‘Berkshire’ Ridgeway from Streatley to Avebury. 1969.
Image credit: Phyllis Elton
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‘Wayland Smith’s Cave or Cromleck of Lambourn, Berks‘
circa 1848
Image credit: T J Donaldson
part of cover for the book ‘The Chronicles of the White Horse’ by Peter Please.
That’s Waylands below the white horse.
Image credit: Caroline Waterlow
Detail from the Berkshie Page of Lady Denman’s book.
Of note is the Uffington White Horse, being riden by St George with Windsor Castle in the background and the stag symbol of berkshire on the shield (or poss a connection with Herne the Hunter of old Windsor Forest?)
Image credit: Lady Denman
St George and the Dragon, atop Dragon Hill – illustration from, ‘The Scouring of the White Horse’.
Image credit: Richard Doyle
This one seems to have a full ‘belly’. Maybe its eaten St. George?
from the cover of ‘Soils of the Wantage and Abingdon District’ (Yes, it beats counting sheep, and yes, I do need to get out more)
Image credit: ?
Fac-Similie of John Aubrey’s plan from Monumenta Britannica
Image credit: Mr Kynes?
Avebury Temples with Avenues, in the form of a serpent, as shewn by STUKELEY 1740.
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WF: This is as close as I got to the MEGAMEET today. Why don’t other commitments go away? :-(
Image credit: Stukeley
Flint Chisel found in the garden of a house in St. Peter’s Road, off Radley Road.
Image credit: Nancy Hood and Jeff Wallis
Beaker from one of the barrows in the cemetary
Image credit: ?
aerial showing two lines of ring ditches
Image credit: Major Allen
the Port Meadow round hill. as shown on a 1720 map by Benjamin Cole
Image credit: Benjamin Cole
A Berkshire Womens Institute of the Uffington White Horse being ridden by, I presume, St George (he of Dragon Hill fame). It looks hand painted on the book cover.
Image credit: Helen Robinson
Two barrows in the LB7B group, on the other side of the road (the ‘unvisited’ side without a car park)
Image credit: Wysefool
one of the barrows on the other side of the road (the road splits the barrow cemetery in two). That new house is nearly finished (ee, I remember when it twurnt there!)
Image credit: Wysefool
Flint dagger, arrowheads, and scraper, jet button and bead, and two bronze knife daggers, from LB7B
Very angular (and rectangular) ditches in field adjoining the hillfort.
Image credit: Wysefool
Looking up the ditch towards the entrance (top left). Established trees growing happily.
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Looking across the partially ploughed interior of the fort. Very, very flinty indeed. The trees at the right define the edge of the fort which has a ditch and bank on this side.
Image credit: Wysefool
Our old friend Mr Sarsen of Berkshire. Found just inside the interior of fort. Possible remains of a wall?
Image credit: Wysefool
Interior of the hillfort with partially ploughed area showing abundance of flint. The entrance (the only contender for the original entrance) is just at the left hand side of the image.
Image credit: Wysefool
Ditch and bank of Hillfort (with modern fence on top)
Image credit: Wysefool
Banks and boundaries in adjacent field (the brown bits)
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Approaching Perborough Castle (which is top left behind the trees).
“Big pile of shit c/o British Farming”
Image credit: Wysefool
Drinking cup, with secondary internment. Figheldean long barrow. Illustration circa 1869
Drinking cup with secondary internment. Wilsford long barrow (scale half linear). Illustration circa 1869
Monolith, heart-shaped curves of double walling, and pyramidal piling in Long Barrow. (illustration circa 1896)
cover of wonderful book by Ursula Synge, entitled ‘Weland: Smith of the Gods’. (as I write this only two available from Amazon.co.uk at 20quid plus – no magic weapons, armour or swans wings included...). Beautiful intrepretation by Charles Keeping – note the hamstrung useless leg(s) and staff to support him.
Image credit: Charles Keeping
Over simplified Antiquarians diagram of Silbury Hill. (illustration circa 1869).
Note the ‘nipple’ of the great goddess graphically illustrated at the top.
Image credit: J Thurnam
stones in barrow at Rodmarton, as seen from the north east (illustration circa 1869)
