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Andy B
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|  Posted 09-05-2012 at 18:07
I'm going to post some more sites that I don't think we have listed at the moment. Many thanks in advance if you would like to track down where any of these are and create a page for them.
First some archaeology projects from Orkney, not all of which we have listed:
Eight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2012/03/01/eight-orkney-projects-to-benefit-from-a-share-of-oics-50000-archaeology-fund/
The Cairns/Windwick Bay archaeological field project in South Ronaldsay - Overlooking Windwick Bay, the Cairns is a massive archaeological jigsaw puzzle, with a sequence of Iron Age buildings, representing centuries of use.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2010/07/15/the-curious-case-of-the-cairns-broch/
Second the Braes of Ha’breck excavations, in Wyre. The site comprises Neolithic timber and stone houses, working areas and a domestic quarry.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/09/740/
Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project - Archaeologists use latest technology to record the exciting finds of prehistoric and Viking remains at Swandro, in Rousay, before the site disappears into the sea.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/07/14/1225/
Lots of interesting stuff there to look for.
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Andy B
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| Posted 09-05-2012 at 18:31
Some sites featured in Antiquity - first it's not clear which cave this is from:
Animation in Palaeolithic art: a pre-echo of cinema
http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/azema332/
They claim these to be the first Palaeolithic animated pictures found however I found this:
New Reflection Transformation Imaging Methods for Rock
Art and Multiple-Viewpoint Display
The subject of Figure 6 (in section 10) was created during the
Magdalenian period. It shows a left-facing goat profile with
the head and neck ‘animated’ to indicate both forward- and
backward-looking orientations
Ref: Baptista, A. M., 1999. No tempo sem tempo: A arte
dos cacadores paleoliticos do Vale do Côa, Centro
Nacional de Arte Rupestre e Autor. ISBN: 972-98121-0-1
http://culturalheritageimaging.org/What_We_Do/Publications/vast2006/
http://culturalheritageimaging.org/What_We_Do/Publications/vast2006/VAST2006_final.pdf
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Andy B
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| Posted 09-05-2012 at 18:38
Zeviya Tivilki on the Upper Tigris, Turkey
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/atay329/
Salat Tepe, south-eastern Turkey
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/okse332/
Tepe Khaleseh in north-western Iran
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/davoudi331/
More here
http://php.york.ac.uk/org/antiquity/projgall.php
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PeteG
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| Posted 09-05-2012 at 19:18
it seems that Durrington long barrow has gone unnoticed by a lot of people.
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Andy B
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| Posted 10-05-2012 at 17:12
Do you mean the one in Larkhill Pete?
Something else interesting from Aluta
Kinstone Modern Stone Circle
http://www.winonapost.com/stock/functions/VDG_Pub/detail.php?choice=47559&home_page=1&archives
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| Posted 10-05-2012 at 17:50
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| On 2012-05-09 19:18, PeteG wrote:
it seems that Durrington long barrow has gone unnoticed by a lot of people |
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Added as Watergate Long Barrow
Or do you mean the one just south of Woodhenge at 51.187544,-1.785022 which appears to have been destroyed?
There's a rather nice circular crop mark and what looks like an avenue heading north here.
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PeteG
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| Posted 10-05-2012 at 21:56
SU 16256 43116
seems its also known as Bulford. Apparently it's on private land so doesn't get visited.
I have found some lovely arrowheads on the ground in that area before.
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| Posted 11-05-2012 at 13:02
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| On 2012-05-10 21:56, PeteG wrote:
SU 16256 43116
seems its also known as Bulford. Apparently it's on private land so doesn't get visited.
I have found some lovely arrowheads on the ground in that area before.
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I was going to name it "Bulford Long Barrow" but the nearest named features are Watergate Farm and the Watergates on the Avon.
P.S. Maybe it should just be "Longbarrow Clump" after the copse.
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PeteG
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| Posted 11-05-2012 at 18:44
I read an antiquarian paper which called it Durrington Longbarrow, I suppose it is technically in Bulford parish,
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| Posted 12-05-2012 at 19:47
I went there yesterday evening and added some pictures today to Watergate Long Barrow. Name sorted. Simples!
It's a mess. Generally overgrown with the base of one maybe two water tanks that are now discarded and laying on the flank of the site.
There is a track to the farmhouse which is a private road that passes right beside the barrow but that are also a series of footpaths that come from Bulford or the radio masts above Solstice Park and meet before beading towards the South and the A303.
