Megalithic and Prehistoric Sites

[waxoyl]

anyone wanna play 'Guess that Burial Chamber'?

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some were in derbyshire.?

 

[belboid]

some were. But that one isn't.

 

[Pingety Pong]

Uley Long Barrow? I just googled "burial chamber you have to crawl into" and that was the first that came up

 

[wayward bob]

anyone wanna play 'Guess that Burial Chamber'?

^ this is why my kids are traumatised and refuse to come on holiday with me any more

 

[belboid]

Uley Long Barrow? I just googled "burial chamber you have to crawl into" and that was the first that came up

Hetty Pegglers Tump you mean!

No, that’s even further away.

Here’s a photo from inside - looking up!

 

[Pingety Pong]

So I assume it's further north. Scotland?

 

[waxoyl]

Any urban folk.been to fourkocks passage tomb dublin.
its on a smaller scale to new grange up the road.
no visitors centre. megalithic art to die for. theres an engraving of a human face and torso on one of the stones.
the oldest in ireland. shall dig out my old pics later.

 

[belboid]

So I assume it's further north. Scotland?

some there might disagree

It is mentioned, but not described in detail or map located, in the Modern Antiquarian, but JC does pop down there in the previously linked video.

 

[belboid]

which reminds me, cant recall if this has been mentioned, but I do like ther megalithic portal pocket guide when I'm out and about. Easy to find anything nearby!

The truly amazing Megalithic Portal iPhone App is now available

The Pocket Guide to Megaliths is our own unique guide to ancient and prehistoric sites worldwide, for iPhone and iPad which has been in development and testing for many months. We are now ready to ann

www.megalithic.co.uk

 

[Pingety Pong]

It is mentioned, but not described in detail or map located, in the Modern Antiquarian, but JC does pop down there in the previously linked video.

I watched the whole bloody thing last night and I still don't know. But he spent a long time on Orkney so... Orkney?

 

[planetgeli]

OK, so I'm currently staying about 10 mins from the Rollright Stones. Thought it couldn't hurt to pop down there as I'm so close.

It's like a bloody festival (without the music). At least 40-50 cars parked up along the road. I mean, it's great and all that so many people are taking an interest in megaliths. But I didn't expect that.

The rest of the Cotswolds is also stupidly busy. Stay at home. I'm off to Cheddar tomorrow.

 

[planetgeli]

anyone wanna play 'Guess that Burial Chamber'?

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Is it Knowe of Lairo ?

 

[JimW]

Maeshowe? We had to look from the road as our visit to Orkney was a flying one between the morning and evening ferries and we didn't have time to wait for the tour.

 

[Pingety Pong]

By the way, this book is a really good read for anyone interested in prehistoric Britain. It's a while since I have read it, but he mentions burial chambers on Orkney that contained skeletons which had been put together from bones from different people. I can't remember what explanation he gave, but that always stayed with me!

Ancient Wonderings - James Canton

James Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, weaving a gentle tale of discovery.

jamescanton.co.uk

Oh, and here's the Daily Heil's explanation

Stone Age pits show Orkney islanders chopped up their relatives

Academics believe the butchering of deceased loved ones around 6,000 years ago in Orkney was done to remove their identity because dead ancestors were regarded as a collective group.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[belboid]

Is it Knowe of Lairo ?

That’s the beast. The only vertical chamber on the islands. Sealed off by the farmer, for good reason really. It was only halfway down I had no idea if I could actually turn around.

 

[ska invita]

I've just discovered Time Team! Knew of it but never actually watched it before....cant say its the most exciting show - its definitely a powerful bedtime watch as i usually fall asleep before halfway!

Series 1-11 are on 4OD player, theres a full episode guide on there too (including for the later series which are unavailable to stream), and the rest seem to be on youtube and dailymotion.


so far just picking out some of the pre-roman ones to watch...
this one looks at a fogou that also comes up in Julian cope's film

Boleigh

Boleigh (Bolleit/Trewoofe) (Fogou) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 48 images, 6 fieldnotes, 5 pieces of folklore, 2 weblinks, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.

www.themodernantiquarian.com

this is the episode

Time Team: Time Team - On Demand

Tony Robinson and a team of experts investigate a wide range of archaeological sites

www.channel4.com

 

[mx wcfc]

I've just discovered Time Team! Knew of it but never actually watched it before....cant say its the most exciting show - its definitely a powerful bedtime watch as i usually fall asleep before halfway!

Series 1-11 are on 4OD player, theres a full episode guide on there too, and the rest seem to be on youtube and dailymotion.


so far just picking out some of the pre-roman ones to watch...
this one looks at a fogou that also comes up in Julian cope's film

Boleigh

Boleigh (Bolleit/Trewoofe) (Fogou) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 48 images, 6 fieldnotes, 5 pieces of folklore, 2 weblinks, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.

www.themodernantiquarian.com

this is the episode

Time Team: Time Team - On Demand

Tony Robinson and a team of experts investigate a wide range of archaeological sites

www.channel4.com

I am a fully paid up member of the "Bring Back Time Team" FB Group. I met Phil Harding once at an open day at Danebury Ring (we have lots of Iron Age Hill forts around here). Apart from being a true expert in his field, he's probably the best flint knapper in the world (he was knapping in this pic) and he's a really good bloke - had loads of time for people's questions etc. Twas a joy to meet him.

