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Wayland’s Smithy with horses waiting to be shod. (from a book published in 1939)
L V Grinsell’s sketch plan of Waylands Smithy. This was done when it was still a pile of stones known as ‘Wayland Smiths Cave’ (or cromlech). A small sketch of how it was is at the top of the plan, and a small sketch of what it may have looked like, is at the bottom of the plan.
Image credit: L V Grinsell
Artistic interpretation of the Uffington White Horse
Image credit: Phyllis Elton
B+W Illustration of Silbury, from ‘Where Green Roads Meet’ by R Hippisley Cox.
Image credit: Unknown
An rather loose version of the Uffington White Horse from the cover of ‘Where Green Roads Meet’ by R Hippisley Cox.
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View along axis of forecourt ; stones filling post-holes in foreground. Note dry walling of circle 3 adjoining stone 18
Image credit: W J Hemp
Outer side of stones 5 and 3 ; packing blocks in situ
Image credit: W J Hemp
Area south of portal. Inner slope of ditch. Part of filling remains on which rests circle 3 (stones 18 and 20 and walling connecting them). Bead found in bottom left-hand corner
Image credit: W J Hemp
Circle 2 opposite stone ‘d’ with walling between and upon uprights.
Image credit: W J Hemp
Diagrammatic drawing of Pattern stone showing continuity of design (scale 1/12th)
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(WF – sure this image will be a winner with all the Rock Art spotters)
Image credit: W J Hemp
Pattern stone before removal ; stone 3 on right and small packing blocks between (perpendicular view)
Image credit: W J Hemp
Forecourt, post-holes, pit containing ox, and upright stones bounding north side.
Image credit: W J Hemp
Clay-set wall as first uncovered, and dressed edge of stone 7
Image credit: W J Hemp
General Plan. The shaded area represents the approximate extent of the ditch. The outermost circle marks the base of the cairn.
Image credit: W J Hemp
Looking across the vale from the horse (dragon / cat / interstellar UFO guiding post etc). Note the un-metalled road. The chalk road meanders into the distance (and Uffington village). Circa late 1940’s.
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St Catherine’s Hill with River Itchen in foreground. Late 1940’s
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Maiden Castle, Dorset 1935
Section through the innermost western rampart, showing internal revetment and stone kerb. In right foreground a clay oven, dating from the first century B.C., can be seen. The lower man stands in the quarry from which clay for the rampart was dug. The upper man points to post-holes of the palisade of the latest phase of the rampart.
Image credit: unknown
Whitehawk Neolithic Camp, Brighton 1935
Post-holes of palisade on inner rampart (in foreground); inner ditch (full of water), and second ditch beyond.
NOTE: the bank behind the ranging-pole is a recent feature.
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View from the north-west showing on the left front dry stone walling, and on the right front a paved floor of Chamber E (at the end of the central passage). Left back, newly discovered orthostat.
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Dry Walling of the ‘dome’ with blocks of stone lying against it
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Plan of Maes Howe from 1935 Archaeology Report
Image credit: J W Hemp (after A Gibb 1861)
Nunn’s plan of the long barrow
Image credit: C W Phillips (1935) (copied from E B Nunn)
Sections of the ‘Royston’ long barrow and ditches
Image credit: C W Phillips (1935)
Plan of the segmented cist cairn of Cashtal yn Ard, Ballachrink. (obliquely shaped areas represent quartz pebbles – at top of plan). After Neely
Image credit: Grahame Clark
View from the west into the paved forecourt; through the triangular aperture between the two central uprights of the forecourt is the line of chambers.
1935
Image credit: Taggart
Looking from the east; the edge of the burnt area in the foreground, the chambers near the centre of the picture, and beyond the uprights of the forecourt. The side walling and alignments are clearly shown.
date of 1935 approx
Image credit: Taggart
