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Levington Ring Ditches
Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Would like to visit
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.
Cissbury Ring
Date Added: 18th Dec 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 18th Dec 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cissbury Ring submitted by Andy B on 10th Oct 2003.
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Log Text: The bus from Worthing to Midhurst, 1, or the other way round, with a stop at Pulborough for the other railway, passes.
What needs noting now is the wonderful library in Worthing, and the Museum.
The local studies centre for west Sussex is here, there is a complete run of SAC, a run of Archaeologia, and of the Archaeological Journal.
How to use these to find out more about the place perhaps means knowing about the BIAB, which is public access and open, and the ADS, which is also mainly public access and open. Worthing has Access to Research but I haven't worked out yet how useful that is.
Etton Causewayed Enclosure
Date Added: 30th Apr 2012
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2012
Etton Causewayed Enclosure submitted by dodomad on 7th Aug 2017. The excavation of 1987.
Photo Credit: Peter Chowne
More at Peter's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire
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Log Text: I've now tried to find this in google earth, and tried to work out the bus from Peterborough which isn't frequent enough in the bad weather, but I have now found the literature, sometimes it is called Etton, which isn't a good grep string, for places including etton, of which there are a lot, pop up. pryor is an author. There is a really good collection of material in Peterborough library local history collection. Material from the site is in the British Museum in gallery 50.
The puzzling thing though is the cursus, rather than the causewayed enclosure but that gets us back to the words matter.
Maumbury Rings
Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes
Maumbury Rings submitted by mattimpey on 10th Nov 2009. Maumbury Rings is now a public park and has been used for open air concerts and performances.
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Log Text: Rather tucked away in the Pastscape text is the reference to Archaeologia 105. This is 99 pages of material.
Search on Archaeologia web site takes you to Cambridge Journals which has a search and Maumbury is an uncomplicated term story.
I remembered to type in the 5+1 = 6, though the six was already there, so let's see what happens, perhaps I should have done it as a word.
Fussell's Lodge
Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes
Fussell's Lodge submitted by Andy B on 14th Aug 2007. Reconstruction drawings showing the different ways Neolithic communities closed their burial sites: at Ascott-under-Wychwood, the chamber was walled up; at Hazleton offerings were made; at Fussell's Lodge the wooden mortuary chamber was burnt and a large barrow constructed; and in West Kennet, people simply stopped placing corpses in the tomb. These differences indicate that contemporary Neolithic societies are much more varied than we previously thought.
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Log Text: damn, made this mistake before, didn't notice the number business so an entire essay disappeared without trace.
And now I can't find all the other comments, which popped up from a google search for which MP was almost the first posting.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Caesar's Camp (Bedfordshire)
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: There seem to be three places called Ceasar's Camp, one might be Sandy Lodge, which is what it is called when excavation written up, another might be Galley Hill, not to be confused with Streatley, so not sure which I visited or whether there are simply different names for the same thing.
Biggleswade Cursus
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: Took the train from Biggleswade to Sandy but couldn't see anything obvious except the landscape from the window.
The excavation is written up in Beds Arch. 26 along with map showing a collection of cursuses along the river. Seem to remember that 26 has not yet been digitised, all the earlier ones have.
There comes a point where quantity turns into quality and a collection of cursuses needs a name.
Cardington B Cursus
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: Cardington turns up search here, cursus, now is this the same as cople and or willington, or how many are they?
Bus 74 to Cople runs through Cardington.
BIAB gives hits, and unpublished works still have abstract entries, so something here but terms.
More scuffling needed
Willington
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: Ah, willington shows this entry in cople and cople shows the willington entry, so now perhaps we can join this up? Nothing in BIAB for willington
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.
Kempston Cursus
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2016
Log Text: tried to visit, but not sure place. BIAB and other sources leave a lot to be followed up, but Beds Arch 26 decides it isn't a cursus without saying whatever it is might then be.
There is a beautiful walk along the Great Ouse from the bus 1 on the main road to the church, in the church is an ancient great stone, so perhaps we have the stone and the bend in the river as something which will keep us going.
I've now found reference to collared urns in Kempston except that it is spelt collard, some typo somewhere, BIAB or not. Beds Arch J. 5, with illus, and references to follow up still to see what we can find out. A collared urn isn't exactly megalithic, but is a typecast for timeline.
Galley Hill (Streatley)
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2016
Galley Hill (Streatley) submitted by bec-zog on 21st Jan 2004. Galley Hill : Neolithic to Roman (& medieval )
TL092270
4 Barrows
location is near Iron age Boundary Drays Ditches (TL075266 to 090265)
Ref James Dyer: Beds. Arch. Jornal. 1961 p116.
(1st excavation by my school's Arch. society 1951)
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Log Text: Starting from where the Old Bedford Road runs out, to become a path, or from the 25 bus stop near Weydown, a short walk takes you into the Galley And Warden Nature reserve, which doesn't appear to tell you anything about the archaeology
This might though
http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2009.PDF
Now I've found Dyer, Barrows of the Chilterns, Arch 116, which is on ADS and found by author Dyer. The Galley Hills is only one group of the lot he mentions. I don't think I want to add this reference to all the others. How one does collections like this is a general matter.
There are more articles after 1959 by him but Arch.J. is available only until v120 at present for public access. You need to be a member of RAI for later issues access. There is a complete set in the SAL library, which membership of the RAI allows access.
There is another Galley Hill, in Sandy, for which there seems to be less literature.
can't be sure of the accuracy of the pdf locator, but it is vol 9.
I'm not sure of the reference next to the photograph in the site entry, which I didn't notice earlier, but the Beds.Arch started in 1962. There is an article by Dyer in the first edition, on Barton, which I think is a different matter. The Barton one comes up again in issue 19. This, 1974, is the only one to appear in BIAB.
I've cracked the reference matter, it is Beds Arch J. v.2., 1964, 16ff and part of a longer article dealing with Waulud's Bank, Five Knolls too.
So he has Arch J. 116. this, and BAJ 9. plus there might be some more. This is becoming untidy bibliography.
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.
Copyright Martin Addison and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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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
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.
Stanwell Cursus
Date Added: 18th Mar 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2016
Heathrow - The staff standing on a reconstruction of the Stanwell Cursus submitted by Andy B on 2nd Nov 2003. Heathrow Terminal 5 excavations. Copyright Framework Archaeology
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Log Text: Tried to visit but not at all clear where the terminus of the cursus actually might be.
You get a good view though from the top story of Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
The other end, according to Pevnser is Bigley Wash, but I haven't found that spot either.
It is much written up in Landscape Evolution in the Middle Thames Valley, which isn't the sort of title you would expect to be about Stanwell