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Merlin's Mount
Date Added: 1st Apr 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Merlin's Mount submitted by baz on 25th Jun 2003. Merlin`s Mount, Marlborough (Grid Ref. SU 18363 68674). This artificial mound stands in the private grounds of Marlborough College and is thought to be a smaller sister to Silbury Hill which lies just five miles to the west.
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Log Text: There was a charity day at Marlborough College so the grounds were open and walkable. I think the access button needs something about public private rather than simply how to get there. There is a research project going on, and I found Marlborough Mound producing a web site with some documentation. At the moment the base of the mound is blocked off, so I don't think it is walkable up, but perhaps there is some sort of access plan. It seems clear now that it is neolithinc, whatever that means in marlborough college. My Murray has a reference to a museum in the college with stuff.
I should have added that there is a wonderful walk on the other side of the Kennet from which you can see the gardens of the college, and perhaps, in winter, you might see the mound? so the mound is placed near the Kennet. A little further on is the church of .. now don't have my Pevsner or Murray with me, so leave out the place name for now, but church on river nearly by OS Explorer scale.
Hollingbury
Date Added: 19th Mar 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hollingbury submitted by Andy B on 1st Sep 2011. Hollingbury Castle Triangulation Pillar
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Log Text: The bus 50 to the surestart or the 26, 46 to Hollingbury Park, or the 79 to Ditchling Beacon on Sundays and soon, Saturdays, one per hour, from the Railway Station. I was trying to work out whether you can see Ditchling Beacon from Hollingbury, and vice versa.
Now I have to go to Curwe, Archaeology of Sussex, 1934, and then try to track the literature in the Brighton History Centre and Senate House.
Rocky Clump
Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Mar 2012
Rocky Clump submitted by Andy B on 7th Sep 2012. Uncovering large Sarsen Stones during the dig in May 2010
Photo copyright John Skelton / BHAS
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Log Text: I found out about this in the Stanmer booklet sold by the preservation society, reading it on the train home, The booklet which I picked up at Ditchling Beacon doesn't show it. But then it doesn't show the tumuli or the remains of the hill settlement either and says the beacon word comes from Armada times, and the pond is 17th century, so there is quite a bit of work to be done. The leaflet from the Wildlife trust of course is wildlife.
There are some references in the stanmer booklet but they are far from clear so more work to be done.
Spent an afternoon wandering around Stanmer Park, lots of stones lying around but no idea whether I found this clump or not.
Whitehawk
Date Added: 19th Mar 2012
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Whitehawk submitted by Andy B on 7th Jun 2011. Reconstruction of the Whitehawk causewayed enclosure in Sussex, copyright English Heritage
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Log Text: Found this last week, number 1 bus to another set of tower blocks, then a short walk. There is no signing that I could find so interpretaton depends on imagination. You are on Brighton race Course so you could imagine that as a ccursus.
Excavated by Curwen, Archaeology of Sussex, in the Brighton History Centre. There is a 2004 book by the Friends of Whitehawk, an organisation worth supporting perhaps.
The whole area could do with a bit of loving attention. This becomes a spiral of virtue matter.
I asked locally where it was, and the locals don't know. There is though a white hawk carved in the chalk somewhere or other hereabouts. How to do a good walk from here to Hollingbury I haven't worked out yet, that is a green and smart matter.
The group of Whitehawk, Hollingbruy Ditchling Beacon, Devil's Dyke would seem to me to be a collection of national importance which makes it a #disKUvery matter.
Therfield Heath Five Hills
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 6th Mar 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Therfield Heath submitted by Thorgrim on 16th Sep 2003. There are ten Bronze Age round barrows at this prominent location - one of the best in eastern England. Surrounded by golfers which makes a site visit hazardous. Bunkers often mislead the barrow hunter but this group is unmistakeable.
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Log Text: A short walk from Royston Station, or, wonderful, the 90 bus which goes to Bygrave and Ashwell from Baldock and Letchworth. Use traveline to see bus route maps and timetables.
there is a pub at the bottom of the hill.
Pity about the bunkers.
The stunning thing is the view, then as the train pulls back to London, you see a pair of barrows forming a notch on the skyline. Pure navigation.
Waulud's Bank
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 6th Mar 2012
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Waulud's Bank submitted by bec-zog on 7th Jan 2004. Waulud's Bank
Neolithic Tl 062,247 Leagrave, Bedfordshire
Bank and external ditch around a 7 hectare D shaped enclosure
At the source of the river Lea.
