The Modern Antiquarian. Stone Circles, Ancient Sites, Neolithic Monuments, Ancient Monuments, Prehistoric Sites, Megalithic MysteriesThe Modern Antiquarian

News Items by Kozmik_Ken

Latest Posts
Previous 20 | Showing 21-37 of 37 news posts. Most recent first

North Yorkshire

Walker Finds Neolithic Axe in Yorkshire


An eagle-eyed walker's stroll in English countryside has turned up a piece of history going back at least 3000 years. Michael Lowsley was on one of his regular walks through the picturesque Crimple Valley when an object sticking from the soil suddenly stopped him in his tracks. "I thought straight away it looked interesting. But I had no idea how interesting until I picked it up and gave it closer examination," said Mr Lowsley, countryside secretary of Harrogate Ramblers' Association.
The find was eventually declared a Neolithic stone axe after being taken to officials at Harrogate Museums service who sought confirmation from an expert at Manchester University. The discovery has fuelled speculation of a Neolithic settlement in the valley and the possibility of a geological survey by experts.
Alistair Smith, assistant curator for Harrogate Museums and Arts, described the axe head as a very interesting find. It had been declared stone, not flint. The axe head is believed to be the first discovery of its kind in the valley, although development works in Harrogate have produced historical finds in the past.
Although it was found by a walker while on a public right of way the axe head was on privately owned land and belongs to the landowner. Mr Lowsley said following a "very positive" meeting the landowner had agreed to donate it to the museum with the intention of its being displayed in the near future.

Source: Harrogate News (9 January 2004)

Devon

Ramblers Protest at Tor


Ramblers have held a mass trespass on one of Dartmoor's most popular landmarks to protest over its closure. Vixen Tor at Merrivale (Cornwall, England) was shut to the public when a new landowner bought it earlier last year. Mary Alford closed the tor after the insurers said she could be liable if someone injured themselves in the area, which includes several ancient monuments.

Rambler Richard Doswell, who was one of about 20 ramblers at the tor, said: "We are not causing any damage, we are simply exerting our rights to walk on part of Dartmoor National Park." Following the closure, a walker reported Mrs Alford to the Department for Rural Affairs (Defra), alleging that fertiliser had been spread on the moorland around the tor. Defra investigated and Mrs Alford has now been charged with carrying out land improvements without an environmental impact assessment. The assessments are required by law so that rare plants, wildlife and archaeology can be protected from potential damage caused by any working of land.

Source: BBC News (1 January 2004)

Panorama Stone (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art)

Group Seeks Grant to Move the Panorama Stones


The Doctor Little Heritage Group is behind a bid to preserve the Panorama Stones, a group of rocks with ancient cup and ring markings, located in Ilkley (England). The group has got the green light to prepare a plan to move them from the overgrown and neglected St Margaret's Park, Queen's Road, to the Manor House Museum.

After a meeting with English Heritage, the group wanted to gauge local opinion. At a follow-up open meeting, no voices of dissent were raised against the plan to make replicas of the stones and move them. Parish councillor Brian Mann, the group's treasurer, said that everyone involved with the project had been astounded to learn that the prehistoric carvings, which could be 5,000 years old, were viewed as one of the most significant European examples of rock art.

The cup and ring markings, made during the Neolithic or Bronze Age, are in serious danger of wearing away from natural erosion. In 1890, Dr Fletcher Little, medical officer at Ben Rhydding Hydro, bought the stones for £10 from the owner of the land at Panorama Rocks where they were situated, because the area was due for development. To preserve them for posterity, he arranged to have them moved to St Margaret's Park, surrounded by iron railings. While being moved the largest stone, known as the Panorama Stone, broke and had to be repaired.

The plan is to make replicas of the stones to leave in St Margaret's Park while the actual stones themselves will be transported to a protective enclosure at the Manor House Castle Yard. This would allow the carvings on the replica stones to be recreated in their original glory while preserving what little is left of the originals.
If a grant is awarded the money will go towards research and a feasibility study for the larger project of copying and moving the stones. Coun Mann is confident that the whole project can be completed with the help of the Countryside Agency after officials expressed support for the project in principle. But if the replica stones are not constructed the scheme to move the originals will not be followed through. A less ambitious plan will be substituted to leave the stones where they are with some sort of protective cover constructed to preserve them.

