Looking east from the edge of the stones. Those to the right are buried under the bracken. The square central setting is at the bottom of the picture.
Chris Collyer
An interesting rock by the gate to the Sanctuary. Anybody have any ideas about it?
3rd September 2002. The earthwork is almost impossible to make out at certain times of the year and under different light conditions. RG’s picture is much clearer!
The Avenue is the faint double line from the middle to the bottom right corner of the picture. Photo taken from the New King’s Barrows.
The two barrows at the northern end. Photo taken from The Avenue.
Round barrow to the south of the western end of the Cursus in Fargo Plantation.
Looking east along the line of the cursus from the western terminal. Its sides are marked by the trees to the left and the hedges to the right.
Bell Barrow. Contained an elm coffin with skeleton, Breton type urn, 2 bronze daggers and a bronze awl.
Bell barrow. 54metres x 4 metres. Contained a wooden box with cremation and 2 daggers, bone pin and tweezers.
Group of bowl-barrows beside the A360, with a large disk-barrow in the foreground.
I’ve bumped up the contrast on the photo to make the dagger (centre, just above rock in foreground) a little more visible.
The graffitti above says -
‘ION: LUD: DETERRE‘
Back in the early ‘90’s Heads had to contend with a rickity wooden fence that used to ‘protect’ the 26 ton chunk of millstone grit.
The fence is now long gone.
The 3 sections of the Panorama stone in their iron prison.