Turf reveted chalk & gravel bank (from
ditch material). Ditch 9.2 m wide 2.1m deep.
Finds include; neolithic grooved ware & flint arrow heads.
Similar site to Durringtom Walls & Marden
Site re-used in iron age and during roman occupation
Ref: A Selkirk Archeology 3(1972-3) 173
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Log Text: This is almost opposite Leagrave Station so a really short walk, towered over by gargantuan housing in Luton. The combination of four thousand years of humanity makes a stunning contrast. This is also the source of the river Lea, or Lee, looking at the moment like a muddy puddle. My imagination has the ring, which might be a better word than ditch, filled with water again, puddled with white clay and a Midsummer Night's Dream being performed on the stage. Theseus and Hippolya, Phaedre and Hipplolytus, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripedes is made for a place like this, and would put Luton onto the OlyUNpics (which is the cultural alternative to running 26 miles).
Six Hills
Trip No.2 Date Added: 7th Apr 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 1 Access 4
Six Hills submitted by Ojames on 4th Apr 2004. TL236236
Six Hills, Stevenage, Herts.
Almost certainly Roman burials. Probably a wealthy family.
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Log Text: A short walk from Stevenage Station, near the library and the museum.
The new town could have made, and could make, something much more impressive of this I would have thought. It might be worth considering how it works as townscape art.
It is rather amazing they have survived at all.
There is a leaflet available in Stevenage Museum, with a reference to Antiquity, 1936. That deals with Roman, and I doubt that there is anything Roman about a line of six, so Roman here might mean time rather than people.
Bury Hill (Hampshire)
Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bury Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Jan 2005. January 2005. View looking north from the western portion of the ditch between the two ramparts. The ditch is wide and deep, with plenty of yew, silver birch and beech trees. The ditch on the eastern side is less heavily wooded, and churned up by farm machinery. Plenty of wildlife here, but little in the way of pre-historic remains.
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Log Text: A short walk from Andover station, along a designed path through the town by the river, then up the hill.
Rather puzzling that Andover returned so many hits on search, must work this one out.
The museum of the iron age has much. The church looks to me to be on a mound. There is another site, trashed apparently by road building which didn't pop up in search but I can't remember the name without my map.
Five Knolls
Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Five Knolls submitted by Creative Commons on 1st Mar 2012. Five Barrows (Tumuli) located on the northernmost end of the Dunstable Downs. The four closest barrows date to between 2000 and 1800BC. The furthest one on the left of the path is older, dating to around 2200BC.
Unfortunately, the proximity to the town of Dunstable has left these ancient monuments open to abuse and a cycle track runs across the four on the right.
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Log Text: This site is on the main road from Dunstable towards Aylesbury, 61 bus hourly, but a walk from the main Dunstable cross roads, the Icknield Way and Watling St. The knoll group in a straight line is quite impressive, pointing almost directly to Maiden Bower.
The National Trust Chilterns Intepretation centre is nearby, though I'm afraid that is a shopping centre rather than an interpretation centre, there appears to be about nothing on the megalithic Chilterns but in Dunstable Library there is a good collection. There is a community heritage Priory Centre in the grounds of what remains of the Abbey and there is a local society, the Manshead, which publishes archaeology. The first day I was there, during the blizzard, everything white with snow, a few days later, all melted and green, with a blue sky.
Now I have found http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2019.PDF
not sure how accurate the pdf register is, this is vol 19, and titled five knolls
Cople Cursus
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes
Log Text: Went to Cople on Saturday, bus 74, 1 per hour, Bedford Hitchin but no idea where the cursus might be, more -precision needed. I haven't found anything with this name in BIAB saying cursus, but there is a ring ditch article in BAJ 22, so back to check that.
The BAJ incidently has a parallel BA in its early years, which is what threw me, then becomes BA in later years. Enough to drive a cataloguer never mind a user up the wall.
The map makes it look like it is more likely to be Willington, so another bus and another visit.
Levington Ring Ditches
Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Would like to visit
Chisbury Camp
Date Added: 1st Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Chisbury Camp submitted by ginger-tt on 2nd Nov 2009. Chisbury Hillfort
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Log Text: actually I'm not sure whether I quite got there or not, only to the woods... for there are kids scramble bike marks everywhere around and I can't tell what is vallation and what devallation and whatever bike scramble rides are called antiquarianwise. It is a short walk from bedwyn station, and well connected with footpaths and rights of way. It is near the river Dun with wonderful views.
