Andy Burnham's Blog, page 209

Ledbeg River

On the top of a knoll, just to the south of the road bridge over the Ledbeg River at Lyne in the Highlands, and about 50ft east of the road, are the remains of a large, circular chambered cairn, much dilapidated, and in great part removed. Three of the large upright blocks which have formed the sides and end of the chamber remain in situ, and a small stone protrudes between two of the larger ones at the NW.

Welshpool Eisteddfod Circle

This modern stone circle was erected in 1983 and is used to proclaim the Eisteddfod whenever it has been held in Welshpool since.

Bogle Stane

A Glacial Erratic made of Whinstone, at the top of the Clune Brae. Deposited here during the last Ice Age, from Loch Long 15+km away to the NW. It measures about 3m x 3m with a maximum height of 1m. Bogles in Scots myth were mischievous spirits, and the Bogle Stane was once the supposed abode of a bogle who used to hide behind it and scare folk.
The local minister, tired of this superstition arranged to have the stone blown up, with the remains used for curling stones and dykes. Before the minister destroyed the stone it was said to have been nearly 4m tall.

Aldbourne Four Barrows

Chap with the Wings... Aldbourne, Science Fiction and Archaeology and other short talk videos from the TAG session: Unstuck in Time – Science Fiction, Speculative Futures and Archaeological Imaginings. Includes Ballard, Asimov, Naomi Alderman, Philip K. Dick, Star Trek, Warhammer and much more. On this page because these are the barrows near the church filmed (and blown up!) in Dr Who's classic episode The Daemons. More in the comments.. Barrow Cemetery in Wiltshire, 2500 - 1500 BC. A very well preserved collection of four linear barrows (three bell, one bowl) south of Sugar Hill, north of Aldbourne with their interconnected ditches and berms intact.

Llanvaches 2

Off road vehicles cause 'appalling damage' to barrow in Wentwood Forest near Newport in Wales over the Christmas period. Police are appealing for witnesses.. Round Barrow in Wentwood Forest, Monmouthshire

Hunebedcentrum

The Borger Hunebed Centre, situated on a sand ridge (Hondsrug) in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands takes you back to prehistoric times, when the first people settled there. It was they who built these impressive stone monuments, whose remnants can still be admired in the Drenthe countryside. 54 still exist, the biggest of which is situated right next to the Centre. (see the nearby sites list on our page)

Wheeldale Roman Road

A Roman Road in North East Yorkshire - or is it? Listed as such by Ivan Margery and given the catalog number 81b in his 1957 book “Roman Roads in Britain”. Purported to run for about 25 miles between the Roman Fort on Lease Rigg at NZ 81458 04184 just to the south west of Grosmont and the Roman Cawthorn training camps / fort at SE 78399 90059 to the north of Pickering.

Vintersbølle Skov Runddysse

Megalitgrav (Burial Chamber) in Præstø, Denmark

Rollright Stones

Plans to divert lorries from nearby town Chipping Norton will take them right past the Rollright stones, more details in the comments below on our page. This remarkable and atmospheric megalithic complex has so much to say for itself that entire books have been written on the place, dealing with its archaeology, folklore and ritual use.
Photo: The Kingsmen on a freezing January dawn - taken from the edge of the road.

Skara Brae

Composer Erland Cooper and Poet John Burnside visit some of Orkney's Neolithic sites for BBC Radio 4. And also below in the comments on our page are links to archive photos from V Gordon Childe's dig from the 1920s. Skara Brae is a large well-preserved stone-built Neolithic village on Orkney that was occupied from roughly 3100-2500 B.C. Until an 1850 storm partially unearthed it, Skara Brae lay under years of soil sediment. It was fully excavated between 1928 and 1930 by the well known archaeologist V. Gordon Childe.