Source: The Ilkley Gazette (19 December 2003)

Derbyshire

Quarries Threaten Ancient English Monuments


Revised proposals have been submitted to the Peak District National Park Authority for the reopening of the controversial quarries at Stanton Lees near Matlock (England). Stancliffe Stone Ltd is seeking to commence work at the quarries, which have been dormant for several decades.

The National Park Authority has previously stated that it does not want the quarries to be reopened due to their proximity to Stanton Lees and the scheduled ancient monuments on Stanton Moor. However, the Authority will now examine the company's proposals and a consultation process will get underway.

John Bull, Chair of the Authority's Planning Control Committee, said: "This is a very sensitive site and the proposal to reopen the quarries will be controversial. After several years of uncertainty we hope to move ahead and bring the matter to a conclusion by next April. However, people need to be aware that it is not within our power to refuse permission for the quarries to re-open - the site already has permission. The Authority's role will be to approve a set of modified conditions for working the site in an appropriate way."

Interested parties will have around two months to lodge their comments, which should be made in writing to the Planning Service, Peak District National Park Authority, Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell DE45 1AE.

Source: The Megalithic Portal (21 December 2003)

Somerset

Homes Refused on Prehistoric Site


The site of archaeological remains which are thought to date back thousands of years has been saved from development. An area occupied by a Scheduled Ancient Monument was at risk of being turned into a small housing estate on the edge of Highbridge and West Huntspill in Somerset.

Land owners Alexander Holderness and Joan Dowling applied to Sedgemoor District Council for planning permission to build about 30 homes on land between Alstone Road and Alstone Lane. But members of the authority's development control committee decided to preserve the site.

About 80 residents wrote to the authority saying they were against the proposal.

West Huntspill Parish Council also registered an objection as did Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society.

Among the objectors was Alistair Murray. He said: "I live on the boundary of the site and have been doing archaeological digs in my back garden for years.

"The area has been found to have been in occupation from the late Neolithic, through the bronze and iron ages, medieval times up to the present day. It's an important site, there's no doubt about it.

"There are other problems, like difficulties with the road access and the land is prone to flooding."

But Mr Holderness told the Mercury: "We plan to appeal against the decision. We have been working with English Heritage and the Environment Agency and paid for a geophysical survey.

"We have also had specifications drawn up for archaeological digs which we would have paid for had we been given outline planning permission. It would have cost us up to £20,000.

"We have touched nothing so far and done everything by the book. But people in the village are jumping to conclusions and formed an action committee.

"Eventually we will get permission to build houses on at least part of the land."

Source: http://www.megalithic.co.uk > Weston & Somerset Mercury 15/12/2003

Gwynedd (County)

Remains Could Lie Under Proposed Building in Wales


Experts believe important prehistoric remains could lie under a proposed international sheepdog centre near Bala, in North Wales. Gwynedd Archaeological Planning Service stepped in after realising there is a prehistoric and Roman site close by.

"Our concern is that there might be similar remains at this site at Ysgubor Isaf," said archaeologist Emily La Trobe-Bateman. "There is a very important prehistoric and Roman site in a nearby field, as well as similar sites further away, which did come to light in 1997," she explained.

The scientists plan to use trace changes in the soil which would indicate remains, although there are no plans for a dig. "There may be nothing there, but bearing in mind the closeness to a known prehistoric site then we feel that a survey is necessary," she added "We are in effect playing safe and the development will depend on what is found below ground."

Source: icNorthWales (11 December 2003)

Tynwald Hill (Artificial Mound)

Isle of Man's Tynwald Hill Deserves Recognition


The Isle of Man has been continually let down by the British Government in its pursuit of world heritage status for Tynwald Hill, a member of the Tynwald House of Keys (MHK) has claimed. Martyn Quayle made the statement in Tynwald as he called for action to be taken to gain international recognition for the St John's site, the hill which has been a focus for activities for nearly 4,000 years.

Mr Quayle said the site was first put forward as a site deserving world heritage status in 1984 when other sites, including the Laxey Wheel, were also considered. But it was not included in a list of sites favoured by the UK Government.

The motion on initiate action in gaining recognition for the site was passed unanimously. How it will be achieved has not been determined although members agreed the importance of the site to the people of the Island and its preservation is of more significance than the recognition of third parties.

