Megalithic Portal: Latest from Cheshire, England

Wishing Well (Alderley Edge)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:02:29 GMT

. Holy Well in Cheshire

Holy Well (Alderley Edge)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:00:22 GMT

. Holy Well in Cheshire

The Megalithic Portal video channel on YouTube

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:49:52 GMT

]]>. The most recently added video to our YouTube channel is Kevin Kilburn speaking at our last Megalithic Portal Live Event. Kevin is a very experienced amateur astronomer and Fellow of the Royal Astonomical Society. There are many other fascinating talks to watch there, complete with photos and slides.

Carden Park Barrow

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:49:06 GMT

. Round Barrow in Cheshire

Meadows Farm Barrow

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:41:26 GMT

]]>. Round Barrow in Cheshire

The Bridestones (Cheshire)

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:19:03 GMT

]]>Many thanks to Doug Pickford and Kevin Kilburn for these exclusive archive photos of the 1936 excavation. The few remaining stones of this once great monument still stand along the line of the Cheshire / Staffordshire border between the hillside of Bosley Cloud and Wolfe Lowe at SJ906662. The site is in desperate need of attention and recognition.

Adlington Hall pre-Norman cross

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:56:49 GMT

]]>. Ancient Cross in Cheshire

Beeston Castle

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:53:41 GMT

]]>Update: Hillfort Glow was a successful test of possible Iron Age communication. Castle and hillfort in Cheshire. Today the 13th century ruins of Beeston Castle, under the care of English Heritage, stand on a rocky summit close to the mid-Cheshire Ridge, 500ft above the Cheshire plain. Offering stunning views from the Pennines in the east to the mountains of Wales in the west, the hilltop was occupied as early as 800BC in the Late Bronze Age and was later crowned by an Iron Age hillfort.

Castle Ditch Eddisbury

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:40:31 GMT

]]>Some photos of the recent excavation have been uploaded. Eddisbury is the largest and most complex of the seven hill forts in the county of Cheshire. It was constructed before 200�100 BC and expanded in 1�50 AD. In the 1st century AD, the Romans slighted the site.

Engine Vein, Alderley Edge Copper Mines

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:23:42 GMT

]]>National Trust Guided Walk Sunday 4 July 2010, see comment. . Ancient Mine or Quarry in Cheshire. Due to intense mining activities in recent centuries, it has been very difficult to identify whether or not copper mines were used in prehistoric times.