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Hawk Hill Cairn, Alloa, Clackmannanshire

Cairn:  OS Grid Reference – NS 8911 9282 Also Known as: Canmore ID 47168 Getting Here From the railways station, walk to the dual carriageway (crossing the road) and walk on the A907 road to your left; cross the next … Continue reading

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Boat Stone, Blackford, Perthshire

Standing Stone (fallen): OS Grid Reference – NN 87207 07298 Getting Here From Blackford on the north side of the A9, cross over and take the small B-road which quietly runs up and over Sheriffmuir towards Dunblane.  After a mile, … Continue reading

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Gleneagles ‘A’, Blackford, Perthshire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NN 9211 0962 Also Known as: Blackford Loaninghead Peterhead Farm Getting Here Along the A9 dual carriageway between Blackford and Auchterarder, take the A823 road south, up Glen Eagles towards Pool of Muckhart and Dunfermline.  Less than … Continue reading

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Badbury Barrow, Shapwick, Dorest

Tumuli:  OS Grid References – ST 958 029 Also Known as: Shapwick 6a (Grinsell) Straw Barrow (?) Archaeology & History Of at least 26 prehistoric barrows or tumuli in close proximity on the grasslands immediately west of the Badbury hillfort, … Continue reading

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Nunwick Henge, Ripon, North Yorkshire

Henge Monument:  OS Grid Reference – SE 3229 7484 Archaeology & History A couple of miles west of the Hutton Moor henge we find the faint remans of another large prehistoric ritual site, soon to fade from existence.  Although the … Continue reading

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Snowden Carr (597), Askwith Moor, North Yorkshire

Cup-Marked Stone:  OS Grid Reference – SE 17965 51158 Getting Here Find your way to the excellent Tree of Life cup-and-ring stone, then walk about 10-15 yards west.  It’s under your nose! Archaeology & History Another stone for the rock … Continue reading

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Rudston ‘A’ Cursus, East Yorkshire

Cursus:  OS Grid Reference – TA 099 657 to TA 101 680 Also known as: Beacon Cursus Rudston Cursus 1 Woldgate Cursus Archaeology & History The site has been known about for nearly 150 years, albeit mistakenly as a series … Continue reading

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Rudston B Cursus, East Yorkshire

Cursus:  OS Grid Reference – TA 081 669 to TA 094 675 Rudston Cursus 2 Archaeology & History One of the four (known) cursus monuments around Rudston: this one stretches between the Ordnance Survey coordinates TA 081669 near Kilham Grange … Continue reading

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Beckhampton Penning, Avebury, Wiltshire

Stone Circle (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – SU 0986 6713 Archaeology & History This all-but-destroyed megalithic ring is all-but-unknown in most of the archaeological gazetteers — including even Burl’s (2000) magnum opus!  But we know it was there.  And according … Continue reading

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Llanerch Farm, Llanfihangel-nant-Melan, Radnorshire

Cup-Marked Stone:  OS Grid Reference – SO 1576 5858 Also Known as: Llanerch Stone NPRN – 306082 Archaeology & History A small and simple cup-marked boulder, hidden away in the Welsh hills, all-but unknown even to cup-and-ring fanatics!  It’s nowt … Continue reading

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