Source: Isle of Man Online (12 December 2003)

Devon

Vixen Tor Owner Charged


The farmer who closed Dartmoor's (England) Vixen Tor to the public has been charged with carrying out land improvements without an environmental impact assessment. Mary Alford, who owns the site at Merrivale, near Tavistock, Devon, will appear before Plymouth Magistrates in the New Year.

Vixen Tor, nicknamed the Sphinx of Dartmoor, is a well known landmark and a popular destination for walkers and rock climbers. Although lying on private land, the previous owner had allowed public access to the weathered outcrop for more than 30 years. But earlier this year Mrs. Alford stopped access to the site. Following the closure a walker reported Mrs. Alford to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, alleging that fertiliser had been spread on the surrounding moorland. Mrs Alford was charged following a Defra investigation.

Defra regards uncultivated land as a very precious resource: "If anybody wants to agriculturally intensify land, to basically change its use, they need to complete an environmental impact assessment. That would highlight any of the adverse effects. If (the change) is deemed unsustainable for whatever reason … it is possible that it would not be allowed to go ahead. When someone cultivates the land without completing an assessment they could be prosecuted. We are talking about the heritage of the countryside." Defra has powers to insist that illegally improved land must be returned to its original condition.

The Dartmoor National Park Authority has said that the case was between Mrs. Alford and Defra, and had nothing to do with the Authority. But: "The National Park Authority's viewpoint is that we have been deeply disappointed by the withdrawal of public access to the Tor. We are looking forward to 2005 when public access will be resumed under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act."

Sources: BBC News, Western Daily Press (7/9 December 2003)

Rombald's Moor

Euro Grant Landed, But Ilkley Moor Has To Wait


A GROUP set up to protect and improve areas such as Ilkley Moor in the South Pennines has won a grant of nearly £1 million from the European Union.

The Standing Conference of Southern Pennine Authorities (SCOSPA) has picked up a grant of £850,000 after joining forces with partners from four other European countries.

But major improvements to Ilkley Moor will have to wait until the next round of grant awards, according to the town's countryside boss.

SCOSPA is made up of nine local authorities in Yorkshire and Lancashire which have areas of South Pennine moorland within their boundary.

The group, which is chaired by Bradford environmental boss and Ilkley district and parish councillor Anne Hawkesworth, bid for the cash with 15 other groups from Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

One of the main projects will be to launch SCOSPA as a rural regeneration company next year so that it can attract a wider membership, which should make it easier to bid for extra funding.

If the expected new funding comes on-stream, a wide range of improvements on Ilkley Moor could result, according to Danny Jackson, Bradford Council's countryside officer for Ilkley.

Mr Jackson said: "In the future, the fact that this company has been set up will allow it to get money for the Ilkley Moor management plan."

That could mean more stone slabs being laid to prevent footpath erosion on the path across the moor to Bingley, the cutting back of bracken and surveys of wildlife to make sure that the moor was being managed efficiently. Bradford Council manages Ilkley Moor as a traditional grouse shooting area but without issuing licences.

There could also be more education work done to make sure locals and visitors appreciated the significance of archaeological sites on the moor such as the Twelve Apostles stone circle or the Swastika stone.

Countryside officers would like to see more interpretation boards in areas such as the Cow and Calf rocks car park.

Mr Jackson said: "We have a management plan to cover the next ten years but we can only do a certain amount with existing resources."

The bid for European funding was made by the Netherlands for the whole of the group and the grant was formally accepted earlier this month.

As well as conservation work, the grant will also help a project to enhance economic activity in Southern Pennine areas by promoting markets for local produce.

Councillor Hawkesworth said: "I am thrilled that we have managed to secure this money to help protect some of the most wonderful open spaces in the country and I am also honoured to be representing SCOSPA.

"This is a very good example of what people with shared interests can achieve when they work closely together, pool their resources and share their experiences and expertise."

SCOSPA was set up in 1974 as a Southern Pennine conservation body and as well as Bradford, its members include Calderdale, Kirklees, Rochdale, Oldham, Rossendale, Burnley, Pendle, Lancashire County Council, United Utilities, the Southern Pennine Association and Pennine Heritage.

