View from the site of the Neolithic Forest
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Some details of the circle and a sketch by Hayman Rooke
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Some Account of the Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire
In a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Norris, Secretary
By Hayman Rooke Esq.
Read at the Society of Antiquaries, May 25th 1786
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The Stonehenge Landscape; A Personal View.
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A downloadable report from Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports (SAIR).
Includes a topographical and geophysiscal survey of the barrow.
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A BBC website with a number of 360 degree views from Roseberry.
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Tees archaeology's description of the area and its archaeology.
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"The earliest evidence of human activity on Teesside."
A brief summary of the excavation work at Highcliff Nab.
The 1996 excavation report can be purchased from Tees Archaeology.
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A local history website which also includes the Great Ayton Community Archaeology Project
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A nice website from the local Archaeology Unit
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Details of the site plus an excellent aerial photograph.
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The excellent Yorkshire Dales National Park Authorities Out of Oblivion website Contains - a description of the cave and its archaeology, location details, Public transport details and accessibility information.
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"Caithness is well-known for its spectacular prehistoric monuments, but few of us are as familiar with the remarkable
archives that relate to some of them. From the mid-19th century its Neolithic chambered tombs and Iron Age brochs attracted a who's who of Scottish antiquarians and scholars, and the county was amongst the first to be surveyed by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS 1911). This was in itself a remarkable piece of work, documented in a journal written by Alexander Curle, the first Secretary of the Commission, who visited the majority of the 597 monuments then known between May and September 1910 (RCAHMS MS/36/2). Since that survey, the Royal Commission has carried out relatively little archaeological work in Caithness, so an approach in 2003 by the Caithness Archaeological Trust to carry out a survey of the landscape around Loch of Yarrows and Loch Watenan presented an exciting opportunity...."
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A wonderful article published in 1862 written by that all round good egg J .Y. Simpson, M.D., F.R.S.E. Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olaf of Norway, Lately Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Member of the Archæological Societies of Athens, Nassau, Copenhagen, etc. Honorary Professor of Antiquities to the Royal Scottish Academy, and Professor of Medicine and Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh.
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The Cat-Stane, Edinburghshire:is it not The Tombstone of the Grandfather of Hengist and Horsa?
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The Gayles gallery which includes a very sexy moist photo of stone D4
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A nice comprehensive website covering all aspects of prehistory in Penwith
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An absolutely wonderful website, packed full of ancient photographs and illustrations of the prehistoric monuments of Cornwall.
My current favourite is the 1860's photograph of Lanyon Quoit and a bloke in a stove pipe hat.
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A webpage devoted to that shamen of British teatime telly, Doctor Who. This episode was filmed around Chipping Norton using the Rollrights as a location. The episode also features druids and the Cailleach.
Professor Rumford: 'Are you from outer space?'
Doctor: 'No. I'm more from what you'd call inner time.'
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A Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) webpage for Haw Springs Burnt Mounds.
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