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Photos and information about the Wizard's Stone.
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I rather like how this website also takes the 'show sites' and gives them their own map for each region.
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Don Clode's photo of the chambered cairn.
Canmore's description here says the largest stone is 6 feet high, and formed the south side of the cairn's polygonal inner compartment.
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Discoveries in a Barrow in Derbyshire. In a Letter from Hayman Rooke, Esq. to Mr. Gough.
An article from Archaeologia v12 (1796).
The barrow was on the summit of Fin Cop.
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Some neat little drawings of the stones, in an article by W Wynn Williams called 'Early Remains at Penrhos Lligwy, Anglesey' - in Archaeologia Cambrensis v13, s3 (1867).
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William Borlase's descriptions of his excavations at the fogou between 1863 and 1867, in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London (series 2, volume 4).
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From the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, v3 (1856) - strange sounding barrow-like and subterranean excavations up on Therfield Heath. In all likelihood not as old as the barrows? - although flint tools were found in one, interestingly. But maybe inspired by them and their location?
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The Sites and Monuments Records for Denmark.
Click 'Kort' to search by map, or 'Tekst' to type in a place name or choose a period of (pre)history. Think of the usefulness in planning your megalithically themed Danish holiday :)
For the folklore obsessive, the most exciting section is here. Yes it's in Danish. But many hours of translationy fun could await.
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From the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society for 1905 (v23): "Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Alderley Edge" by C Roeder and F S Graves.
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Interesting article on the facts vs speculation and folklore surrounding the London Stone, by John Clark, formerly Senior Curator (Medieval) at the Museum of London.
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A photo of the (really quite large) stone.
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There's a dramatic photo of the rock on Al Glenton's photostream.
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An outing to the caves recorded in the Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club (1874-6), along with discussion of the animal remains found there.
There's trouble with both the upper classes and the riff raff:
The author had previously told "a British lady that we had found the remains of [a lion], with the remains of elephants and rhinoceroses. She smiled contemptuously, and said, "Well, Mr. Symonds, you may believe it, but I don't; not a word of it."
A number of daytrippers went to the lower caves, "and some even looked into that which is occupied by a notorious person known as "Jem, the Slipper," whose boast it is that he has lived in the cave for thirty years, and has not washed himself for that period. Most of the company, however, preferred to return to Whitchurch by other routes." I love that understated Victorian humour :)
A little further, on page 28 there is a somewhat tall story about a huge human skeleton allegedly found in the cave c. 1700. Gibson supposedly mentioned the giant in his 3rd edition of Camden's Britannia.
There is also mention of a tradition current in 1799 that 'King Arthur's Hall extends underground from thence to New Wear, a distance of more than a mile'. But Mr Edmunds, the article's author, remains unconvinced.
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Map showing the permissive path to the stones and how it links up with the public footpath.
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'The Prehistoric Rock Sculptures of Ilkley" by J Romilly Allen - in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association v35 (1879).
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The RCAHMS record concedes that some of the walling could be Iron Age, though the dun's essentially medieval. The landscape does cry out for something to be on top of these strange features (Dun Ara looks rather like the neighbouring lump in the photo - a flat area raised up suddenly). The dun was covered in bluebells and other flowers when I visited in spring.
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From 'Decies', a journal of the Old Waterford Society, Spring 1988 - an article about the cliff-top fort. They discover that the landowner had no knowledge of its existence. But curiously they themselves seem to overlook the standing stone.
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Lots of folklore, plus if you click on the photo of the caves, you can conduct yourself on a little virtual reality style tour, including up to the cairn.
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This hill, it has a meaning that is very important for me, but it's not rational. It's beautiful, but when you look, there's nothing there. But I'd be a fool if I didn't listen to it.
-- Alan Garner.
...I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn...
-- William Wordsworth.
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