Source: http://www.thisisbradford.co.uk/bradford__district/ilkley/news/ILKL_NEWS4.html

Posted Thursday 20 November 2003

News

The Sexually-Symbolic Landscape Of Britain


A new book by an archaeologist from north-east England is set to reveal the sexually-symbolic landscape of Britain. Cathy Tuck, who has worked on the Time Team TV programme, chronicles 5,000 years of sexually significant sites in her book "Landscapes and Desire".

Describing standing stones as phallic, and burial chambers as womb-like, the project started when she found a sexually-explicit grotto in a park in Buckinghamshire, England, while working for English Heritage as a landscape archaeologist.

Written over two years - during which time she covered 30,000 miles around Britain - the book includes a gazetteer of sexually-symbolic sites, which readers are encouraged to investigate - "If people open their eyes and take a look around them, it's amazing what they will see."

Source: The Journal (3 November 2003)

Orkney

Geophysics Surveys of Brodgar Penisnula


Source: Orkneyjar Archaeology News (24 October 2004)

For centuries scholars and antiquarians have had their own theories over the activities that once took place in Orkney's World Heritage Site covering the Ness of Brodgar in Stenness. From druid enclosures to ancestral monuments, each era had its own ideas about the Neolithic ceremonial centre. However, despite the advances in archaeological knowledge, technique, and technology, there is still very little known about the area.

But this looks set to change, with the continuation of a project to use magnetometry to scan the entire Brodgar peninsula. Magnetometry is the technique of measuring and mapping patterns of magnetism in the soil. Ancient activity, particularly burning, leaves magnetic traces that show up even today when detected with the right equipment. Buried features such as ditches or pits, when they are filled with burnt or partly burnt materials can show up clearly and give us an image of sub-surface archaeology.

The full article

Suffolk

Prehistoric finds at an US airbase in Suffolk


The skeleton of a muscular 30-year-old, who could have been an ancient Iceni warrior, was found buried face down in earth that was part of rich Fen lands (Suffolk, England) and now is behind the fortified fence of an American base.
These human remains are only one of five that have so far been unearthed during a dig that has produced remnants of buildings, pottery, animal bones and flint tools, dating to between 2500 BCE and 410 CE.
Archaeologists say finds made at the 25,000 sqm site at RAF Mildenhall reveal significant detail about how different peoples co-existed in the turbulent times of the late Iron Age and early Roman era, when the conquerors brought their new culture and religions into the country.
Suffolk County Council's archaeological service's senior project officer for the dig, Andrew Tester, said it was an important excavation. "It has been a settlement from pre-history; particularly, it was well-used through the Iron Age and Roman times. They used to herd cattle here through the Iron Age and Bronze Age," he said.
The team of 15 has found a pear-shaped corral and a watering hole, in which they found cattle bones. "We have excavated three burials - two were crouch burials, which are more traditional to Bronze Age and Iron Age. We found one that is a proper interment, and he was buried face down. According to our bone specialist, Sue Anderson, he was aged 30 and had a lot of muscle." said Andrew Tester.
"In the early Roman, late Iron, Age there were many changes in religious practice and ideas." added Mr Tester, "People were choosing to be buried in different ways. He was almost certainly Iceni and he could have been an Iceni warrior. This was an Iceni area and they were a traditional people. The Romans adapted and adopted other religions."
Within a few weeks, the dig will be over and work will start on turning the site into a baseball pitch for USAF servicemen.

Source: EDP24 News (10 October 2003)

Cumbria

Heritage Hopes For Lake District


An estimated £300,000 will have to be spent over two years to make the case for turning the Lake District into a World Heritage Site, it has been claimed. The Lake District National Park Authority has been trying since 1985 to win World Heritage status by Unesco, which is part of the United Nations.
Organisers said it would bring the sort of kudos which might attract more visitors and help when getting finance from the government.

However, some people have expressed concerns it could lead to even stricter controls on development and damage the tourism industry.

Supporters have said that although the status would not attract money directly, the government would be more likely to give extra funding if the area had world status.

Inward investment

Paul Tiplady, from the National Park Authority, said the money would be well spent.

He said: "We believe the Lake District is the country's finest landscape.

"We need the government to believe that too so that thy will start putting the resources into Cumbria that Cumbria desperately needs.

