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August 27, 2019

Charleston Bottom (Lower ridge) Long/oval barrow

A probable Neolithic oval or long barrow in East Sussex. It comprises a low earthen mound, oval in shape and up to 0.5m in height. Scheduled. Interestingly this long barrow does not have a view to the sea. However, the later round barrow immediately above (on this ridge containing a number of barrows) does.
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Published on August 27, 2019 02:03

August 26, 2019

King Arthur's Hall

King Arthur's Hall to be radiocarbon dated to hopefully confirm it's Neolithic origins, more details in the comments on our page.. Rectangular Stone Enclosure in Cornwall. King Arthur's Hall is nothing to do with King Arthur. It consists of an arrangement of banks in the in the form of a rectangular henge surrounding a marshy interior.
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Published on August 26, 2019 07:15

St Petrock's Well Devon

This September, Friends of Berry Castle will be restoring the ancient lost well of St Petrock, in Newton St Petrock, Devon. They are keen to hear from more volunteers, their contact details are in the comments on our page.. St. Petrock's Well in Devon is difficult to trace despite being marked on the OS map. The site is associated with the saint on his journey to Rome
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Published on August 26, 2019 06:44

Northern Earth 158 Out Now, 40th anniversary issue!

John Billingsley writes: It's our 40th anniversary issue of Northern Earth magazine, and my wife and I managed to catch the first documented sighting of the featured midsummer solstice sunset alignment on Midgley Moor, so we have produced a (probably one-off) colour cover which I have attached for you to enjoy! Here is what's in the latest issue:
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Published on August 26, 2019 05:23

August 22, 2019

Grodzisko Przeczyca

Hillfort in Podkarpackie. A large Tribal period hillfort, one of the most impressive in the Polish Carpathians, is located on a sloping ridge of an elongated hill overlooking Wisłoka river. It consists of three wards which form a sub-oval shape of 260 x 90 m dimensions. The rampart of the main (northern) ward (triangular in shape) was built with the use of timber, while the ramparts of middle and southern wards were made of clay without internal structure. The fort was built in the 9th century and destroyed in the 1st half of the 11th century.
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Published on August 22, 2019 14:21

August 21, 2019

St. Vigeans Museum

Three video talks from Tayside and Fife: The Drosten Stone, St Vigeans: a cultural hybrid with Jane Geddes, New findings from East Lomond Hillfort by Joe Fitzpatrick & Oliver O’Grady and Neolithic Halls, Bronze Age Roundhouses and a Late Bronze Age Hoard at Carnoustie with Alan Blair. A fascinating and very important collection of Pictish carved stones housed in a cottage in the charming village of St Vigeans, Angus. In Historic Scotland’s museum are 38 carved stones, which had once stood on the old church mound. Among the stones on display is the magnificent 9th Century Drosten Stone, a flat rectangular slab with a cross carved on one side and Pictish symbols on the other, and also bearing a Pictish inscription in Latin script.
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Published on August 21, 2019 04:47

August 14, 2019

menhir du Mendi

Nice pictures coming in from BrunoMevel of some little known and hidden megaliths in deepest Brittany. Menhir in a wood and close to the hamlet of Mendi.
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Published on August 14, 2019 03:16

Museum Quintana

What did a woman look and dress in in the Neolithic Age? This question is answered by the Museum Quintana in Künzing (Bavaria,Germany) with a new reconstruction of the face of a woman who was buried 7000 years ago has gone on display. She has a slim face, dark eyes and hair stuck in a bun, and died at the age of about 50 at what is now Deggendorf. She wore a leather band decorated with snail shells around her head. Now her bust as well as the original bones are on display. [and a preview of the skeleton visible on our page]
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Published on August 14, 2019 02:54

August 13, 2019

East Pinford 2

Exmoor’s minilithic enigma explored by Douglas James Mitcham, now at Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. A free download as part of the newly published UCL Press title: Worlds in Miniature - Contemplating Miniaturisation in Global Material Culture. More details in the comments on our page. Said to be a six stone rectangle similar, but less distinct, to East Pinford 1, with only one stone still standing. I certainly found a stone standing at the grid ref noted here, about 0.3 metres high. There are a lot of other stones laying around on the surface, but I could not really determine any shape or form amongst them.
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Published on August 13, 2019 14:45

August 12, 2019

Wayland's Smithy

Far-Right rituals at Wayland's Smithy and Avebury, more in the comments on our page. This long barrow lies in a plantation of trees on the famous Ridgeway, not far from the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. Footpaths lead to the site from both the Uffington Castle carpark and the B4000 which crosses the Ridgeway around a kilometre away.
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Published on August 12, 2019 13:24