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That’s a lot of digging!

Looking across the top of the dyke

The informational sign across the road from the Ancient Briton pub

Inside the Northwest Chamber. Note the flowers and tealight remnant top right, and the smoke/fire damage (?) to the stones at floor level on the left.

Interesting erosion on this one, similar to that seen at the Rollrights?

No break in the bank by the trees – could they have been planted when the church was built?

I am officially a klutz with a camera. No idea what happened here, I must have had the camera on the wrong setting, but this is as it came out of the camera, slightly cropped to fit the site rules for sizing etc. I took another picture which was fine without changing anything. Weird huh?

The ‘bite’ at the base of the capstone, from the west side, showing obvious signs of having been worked.

The ‘bite’ at the base of the capstone, from the Fosse Way (East) side...

Approaching the site from the Fosse Way

If it weren’t for the stone (circled), I’d never have spotted this was a barrow...

Couldn’t get too close, due to the (ever-present) gorse...

Snails living in the crack in one of the stones.

This was as close as I could get, poking the camera through a hole in the hedge.

It’s a hard fight through tough gorse to see these...

Spot the stones!

Yarnbury Castle from the A303 – not much to see here...

Gun Rith 11 March 2003 – a downed stone is a sad sight

Gun Rith 11 March 2003 – not too deeply seated, was it?

Gun Rith 11 March 2002. The stone is down. I suspect the farmer will want this moving very soon...

Gun Rith, 11th March 2003 – fallen, or pushed?

Taken during a visit in Sept 2002.

The long barrow at Therfield – oldest in Herts?

First view of the barrows, climbing from the ‘Nature Reserve’ car park.

Information sign