County Council identified many more archaeological features..
The distinctive outline of Burnswark.
Aerial photograph of the hill.
Tyne and Wear’s Historic Environment Record is now online. Click on the magnifying glass icon to take you to the search page.
Aerial photo of the headland fort.
This photo shows the hills rising clearly above the rest of the landscape. There was a Roman fort on the northernmost – but do you think these imposing landmarks escaped our earlier ancestors? Of course not :) There are still traces of burial cairns, the previous Iron Age fort, and if you want to see the Bronze Age axes once found hereabouts they are now apparently at stcuthbertsway.fsnet.co.uk/add29.html – the Three Hills ‘Roman’ Heritage Centre.
If you are at Kit Hill you may like to visit Dupath Holy Well just to its south. It’s managed by the Cornwall Heritage Trust, and has a reputation for curing whooping cough (should you have such an affliction).
In search of Boudica at The Gop – an article by Paul Parry.
Views of the stones on Peter Hodge’s website.
Photos and information – plus (if your computer can take the pace) circle effortlessly above your favourite monuments with an aerial video clip.
“A brief history of the summer solstice at Stonehenge – Andy Worthington looks at the literal and ideological battleground.”
A report on the rich results of the prehistoric ‘Raunds Area Project’, from the Nov 2003 magazine.
Alan Saville describes his excavation of a flint knapper’s skeleton in this article in the snappily titled ‘Favourite Finds’ series.
Paul Bahn’s article on the long awaited discovery of Ice Age art in Britain.
David McOrnish explains the range of activities that may have been associated with cursuses, in this article from March 2003.
A short piece on the cursus at Stanwell by John Lewis.
In the magazine’s ‘Great Sites’ series, an article by Stephen Aldhouse Green on the palaeolithic ‘Red Lady’ burial.
Mike Pitts’s article about archive material relating to the Sanctuary, and interpretations of the site. (Feb 2000)
As part of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (CWAAS) Website:
The Clare Fell Memorial Bursary – money awarded to under-25s hoping to undertake a project relating to Cumbrian prehistoric archaeology (or of another region, so long as they live in Cumbria).
Plan of the area. Part of research at Bournemouth University, with contents page at apollo5.bournemouth.ac.uk/knowlton/
Map of the enclosures – you can see WK longbarrow in red to the west, the stream, field boundaries and roads to orientate yourself by.
This page shows Stukeley’s imagined reconstruction of the cove on the Beckhampton avenue. He believed ‘Adam’ was the remaining stone of the cove – in his day there was another stone nearby that was fallen, and he knew a third was ‘already defroyed by Richd. Fowler’.
Eve is not part of the cove, but a remaining stone of the avenue.
Some of the barrows on North Down.
Aerial view of the enclosure.
Aerial view of the site.
Troubles surrounding the Millennium celebrations at Mayburgh.
Mike Haigh’s article on the cairn.
You can just about see the stone in the photo on this webpage. The page describes a walk to Loudoun Hill – if you visit Darvel you won’t be able to miss this striking hill which dominates views to the east: an unusual landscape feature which must surely have caught the eye of our prehistoric ancestors. Check out the photo at the Sorbie Family’s webpages:
sorbie.net/hill_photo.htm
Photos of the cup-marked stone in its dramatic bay.
The record says “There can be no doubt that these markings are artificial and, while several of them are unusually large, the presence among them of many small circular cups, indistinguishable from prehistoric cup-markings, suggest that the whole assemblage may be prehistoric in origin (RCAHMS 1980). ”
The artist Paul Nash painted Wittenham Clumps many times – they had great symbolic significance for him. There is another painting of the clumps on this page: bhikku.net/archives/03/jan03.html (scroll down to see ‘Landscape of the Summer Solstice’).
You may find his work interesting and well worth exploring as he visited and painted many of our ancient landscapes.
David Stokes’ comprehensive webpage has masses of information about the local area and its legendary? historical? site of the battle of Ethandun. He mentions that he played at the stone as a child: he knew that it was stained red, from all the Danes that were beheaded there.
He says it is a different rock to any found locally: I have tentatively changed the category from ‘natural rock feature’ to ‘standing stone’ to reflect this.
A magnetometer survey was carried out on behalf of the Avebury World Heritage Site Management Officer to accurately locate the barrow so it could be ‘removed from cultivation’.
Listen to Aubrey Manning’s ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the tri-radial cairns of Northumbria.
About 20 have been found (some are at Lordenshaw. The three arms of the cairns are aligned in the same way; one pointing north and the others at 140 and 240 degrees (SE and SW). That means they could be pointers to the mid-summer and midwinter sunrise and sunset. It’s thought that they’re Bronze Age.
Listen to Aubrey Manning’s ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the Amesbury Archer, plus extra interviews.
Listen to the ‘Unearthing Mysteries’ programme on the mines presented by Aubrey Manning.
A 360 degree view of the stones taken from the centre of the circle.
A photo clearly showing the earthworks of Rybury.
A snowy aerial photo of the barrow, from the Window On Wiltshire’s Heritage website.
Photos and fieldnotes from the castle and surrounding area.
Herefordshire’s searchable Sites and Monuments Record.
A Victorian photograph of ‘Sinodun’, from the EH ‘ViewFinder’ database.
A puckery aerial photograph of the flint mines, from EH’s ‘ViewFinder’ collection.
A bird’s eye view clearly showing the Avenue leading to the stones (only to be cut across by the road). From EH’s ‘ViewFinder’ database.
An aerial view from the EH ‘Viewfinder’ database.