Megalithic Portal: Latest from Shropshire, England

Bryn Rossett

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:26:53 GMT

]]>. Round Barrow in Shropshire

Old Oswestry Fort

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:15:31 GMT

]]>Old Oswestry Fort tours, 7th/8th September 2012. Hillfort in Shropshire. Old Oswestry has been described as the finest example of an Iron Age hill fort in the Marches, mainly because of its highly elaborate defences.

Robin Hoods Butt 1 (Shropshire)

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:41:45 GMT

. Round Barrow(s) in Shropshire

Fairy Stone

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:23:34 GMT

]]>Photos now up from another south Shropshire site - with strong folklore associations. Glacial Erratic in Shropshire. This stone has a long tradition of fairy lights associated with it, and an account of someone walking past the stone one night getting the fairy lights stuck to his trousers. On getting home he found the trousers to be scorched - according to the tale...

Burf Castle

Mon, 09 May 2011 12:18:40 GMT

. Hillfort in Shropshire

Hampton Loade Cross

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:06:06 GMT

]]>. Ancient Cross in Shropshire

Bury Ditches

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:31:29 GMT

]]>The Landscape of Lower Down walk, Sat 24 July. Bury Ditches is a wonderful example of a hillfort; the views are breathtaking, too. Until 1976, it was shrouded in trees - but a storm blew many of them down, and then the Forestry Commision felled the remainder of trees from the ramparts, revealing the oval-shape hillfort

New Publication - The Lost Stone Circles of Shropshire

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:25:25 GMT

. Historian Byron Machin presents an in-depth archaeological, historical & mythological account of the important, but often overlooked prehistoric ritual monuments of Shropshire.

The Wrekin

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:48:56 GMT

]]>Is there an ancient calendar stone on the Wrekin? See latest comment.. Hillfort, Bronze Age barrow, Bronze Age cairn, Holy Well and possible calendar stone in Shropshire. The Wrekin is perhaps Shropshire�s most significant hillfort. Once home to the Cornovii a British tribe (originally from Iberia), the fort was stormed by the Romans under Ostorius Scapula around the spring of AD47.

St Margarets Well (Telford)

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:55:11 GMT

. Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Shropshire