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

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.

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.

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

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?

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).

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

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.

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.

Stanwell Cursus

Date Added: 18th Mar 2016
Site Type: Cursus Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2016

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

Staines Enclosure

Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Shepperton Henge

Date Added: 2nd Jan 2014
Site Type: Henge Country: England (Surrey)
Visited: Yes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.