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Uffington White Horse and its Landscape
Investigations at White Horse Hill Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill Ashbury, 1993-4.
by D Miles, S Palmer, G Lock, C Gosden and A M Cromarty
Oxford Archaeology Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph 18 (2003)
ISBN 0947816771
£24.95
Included on Celia’s site
Lots of details about the bronze age bridge found at Testwood Lakes, including how you can see the artifacts discovered, and so on....
All 54 Dutch burial chambers are documented on this very informative site by Hans Meijer. It’s in English, too!
Fantastic place! See the oldest bread in Britain!
Read carpenter Gordon Pipe’s fascinating theories and follow his real experiments about how to move huge megaliths, perhaps in the same way the ancients did, using levers. Coming from a carpenter, not an academic, his theories ring absolutely true.
Paragraph five says: At the northern end of this political and economic frontier zone, near the modern towns of Woodstock and Charlbury, in what was probably the Iron Age territory of the Dobunni, there is the massive North Oxfordshire Grim’s Ditch, an earthwork enclosing an area of initially about 13km2 and eventually 80km2, within which a notable cluster of early Roman villas later appeared. No-one knows exactly what this enclosure was for; but it may have been intended to demarcate a special-status area for settlement. To the south, a much smaller, possibly unfinished defensive enclosure of about ten hectares, known as Cassington Big Ring, lay on the banks of the Thames near Eynsham.
Original watercolours of sacred sites of Britain, including lots of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Rollrights – and other seriously starry stuff, too.