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Submitted by JimChampion on Monday, 07 October 2002  Page Views: 5815

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Thickthorn Down (North) Alternative Name: Gussage St Michael 1
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Blandford Forum  Nearest Village: Long Crichel
Map Ref: ST970123  Landranger Map Number: 195
Latitude: 50.910160N  Longitude: 2.044041W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 3

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Thickthorn Down (North)
Thickthorn Down (North) submitted by JimChampion : April 2005. Looking southeast at the Thickthorn Down (North) long barrow, with the more southerly long barrow visible to the right in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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Thickthorn Down (North)
Thickthorn Down (North) submitted by JimChampion : April 2005. Looking northwest at the long barrow immediately to the SE of the western terminal of the Dorset Cursus. The barrow is 47m long, 20m wide with a silted-up U-shaped ditch open at the nearest end. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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ST9712 : Stile and Gate, Thickthorn Down by Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
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Re: Street View by Zooks777 on Thursday, 19 August 2021
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Several lumps and bumps on Environment Agency lidar (grey icon next to CamRA) but the posted position covers none of them. Whichever, not a classic long barrow
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Archaeologies of inhabitation on Cranborne Chase, Dorset by Adrian Chadwick by Andy B on Wednesday, 08 January 2014
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Footprints in the sands of time. Archaeologies of inhabitation on Cranborne Chase, Dorset by Adrian Chadwick, who writes:

In this paper, I used theories of embodiment, identity, materiality and landscape dwelling to write an interpretative archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods on Cranborne Chase in Dorset.

The paper also features fictional vignettes intended to provide possible insights into very different past lives, world views and understandings of landscape. It was illustrated with imaginative drawings by Cornelius Barton and Erica Hemming. The paper was an avowedly experimental exercise in interpretative narrative, to try and create a bridge between sometimes dense theoretical treatments, and more populist accounts.

Inspired by some of Mark Edmonds' fictional accounts of working wood and flint, I tried to portray something of people's beliefs and cosmologies, a difficult task in which I was only partly sucessful. I was particularly keen to try and envisage a Mesolithic world of animist, relational ontologies.

I also wished to focus on ideas of identity, including possible multiple genders; and the activities and taskscapes of women and children, which the illustrations too supported. I would love to continue these fictional thought experiments at a future date, perhaps in a graphic novel set during the British later Iron Age.

This paper represents the final Word text, with some remaining typos, but not the final paginated typeset Archaeopress formatted article.
Publication Date: 2004
Publication Name: A.M. Chadwick (ed.) Stories from the Landscape: Archaeologies of Inhabitation. BAR (International Series) S1238. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 179-256.

http://www.academia.edu/5576099/Chadwick_A.M._2004._Footprints_in_the_sands_of_time._Archaeologies_of_inhabitation_on_Cranborne_Chase_Dorset
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