thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat, 12 hours ago to random

A little bit of Avebury for today's #StandingStoneSunday. This visit in May 2011 at the end of a walk from Wroughton airfield that took in Barbary Castle hillfort, Fyfield Down (The Polisher) and Devil's Den. I like Avebury best as the end point of a walk over the Downs, with time to appreciate the landscape.

Three stones of the southern inner circle on the left, two massive stones of the great circle on the right.

Blog here: https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/127242/ridgeway_to_heaven_barbury_castle_to_avebury_21_may_2011.html

#Neolithic #Avebury #Wiltshire

thesweetcheat, 1 day ago to random

A 10 mile, 6000 year bimble along the Cotswolds escarpment between Stroud and Dursley today. Three Neolithic long barrows, including the wondrous Hetty Pegler's Tump, a Bronze Age cairn and an Iron Age hillfort, with 4 hills (Tumps) thrown in for added exertion and heat.

#HotHillfortSummer #Neolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #Cotswolds #Gloucestershire

A grassy mound in the foreground; in the centre of it are the exposed and roofless chambers of a Neolithic longbarrow, formed of upright limestone orthostats with drystone walling between. Trees in late spring leaf form the backdrop. The sky is blue with white fluffy clouds.
Inside a stone built burial chamber, looking towards the light coming from a small entrance porthole. The chamber is formed of limestone orthostats with drystone walling between, supporting a roof made of large limestone slabs. The chamber is tall enough to crouch upright inside, but the entrance is very low and requires a crawl on hands and knees to get inside.
Sinuous banks and ditches of an Iron Age hillfort follow the contour of a steep escarpment. The slopes are green with grass and dotted with scrubby bushes. The valley drops away to the left, with further wooded hills rising distant far left. Further away on the skyline are hills clothed in blue-green forestry. The hillfort is Uley Bury.

thesweetcheat, 7 days ago to random

Off to Wiltshire and a Neolithic chambered tomb for today's #StandingStoneSunday

Devil's Den below Fyfield Down is a reconstructed chamber, originally it would have been covered by an earthen mound. It's a lovely walk here from Avebury or The Ridgeway, taking in the stone river of the Mother's Jam.

This visit May 2011.

#Wiltshire #Neolithic #Avebury

thesweetcheat, 14 days ago to random

Last stone standing in Pen-y-Beacon (Hay Bluff) stone circle for today's #StandingStoneSunday.

Rather forlorn next to a parking area now (although it does sometimes have its own ice-cream van), the circle stands at the foot of Pen-y-Beacon/Hay Bluff in the Black Mountains. It has great views all the way to Y Mynydd Ddu on a clear day.

This visit April 2010 on a walk from Talgarth to Hay-on-Wye along the northern summit of the Black Mountains.

#BronzeAge #StoneCircle #BlackMountains

thesweetcheat, 15 days ago to random

Hot Hillfort Summer starts here.

13 bluebell and wild garlic-filled miles along the Cotswolds escarpment this morning, taking in Painswick Beacon hillfort, Cooper's Hill cross dyke and Crickley Hill hillfort, with views of Leckhampton hillfort for a finale.

#HotHillfortSummer #IronAgeInfluencers

#Hillfort #IronAge

Bluebells and wild garlic in a sunlit glade in beech woods.
Cowslips in flower on the grassy earthworks of Crickley Hill. Looking along the escarpment towards a wooded promontory. Green fields below.
Looking from a grassy hillside to another hill topped with a hillfort that has been damaged by quarrying.

thesweetcheat, 21 days ago to folklore

A terrific stone circle in Dartmoor's inner space for today's #StandingStoneSunday - White Moor (sometimes called Little Hound Tor) stone circle, a spacious ring with a 6 foot outlier.

In #folklore the stones are a huntsman and his hounds, turned to stone for hunting on the Sabbath (makes a change from the usual 'dancing on the Sabbath' tales).

Visited on a scorching hot and thankfully dry underfoot St George's Day, April 2011.

#Dartmoor #BronzeAge ##StoneCircle

thesweetcheat, 23 days ago to random

Oh, tragedy, the Tories have been made extinct on my local council.

#LocalElection2024

fkamiah17, 25 days ago to UKpolitics

Well that was predictable.

The Civil Service Union applies for judicial review of Rwanda policy.

#UKPolitics #Rwanda #RefugeesWelcome

Vibracobra23, 28 days ago to random

Carfury Menhir in Madron, West Penwith, Cornwall. Photographed from the north-north-west on 5 July 2003. #CarfuryMenhir #Cornwall #Kernow #Megaliths #StandingStoneSunday

thesweetcheat, 28 days ago to random

One of Dartmoor's finest stone rows for today's #StandingStoneSunday - Cosdon Hill triple row, with terminal cairn and stone circle.

Visited on a scorching hot St George's Day, April 2011.

#Dartmoor #BronzeAge #StoneRow