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Chisbury Camp
Date Added: 1st Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Chisbury Camp submitted by ginger-tt on 2nd Nov 2009. Chisbury Hillfort
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Log Text: actually I'm not sure whether I quite got there or not, only to the woods... for there are kids scramble bike marks everywhere around and I can't tell what is vallation and what devallation and whatever bike scramble rides are called antiquarianwise. It is a short walk from bedwyn station, and well connected with footpaths and rights of way. It is near the river Dun with wonderful views.
Merlin's Mount
Date Added: 1st Apr 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Merlin's Mount submitted by baz on 25th Jun 2003. Merlin`s Mount, Marlborough (Grid Ref. SU 18363 68674). This artificial mound stands in the private grounds of Marlborough College and is thought to be a smaller sister to Silbury Hill which lies just five miles to the west.
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Log Text: There was a charity day at Marlborough College so the grounds were open and walkable. I think the access button needs something about public private rather than simply how to get there. There is a research project going on, and I found Marlborough Mound producing a web site with some documentation. At the moment the base of the mound is blocked off, so I don't think it is walkable up, but perhaps there is some sort of access plan. It seems clear now that it is neolithinc, whatever that means in marlborough college. My Murray has a reference to a museum in the college with stuff.
I should have added that there is a wonderful walk on the other side of the Kennet from which you can see the gardens of the college, and perhaps, in winter, you might see the mound? so the mound is placed near the Kennet. A little further on is the church of .. now don't have my Pevsner or Murray with me, so leave out the place name for now, but church on river nearly by OS Explorer scale.
Avebury
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Avebury submitted by h_fenton on 4th Aug 2009. Avebury, Oblique Kite Aerial Photograph
12 July 2009
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Log Text: Salisbury railway station from the 09.41 out of Surbiton, then the bus 2 to Devizes change to the 49 to Swindon. Bus stop by pub. Huge amount of traffic means walking life threatening. There are no maps in the NT retail opportunity for the area, and they don't do walkers' leaflets. The interchange in Devizes should fail so time to do the museum. This is a spiral of virtue matter. There is also a bus 4 to Marlborough with a really strange timetable, but that means Bedwyn Marlborough or Marlborough Salisbury. The unusability of rail tickets across the network is another spiral of virtue matter, so that is two small ones.
Add to the bibliography Pollard Avebury.
Then in Field on Earthern long barrows I find something on Horslip Bridge which adds to the complexity, what is an enclosure, causewayed, what is a barrow, long, earthern, and why are they called morturary or burial when many don't appear to have any bodies at all?
Fussell's Lodge
Date Added: 15th Apr 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes
Fussell's Lodge submitted by Andy B on 14th Aug 2007. Reconstruction drawings showing the different ways Neolithic communities closed their burial sites: at Ascott-under-Wychwood, the chamber was walled up; at Hazleton offerings were made; at Fussell's Lodge the wooden mortuary chamber was burnt and a large barrow constructed; and in West Kennet, people simply stopped placing corpses in the tomb. These differences indicate that contemporary Neolithic societies are much more varied than we previously thought.
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Log Text: damn, made this mistake before, didn't notice the number business so an entire essay disappeared without trace.
And now I can't find all the other comments, which popped up from a google search for which MP was almost the first posting.
Cissbury Ring
Date Added: 18th Dec 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 18th Dec 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cissbury Ring submitted by Andy B on 10th Oct 2003.
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Log Text: The bus from Worthing to Midhurst, 1, or the other way round, with a stop at Pulborough for the other railway, passes.
What needs noting now is the wonderful library in Worthing, and the Museum.
The local studies centre for west Sussex is here, there is a complete run of SAC, a run of Archaeologia, and of the Archaeological Journal.
How to use these to find out more about the place perhaps means knowing about the BIAB, which is public access and open, and the ADS, which is also mainly public access and open. Worthing has Access to Research but I haven't worked out yet how useful that is.
West End Common Barrows
Date Added: 14th Feb 2013
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 14th Feb 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
West End Common Barrows submitted by GrahamTD on 15th Oct 2010. Largest of the four barrows.
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Log Text: The 34, 35, bus, four an hour, with a stop at Red Road. This is the beginning of the Brentmoor Nature Reserve, or the Aldershot Military Lands, depending on your preferences. The four barrows are a short walk along the right of way. There is a Surrey Wildlife Trust Board, and a megalith, or sarsen stone, which they seem to have placed there. If there is no evidence of excavation, then how it is known that it is a barrow cemetry is beyond me. There is a reference to Needham and Longley, so that text I'm going to try to track down. I wonder why it couldn't be called a battered long mound?
