Bury Hill (Hampshire)

Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Hillfort Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: A short walk from Andover station, along a designed path through the town by the river, then up the hill.

Rather puzzling that Andover returned so many hits on search, must work this one out.


The museum of the iron age has much. The church looks to me to be on a mound. There is another site, trashed apparently by road building which didn't pop up in search but I can't remember the name without my map.

Springfield

Date Added: 16th Apr 2012
Site Type: Timber Circle Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4

Log Text: This is a case of the words and things for this pops up as a timber circle, and I am presuming it is in the right place to be a load of other things, almost all the terms we need. See words and things, though I don't know how to reference this. I found the two volumes in Chelmsford Library, 1981 on the cursus, but I don't want to have to repeat this text there, and the 1987 on this, which they don't call a timber circle.

It is now a mess. It needs a spiral of virtue, perhaps with YOI to make something of it, and could be a real celebration. I wonder where to start?

The industrial estate and the housing estate show that we have unlearned rather a lot about planning.

Chipping Hill Enclosure

Date Added: 10th Nov 2014
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: The Witham report is published as Oxbow manuscript 26, Rodwell, which makes it a bit harder to find than usual, but WorldCat now makes a considerable difference. It is in Witham, and Witham has an email .gov.uk address, so I'm going to try using these for retrieval.

There are walks guides to the Blackwater Valley, and a Tourism Information Centre, but nothing mentioning Rodwell or the hillfort, or picnic site, as you would have it.

The recovery from 1844 is in Chelmsford Museum, fire pokers they call them, so there must have been quite a picnic.

The railway was driven through the centre apparently, but walking the curve of the river gives a distinct sense of hilliness, by Essex standards. More puzzling is the church, which seems to be on a mound, so one wonders whether there is some sort of combination?

Hollingbury

Date Added: 19th Mar 2012
Site Type: Hillfort Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: The bus 50 to the surestart or the 26, 46 to Hollingbury Park, or the 79 to Ditchling Beacon on Sundays and soon, Saturdays, one per hour, from the Railway Station. I was trying to work out whether you can see Ditchling Beacon from Hollingbury, and vice versa.

Now I have to go to Curwe, Archaeology of Sussex, 1934, and then try to track the literature in the Brighton History Centre and Senate House.

Rocky Clump

Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Mar 2012

Log Text: I found out about this in the Stanmer booklet sold by the preservation society, reading it on the train home, The booklet which I picked up at Ditchling Beacon doesn't show it. But then it doesn't show the tumuli or the remains of the hill settlement either and says the beacon word comes from Armada times, and the pond is 17th century, so there is quite a bit of work to be done. The leaflet from the Wildlife trust of course is wildlife.

There are some references in the stanmer booklet but they are far from clear so more work to be done.

Spent an afternoon wandering around Stanmer Park, lots of stones lying around but no idea whether I found this clump or not.

Whitehawk

Date Added: 19th Mar 2012
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: Found this last week, number 1 bus to another set of tower blocks, then a short walk. There is no signing that I could find so interpretaton depends on imagination. You are on Brighton race Course so you could imagine that as a ccursus.

Excavated by Curwen, Archaeology of Sussex, in the Brighton History Centre. There is a 2004 book by the Friends of Whitehawk, an organisation worth supporting perhaps.


The whole area could do with a bit of loving attention. This becomes a spiral of virtue matter.


I asked locally where it was, and the locals don't know. There is though a white hawk carved in the chalk somewhere or other hereabouts. How to do a good walk from here to Hollingbury I haven't worked out yet, that is a green and smart matter.

The group of Whitehawk, Hollingbruy Ditchling Beacon, Devil's Dyke would seem to me to be a collection of national importance which makes it a #disKUvery matter.

Seaford Head

Date Added: 20th May 2012
Site Type: Hillfort Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4

Log Text: The walk from Seaford station is wonderful up onto the head but the matter then becomes with golf course, I can't seperate anything from barrows or bunkers and can't see what I am supposed to be able to see.

There is a phone number for the council, so we might try to work on this, and the matter of the barrow.

Maumbury Rings

Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Henge Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: Rather tucked away in the Pastscape text is the reference to Archaeologia 105. This is 99 pages of material.

Search on Archaeologia web site takes you to Cambridge Journals which has a search and Maumbury is an uncomplicated term story.

I remembered to type in the 5+1 = 6, though the six was already there, so let's see what happens, perhaps I should have done it as a word.

Etton Causewayed Enclosure

Date Added: 30th Apr 2012
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2012

Log Text: I've now tried to find this in google earth, and tried to work out the bus from Peterborough which isn't frequent enough in the bad weather, but I have now found the literature, sometimes it is called Etton, which isn't a good grep string, for places including etton, of which there are a lot, pop up. pryor is an author. There is a really good collection of material in Peterborough library local history collection. Material from the site is in the British Museum in gallery 50.

The puzzling thing though is the cursus, rather than the causewayed enclosure but that gets us back to the words matter.

Godmanchester Cursus

Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: Went for a walk around here a while ago, before I had worked out how to do topic tuple #topictuple but now we have

http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCB16367&resourceID=1000

which came from Godmanchester cursus put into Heritage gateway. This gives me a reference which I can check the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, which I think will have it. Note GC will not work, it has to be Ouse!

Haddenham Enclosure

Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: Tried to find this a while ago, now with heritage gateway

http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=870852&resourceID=2

but this was more difficult as Haddenham has many records so we needed topic tuple but causewayed enclosure produced no results from Cambridge HER, which is interesting.

