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| Waulud's Bank | Henge | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 1st Jan 2012 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 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 ha... Read More |
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| Therfield Heath Five Hills | Barrow Cemetery | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 1st Feb 2012 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 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 trai... Read More |
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| Hollingbury | Hillfort | England | East Sussex | Visited | 1st Mar 2012 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 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, Archaeol... Read More |
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| Whitehawk | Causewayed Enclosure | England | East Sussex | Visited | 1st Mar 2012 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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 Brighto... Read More |
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| Rocky Clump | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | East Sussex | Couldn't find | 1st Mar 2012 | 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 Armad... Read More |
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| Bury Hill (Hampshire) | Hillfort | England | Hampshire | Visited | 1st Jan 2012 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 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... Read More |
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| Chisbury Camp | Hillfort | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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... Read More |
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| Merlin's Mount | Artificial Mound | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 31st Mar 2012 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 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... Read More |
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| Avebury | Stone Circle | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 2nd Apr 2012 | 3 | 2 | 3 | Salisbury railway station from the 09.41 out of Surbiton, then the bus 2 to Devizes change to the 49 to Swindon. Bus stop by pub. Huge amount of traffic means walking life threatening. There are no maps in the NT retail opportunity for the area, and they don't do walkers' leaflets. The interchange ... Read More |
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| Dyke Hills | Hillfort | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 7th Apr 2012 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The bus X39 or X40 from Reading Station, or from Oxford, stop called the Dorchester layby, on the main road which lies over the Dorchester Cursus. I think the bus stops and foot bridge at the endpoint of the cursus, and it lies, or lay, under the road. There is a short walk into the village, then ... Read More |
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| Seven Hills | Barrow Cemetery | England | Suffolk | Visited | 6th Apr 2012 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Interesingly the crematorium is called Seven Hills. There seems to be quite a lot of continuity in places of death. The complexity of finding out any more is that the museum authority is Colchester and Ipswich, if you are in Ipswich. Then there is Suffolk Archaeology. And the Suffolk Record Office... Read More |
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| Springfield | Timber Circle | England | Essex | Visited | 14th Apr 2012 | 3 | 2 | 4 | This is a case of the words and things for this pops up as a timber circle, and I am presuming it is in the right place to be a load of other things, almost all the terms we need. See words and things, though I don't know how to reference this. I found the two volumes in Chelmsford Library, 1981 o... Read More |
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| Etton Causewayed Enclosure | Causewayed Enclosure | England | Cambridgeshire | Saw from a distance | 30th Apr 2012 | 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... Read More |
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| Seaford Head | Hillfort | England | East Sussex | Visited | 1st May 2012 | 5 | 4 | The walk from Seaford station is wonderful up onto the head but the matter then becomes with golf course, I can't seperate anything from barrows or bunkers and can't see what I am supposed to be able to see.
There is a phone number for the council, so we might try to work on this, and the matter ... Read More |
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| Arminghall Henge | Henge | England | Norfolk | Visited | 1st Jul 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Went past the site in teh 587 bus, two and hour, then got off in Trowse. There isn't much to see in the field but you aren't far from Whitlinghan country park. someone has already mentioned white horse lane, and I'm taken by whit lin ge ham... in the country park there is a thoroughly misleading po... Read More |
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| Stumblebury | Round Barrow(s) | England | Kent | Visited | 1st Dec 2012 | 2 | 3 | I don't think I've found it, but I can't be sure. Saw it on the village map in Otford, you then walk beyond the station, past the chalk pit, turn right up the hill, and then you will find the poster for the North Downs Way. Opposite, walk up the track, mud, clay, chalk, right to the top of the downs... Read More |
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| West End Common Barrows | Barrow Cemetery | England | Surrey | Visited | 14th Feb 2013 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The 34, 35, bus, four an hour, with a stop at Red Road. This is the beginning of the Brentmoor Nature Reserve, or the Aldershot Military Lands, depending on your preferences. The four barrows are a short walk along the right of way. There is a Surrey Wildlife Trust Board, and a megalith, or sarsen... Read More |
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| Horsell Common W | Barrow Cemetery | England | Surrey | Visited | 14th Feb 2013 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |I've heard there has been some excavation around here recently, but haven't yet been able to track down any references. It looks as if there has been at least some scrub clearance. | ||
| Reigate Heath Barrows | Barrow Cemetery | England | Surrey | Visited | 3 | 3 | 4 | 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. | |||
| Shepperton Henge | Henge | England | Surrey | Visited | 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 se... Read More |
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| Staines Enclosure | Causewayed Enclosure | England | Surrey | Visited | 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-Ma... Read More |
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| Whiteleaf Barrows | Long Barrow | England | Buckinghamshire | Visited | 3 | 4 | 3 | 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 whe... Read More |
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| Chipping Hill Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Essex | Visited | 10th Nov 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Witham report is published as Oxbow manuscript 26, Rodwell, which makes it a bit harder to find than usual, but WorldCat now makes a considerable difference. It is in Witham, and Witham has an email .gov.uk address, so I'm going to try using these for retrieval.
There are walks guides to t... Read More |
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| Cissbury Ring | Hillfort | England | West Sussex | Saw from a distance | 18th Dec 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 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 Archaeol... Read More |
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| St. Anne's Well (Stanwell) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Surrey | Visited | 12th Feb 2016 | 3 | 2 | 4 | I don't like selection five, in access, the driving bit. It is right next to the bus stop, 441 or 446, near the Happy Landing stop for the 555 or 203. Get over your motorism and autokrazy.
The picture shows up well in google search which got me to where I found it. I asked a postman, he gave a... Read More |
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| Stanwell Cursus | Cursus | England | Surrey | Visited | 12th Feb 2016 | 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 Evolu... Read More |
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| Goldington | Timber Circle | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 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. | ||||||
| Five Knolls | Barrow Cemetery | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 1st Jan 2012 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 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 Intepretat... Read More |
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| Galley Hill (Streatley) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 20th Mar 2016 | 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/inde... Read More |
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| Kempston Cursus | Cursus | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 20th Mar 2016 | 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 ancie... Read More |
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| Cople Cursus | Cursus | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 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 ... Read More |
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| Willington | Cursus | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 2nd Apr 2016 | 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 | |||||
| Cardington B Cursus | Cursus | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 2nd Apr 2016 | 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 | |||||
| Biggleswade Cursus | Cursus | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 2nd Apr 2016 | 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 one... Read More |
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| Caesar's Camp (Bedfordshire) | Hillfort | England | Bedfordshire | Visited | 2nd Apr 2016 | 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. | |||||
| Norton Henge | Henge | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 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. | ||||||
| Six Hills | Round Barrow(s) | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 1st Jan 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 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.
Ther... Read More |
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| Godmanchester Cursus | Cursus | England | Cambridgeshire | Visited | 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 referenc... Read More |
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| Haddenham Enclosure | Causewayed Enclosure | England | Cambridgeshire | Visited | 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, wh... Read More |
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| Fussell's Lodge | Long Barrow | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 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. | ||||||
| Maumbury Rings | Henge | England | Dorset | Visited | 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 ... Read More |