Tag Archives: East Yorkshire

Ruston Beacon, Ruston Parva, East Yorkshire

Posted on December 23, 2015 by megalithix

Tumulus (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – TA 0584 6128 Archaeology & History A fallen tumulus that once marked the southwestern side of the village boundary line, and was once adjacent to the prehistoric Green Dikes earthworks that once passed here. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, East | Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, beacon hills, beacons, Brigantia, Bronze Age, burial, burial mounds, death, Driffield, East Riding, East Yorkshire, english heritage, folklore, Kilham, Lowthorpe, Nafferton, neolithic, prehistoric sites, round barrows, Ruston Parva, sacred sites, tumuli, tumulus | Leave a comment

Firtholme, Easington, East Yorkshire

Posted on December 27, 2013 by megalithix

Tumulus (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – TA 4160 1748 Archaeology & History In and around East Yorkshire, the fabled Yorkshire antiquarians William Greenwell and J.R. Mortimer uncovered and excavated many now-lost prehistoric tombs—some of which, beneath the rounded tumulus of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, East | Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, barrows, Bronze Age, burials, death, earth mysteries, Easington, East Yorkshire, heritage, Kilnsea, neolithic, North Sea, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, tombs, tumuli, tumulus | 1 Comment

Rudston ‘D’ Cursus, East Yorkshire

Posted on September 19, 2013 by megalithix

Cursus: OS Grid Reference – TA 099 717 to TA 096 679 Archaeology & History To the north of Rudston village and its giant standing stone, running roughly parallel with the divinatory waters of the Gypsey Race river and passing … Continue reading →

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Posted in Cursus Monuments, Yorkshire, East | Tagged alignments, antiquarian, antiquities, archaeoastronomy, Archaeology, astronomy, barrows, Bronze Age, burials, Burton Agnes, ceremonial, cursus, cursuses, death, earth mysteries, East Yorkshire, english heritage, heritage, ley-lines, leys, linear, neolithic, prehistoric sites, ritual, Rudston, sacred sites | Leave a comment

Rudston ‘C’ Cursus, East Yorkshire

Posted on September 18, 2013 by megalithix

Cursus: OS Grid Reference – TA 0914 6809 – TA 1014 6803 Archaeology & History Of the four giant linear cursus monuments that were laid out around the landscape that holds Britain’s largest standing stone—the Rudston monolith—this one, the Rudston ‘C’ … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cursus Monuments, Yorkshire, East | Tagged alignments, antiquarian, antiquities, archaeoastronomy, Archaeology, barrows, Bronze Age, burials, Burton Agnes, Burton Fleming, ceremonial, cursus, cursuses, death, earth mysteries, East Yorkshire, english heritage, Gypsey Race, heritage, ley-lines, leys, linear, neolithic, prehistoric sites, ritual, Rudston, sacred sites | Leave a comment

St Austin’s Stone, High Hunsley, East Yorkshire

Posted on July 26, 2011 by megalithix

Legendary Rock: OS Grid Reference – SE 93360 34443 Also known as: St. Augustine’s Stone St Austin’s Rock Folklore The folklorist John Nicholson (1890) wrote about this “block of natural concrete standing at the head of Drewton Dale, near South … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Sacred Nature, Yorkshire, East | Tagged animism, antiquities, druids, earth mysteries, East Yorkshire, Elmet, english heritage, folk-lore, folklore, healing, High Hunsley, Holy Wells, legendary rocks, legends, myth, North Cave, paganism, sacred sites, saints, South Cave, South Newbald, St Austin, traditions | Leave a comment

Rudston Monolith, East Yorkshire

Posted on April 30, 2011 by sunbright57

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 →

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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 | 2 Comments

Nafferton Slack, Driffield, East Yorkshire

Posted on April 14, 2011 by megalithix

Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – TA 040 587 Archaeology & History Information on this stone is sparse and the grid-reference cited is a close approximation of its precise location. And were it not for the records of Victorian … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Standing Stones, Yorkshire, East | Tagged ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Brigantia, Driffield, East Yorkshire, english heritage, faerie, fairies, folklore, legends, little people, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, Nafferton, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Standing Stones | 1 Comment

Rudston ‘A’ Cursus, East Yorkshire

Posted on March 12, 2011 by megalithix

Cursus: OS Grid Reference — TA 0998 6577 to TA 1016 6802 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 of prehistoric … Continue reading →

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Rudston B Cursus, East Yorkshire

Posted on March 12, 2011 by megalithix

Cursus: OS Grid Reference – TA 0805 6697 to TA 0944 6755 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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Kemp Howe, Sledmere, East Yorkshire

Posted on August 21, 2010 by megalithix

Long Barrow: OS Grid Reference – SE 962 662 Archaeology & History In the superb work of the legendary J.R. Mortimer (1905) he tells what was found when him and his team excavated this “remarkable barrow,” as he called it. … Continue reading →