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Andy B
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| Posted 12-05-2012 at 22:03
Thanks a lot BareClawz for visiting the site, and of course David for adding the site pages - There are a lots more prehistoric sites listed on the Wiltshire SMR / HER:
http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/smr/smr_search.php?parish_in=Durrington
I hope some others reading are tempted to join in, you don't have to live locally to help with the research and add pages, even if you do to take photos.
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Andy B
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| Posted 14-05-2012 at 14:48
Site page with photos
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=31316
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| Posted 17-05-2012 at 19:19
Need a sitepage made up for "Vinogradnaya mount" dolmens, for which pictures were recently sent in
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=89331
When uploading the pictures, I changed the sitemane on them so it is the same for all, but dont have time to figure out where it is and do the sitepage. There was also a few odds and ends pictures from the same chap, probably nearby.
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davidmorgan
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| Posted 17-05-2012 at 19:44
With rebel's last lot of photos from that region (Sochi) I lumped them together in one site page - Ashe River Dolmens.
I'll have a look around for where his latest ones are from.....
Dolmens of Lazarevskoe Region
I've done a couple of site pages for them:
Solonitskiy hrebet
Vinogradnaya mount
Accuracy to the nearest town (Lazarevskaya).
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| Posted 17-05-2012 at 20:38
Fascinating area, the Black Sea region. Loads of dolmens - http://lexiline.blogspot.com/2007/05/caucasus-dolmens-russia-deciphered-as.html
Maybe Dr. Viktor Trifonov is member Viktor.
So many megaliths in the world and too little time!
(Now investigating the Trabzon-Sochi ferry link - Black Sea Ferry Tales - might be the way to go).
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| Posted 18-05-2012 at 12:35
Presumably a region currently becoming much more open and tourist friendly than it has been, due to the next Winter Olympics in 2014.
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Andy B
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| Posted 24-07-2012 at 19:08
Does anyone have the grid ref for the following sites as they have a dig diary I'd like to put in our news:
The Cairns/Windwick Bay archaeological field project in South Ronaldsay - Overlooking Windwick Bay, the Cairns is a massive archaeological jigsaw puzzle, with a sequence of Iron Age buildings, representing centuries of use.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2010/07/15/the-curious-case-of-the-cairns-broch/
Cairns project dig diary:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/thecairns/
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Second the Braes of Ha’breck excavations, in Wyre. The site comprises Neolithic timber and stone houses, working areas and a domestic quarry.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/2011/05/09/740/
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Andy B
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| Posted 25-07-2012 at 16:27
Another interesting site needing a site page for it - the location is on Wikipedia:
The cave was popularized by Erich von Däniken's 1973 book The Gold of the Gods, in which he wrote that Juan Moricz had claimed to have explored Cueva de los Tayos in 1969 and discovered mounds of gold, unusual sculptures and a metallic library. These items were said to be located within artificial tunnels that had been created by a lost civilization with help from extraterrestrial beings. Von Däniken had previously stirred public imagination by suggesting that extraterrestrials were involved in ancient civilizations in his popular book Chariots of the Gods?.
As a result of the claims published in von Däniken’s book, an investigation of Cueva de los Tayos was organized by Stan Hall from Britain in 1976. One of the largest and most expensive cave explorations ever undertaken, the expedition included over a hundred people, including experts in a variety of fields, British and Ecuadorian military personnel, a film crew, and former astronaut Neil Armstrong. The team also included eight experienced British cavers who thoroughly explored the cave and conducted an accurate survey to produce a detailed map of the cave. There was no evidence of Von Däniken’s more exotic claims, although some physical features of the cave did approximate his descriptions and some items of zoological, botanical and archaeological interest were found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_los_Tayos
Leading to some controversial claims
http://www.goldlibrary.com/
http://tayoscave.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/legendary-metal-library-found-in-tayos-cave-in-ecuador/
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| Posted 25-07-2012 at 19:17
Does anyone have the grid ref for the following sites as they have a dig diary I'd like to put in our news:
The Cairns/Windwick Bay archaeological field project in South Ronaldsay - Overlooking Windwick Bay, the Cairns is a massive archaeological jigsaw puzzle, with a sequence of Iron Age buildings, representing centuries of use.
Hi Andy, there is a group of round features on Bing's Grid Reference Finder map at ND45789 87256, near a road named Windiwick and overlooking a bay, Windiwick presumably.
Second the Braes of Ha’breck excavations, in Wyre
Wyre is a tiny island, 1.2 square miles. Its grid ref from wiki is HY445262 Can't find a grid ref specific to the excavation, sorry.
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Andy B
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| Posted 25-07-2012 at 19:32
Sounds close enough to get started, we can always update the accuracy later, by all means go for it
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