Wiltshire and Swindon Historic Environment Record is an online search facility for information on the known archaeological sites, monuments and finds in Wiltshire and Swindon. It offers a range of search criteria and zoomable mapping.
The Eternal
An interactive and very informative Google
Earthy style map of the barrows in the Stonehenge area. Click on a barrow and away you go.
Carlisle based museum and art gallery, so could appeal to a couple with two different tastes – one with an archaeological bent, and one with an arty bent, or one with an archaelological bent, and one with a Primark bent, who leaves you there and sods off into the city centre.
Well, just read th’website to find out. Looks like it’d appeal to those without a car or push-iron. Won’t appeal to the the ice-cream and boat-ride brigade, so you could be in some good company on this rascal. Looks like the boss might know his stuff too, instead of the usual crap that’s spouted.
Basic. Yup, that’s about it. Still, there are contact details if you want to tell ‘em summat, or even join. Too few links under the Cumbria area, so this could be a starter for ten for someone.
Framework. I hate that phrase, me. Stinks of pretentious prats being overpaid to come up with fancy words for basic stuff. Still, it’s not as tedious as it suggests, but make your own minds up. Enter at your peril, those of you expecting great things. Don’t say you haven’t been warned, ‘cos you have.
John Moores University, Liverpool website, dealing with Cumbria. On the face of it, it looks ok. Funny script thingy causes a delay, but if you click “yes” when the option pops up you’ll be alreet cocker.
This is a local history groups website, dealing with the Duddon vally, also known as Dunnerdale. Of interest to TMAers will be the recent ring cairn excavations at Seathwaite Tarn, now used as a reservoir. The valley is a gem of the Lakes, with very few visitors, and peace generally reigns. The track to Seathwaite Tarn isn’t too hard, and, once you’ve turned your back on the dam, you’ll find yourself in a beautiful mountain coomb.
Based in Ambleside, at the bottom of the Kirkstone Pass, this is a small museum with local finds, and wider ranging finds from Cumbria. The Great Langdale stone axe factory features.
A useful site to compare with its rival MWIS. An assessment of both will probably be good enough for those going up high to view some of the high cairns, circles, ring cairns, and axe factories. I personally find MWIS the more reliable, but in winter this site has the benefit of giving snow conditions underfoot, i.e. ice, the need for crompons, avalanche/cornice riske etc.
The Museum of Kendal, one of the oldest in the country, covering a wide range of archaeology, as well as the geology and natural history of Cumbria, and the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
Detailed 3-day weather forecast for the Cumbrian mountains, with conditions on the fells.
From the Shap Community Website.
From the Shap Community Website.