Horsell Common W
Date Added: 14th Feb 2013
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 14th Feb 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Horsell Common W submitted by Andy B on 18th Feb 2005. The huge Bowl barrow in all its glory. You can just see a circle of yellow grass around it which marks the ditch. Just about fits in the frame from here.
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Log Text: |I've heard there has been some excavation around here recently, but haven't yet been able to track down any references. It looks as if there has been at least some scrub clearance.
Reigate Heath Barrows
Date Added: 19th Dec 2013
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Reigate Heath Barrows submitted by SolarMegalith on 5th May 2012. Well-preserved Barrow C on Reigate Heath (photo taken on May 2012).
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Log Text: Why is th eoption driven to?
It is reachable easily by walk or bus.
#Skimmington Castle is a pub on a walk from Reigate Priory Park.
There is no signing on Reigate Heath so they take a bit of finding, i found two out of five.
Staines Enclosure
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes
Staines Enclosure submitted by Andy B on 17th Apr 2005. It's Clayhenge! Part of the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005.
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Log Text: I've walked around here trying to work out which is which. Yeoveney Lodge might be how this is known, unless that is another that doesn't pop up. There is a model, or exhibition in the Museum of London.
I'm still trying to work out whether this is the same one as the excavation by Roberston-Makay, in 1961-3, written up in the Prehistoric Society publication in 1987.
I'm most impressed with SPARCS and their, its, engagement.
The Surrey Archaeology Collections carries a list of publications on archaeology in Surrey and the more recent volumes (for which the data isn't on the web version as they still have to be sold) are in Staines Library, and Guildford, at least.
Shepperton Henge
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes
Shepperton Henge submitted by Andy B on 17th Apr 2005. Yes, it's a cuddly henge! Part of the brilliant display by SPARCS (Spelthorne branch of the Young Archaeologists Club) at the Community Centre, Thames Street (next to Debenham's), Chertsey until the end of May 2005.
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Log Text: I think these boxes rather difficult to tick, as what can be seen depends on the imagination.
Phil Jones book, or pamphlet, is in Staines Library (well it isn't, its on my floor, but it will be when I return it.) I'm ttrying the 458 from Kingston to Staines which seems to pass nearby, you can see a lot more from a bus. Then I'll try walking with the OS Explorer.
From the book it is rather difficult to work out where it is, but I think I have the broad idea.
There is a review of the book in the Surrey Arch. for I think about 2009.
Surrey Archaeology incidently greps in google to their site, and the back run of the Collections has been digitised. It is catalogued in BIAB so if you know some sort of string, something is findable. At the moment I'm working on the Carshalton one.
St. Anne's Well (Stanwell)
Date Added: 12th Feb 2016
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
St. Anne's Well (Stanwell) submitted by DavidCWoods on 1st Nov 2004. All that remains of St. Anne's Well. The notice is nice, and at least the well is regarded as a local asset. It would be interesting to look under the manhole cover! As you can see, the setting is pretty - by the side of Town Lane, it is on the edge of some playing fields, opposite the Stanwell Lodge Hotel.
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Log Text: I don't like selection five, in access, the driving bit. It is right next to the bus stop, 441 or 446, near the Happy Landing stop for the 555 or 203. Get over your motorism and autokrazy.
The picture shows up well in google search which got me to where I found it. I asked a postman, he gave a thoughtful response that it might be near the war memorial, but he has been walking past it every day.
The brass plate says it was of medicinal value, so rather more or different than well perhaps, but well could have several meanings.
Useful discussion in the branch library about keystages following the UCU meeting on education cradle to grave, this sort of place is a strength for locals.
Stanwell Cursus
Date Added: 18th Mar 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2016
Heathrow - The staff standing on a reconstruction of the Stanwell Cursus submitted by Andy B on 2nd Nov 2003. Heathrow Terminal 5 excavations. Copyright Framework Archaeology
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Log Text: Tried to visit but not at all clear where the terminus of the cursus actually might be.
You get a good view though from the top story of Terminal 5 at Heathrow.
The other end, according to Pevnser is Bigley Wash, but I haven't found that spot either.
It is much written up in Landscape Evolution in the Middle Thames Valley, which isn't the sort of title you would expect to be about Stanwell
Levington Ring Ditches
Date Added: 26th Mar 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Would like to visit
Seven Hills
Date Added: 8th Apr 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Seven Hills submitted by JohnGinny on 24th Mar 2012. Barrow 2 - we have driven past this so many times and I only saw it for the first time yesterday! A well preserved and nicely shaped barrow. Just on the left before the railway bridge as you turn into Levington.
