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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.
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?
Biggleswade Cursus
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: Took the train from Biggleswade to Sandy but couldn't see anything obvious except the landscape from the window.
The excavation is written up in Beds Arch. 26 along with map showing a collection of cursuses along the river. Seem to remember that 26 has not yet been digitised, all the earlier ones have.
There comes a point where quantity turns into quality and a collection of cursuses needs a name.
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
Bury Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Jan 2005. January 2005. View looking north from the western portion of the ditch between the two ramparts. The ditch is wide and deep, with plenty of yew, silver birch and beech trees. The ditch on the eastern side is less heavily wooded, and churned up by farm machinery. Plenty of wildlife here, but little in the way of pre-historic remains.
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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.
Caesar's Camp (Bedfordshire)
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2016
Log Text: There seem to be three places called Ceasar's Camp, one might be Sandy Lodge, which is what it is called when excavation written up, another might be Galley Hill, not to be confused with Streatley, so not sure which I visited or whether there are simply different names for the same thing.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Etton Causewayed Enclosure
Date Added: 30th Apr 2012
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2012
Etton Causewayed Enclosure submitted by dodomad on 7th Aug 2017. The excavation of 1987.
Photo Credit: Peter Chowne
More at Peter's web site: Prehistoric Lincolnshire
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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.
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
Five Knolls submitted by Creative Commons on 1st Mar 2012. Five Barrows (Tumuli) located on the northernmost end of the Dunstable Downs. The four closest barrows date to between 2000 and 1800BC. The furthest one on the left of the path is older, dating to around 2200BC.
Unfortunately, the proximity to the town of Dunstable has left these ancient monuments open to abuse and a cycle track runs across the four on the right.
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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
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.
Galley Hill (Streatley)
Date Added: 5th Apr 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2016
Galley Hill (Streatley) submitted by bec-zog on 21st Jan 2004. Galley Hill : Neolithic to Roman (& medieval )
TL092270
4 Barrows
location is near Iron age Boundary Drays Ditches (TL075266 to 090265)
Ref James Dyer: Beds. Arch. Jornal. 1961 p116.
(1st excavation by my school's Arch. society 1951)
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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.
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!
Goldington
Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Bedfordshire)
Visited: Yes
Goldington submitted by JoAtherton on 25th Jun 2023. A shopfloor mnemonic commemorating a Neolithic henge, remains of which are concealed beneath this Tesco superstore in Riverfield Park, Bedford.
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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.
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.
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
Hollingbury submitted by Andy B on 1st Sep 2011. Hollingbury Castle Triangulation Pillar
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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.
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.