Reigate Heath Barrows
Date Added: 19th Dec 2013
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Reigate Heath Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith on 5th May 2012. Well-preserved Barrow C on Reigate Heath (photo taken on May 2012).
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Log Text: Why is th eoption driven to?
It is reachable easily by walk or bus.
#Skimmington Castle is a pub on a walk from Reigate Priory Park.
There is no signing on Reigate Heath so they take a bit of finding, i found two out of five.
Staines Enclosure
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes
Staines Enclosure submitted by Andy B on 17th Apr 2005. It's Clayhenge! Part of the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005.
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Log Text: I've walked around here trying to work out which is which. Yeoveney Lodge might be how this is known, unless that is another that doesn't pop up. There is a model, or exhibition in the Museum of London.
I'm still trying to work out whether this is the same one as the excavation by Roberston-Makay, in 1961-3, written up in the Prehistoric Society publication in 1987.
I'm most impressed with SPARCS and their, its, engagement.
The Surrey Archaeology Collections carries a list of publications on archaeology in Surrey and the more recent volumes (for which the data isn't on the web version as they still have to be sold) are in Staines Library, and Guildford, at least.
Shepperton Henge
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes
Shepperton Henge submitted by Andy B on 17th Apr 2005. Yes, it's a cuddly henge! Part of the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005.
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Log Text: I think these boxes rather difficult to tick, as what can be seen depends on the imagination.
Phil Jones book, or pamphlet, is in Staines Library (well it isn't, its on my floor, but it will be when I return it.) I'm ttrying the 458 from Kingston to Staines which seems to pass nearby, you can see a lot more from a bus. Then I'll try walking with the OS Explorer.
From the book it is rather difficult to work out where it is, but I think I have the broad idea.
There is a review of the book in the Surrey Arch. for I think about 2009.
Surrey Archaeology incidently greps in google to their site, and the back run of the Collections has been digitised. It is catalogued in BIAB so if you know some sort of string, something is findable. At the moment I'm working on the Carshalton one.
Whiteleaf Barrows
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2014
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Whiteleaf Barrows submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2006. On the top of the hill above Whiteleaf Cross there are several ancient remains, including three prehistoric barrows.
The most obvious barrow, a neolithic longbarrow, is to be found just to the southeast of the top of the giant chalk cross, and this has in recent years been re-excavated and restored, after many years of erosion.
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Log Text: Why would you want to drive to something like this and make that the first option? The best walk is up Kop Hill, then into Brush Hill Nature reserve, along the path, it is easy to find. The other two aren't quite as easy and the site calls one a mill mound, but why would you build a mill mound when you already have this? Walk down Peter's Lane, a bit of a rat run (all those people driving to see the monument), but managable. Bus stop for the 300 at the bottom, called Peter's Lane.
http://www.biab.ac.uk/all_content?search=whiteleaf
incidently gives references for reading. I don't remember whether I knew about BIAB earlier.
Goldington
Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes
Goldington submitted by JoAtherton on 25th Jun 2023. A shopfloor mnemonic commemorating a Neolithic henge, remains of which are concealed beneath this Tesco superstore in Riverfield Park, Bedford.
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Log Text: I wonder whether this is the same as the Goldington Henge
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2018.PDF
I've walked around the area, near a bend in the Great Ouse, there was a house called Bury, and there is a Bury Walk.
Norton Henge
Date Added: 7th Apr 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes
Log Text: There is now a published article in Archaeology in Hertfordshire, Recent Research, 2015. Available in Welwyn Garden City Public Library, where there is a good local collection of material.
Godmanchester Cursus
Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes
Log Text: Went for a walk around here a while ago, before I had worked out how to do topic tuple #topictuple but now we have
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCB16367&resourceID=1000
which came from Godmanchester cursus put into Heritage gateway. This gives me a reference which I can check the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, which I think will have it. Note GC will not work, it has to be Ouse!
Haddenham Enclosure
Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes
Log Text: Tried to find this a while ago, now with heritage gateway
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=870852&resourceID=2
but this was more difficult as Haddenham has many records so we needed topic tuple but causewayed enclosure produced no results from Cambridge HER, which is interesting.
Prehistoric Society stuff is hard to get hold of, so Hodder's book might be easier.