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Log Text: Interesingly the crematorium is called Seven Hills. There seems to be quite a lot of continuity in places of death. The complexity of finding out any more is that the museum authority is Colchester and Ipswich, if you are in Ipswich. Then there is Suffolk Archaeology. And the Suffolk Record Office. In the Ipswich museum there is a map showing a mass of things around this Nacton site, but only for one age, the other maps are only of Ipswich.
In addition there is a suffolk institute of archaeology which produces proceedings so now to track all this down. The museum curator said start with suffolk archaeology
Dyke Hills
Date Added: 8th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dyke Hills submitted by Andy B on 26th Jul 2003. Ripping Up History English Heritage campaign on archaeology under the plough.
Dyke Hills, Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire. An Iron Age site, one of the earliest to be scheduled but still being ploughed. Copyright: EH/NMR
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Log Text: The bus X39 or X40 from Reading Station, or from Oxford, stop called the Dorchester layby, on the main road which lies over the Dorchester Cursus. I think the bus stops and foot bridge at the endpoint of the cursus, and it lies, or lay, under the road. There is a short walk into the village, then the abbey, and Watling Lane, which takes to a view of Wittenham Clumps and suddently the Dyke Hills comes into view. The footpath continues and the site is open and walkable, with a footpath to the Thames, the lock, and the Clumps. So this is really quite a combination. There is a good local museum though most of the stuff has gone to the Ashmolean. The museum has a good local booklet with bibliography which is more than enough for a walk and a read.
Arminghall Henge
Date Added: 6th Jul 2012
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 3
Arminghall Henge submitted by andy_h on 23rd Apr 2004. A view over the slight remains of Arminghall Henge to the south of Norwich.
All that remains is a vague dip in the ground, but this would once have been a spectacular site with a double bank and ditch and an internal setting of posts.
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Log Text: Went past the site in teh 587 bus, two and hour, then got off in Trowse. There isn't much to see in the field but you aren't far from Whitlinghan country park. someone has already mentioned white horse lane, and I'm taken by whit lin ge ham... in the country park there is a thoroughly misleading poster board. One wonders whether something more couldn't be made of all this. Nothing in Norwich Museum which only starts with the Romans from what I can see. The 587 bus continues, or comes from, Caister, so you can add in some Roman stuff. The Pastscape article has bibliography, so to the UEA library for a read.
Stumblebury
Date Added: 1st Dec 2012
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2012. My rating: Ambience 2 Access 3
Log Text: I don't think I've found it, but I can't be sure. Saw it on the village map in Otford, you then walk beyond the station, past the chalk pit, turn right up the hill, and then you will find the poster for the North Downs Way. Opposite, walk up the track, mud, clay, chalk, right to the top of the downs. I think it might be on the edge where the clearing starts but not sure. There isn't a lot here, it isn't in Halstead, so need to check more. Otford has a really good train service so is easy to reach. The best accound of Kent recently seems to be Jessup so that is my next point fo call. Arch Cant isn't available online.
Therfield Heath Five Hills
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 6th Mar 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Therfield Heath submitted by Thorgrim on 16th Sep 2003. There are ten Bronze Age round barrows at this prominent location - one of the best in eastern England. Surrounded by golfers which makes a site visit hazardous. Bunkers often mislead the barrow hunter but this group is unmistakeable.
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Log Text: A short walk from Royston Station, or, wonderful, the 90 bus which goes to Bygrave and Ashwell from Baldock and Letchworth. Use traveline to see bus route maps and timetables.
there is a pub at the bottom of the hill.
Pity about the bunkers.
The stunning thing is the view, then as the train pulls back to London, you see a pair of barrows forming a notch on the skyline. Pure navigation.
Six Hills
Trip No.2 Date Added: 7th Apr 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 1 Access 4
Six Hills submitted by Ojames on 4th Apr 2004. TL236236
Six Hills, Stevenage, Herts.
Almost certainly Roman burials. Probably a wealthy family.
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Log Text: A short walk from Stevenage Station, near the library and the museum.
The new town could have made, and could make, something much more impressive of this I would have thought. It might be worth considering how it works as townscape art.
It is rather amazing they have survived at all.
There is a leaflet available in Stevenage Museum, with a reference to Antiquity, 1936. That deals with Roman, and I doubt that there is anything Roman about a line of six, so Roman here might mean time rather than people.
Norton Henge
Date Added: 7th Apr 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes
Log Text: There is now a published article in Archaeology in Hertfordshire, Recent Research, 2015. Available in Welwyn Garden City Public Library, where there is a good local collection of material.