Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this Issue:

• Rodney Castleden - Restoring Stonehenge
• George Children and George Nash - Climatic Triggers Within the Historical Record
• Allen Hunt - Millennium Mania
• Victor Reijs - Maes Howe's Megalithic Month Alignment
• Cornelius J. Holtorf - Christian Landscapes of Pagan Monuments
• H. S. Chapman - 'Arrow Stones' and Related Phenomena: North Wales Examples of Prehistoric Art
• David Kaiser - Stonehenge American Style

Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this Issue:
• Jeremy Harte - Folk Memory
• Rodney Castleden - Stretching Credibility: A Perspective on the Long Man of Wilmington
• Alastair McBeath - Comet Myths Ancient & Modern
• David S. Whitley - Shamanism, Rock Art and Landscape Symbolism in Native California
• Frank Olding - Fairy Lore in 18th~century Monmouthshire
• E. C. (Ed) Krupp - Celestial Analogy and Cyclical Renewal
• Dylan Bickerstaffe - The Longest Screamin History
• Phil Quinn - An Unnatural History of the Bristol Region
• George Nash - Walking With Landscape Syntax and Narrative

Events In this issue: • Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review:
• A significant and unusual ritual landscape in Ireland and the curious history of Crowland
• The Alt-Antiquarian: Farings and Findings - More on the symbiosis between the map and the
dérive, chance and invention
• Porthole Stones in Britain: Dr Karen Pierce discusses further UK examples of this megalithic typology
• Shadows and Stones: Olwyn Pritchard on how she stumbled upon an important inter-relationship between ancient megaliths
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EventsIn this issue: • An experimental Neolithic Henge: 15 years on - John Hill looks back on the techniques and building of Liverpool’s Nesshenge
• The Alt-Antiquarian: A drift in time and space - Finding psychogeography alongside the magic in Alan Garner’s writing underlines their close association
• Luddenden, King Lud & the Luddites: Wandering in inner space - In a Pennine backwater, an armless motif seems to be on the loose, as Andrea Capstick finds
• All Things Considered: Reviews - N Yorkshire lore, Glasgow earth mysteries, Norse magic and some popular misapprehensions • Walking the umbilicus back to source - Routeways, according to Bob Trubshaw, are much more than utilitarian material phenomena, as mindful travellers past and present know
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Resources In 2021 Peter Harris and Thomas Gough published a book: A New Dimension to Ancient Measures based on theirs and the late Norman Stockdate's hypothesis that a unit of length, the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, (HSMF), of 1.1785 feet was known and used in prehistoric Britain. You can read a further summary of the book on our page here. Ancient metrology is a controversial subject but not unheard of in modern archaeology.  However in February 2023 Liz Henty published a book review in the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology rubbishing their work.
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MysteriesNewly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Cavaliers and Phantoms - Jeremy Harte
• The Emotion Death and Mortality During Early Prehistory - George Children and George Nash
• The Magical World of Doctor Dee - Allen Hunt
• The Archaeology of Early Man - Hllary Schrafft
• A Toast to the Recently Departed Fairy Faith in the Bristol Region - Phil Quinn
• On Logan Dene Neodewearde (Langdean Bottom possible stone circle) - Neil Mortimer
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Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Babyface Cave: A Personal History - Paul Newman
• At The Centre of the Neolithic World - George Nash
• The Currency of the Past - David Silver
• The Devil's Eye - Phil Quinn
• The Chosen Ones - Jo-Anne Wilder
• When is a Rock Not Just a Rock? - Brian Hoggard
• The Real Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies - Dylan Bickerstaffe
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Resources Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• Dowsing Gogmagog - W A Clark
• Bathampton Down, Somerset: A Reassessment of a Neglected Megalithic Landscape - Phil Quinn
• Ley Lines: Dead and Buried = A Reappraisal of the Straght Line Enigma
• Excavation of the Facade Area of La Hougue Bie - George Nash
• Time Slip at Versailles - Allen Hunt
• Death and Immortality - Neandethal Burial and the Symbolism of a cult - George Nash & George Children
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EventsIn this issue: • Porthole Stones in Britain - Porthole entrances, familiar in European megalithic culture, less so in Britain. Dr Karen F Pierce looks at a couple in the Cotswolds
• The Neanderthal’s Stonehenge - Mark Greener presents evidence for more cultural sophistication in our forebears than generally assumed
• Say it with rosettes - Daisy wheel, hexafoil, rosette – one symbol may deter threat, or express affection, as Anthea Hawdon explains
• The Raven of Bradfield - Dr Simon Young comes across an unusual association of the raven as a bogey figure in South Yorkshire
