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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
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Clackmannanshire
Tagged Alloa, antiqities, antiquarian, Archaeology, Bronze Age, cairns, Clackmannanshire, death, earth mysteries, heritage, ley-lines, leys, neolithic, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, tombs, tumuli, tumulus
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Hammond Close Stone, Threshfield, North Yorkshire
Standing Stones: OS Grid Reference – SD 95161 65209 Getting Here From Threshfield, go up Skirethorns Lane for about 1/2 mile, where the lane takes a sharp right. Continue uphill for nearly 2 miles to a metal gate. Go through … Continue reading
Posted in Standing Stones, Yorkshire, North
Tagged neolithic, Bronze Age, folklore, monoliths, Megaliths, Archaeology, megalithic, Standing Stones, leys, antiquities, antiquarian, North Yorkshire, cairns, Wharfedale, Malham, Grassington, sacred sites, prehistoric sites, Bordley, Threshfield, Kilnsey, Conistone, earth mysteries, heritage
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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
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
Posted in Perthshire, Standing Stones
Tagged alignments, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Auchterarder, Blackford, Bronze Age, earth mysteries, Glen Eagles, Gleneagles, ley-lines, leys, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, Muirton, neolithic, Perthshire, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Standing Stones
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Benson Cursus, Benson, Oxfordshire
Cursus Monument: OS Grid Reference – SU 624 910 to SU 629 919 Also Known as: Crowmarsh Cursus Archaeology & History Any remains of this once sacred site are now beneath the airport between Benson and Ewelme, a couple of … Continue reading
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
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Dorset
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Badbury, Bronze Age, burial, cairns, death, Dorset, earth mysteries, excavations, ley-lines, leys, necropolis, neolithic, prehistoric sites, ritual sites, sacred sites, Shapwick, tombs, tumuli, tumulus, urns
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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
Posted in Henges, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Earthworks, enclosures, Henges, ley-lines, leys, neolithic, North Yorkshire, Nunwick, prehistoric sites, Ripon, sacred sites, Yoredale
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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
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Askwith, Bronze Age, cairns, carvings, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, enclosures, ley-lines, leys, neolithic, North Yorkshire, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, settlements, Snowden, Timble, walling, Washburn Valley, Weston
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