A city centre mini-megalith or folly
“In 1918 this house became the Prince of Wales Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, and to mark its opening the stone folly in the front garden was donated by Miss Cory of Duffryn House. The folly is made of Radyrstone and is a replica of a Megalithic Burial Chamber contained within the Maes-y-Felin Cromlech (or Chambered Long Barrow) near St Lythans, South Glamorgan, which dates from the Neolithic period (C. 3000 B.C.)”
Carl Wark: Prehistoric Ritual Enclosure or Dark Ages Battlefield?
New chapter for Lough Gur as site is redeveloped.
Filming and imagination at its best..... Thanks to Digital Digging on F/B for the link
Current Archaeology magazines article on the whole dig which started in 2005; Thanks to Digital Digging for the link, which is a fascinating read and mentions springs.
Gathered via Digital Digging, a short video on Jarlshof.
“A short computer generated film based upon kite aerial photography taken at the ancient settlement site of Jarlshof with interpretive reconstructions using imagery from various other locations across Scotland.
The project was an experiment to see how low altitude aerial photography could be used to capture the atmospheres as well as the structural details of our ancient heritage and how these images could be used to create an environment for interpretative reconstruction.”
Stonehenge Laser Scan -
Archaeological Analysis Report.
A project to record the prehistoric decoration on the supposedly Bronze Age Trefael stone has revealed the deliberate cannibalisation of an earlier Neolithic monument, and an 8,000 -year focus of human activity. George Nash, Adam Stanford, Carol James, and Thomas Wellicome explain.
Introduction to the ‘Chert’ index to the drawings and sketches of the Rev. John Skinner
A great antiquarian!
A fascinating article on barrows and their history.
Cromlech at Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire
Article on history of Ebbor Gorge
Trefael Portal tomb – 2010 Excavation
Final Dig Diary for St.Lythans
Icknield Way – Track or Fiction
Sue Carter questioning the prehistoric beginnings of this old track way, as she says we will never know one way or the other....
Project of the removal of a burnt mound at risk and reconstruction of the same mound at the Heritage Centre.
Great animation of four important sites.
New website for the campaign group;
Public still denied access to Vixen Tor.
The Landscape and Perception Project on the source of the ‘bluestones’ on the Presceli range.
Remains of a stone row, situated within open moorland on a level terrace below Cerrig Lladron. The three stones are aligned from NNE to SSW, the row measuring 17m in length overall. The row is aligned with the large round cairn on the summit of Cerrig Lladron (PE298), which is about 200m to the SSW. The largest stone measures 2.5m in height, 1.9m in length and 1m in width. Its nearest neighbour, that to the NNE, measures 0.4m in height, while the stone situated to the SSW measures 0.7m in height. A further upright stone is situated immediately to the NE of the largest. It measures 0.6m in height and may have been displaced from the row.
Discover the Orkney Dream.
A surprisingly good article from Countryfile on the Orkneys...
An Taisce is The National Trust of Ireland, a map outlining the proposed port shows the importance of this threatened landscape, and how the development will destroy both archaeological sites and a fragile habitat.
Proposed Slane Bypass will skim the Edge of Brú na Bóinne!
Damage at Midmill, Aberdeenshire
Fascinating account of its restoration.
Strumble-Preseli Ancient Communities and Environment Study
A study of landscape round the ancient monuments of the Preseli Mountains.
Excavations at Condicote Henge by A.Saville 1977
Part of William Long’s ‘Abury’ article on Silbury Hill
Certain rules and restrictions that apply to public access to Stonehenge