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The Devils Ditch as it runs up through Tidworth area
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The Devils Ditch as it runs up through Tidworth area
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The Devils Ditch as it runs up through Tidworth area
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The Devils Ditch as it runs up through Tidworth area
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The Devils Ditch as it runs up through Tidworth area
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Although most of the barrows survive, some have suffered damage from tree roots and others have been dug into by the wildlife.
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The barrows are now protected by a rabbit proof fence and “no trenching” signs.
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Overall view looking down the line of barrows
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The barrows are just visable above the surrounding vegitation.
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Sidbury hill from the old coach road and the barrows
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View looking down the valley from the top of the Barrow.
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View showing the extent of the surrounding ditch. The original ditch was probably re-dug when the parkland was ‘landscaped’ and the barrow added to.
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The profile of the mound displays a distinctly stepped line, the result of the construction of a second conical mound on top of the original rounded mound. This alteration may be associated with the gentrification of the area, and was intended to provide a prospect mound from which to view Lake House and its parkland.
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The profile of the mound displays a distinctly stepped line, the result of the construction of a second conical mound on top of the original rounded mound. This alteration may be associated with the gentrification of the area, and was intended to provide a prospect mound from which to view Lake House and its parkland.
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View looking towards the Long Barrow from the East
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Overall view of the 182 ft Long Barrow from the West
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View of the Western side ditch with the perimeter of posts
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View of the Eastern side ditch with the perimeter of posts
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View of the Western side ditch with the perimeter of posts
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View of the concrete Trig Point and red firing range warning flag
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View of the Eastern side ditch with the perimeter road. Park on this side of the Barrow to avoid the convoy traffic
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View of the Eastern side of the Barrow looking towards the training area
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View of the past damage caused by a tracked vehicle riding up the spine of the barrow before any protected posts were installed.
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Detail of the northern part of the complex from the report, Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon 1951.
Image credit: R J C Atkinson, C M Piggott and N K Sandars 1951 Excavations at Dorchester, Oxon
The Big Rings Henge and other crop marks In the 1930’s prior to the areas destruction.
Image credit: Major George W. G. Allen - 1933
View of the Dykes and crop marks plotted onto a map of the area in the 1930’s
Image credit: Oxoniensia - 1938
View of the northern end of the cursus and site I in 1933
Image credit: Major George W. G. Allen - 1933
The cursus, big rings henge and other crop marks plotted onto a map of the area in the 1930’s prior to the areas destruction.
Image credit: Oxoniensia - 1938
“In the accompanying plan the stones above ground are shaded; and (for the sake of distinctness) all the stones are given on a much larger scale than they really are, in reference to the diameter of the circle, which is drawn on the scale of a quarter of an inch to sixteen feet.”
From “Guide to the British and Roman Antiquities of the North Wiltshire Downs” by Revd. A. C. Smith, M.A. – 1884
Image credit: Revd. A. C. Smith, M.A. - 1884
Veiw of the Henge from the old coach road. Since being fenced off by the posts, it has become a bit more definded, but there is still not much to see here.
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Since being fenced off by the posts, it has become a bit more definded, but there is still not much to see here.
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Neo
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum’s Neolithic Man. Poor example, not a heavy worker this one.
Image credit: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
Memorising the Landscape – 8500-7650 BC Mesolithic Hunter gathers
An artistic representation of the Stonehenge Totem Poles as displayed in Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum. Each of the three postholes has a different version of what the site might have looked like. This may have been over a long period of time and several generations of different people, perhaps as a migration point when following herds of ancient animals.
Image credit: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
The Ancestor and the Stonehenge Holiday Inn
www.armetalcraft.co.uk
hisalisbury-stonehenge.co.uk/?src=ppc_googleuk_brand
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The Little Cressingham barrow gold plate – 3.5 x 2.25 inches c.1,700 BC
Drawing of the Clandon Barrow Lozenge
Image credit: Mr. Peter Woodward - Assistant Curator of the Dorset County Museum
Gold rectangular plate as shown in Ancient Wiltshire, Vol.1
On display in the Wiltshire heritage Museum, Devizes.
Stourhead Collection – Accession number: DZSWS:STHEAD.53
Plaque / ornament
1 ornament (?) of thin gold leaf, engraved with chevron and parallel lines in bands with cross-hatched lines forming margins, originally covering a plate of wood, found with a secondary (?) cremation in bowl barrow Upton Lovell G2e, excavated by William Cunnington
Length 144 mm; width 68 mm; height 2 mm
For a colour picture see –
wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp?page=image&id=41192
Image credit: Sir Richard Colt-Hoare, 1810, Ancient Wiltshire, Vol.i, p.99
The well presented and neatly trimed side of Ratfyn Barrow
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Ratfyn Barrow as viewed from London Road
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