Tag Archives: Iron Age

Clowder (1), Arncliffe, North Yorkshire

Posted on June 11, 2019 by megalithix

Enclosures: OS Grid Reference – SD 9165 6968 Also Known as: Clouder Getting Here To the right of The Falcon Inn across from Arncliffe village green is a trackway called the Monk’s Way. Walk up here for about 450 yards … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, North | Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Arncliffe, Bronze Age, earth mysteries, enclosures, England, english heritage, Iron Age, Malham, medieval history, North Yorkshire, prehistoric sites, Romano-British, sacred sites, settlements, walling, Yorkshire Dales | 1 Comment

Horn Bank, Rigton, North Yorkshire

Posted on May 5, 2019 by megalithix

Settlement (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 2905 5035 Archaeology & History Upon the top of the old ridge where ran the ancient trackway between Rigton and Pannal, could once be found a multi-period settlement, long since gone – as … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, North | Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Brackenthwaite, Bronze Age, camps, Earthworks, enclosures, England, english heritage, Forest of Knaresborough, Harrogate, Iron Age, North Yorkshire, Pannal, prehistoric sites, Rigton, Romano-British, settlements | Leave a comment

Briscoe Rigg, Rigton, North Yorkshire

Posted on May 5, 2019 by megalithix

Settlement (destroyed): OS Grid Reference — SE 2581 5100 Archaeology & History Highlighted on the 1851 OS-map of the area as a ‘Camp’, all trace of this ancient settlement would seem to have been destroyed. It was already on its … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Settlement/Enclosures, Yorkshire, North | Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Beckwithshaw, Bronze Age, camps, Earthworks, enclosures, England, english heritage, Forest of Knaresborough, Harrogate, Iron Age, North Yorkshire, Pannal, prehistoric sites, Rigton, Romano-British, settlements | Leave a comment

Longbarrow Field, Timble, North Yorkshire

Posted on May 3, 2019 by megalithix

Cairn (lost): OS Grid Reference — SE 18 53 Archaeology & History Described in the Field Lore of Timble village by William Grainge (1895) are the names and short histories of some of the local place-names—with this in particular standing … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, North | Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Askwith, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, death, Denton, english heritage, field names, Iron Age, long barrows, long cairns, Megaliths, neolithic, North Yorkshire, place-names, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Snowden, Stone Circles, Timble, tombs, tumuli, Weston, Wharfedale | Leave a comment

Uphall Camp, Ilford, Essex

Posted on November 15, 2018 by megalithix

Hillfort (destroyed): OS Grid Reference –TQ 4383 8510 Archaeology & History This prehistoric site was a giant – a huge colossus of an ‘enclosure’, a ‘settlement’, a ‘camp’—call-it-what-you-will. More than a mile in circumference and an internal area of 48 acres … Continue reading →

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Posted in England (south), Essex, Settlement/Enclosures | Tagged ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Barking, Bronze Age, camps, earth mysteries, East Ham, enclosures, english heritage, Essex, Hillforts, Ilford, Iron Age, London, neolithic, prehistoric camps, prehistoric sites, Redbridge, Romano-British, Romans, sacred sites, settlements | 6 Comments

Ribigill, Tongue, Sutherland

Posted on October 30, 2018 by megalithix

Souterrain (missing): OS Grid Reference – NC 5821 5471 Also Known as: Canmore ID 5354 Archaeology & History The Royal Commission (1911) lads paid a visit to this site in June, 1909, after an earlier report—allegedly by James Horsburgh—told there to have … Continue reading →

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Posted in Scotland, Souterrains, Sutherland | Tagged ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, earth houses, fogous, heritage, Iron Age, Kyle of Tongue, pictish, Picts, prehistoric sites, Ribigill, sacred sites, Scotland, souterrains, Sutherland, Tongue, underground, weems | Leave a comment

Dun Osdale, Dunvegan, Skye

Posted on June 30, 2018 by megalithix

Broch: OS Grid Reference – NG 24162 46424 Also Known as: Canmore ID 10832 Getting Here From the A863 Dunvegan road, a mile south of the village turn onto the B884 road at Lonmore, making sure you veer right after a few hundred … Continue reading →

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Posted in Brochs, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Skye | Tagged ancient history, ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, brochs, Duirinish, dun, duns, Dunvegan, faerie, fairies, folklore, Glendale, Highlands, Inverness-shire, Iron Age, legends, little people, midsummer, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Scottish history, Skye, summer solstice, traditions | 1 Comment

Pitcur Souterrain (3) – Carving 2, Kettins, Perthshire

Posted on June 28, 2018 by megalithix

Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – NO 25289 37380 – NEW FIND Getting Here Follow the same directions as if you’re visiting the Pitcur (3) souterrain. Once here, you’re standing at the southernmost uncovered section of the monument, where one uncovered … Continue reading →

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Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Perthshire, Scotland | Tagged aboriginal carvings, ancient sites, animism, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, carved stones, Coupar Angus, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, historic Scotland, Iron Age, Kettins, neolithic, Newtyle, Perthshire, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, souterrains, symbolism | 1 Comment

Modsary, Tongue, Sutherland

Posted on June 3, 2018 by megalithix

Hut Circle: OS Grid Reference – NC 65189 61639 Getting Here Along the A836 between Tongue and Bettyhill—nearly 5 miles (7.75km) east of Tongue—take the minor road north to Modsary and Skerray. Some 1.75 miles along you’ll notice an inland loch … Continue reading →

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Posted in Hut Circles, Scotland, Settlement/Enclosures, Sutherland | Tagged ancient villages, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, clearance villages, enclosures, heritage, hut circles, Iron Age, Modsary, prehistoric sites, Scotland, Scottish Clearances, settlements, Skerray, Sutherland, Tongue, walling | Leave a comment

Dunvarich, Tongue, Sutherland

Posted on June 2, 2018 by megalithix

Souterrain (lost): OS Grid Reference – NC 59 57 Also Known as: Canmore ID 5341 Archaeology & History There are a number of souterrains—or “earth houses” as they used to be known—in Sutherland that have been lost. Many have simply fallen prey … Continue reading →