Prehistoric Society stuff is hard to get hold of, so Hodder's book might be easier.

Whiteleaf Barrows

Date Added: 3rd Nov 2014
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: Why would you want to drive to something like this and make that the first option? The best walk is up Kop Hill, then into Brush Hill Nature reserve, along the path, it is easy to find. The other two aren't quite as easy and the site calls one a mill mound, but why would you build a mill mound when you already have this? Walk down Peter's Lane, a bit of a rat run (all those people driving to see the monument), but managable. Bus stop for the 300 at the bottom, called Peter's Lane.

http://www.biab.ac.uk/all_content?search=whiteleaf

incidently gives references for reading. I don't remember whether I knew about BIAB earlier.

Waulud's Bank

Trip No.1  Entry No.1  Date Added: 6th Mar 2012
Site Type: Henge Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: This is almost opposite Leagrave Station so a really short walk, towered over by gargantuan housing in Luton. The combination of four thousand years of humanity makes a stunning contrast. This is also the source of the river Lea, or Lee, looking at the moment like a muddy puddle. My imagination has the ring, which might be a better word than ditch, filled with water again, puddled with white clay and a Midsummer Night's Dream being performed on the stage. Theseus and Hippolya, Phaedre and Hipplolytus, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripedes is made for a place like this, and would put Luton onto the OlyUNpics (which is the cultural alternative to running 26 miles).

Five Knolls

Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: This site is on the main road from Dunstable towards Aylesbury, 61 bus hourly, but a walk from the main Dunstable cross roads, the Icknield Way and Watling St. The knoll group in a straight line is quite impressive, pointing almost directly to Maiden Bower.

The National Trust Chilterns Intepretation centre is nearby, though I'm afraid that is a shopping centre rather than an interpretation centre, there appears to be about nothing on the megalithic Chilterns but in Dunstable Library there is a good collection. There is a community heritage Priory Centre in the grounds of what remains of the Abbey and there is a local society, the Manshead, which publishes archaeology. The first day I was there, during the blizzard, everything white with snow, a few days later, all melted and green, with a blue sky.

Now I have found http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2019.PDF

not sure how accurate the pdf register is, this is vol 19, and titled five knolls

Goldington

Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Timber Circle Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: I wonder whether this is the same as the Goldington Henge

http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2018.PDF

I've walked around the area, near a bend in the Great Ouse, there was a house called Bury, and there is a Bury Walk.

Cople Cursus

Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes

Log Text: Went to Cople on Saturday, bus 74, 1 per hour, Bedford Hitchin but no idea where the cursus might be, more -precision needed. I haven't found anything with this name in BIAB saying cursus, but there is a ring ditch article in BAJ 22, so back to check that.

The BAJ incidently has a parallel BA in its early years, which is what threw me, then becomes BA in later years. Enough to drive a cataloguer never mind a user up the wall.

The map makes it look like it is more likely to be Willington, so another bus and another visit.

Willington

Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016

Log Text: Ah, willington shows this entry in cople and cople shows the willington entry, so now perhaps we can join this up? Nothing in BIAB for willington

Galley Hill (Streatley)

Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2016

Log Text: Starting from where the Old Bedford Road runs out, to become a path, or from the 25 bus stop near Weydown, a short walk takes you into the Galley And Warden Nature reserve, which doesn't appear to tell you anything about the archaeology

This might though

http://www.archaeologyuk.org/cbasm/index_htm_files/VOLUME%2009.PDF

Now I've found Dyer, Barrows of the Chilterns, Arch 116, which is on ADS and found by author Dyer. The Galley Hills is only one group of the lot he mentions. I don't think I want to add this reference to all the others. How one does collections like this is a general matter.

There are more articles after 1959 by him but Arch.J. is available only until v120 at present for public access. You need to be a member of RAI for later issues access. There is a complete set in the SAL library, which membership of the RAI allows access.

There is another Galley Hill, in Sandy, for which there seems to be less literature.
can't be sure of the accuracy of the pdf locator, but it is vol 9.

I'm not sure of the reference next to the photograph in the site entry, which I didn't notice earlier, but the Beds.Arch started in 1962. There is an article by Dyer in the first edition, on Barton, which I think is a different matter. The Barton one comes up again in issue 19. This, 1974, is the only one to appear in BIAB.


I've cracked the reference matter, it is Beds Arch J. v.2., 1964, 16ff and part of a longer article dealing with Waulud's Bank, Five Knolls too.

So he has Arch J. 116. this, and BAJ 9. plus there might be some more. This is becoming untidy bibliography.

Kempston Cursus

Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2016

Log Text: tried to visit, but not sure place. BIAB and other sources leave a lot to be followed up, but Beds Arch 26 decides it isn't a cursus without saying whatever it is might then be.

There is a beautiful walk along the Great Ouse from the bus 1 on the main road to the church, in the church is an ancient great stone, so perhaps we have the stone and the bend in the river as something which will keep us going.

I've now found reference to collared urns in Kempston except that it is spelt collard, some typo somewhere, BIAB or not. Beds Arch J. 5, with illus, and references to follow up still to see what we can find out. A collared urn isn't exactly megalithic, but is a typecast for timeline.

Cardington B Cursus

Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016

Log Text: Cardington turns up search here, cursus, now is this the same as cople and or willington, or how many are they?

Bus 74 to Cople runs through Cardington.

BIAB gives hits, and unpublished works still have abstract entries, so something here but terms.

More scuffling needed