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The Henge Monuments of the British Isles: Myth and Archaeology

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<< Our Photo Pages >> Gower Heritage centre - Museum in Wales in West Glamorgan

Submitted by coldrum on Saturday, 03 September 2011  Page Views: 10408

MuseumsSite Name: Gower Heritage centre
Country: Wales County: West Glamorgan Type: Museum
 Nearest Village: Parkmill
Map Ref: SS543892
Latitude: 51.582771N  Longitude: 4.10429W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Gower Heritage centre
Gower Heritage centre submitted by Andy B : Gower Heritage Centre. Entrance to the open air museum on the south Gower main road. It is based on the site of a 12th century corn mill. Copyright Colin Smith and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Centre is a visitor attraction and rural life museum based around a working 12th century water-mill. It has some modern stone circles in the grounds.

Gower Heritage Centre

Note: (Possibly) oldest cave art in UK, the image of a reindeer, has been vandalized
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SS5489 : Ford on the stream near the Gower Heritage Centre at Parkmill, Gower by Jeremy Bolwell
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Cat Hole cave was announced as the site of the important rock art discovery by Andy B on Saturday, 26 January 2013
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Last summer Cat Hole cave was announced as the site of the important rock art discovery:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=4471
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Gower cave reindeer carving update by hoperp on Friday, 29 June 2012
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Gower cave reindeer carving is Britain's oldest rock art confirmed.
See article on BBC Wales News website:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18648683

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Re: Oldest cave art in UK discovered and vandalized by Andy B on Monday, 05 September 2011
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Link to the news item
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14721056
With thanks to Hoperp again
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Re: Oldest cave art in UK discovered and vandalized by hoperp on Saturday, 03 September 2011
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News item on BBC Wales News a couple of days ago showed the inside of the cave and the cave painting and reported there had been some vandalism. I must comment that from the first report here I was able to at once track down the cave very easily. Also the BBC News video showed just inside the cave entrance with views outside which again was easy to track the exact cave. Yes, likely the cave will now be gated over and locked to protect it from idiots.
I was shocked when I took the panoramic photo of Parc Le Breos chambered tomb the extent of graffiti sctarched into stones there and at Maen Ceti how many stones had been moved on the periphery of the mound and evidence of stones being disturbed in the central mound. Sadly everything has to be protected and hidden to keep it safe from the "spoilers" and idiots of the world these days.
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Oldest cave art in UK discovered and (allegedly) vandalized by Andy B on Saturday, 03 September 2011
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A design of a reindeer hidden in the back of a Welsh cave may be the oldest cave art in the UK, archaeologists say. Sadly, it's been vandalized.

Unlike the more familiar cave paintings of France and Spain, the reindeer is scratched into the rock instead of being painted, like this horse from the Scottish cave of East Weymss courtesy Europe a la Carte. No photo of the reindeer has been released for public use, but you can see it in this BBC video. Incised designs are common in Paleolithic art, but are less known to the general public because they're not as impressive as the giant paintings of caves like Lascaux and Altamira.

Archaeologists date the carving to about 12,500 years ago, a time when prehistoric hunter gatherers stalked reindeer and wholly mammoth across an Ice Age landscape.

It was discovered last September but its location kept a secret as the team studied it. Unfortunately, someone found out about the discovery and tried to scrape the carving away. Instead of it potentially becoming a tourist destination, now it will probably be gated over. Yet another example of one idiot ruining it for the rest of us.

Source, with a picture of the rock art reindeer:
http://www.gadling.com/2011/08/31/oldest-cave-art-in-uk-discovered-and-vandalized/
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Re: Gower Heritage centre by Andy B on Thursday, 28 July 2011
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Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art
Wall carving in Gower cave The location of the wall carving is being kept secret for the time being [but look at the above list of nearby caves in Gower for a few likely possibilities, not that I'm trying to break their secret - MegP Ed]

An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art.

The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago.

The archaeologist who found the carving on the Gower peninsula, Dr George Nash, called it "very, very exciting."

Experts are working to verify the discovery, although its exact location is being kept secret for now.

Dr Nash, a part-time academic for Bristol University, made the discovery while at the caves in September 2010.

He told BBC Wales: "It was a strange moment of being in the right place at the right time with the right kit.

"For 20-odd years I have been taking students to this cave and talking about what was going on there.

"They went back to their cars and the bus and I decided to have a little snoop around in the cave as I've never had the chance to do it before.

"Within a couple of minutes I was scrubbing at the back of a very strange and awkward recess and there a very faint image bounced in front of me - I couldn't believe my eyes."

More, with a photo at the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14272126
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