"One way of achieving that is to get the world to say that Cumbria has England's finest landscape.

"World Heritage status gives a very simple marker that the area is very special.

"I estimate we would need something like £300,000 over two years to undertake the project work.

"Cumbria and the west coast needs more inward investment and £300,000 may be a very cheap way of getting it."

Source: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/

News

New Method For Dating Pottery


Researchers at the University of Bristol (England) have developed the first direct method of dating ancient pottery, through analysis of animal fats preserved inside the ceramic walls. The new technique will allow more accurate determination of the age of pottery and, by extension, the age of associated artefacts and sites.

Although chemical analysis has, in the past, been used on residues found on the surface of pottery and shards, contact with the soil was always likely to produce corrupt data. Now research carried out by Richard Evershed, Ph.D and colleagues from the University has discovered that lipids (animal fats) are preserved through absorption into the material, in large enough quantities to allow radiocarbon dating. "Lipids are absorbed because most interesting pottery of any respectable age is unglazed," says Evershed. "We're taking a piece of pot and grinding it to a powder, and then extracting lipid that's penetrated right down into the fabric." A technique called capillary gas chromatography isolates the lipids. Purified compounds are then radiocarbon dated using an accelerator mass spectrometer at the Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit.

Pottery is essential for dating archaeological sites. Although organic material can be dated by radiocarbon techniques, the results are not always reliable. Wood, for instance, can decompose over time; and animals often move bones around a site. Ceramics, on the other hand, have a long and stable lifespan. Later pottery can be easily dated by typology, but earlier ceramic material can be much harder because of its crude appearance. In the earlier research that led to the development of the new technique, Evershed's team found the first direct evidence that people were dairy farming in Britain as long as 6,000 years ago. The prominence of fats in material from Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age sites is consistent with their wide range of uses in the ancient world: lubricants, waterproofing agents, cosmetics, ointments, perfumes, varnishes, etc.

The researchers have now analyzed 15 pieces of pottery ranging in age from 4000 BCe to the 15th Century AD. These were blind-dated using the new method and then compared with verified dates. In all cases there was good correspondence of blind and validated dates. Evershed and his colleagues now plan to study mummies. "A lot of mummies were exported out of Egypt by the Victorians, and they often applied modern treatments to preserve them." The researchers hope to distinguish between modern treatment and the original embalming agent.

According to Evershed, his method could be used to date any material that has preserved organic compounds. "You could even isolate individual amino acids by this preparative GC approach, but no one's tried that. That's the next step." Evershed's findings were featured 'Analytical Chemistry', the journal of the American Chemical Society.

Stone Pages
Source: American Chemical Society (29 September 2003)

Norfolk

Site Dig Points To Rich Historical Seam


It will soon be a shrine to the modern age of commercialism, where shoppers park their cars as they head into the city. But excavation work on the new park-and-ride site at Harford, south of Norwich, has revealed an insight into a rich and intriguing period of the area's ancient history.
The discoveries made at the site, next to the junction of the A140 and A47 Southern Bypass, have been described as "one of the most important" finds ever recorded in Norfolk.

As well as evidence of settlements from a number of different ages, exciting finds relating to the Neolithic age between 4000 and 2300BC were made. Among them was a Neolithic timber structure.

Gary Trimble, project manager, said: "We already knew this was a very rich Bronze Age site but this is the first time we can push back time to the Neolithic age. It is tremendously exciting and a once-in-a-lifetime dig."

Archaeologists were also excited by the discovery of what is believed to be a mortuary site – the first of its kind in Norfolk. Massive holes show where huge wooden poles would have been and indents reveal where timber walls would have run alongside.

The find has great similarities with a site discovered in Hampshire in the 1950s but, unlike that one, there was no mound at Harford, although it is possible it has been ploughed away.

Another major find was a rectangular enclosure, about 35-40m by 60m, which is also thought to have been used in mortuary activity. At the southern entrance there was a pit containing a broken flint axe.

And the finds did not end there. The dig took place over four months during spring and early summer this year, and items unearthed have now been removed from the site for restoration and cataloguing.

According to David Gurney, principal archaeologist for Norfolk Museum Service, what is particularly exciting about the site was the time-scale covered by the finds.
"It would have been good to have found just the Neolithic finds but to get the rest from the Bronze and Roman Age too is just remarkable. It is the sort of find you get once every 100 years," he said.

