Andy Burnham's Blog, page 115

Kemyel C

This 1.75m (5ft 9in) high standing stone is a large piece of unhewn granite standing in the middle of a field. One of large number of such stones dotted around the Lamorna plateau in the far south-west of Cornwall. For more see the nearby sites list on our page or click on the 3rd square orange button in Internal Links for a local map.

Hügelgrab Damerow

This burial mound on which an oak tree stands is located on a hill between meadows and fields in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On top of the mound is a depression in which a few larger stones can be seen, which probably belong to the tomb inside.

Dun Na Cleite

Stone Fort in Isle of Tiree. An Iron Age fort is located on a spectacular rocky headland in the South-Western part of the island. The collapsed inner wall encloses the area of 21 x 17 m. Below it there is another wall with a significant stretch of the outer wall-face visible.

White Hill, Suffolk

A round barrow discovered in recent years following the felling of forestry in Thetford Forest. Unfortunately, a footpath was cut clean through the middle of the central mound in the 1970s. It is a large earthwork - an inner mound, outer mound, and a large ring ditch. The barrow stands to a height of approximately 3m. It measures about 75m north east-south west by 57m north west-south east, and is surrounded by a berm up to 22m wide and a ditch.

Necrópolis Romana de Carmona

This large Roman necrópolis in Andalucía was excavated from 1883-1887 and dates from the 1st and 2nd century AD/CE. You get a clear view on how the Romans in that period cremated their dead and you can see many types of graves, from very large ones for the rich with a kitchen, tables to eat and painted tombs, and cellars for urns or individual graves. You can even enter a group grave. A stunning experience! All well explained in Spanish and English.

West Kennet Avenue

‘Connoisseurs of Stone’ - a new paper from Dr Katy Whitaker examines non-megalithic uses of sarsen stone at the West Kennet Avenue occupation site, Windmill Hill and Marden Henge. The analysis demonstrates that 'everyday' sarsen could be just as meaning-laden as larger or more exotic material. The West Kennet Avenue runs for an incredible 2.5km from the Avebury circle at SU10326976 in a southeasterly direction through West Kennet and likely terminates at The Sanctuary. Burials have been found at the bottom of some of the stones. Aubrey Burl suggests that avenues such as this were built in stretches, over the years, by different generations of the population.

Mont Helena

This site in Mississippi may have had as many as three mounds, but only one 26 ft (8m) rectangular platform mound exists today. It was originally 10 ft (3m) higher but was leveled for construction of a Victorian home which still occupies the summit. The house is said to be haunted and apparently private tours can be arranged. A date has not been determined for the mound, but likely constructed during the Mississippian period (1200-1600 CE).

Glænø Strand Skåltegn

This stone has three flat cup marks on the top and was put there along with other stones for coastal protection on the south coast of the island of Glænø in the Region of Sjælland, Denmark. A 2015 report said the stone would be perfect as a orthostat of a dolmen or a capstone of a entrance of a passage grave. Since the stone doesn't seem to have been there that long, it might still be possible to find out where the stone came from.

Thornborough Central

We have collected links to a huge amount of information on the Thornborough Henges on our page here, scroll down for more. The monument complex of Thornborough in Yorkshire is an archaeological landscape of national and international importance and represents what would have been one of Britain's premier sacred landcapes during the third and second millenium BC.

Thornborough S

The future of the central and southern henges is more secure as they are gifted by Tarmac (yes them of the giant quarry) into the legal ownership of Historic England, to be managed by English Heritage. The least well-preserved of the three henge complex in North Yorkshire. Hopefully we'll see less of this as captured by Postman, who writes: Apparently it's bad form to walk on a henge's bank, but it's OK to leave a bath full of water on one. [is the bathtub still there anyone?]