The other cave entry/exit. It is astonishing to think that the tunnel through is entirely natural.
Image credit: Jimit 2014
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The cave entrance and small car park.
Image credit: Jimit 2014
Possible Mid-winter sunrise alignment? Camera height 1M so a slight stoop needed. Orientation 140 degrees which is fairly close to the sunrise at 133 degrees. A coincidence?
Image credit: jimit Feb 2013
A friend of mine took this when snowed in on the A303.
Image credit: Jimit Jan 2013 (Taken by Austin Pollard)
A friend of mine took this when snowed in on the A303.
Image credit: Jimit Jan 2013 (Taken by Austin Pollard)
A possible “alignment” to the mid-winter sunrise?
Image credit: Jimit Dec 2012
Is that a face simulcra in silhouette on the left?
Image credit: Jimit Aug 2012
The tree has been tided up somewhat but wouldn’t it have been better to remove it altogether? The little bridge has gone.
Image credit: Jimit Aug 2012
The sudden descent of a sea mist gave the barrow the appearance of a Dartmoor tor.
Image credit: Jimit Aug 2012
Main ditch section.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Main ditch section.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
3 of the post holes.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Post hole.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Post hole with internal ditch in the background.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Quarry Pit.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Quarry Pits.
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
North at top. Orange, Main ditch. Blue, Quarry pits.
Parallel green N/S, Internal Ditch. Diagonal white at top,Drainage ditches?
Image credit: Jimit Oct 2010
Where the modern road cuts through the bank.
Image credit: Jimit March 10
Bank and ditch on N side.
Image credit: Jimit March 10
Bank and ditch on N side.
Image credit: Jimit March 10
Info board near car park.
Image credit: Jimit March 10
Stephanorhinus? Extinct rhinoceros bone which shows scrape and transverse cutting marks made during defleshing.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
The native European Mink.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
A large bone (Rhino?) split and scraped for its marrow.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
Roe deer were present at this time.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
One of the large herbivores found in abundance in this area at the time.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
A hammerstone with abrasion marks on the left. Now hemispherical but originally spherical. Were the depressions on the right fingerholds?
Image credit: Jimit July 09
Boxgrove Man’s tibia (replica) on left with a modern (plague victim!) man’s tibia for comparison.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
Comparative sizes of 4 of the c450 cutting tools found on site. It has been surmised that the middle top one is a practice one by a child.(Electronic lighter for scale. Other types still use Palaeolithic technology to create a spark!)
Image credit: Jimit July 09
The rather unprepossing site. In the Paeleolithic a cliff would have risen diagonally across the picture with a small lake very roughly where the shed is. The round white patches are the previous excavations.
Image credit: Jimit July 09
Looking W with the re-sited track in the foreground.
Image credit: Jimit April 09
Looking E with IA bank and ditches in the foreground.
Image credit: Jimit April 09
Ploughed out IA bank and ditches approaching the barrow (in trees at top).
Image credit: Jimit April 09
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