Arrowheads and examples of Beaker pottery dating back the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age were also found, as was a cremation burial site containing two bronze axes and bits of burnt bone.

Close to the burial at the highest point of the site was the remains of a Roman aisled building that was possibly used for storage.

Mr Trimble, whose special interest lies in prehistoric archaeology, said the immediate area of the finds, close to a confluence of rivers, was very sensitive, with Arminghall Henge and the Roman fort at Caistor St Edmund nearby.

"I think it was when we found the mortuary structure that we realised we had something very significant and exciting because it was so different for the region. This was an important area where people would probably meet to trade and congregate or for a multitude of different reasons," he said.

But he said it was difficult to be precise about the lifestyles of people from the Neolithic era from these finds. "What the settlement looked like is more complicated than we first thought and it is difficult to know how people lived," he said.

It is now his job to write up his finds in a book. The site is currently being turned into a 1100-capacity car park and in January, the area of land which has been rich in archaeological pickings will begin its new phase.

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411134

Source: Norfolk Now 02/10/2003

Derbyshire

Prehistoric skull unearthed in England


A Quarry worker could have discovered proof of prehistoric life close to the River Trent (England). Part of a skull was found at a working gravel pit off Pasture Lane, Long Eaton, by a worker from RMC Aggregates (Eastern). Initial tests date it back to the prehistoric age.
After finding the skull, worried workers phoned the police and the site was closed, as officers began a search and investigation. But the investigation took on more of a historical angle when tests indicated the skull was thousands of years old. DS Rohan Catlow, based at Long Eaton, said: "We had experts come to the site and they believe it is a human skull from the prehistoric age, or maybe a primate, such as an ape." The skull was taken to Long Eaton police station, where experts are due to examine it in more detail.

http://www.stonepages.com/news/#341 Source: Evening Post (25 September 2003)

News

Welsh Version of Stonehenge is Under Construction


The Welsh version of Stonehenge is under construction. Tim Halewood from the Vale of Glamorgan is constructing the area's first solar lunar circle. The ancient timepiece, designed to act as a solar lunar calendar, is being built from stone by the local community at Coed Hills Rural Art Space in St Hilary.

"This will be one of the only working solar lunar calendars in the UK," said Mr Halewood, who studies sacred geometry. "It is a similar concept to Stonehenge but ours will be fully functional. It will act as a great communal focus point for St. Hilary and it will be something the whole community can work together on as we study it." The event is the result of months of research by Tim and a volunteer group exploring ancient sacred geometry and the study of solar lunar circles.

Monica Mahoney, community support worker at Wales Council for Voluntary Action said, "There are about 250 active Millennium Award projects in Wales. Tim's scheme is a great example of how these awards can benefit the whole community. The potential for the grants is wide-ranging. We are always open to new ideas like Tim's, so if anyone has anything in mind, they should apply for a You and Your Community Millennium Award."

The Vale of Glamorgan project qualified for an award from the programme which offers people grants to improve their lives and benefit themselves and their community.

From http://www.stonepages.com Source: The Western Mail (21 September 2003)
Previous 20 | Showing 21-37 of 37 news posts. Most recent first
Name: Andy Hemingway

D.O.B: 17.04.66

Occupation: Graphic Artist

Website: http://www.ahgphotography.co.uk

I was born and raised in Huddersfield. I moved to Norwich in 1988 to go to Art School and haven't got it together to leave yet!! My interests are visiting and reading about ancient places, tribal art and society and trying my damnedest to keep as far from the Rat Race as possible! Ambient Rambling is where it's at!

Love music - psychedelic 70's rock, punk, roots n' dub and world/trancy sort of stuff in general!

Also do voluntary work for festivals and have been involved in the Norwich Free Festival in it's various guises for a number of years.

My special area of interest is Ilkley Moor. I don't get the opportunity to go back often these days, but I spent much time on the moors in the 1980's... often for days on end. The Twelve Apostles is an old friend of mine! Although I know the moors fairly well, each journey I make back there is still full of discovery. I always seem to find something I haven't seen before.

NB - Since I wrote this I have in fact gotten away from Norwich and now live in Barnsley.

My TMA Content: