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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2012-04-10 23:31
Thanks Peter for adding a new site and photo for these - amazing birds as well! Front Page
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=31178
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2012-04-11 01:45 ]
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| New Message Posted!2012-04-09 21:44
Andy, I did take some photos of features on Skomer which struck me as 'special', but which I hadn't submitted as i wasn't sure of their age etc. I will add a couple from the south of the island to see what people think - but I suppose that means adding them as new sites when I can't vouch for them being quite ancient enough....
but they looked great!
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We have it - thanks to PAB - looks like it is thought to be ancient:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7390
Aside from the Harold Stone, a variety of less obvious monuments of potential Early Bronze Age date are recorded on Skomer. These include the barrow near the Wick along with a considerable number of cairns. (some 'new' sites to add then!)
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Andy B
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| New Message Posted!2012-04-06 19:03
During our first season back in April 2011 we had undertaken a typological study of the prehistoric settlement remains in the north of the island and identified a number of new sub-megalithic monuments
...sounds like Exmoor I suppose - interesting.
Skomer has only one prominent megalithic monument, the Harold Stone, which is a 1.7 m high monolith of local stone sited towards the eastern edge of a block of fields, looking out over the maritime approaches to the island.
We have it - thanks to PAB - looks like it is thought to be ancient:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7390
Aside from the Harold Stone, a variety of less obvious monuments of potential Early Bronze Age date are recorded on Skomer. These include the barrow near the Wick along with a considerable number of cairns. (some 'new' sites to add then!)
http://heritageofwalesnews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/recent-work-on-skomer-island.html
...we were invited to film with Ray Mears for his new television series Wild Britain, due to be aired on ITV in autumn 2011.
Filming inside one of the best preserved Iron Age huts on the south of the island, which is still accessible to visitors, Ray was fascinated to hear how a combination of aerial photography, airborne laser scanning and detailed ground survey is allowing the Royal Commission to develop a new understanding of the ways that Skomer was settled and farmed in later prehistory.
http://heritageofwalesnews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/royal-commission-films-with-ray-mears.html
(it's Series 2 Episode 2, not officially online unfortunately but out there)
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| New Message Posted!2012-04-06 12:34
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