From the 14th of January, Kirkleatham Museum will be hosting an exhibition, entitled Megaliths.
This collaborative exhibition, a mixture of paintings and photography, will showcase the work of Gavin Parry and Tony Galuidi, both of whom share a passion for ancient standing stones.
The exhibition will go on display from January 14th – March 8th at Kirkleatham’s stunning Bellamy Pavilion.
All of the paintings and photographs are available for sale and the artist proceeds will be donated to The Trussell Trust, which supports foodbanks throughout the UK.
For more information, please visit ? redcarcleveland.co.uk/enjoy/kirkleatham-museum/
fitzcoraldo
The Old Stones of the North Exhibition
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Neolithic portal dolmen, one of Western Europe’s oldest ritual burial chambered monuments, in an isolated field in Wales.
It is thought the tomb was built from giant boulders about 5,500 years ago. Its capstone bears a seemingly random pattern of dozens of circular holes gouged into its surface – symbols of Neolithic or Bronze Age ritual burial activity.
RAM 2012
Details for this years Rock Art Meeting
Old Bewick Northumberland
rockartuk.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rock-art-meeting-20121.pdf
Jan-RAM 2012
Silbury Hill is as ancient and enigmatic as Stonehenge. David Attenborough tells Jonathan Jones why he set out to crack it
guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/25/david-attenborough-silbury-hill-bbc
Rock Art Meeting RAM 2010
Bonorva Chequered Tomb (Sa Pala Larga Tomb no.7)
Article stonepages.com/news/archives/003769.html
and wonderful images of the tomb over on stonepages.com.
stonepages.com/scacchiera/
Thanks to Pete G for highlighting this wonderful find.
Magic mountain yields jade axes
A nice article about the three-year project, JADE, which has investigated the production, distribution, use and meaning of Neolithic jade axeheads.
timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6497835.ece
October 2009
Over 4 days the entire hill will be illuminated in a sensational display of lighting and pyrotechnics.
Open-air artworks will be positioned around the fields below the hill and perfomers, fellrunners and hillwalkers will add to the spectacle.
Watch this space
odinsglow.co.uk/
North Yorkshire historic environment day 2009
..Eight talks will cover the rich variety of research projects and fieldwork activity in the historic environment of the county over the past year. Speakers include Paula Ware on recent discoveries in Malton, Steve Moorhouse on the monastic landscape of Fountains Abbey, John Buglass on the coastal zone survey in North Yorkshire and Nicky Milner on recent excavations at Star Carr.
Visitors will also be able to browse archaeological book stalls and visit stands showcasing projects by local societies.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets cost £6. To book, call 08458 727374,
Booking forms and info at
northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3092
Whitby Gazette
A £27,000 funding boost is to be used to help document the archaeological recording and research of sites unearthed following the Fylingdales Moor fire in September 2003.
The £26,900 project, which is being funded by English Heritage, will also be used to produce advice on lessons learnt from the fire and subsequent restoration projects as well as guidance on disaster planning for moorland environments which contain historic sites.
It will be managed by the North York Moors National Park Authority and Blaise Vyner, an experienced local archaeologist and private consultant who has been involved in the site since the initial post-fire archaeological survey, will carry out the project.
More here…whitbygazette.co.uk/news/Cash-to-reveal-moors-secrets.4414314.jp
Is there a British Chalcolithic?
People, Place and Polity in the later Third Millenium BC
Friday 18th – Sunday 20th April 2008
A major international conference organised by the Prehistoric Society and Bournemouth University Centre for Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage
This conference will address the concept of the Chalcolithic in British archaeology. Our continental colleagues have long used the term to augment their three-age system. Why has the term not been adopted so universally in Britain and Ireland? Is it relevant to our islands? Or is it a misnomer?
Read about it here
berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/planners-reject-wind-farms.3923173.jp
Saturday 6th October 2007
Appleby Archaeology Group Autumn Conference – People and the Land Settlement in the Eden Valley: Prehistoric to Present Day at Appleby Grammar School. Event takes place between 9.30am and 4pm. Contact Harry Hawkins on 01768 864340.
Saturday 21st July 2007
A visit to Two Cumbrian Henges with Helen Caffrey. Event takes place at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith. Henges are circular ceremonial sites dating from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Find out more about these impressive structures as you explore King Arthur’s Round Table (reasonably accessible to those with limited mobility) and Mayburgh. To book a place on this free tour of these sites contact Lancaster University on 01524 592623/4. Early booking advisable.
Saturday 28th April 2007
Aspects of Prehistoric Cumbria – CNWRS study day to be held at Penrith Methodist Church, Wordsworth Street, Penrith in conjunction with the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. Various speakers including Dr Aubrey Burl who will speak about Cumbrian Stone Circles – Are they Really? and Professor Mark Edmonds of University of York who will talk about The Neolithic in the Central Fells. Event takes place between 9am and 5pm. Follow the link at the bottom of the page for further information and booking details.
cumbria.gov.uk/planning-environment/countryside/historic-environment/events.asp
Saturday 10 March 2007, 9:50am-4.30pm
Durham County Council’s Archaeology Department will be holding its 3rd Annual Conference. The day will offer talks on recent archaeological discoveries, community excavations, recording and research. There will be talks on the following subjects:
• