An Unexpected Standing Stone Near Avebury Plus Failing at Citizen Science
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- I was watching A Coincidental Life, @ACoincidentalLife, and it ws a video set on the plain above Avebury. This video showed upright, knee-high stones near his feet so I got in the car to go and have a look, do some measurements and practice some citizen science. I failed but I did stumble into some very interesting standing stones, the big one not marked on any maps (even the 1890s ones) nor on the Heritage Environment Record for Wiltshire. What is it? Answers on a postcard please.
These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.
But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.
#Archaeology #oldenglishcharters #antiquarians #historywalks #britishhistory
I wonder if AC Smith Mapped this in his "British and Roman Antiquities of Wiltshire"?
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It’s been between 34 and 36 degrees pretty regularly here in Music City but that windy landscape still gives me a shiver. By the way we have a nesting pair of bald eagles on my side of town, down by the river. I'm sure you'd like that. Magnificent things. The mockingbirds aren't happy about it, but they don't seem to be afraid either. They attack the big eagles like fighter planes.
Bald eagles, mockingbirds, Music City: you live in a place that sounds like Narnia to me. It's been 22C here and it is too hot to do anything in in my view, I was so hot I fell down in grass-hidden water channels twice on my last walk. I guess you have a long gardening season for which I am jealous. Are mockingbirds corvids? I've seen corvids protect weaker animals from foxes by mobbing them. You could argue there was no protecting involved, they just hate foxes but i have seen it so often I wonder.
No I don't believe they are corvids, but they are fiesty and combative and they don't like cats, raptors, or other birds at all really. Especially around their nests. Nash-Narnia. I like that. More like Mount Doom at the moment. But the grass is always greener isn't it? I see you walking around hill forts and old Saxon boundaries and that's more like Lewis' Narnia, and very much like Tolkien's Shire to me. I know he was directly inspired by parts of Wessex.
That's a great find! Was there any mention of it on the Megalithic website? They tend to list pretty much everything, even modern standing stones.
I even checked that website and the modernantiquarian. A preposterous encounter so close to Avebury
What the?!
I’ve recently heard about a “rediscovered” megalithic - it’s on private land, which is very frustrating! Not on the modern OS, but on the Victorian ones. It’s still there!
it's not on any map! It's not on the HER map. Nothing.
Probably a rubbing post for sheep, ask the farmer.