• The Ancient Custom of Baba Marta Day - Sharon Higgins reports on a charming spring custom in Bulgaria
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EventsIn this issue • The Haunted Stone of Beeston - An uncanny stone in the remains of an old priory in Norfolk draws Alan Murdie
• Swastikas, fylfots and triskeles on both sides of the Atlantic
• Waun Mawn: A precision equinox detector - Robin Heath sheds even light on a Welsh Neolithic site
• Can the mediaeval tales in the Mabinogion be traced in the modern landscape? • The Alt-Antiquarian:Walking myth into place - The old earth mysteries concept of the landscape zodiac has been damned to the lunatic fringe, but is that the best we can do?
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Events Sacred sites around the world offer another level of experience to visitors and pilgrims, full of intensity, presence and, for some, higher levels of consciousness. The drawback is often overcrowded places, full of tourists whose presence can ruin this privileged moment.
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Events In this issue: • Further reflections on river-names - Is there significance in clusters of similar river names on both sides of the Channel, asks Richard Stead?
• Weird Stones of West Wales - Miriam Perrett asks questions of possible artefactual stones
• ‘Dobby Lives in Our Hearts & Our Socks’ - Ceri Houlbrook investigates how one of Harry Potter’s friends has had an impact on our landscape
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ReviewsRob Ixer writes: In the mid 2010s it seemed that there was an annual Stonehenge 'Xmas box' to read but recently it has turned quieter, for, as one author disingenuously has said "what is there new to say". Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. During this wintry writing flurry Mike Pitts was asked repeatedly why he had not penned his own Christmas carol but replied it was too soon and he needed to let the dust settle. What Mike has come up with is a measured, dispassionate, but personal account from an independent, informed, highly literate, observer-player whose reportage-style of writing, especially in the middle chapters, has successfully avoided sounding like a poor channelling of Bernard Cornwell’s novel Stonehenge, but retains rather a customary and engaging, easy reading voice.
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Events In this issue: • Megalithic construction techniques: Trapezoidal long barrows - John Hill demonstrates how Neolithic builders may have approached the building of Capel Garmon and similar long barrows.
• Were the Wollaton Gnomes ‘intelligent light forms’? - This celebrated ‘fairy’ sighting is mysterious however you view it. Mave Calvert suggests another perspective.
• The Folkton Drums - Were these charming Bronze Age artefacts ‘for’ anything, or were they simply toys, as some have suggested? John Billingsley throws in another suggestion
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Events In this issue: • Erie Adventures - Justin Patrick Moore takes us on an esoteric ramble around Sandusky, Ohio
• The Call of the Cuckoo - Whether it’s a cuckoo or a gowk where you live, it’s garnered a lot of placenames around the country, and Jeremy Harte wonders why
• Cuckoos’ Nests - A couple of sidelines from Jeremy Harte’s discussion
• W: An afterlife - In NE165, we asked readers a question about subjective responses to variants of the letter W. John Billingsley reports back and asks if one variant is ‘heavy’ with meaning
• The Alt-Antiquarian - The arcane and obscure may enliven some neo-antiquarian conversations, but may also obscure a toxic political subtext
• Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review - An amateur researcher’s hunch leads to a potentially valuable insight into notation in prehistoric cave art
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Mysteries Newly scanned by ourselves for your reading pleasure. In this issue:
• The Forgotten Stones Of West Mendip - Phil Quinn
• Encoding Space: The Iron Age Of South-east Wales, a Question Of Defence Or Social Statementing - George Nash & George Children
• Rasputin - Neither Monk Nor Mad - Allen Hunt
• The Stone Circle Near Winterbourne Bassett - Terence Meaden
• A Supernatural Highway (Revisited) - Phil Quinn
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EventsA quick look at this fascinating and newly released book. It's packed with Breton culture, history and legends, always encouraging us to explore far beyond what the author describes as the the somewhat 'bland' main Carnac sites. There are not just standing stones - hugely impressive though some of these are, Brittany Stone Stories covers natural ravines and piles of stone (literally chaos!), rocking and ringing stones with so much life you almost have to hold them down.

There are tales of miraculous crossings in stone boats, the odd castle ruin, holy wells and sacred springs (fountaines). As with many books of this type there is folklore aplenty, the Christianisation of stones (of course). Also sacrificial stones, a few modern grave stones and memorials and not forgetting those lost sites which are sadly so common in our sphere of study.
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