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The New Northern Antiquarian
Subscribers will all have noticed that I’ve hardly been adding any site-profiles over the last year. I can only apologise for this. The reasons for this are simple: I’ve been working on upgrading the blog into a website — which … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, chambered cairns, cup-and-rings, Cursus Monuments, England, english heritage, folklore, geomancy, Holy Wells, Ireland, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Standing Stones, Stone Circles, stone crosses, the northern antiquarian, traditions, Wales
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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
Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – TA 09803 67740 Getting Here To get to the monolith travel along the B1253 road to the west of Bridlington for about 5 miles or from York take the A166 in an easterly direction … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Standing Stones, Yorkshire, East
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Cursus Monuments, East Riding, East Yorkshire, England, english heritage, folk-lore, folklore, Gypsey Race, history, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, neolithic, prehistoric sites, Rudston, sacred sites, Standing Stones
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Scorton Cursus, North Yorkshire
Cursus: OS Grid Reference – NZ 239 006 Archaeology & History A huge linear monument that could once be found on the flats just north of the B6271 road running between the villages of Scorton and Brompton-on-Swale, east of the … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cursus Monuments, Yorkshire, North
Tagged alignments, animism, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Brompton-on-Swale, Bronze Age, Catterick, Cursus Monuments, earth mysteries, Earthworks, english heritage, ley-lines, leys, neolithic, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, ritual, ritual sites, sacred sites, Scorton, Swaledale
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Springfield Cursus, Chelmsford, Essex
Cursus Monument (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – TL 735 084 Also Known as: Springfield Barnes Cursus Archaeology & History The first cursus monument discovered in Essex, archaeologists were fortunate when they came to excavate the site in 1979 as they … Continue reading
Posted in Cursus Monuments, England (south), Essex
Tagged alignments, antiquarian, antiquities, archaeological, Archaeology, Bronze Age, ceremonial, Chelmer, Chelmsford, Cursus Monuments, cursuses, death, earth mysteries, England, english heritage, Essex, heritage, leys, neolithic, prehistoric sites, ritual sites, sacred sites
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Sonning Cursus, Reading, Berkshire
Cursus Monument: OS Grid Reference – SU 7669 7599 Archaeology & History Barely visible nowadays, the site was described by archaeologist Steve Ford (1987) as, “a very convincing cropmark with markedly rectangular end with entrance gap” at its far eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Berkshire, Cursus Monuments
Tagged alignments, antiquities, Archaeology, Berkshire, Bronze Age, Charvil, Cursus Monuments, cursuses, Earthworks, leys, neolithic, prehistoric sites, Reading, ritual landscape, River Thames, Sonning, Twyford
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Hastings Hill Cursus, Sunderland, Durham
Cursus: OS Grid Reference – NZ 3555 5381 Also known as: Hasting Hill Archaeology & History This site was discovered in the 1980s, following aerial surveying of the region. The survey uncovered a number of previously unknown archaeological monuments in … Continue reading
Fimber Cursus, East Yorkshire
Cursus Monument: OS Grid Reference – SE 893 610 Archaeology & History Little else appears to have been written about this site, due no doubt to lack of archaeological investigation and the destructive powers of intense agricultural practices hereby. It … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cursus Monuments, Yorkshire, East
Tagged alignments, animism, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Cursus Monuments, english heritage, Fimber, folklore, Fridaythorpe, leys, neolithic, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, ritual landscape, ritual sites, sacred sites, Wetwang
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Dorchester Cursus, Oxfordshire
Cursus: OS Grid Reference – SU 569 958 – SU 581 948 Also Known as: Dorchester-on-Thames Cursus Overy Cursus Archaeology & History Nowadays marked on modern Ordnance Survey maps as part of a ‘Neolithic Sacred Complex,’ this linear monument was … Continue reading
Posted in Cursus Monuments, England (south), Oxfordshire
Tagged alignments, ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Berinsfield, Bronze Age, Burcot, ceremonial, cursus, Cursus Monuments, death, Dorchester, english heritage, leys, neolithic, Overy, Oxfordshire, prehistoric sites, religion, ritual landscape, sacred sites
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Fornham All Saints, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Cursus: OS Grid Reference – TL 836 677 Also known as: All Saints Cursus Archaeology & History The remains of this cursus can be found in the valley of the Lark. In Paul Devereux’s (1989) survey of these gigantic neolithic … Continue reading
Posted in Cursus Monuments, Suffolk
Tagged antiquities, archaeoastronomy, Archaeology, astronomy, Bronze Age, Bury St. Edmunds, Cursus Monuments, death, leys, linear, neolithic, prehistoric sites, ritual, Samhain, Suffolk, water
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The Northern Antiquarian 