Andy Burnham's Blog, page 197

St Patrick’s Isle and Monk's Tower

Tthe Monk's Tower was one of the first structures built on St.Patrick's Isle which overlooks the town of Peel on the Isle of Man. It was built by Christian monks who needed a place to safe guard their valuables against Viking Invaders. The entrance door was made about 20 feet high. It was built that way so that if there were any Vikings attacks, the Monks would climb a ladder and then pull up the ladder.

Long Mortuary Enclosure, 800mtr West of Freshwater Bay House

An 'open barrow' meaning that it is simply a platform type of earthwork with a surrounding mound, similar to hill-top forts/enclosures. This one has been surveyed by IoW County Council for Historic England, and it has been described as a: 'Long Mortuary Enclosure'.

Shirogane Kofun

A chambered cairn with huge cap and slab stones, on the way to Obanzaki Kofungun. (Kyūshū, Japan)

Chinen-jō

An Okinawan hillfort in Kyūshū, Japan called “gusuku”. Built on a cliff near the southeastern cape of the Okinawa main island. This hillfort is supposed to be a hybrid of old enclosure of roughly piled stone wall and new one of regularly piled brick wall with gates.

Argentomagus

all pictures taken on July 4, 1998 (johnstone) . The remains of a Gallo-Roman settlement, originally an oppodum. It developed into a Roman city with streets, houses, temples, a fountain and a theatre. There is a museum next to the ruins.

3rd Stone Issue 22, Autumn/Winter 1995

• Hanging With The Arch Drude - A Conversation with Julian Cope
• Druid Circles Some Classic Landscape Geometry in Devon from Chris Jenkins
• Sacred Stone. Death And The Landscape Neolithic Chambered Mounds In South-west Wales. Why Are They Where They Are. George Nash and George Children Investigate
• Supernatural Highway, Phil Quinn Traces A Symbolic Trackway Near Bristol
• True Stories Legends, Lore And Lies -king Arthur Nicked. Breakfast at Avebury and Alien Big Cats
• Dead Straight Death and the Straight Line. Some Intriguing Observations by Brian Haggard
• Autogeddon, Road Rage at Stonehenge
• Theories. Rants. etc Readers Forum
• Reviews Ufos. Folklore. Earth Mysteries. John Michell. Von Daniken and the Man in the Ice
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Brithdir Mawr

An account of the creation of Brithdir Mawr stone ring in south west Wales, taken from the construction diary of member Ros Briagha. Constructed using traditional techniques without the use of heavy machinery. Brithdir Mawr stone circle, on Brithdir Mawr farm near Carn Ingli in the Welsh Preseli Hills. These stones were found buried in the field, and were pulled up with rope, wood, pulleys etc. Possibly a Bronze Age circle that was destroyed, but rebuilt over the course of two years, using traditional methods.

Byfeltet

Byfeltet is the largest barrow cemetery in Hedmark, Norway. It consists of over 250 burial cairns and small barrows over a large area of land. Two separate sections of the extensive burial cemetery have been made accessable to visitors and fitted with information posters. A lot more burials, cairs but also flat ground burials can also be present in or around the known area making the cemetery much larger.

MegPortal Online Zoom chat, this Sunday 17th @ 8pm, all welcome

The prehistoric meets the present with our first informal Zoom meeting. Isolating when you can is still good and pubs and the like are unlikely to be open for some time. A chance to meet some of the faces behind those posts and feel less isolated. Portal Founder Andy B will start things off with a short live tutorial then it's a free for all to talk or just listen. It won't be much like the attached photo, and hopefully with a few more people, but we can dream and talk of past visits.

MegPortal Online Zoom meet, this Sunday 17th @ 8pm, all welcome

The prehistoric meets the present with our first informal Zoom meeting. Isolating when you can is still good and pubs and the like are unlikely to be open for some time. A chance to meet some of the faces behind those posts and feel less isolated. Portal Founder Andy B will start things off with a short live tutorial then it's a free for all to talk or just listen. It won't be much like the attached photo, and hopefully with a few more people, but we can dream and talk of past visits.