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Maumbury Rings	Henge	England	Dorset	Visited					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.
Fussell's Lodge	Long Barrow	England	Wiltshire	Visited					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.
Haddenham Enclosure	Causewayed Enclosure	England	Cambridgeshire	Visited					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.
Godmanchester Cursus	Cursus	England	Cambridgeshire	Visited					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!
Six Hills	Round Barrow(s)	England	Hertfordshire	Visited	1st Jan 2012	3	1	4	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 abo... Read More	2
Norton Henge	Henge	England	Hertfordshire	Visited					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.
Caesar's Camp (Bedfordshire)	Hillfort	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	2nd Apr 2016				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.
Biggleswade Cursus	Cursus	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	2nd Apr 2016				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.
Cardington B Cursus	Cursus	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	2nd Apr 2016				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
Willington	Cursus	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	2nd Apr 2016				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
Cople Cursus	Cursus	England	Bedfordshire	Visited					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 ... Read More
Kempston Cursus	Cursus	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	20th Mar 2016				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 ... Read More
Galley Hill (Streatley)	Round Barrow(s)	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	20th Mar 2016				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... Read More
Five Knolls	Barrow Cemetery	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	1st Jan 2012	3	3	4	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 megal... Read More
Goldington	Timber Circle	England	Bedfordshire	Visited					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.
Stanwell Cursus	Cursus	England	Surrey	Visited	12th Feb 2016				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
St. Anne's Well (Stanwell)	Holy Well or Sacred Spring	England	Surrey	Visited	12th Feb 2016	3	2	4	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 va... Read More
Cissbury Ring	Hillfort	England	West Sussex	Saw from a distance	18th Dec 2014	3	4	3	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 ac... Read More
Chipping Hill Enclosure	Misc. Earthwork	England	Essex	Visited	10th Nov 2014	2	3	4	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 r... Read More
Whiteleaf Barrows	Long Barrow	England	Buckinghamshire	Visited		3	4	3	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 ... Read More
Staines Enclosure	Causewayed Enclosure	England	Surrey	Visited					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... Read More
Shepperton Henge	Henge	England	Surrey	Visited					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... Read More
Reigate Heath Barrows	Barrow Cemetery	England	Surrey	Visited		3	3	4	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.
Horsell Common W	Barrow Cemetery	England	Surrey	Visited	14th Feb 2013	3	4	4	\|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.
West End Common Barrows	Barrow Cemetery	England	Surrey	Visited	14th Feb 2013	3	4	4	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. ... Read More
Stumblebury	Round Barrow(s)	England	Kent	Visited	1st Dec 2012		2	3	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... Read More
Arminghall Henge	Henge	England	Norfolk	Visited	1st Jul 2012	1	2	3	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... Read More
Seaford Head	Hillfort	England	East Sussex	Visited	1st May 2012		5	4	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.
Etton Causewayed Enclosure	Causewayed Enclosure	England	Cambridgeshire	Saw from a distance	30th Apr 2012				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 ... Read More
Springfield	Timber Circle	England	Essex	Visited	14th Apr 2012	3	2	4	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. I... Read More
Seven Hills	Barrow Cemetery	England	Suffolk	Visited	6th Apr 2012	1	3	4	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. ... Read More
Dyke Hills	Hillfort	England	Oxfordshire	Visited	7th Apr 2012	3	4	4	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 s... Read More
Avebury	Stone Circle	England	Wiltshire	Visited	2nd Apr 2012	3	2	3	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 timet... Read More
Merlin's Mount	Artificial Mound	England	Wiltshire	Visited	31st Mar 2012	4	2	4	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 cl... Read More
Chisbury Camp	Hillfort	England	Wiltshire	Visited		2	3	4	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.
Bury Hill (Hampshire)	Hillfort	England	Hampshire	Visited	1st Jan 2012	3	4	4	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.
Rocky Clump	Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature	England	East Sussex	Couldn't find	1st Mar 2012				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... Read More
Whitehawk	Causewayed Enclosure	England	East Sussex	Visited	1st Mar 2012	2	3	4	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 ... Read More
Hollingbury	Hillfort	England	East Sussex	Visited	1st Mar 2012	2	4	4	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.
Therfield Heath Five Hills	Barrow Cemetery	England	Hertfordshire	Visited	1st Feb 2012	3	4	4	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.	1	2
Waulud's Bank	Henge	England	Bedfordshire	Visited	1st Jan 2012	3	4	4	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... Read More	1	1

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