 

[belboid]

Not had a chance to watch this yet, but I approve of the title.

BBC Four - A303: Highway to the Sun

Tom Fort whisks us through the landscape around the A303 road and 5,000 years of history.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ska invita]

I am a fully paid up member of the "Bring Back Time Team" FB Group. I met Phil Harding once at an open day at Danebury Ring (we have lots of Iron Age Hill forts around here). Apart from being a true expert in his field, he's probably the best flint knapper in the world (he was knapping in this pic) and he's a really good bloke - had loads of time for people's questions etc. Twas a joy to meet him. View attachment 227085

he stands out as a nice fella from what little ive seen - cracking accent for sure

 

[ska invita]

looking through my holiday snaps: Men An Tol - COW ENERGY!!

(rubbing post really)

 

[Voley]

I was up Mên-an-Tol today ska invita



Also popped over to Mên Scryfa



And as I was sort of doing the processional route I went to the top of Carn Galva



Weather had turned a bit by the time I got to the Nine Maidens:

 

[Artaxerxes]

I am a fully paid up member of the "Bring Back Time Team" FB Group. I met Phil Harding once at an open day at Danebury Ring (we have lots of Iron Age Hill forts around here). Apart from being a true expert in his field, he's probably the best flint knapper in the world (he was knapping in this pic) and he's a really good bloke - had loads of time for people's questions etc. Twas a joy to meet him.

I really want to learn to flint knap, maybe I'll book a weekend next year.

 

[Voley]

Trewern standing stone for me today. Gets a bit overlooked, this one, as it's tucked away in a field system under Trengwainton Carn/on private land so is a bit of a faff to get to. I'd never seen it before nor had my mate and she's got an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of our local prehistory.

Once part of a pair, some talk of it being a stone row once. Grave discovered between the two stones. Lovely spot. Sketch of the two stones is 17thC.

Farmer happy for us to wander over their fields - cows indifferent.

 

[planetgeli]

Not megalithic in any way but stones nonetheless and a nice story I was unaware of.

'There is power in them': mysterious stone figures to be moved in Gaelic winter ritual

Figures of the ‘wise woman’ Cailleach deity and her family are part of a tradition that may be centuries old

www.theguardian.com

 

[kebabking]

Porlock stone circle. As wet, windy and driery a place as you could hope not to visit. One single large stone - the top picture - that's laid on its back and about 5ft long, and the next largest (second picture) about knee height and set into the earth. Middle bronze age, with an earlier cairn nearby.

I tried really hard to be in awe, but I'll be honest: it was crap.

 

[kebabking]

(the bottom image is nicked off the interwebnet...)

this is the Robin How and Joaney How complex of cairns on the northern edge Exmoor. 60ft across, 6ft high. Bronze Age, and directly overlooking (what is now) a fertile, 10km valley stretching between Minehead and Porlock, with access to the sea at both ends, and high moorland to the north and south.

worth a visit, along with nearby Dunkery beacon, in decent weather - very easy to see how they relate to the landscape. a bit crap in driving rain...

 

[ska invita]

I just came across pictures of the site from which some Rhyolite "Bluestones" of Stonehenge were sourced, a place called Craig Rhos-y-Felin.
Looks like a really nice little spot if you are ever in the neighbourhood

Triggered by this story

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales

Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire

www.theguardian.com

which suggests the smaller bluestone circle at Stonehenge might have stood in Wales and been moved to within the larger Stonehenge
"The evidence backs a century-old theory that the nation’s greatest prehistoric monument was built in Wales and venerated for hundreds of years before being dismantled and dragged to Wiltshire, where it was resurrected as a second-hand monument. "

Its fun to speculate why they would've done that, and at who's orders.
If it was such a sacred site that they really wanted it in England then surely the locals would've been pissed off about it being uprooted.
Maybe it was done with agreement as an act of proto-state building, uniting two peoples into what judging by the scale of the circles of wiltshire must have been the regional powerhouse. I guess people can only speculate...

 

[Voley]

I just came here to post a similar thing ska invita

Prof Alice Roberts programme tonight on BBC2 about it. My other half has been to a Mike Parker Pearson lecture on this and really enjoyed it.

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales | Stonehenge | The Guardian

Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire

amp.theguardian.com

 

[ska invita]

Prof Alice Roberts programme tonight on BBC2 about it. My other half has been to a Mike Parker Pearson lecture on this and really enjoyed it.

oh nice will give that watch

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It seems fairly certain that the henge was built there first, all other standing stones are quarried close to the site, remember an archaeologist friend saying she thought that the blue stones were probably erected in Wales first and taken to WIlsthire when the people moved base, they simply (ha!) took their stuff with them. She also contended that they went by water most of the way and that should it ever be possible, a scan of the seabed on the route from around Tenby to Bristol Channel at Bridgewater would reveal bluestones from vessels that sank along the way. We were at a party on Steart Beach when she went in to this, I was a little bit trollied and was looking out over those waters, it made perfect sense. Then she said the stones could possibly have come ashore on that very beach...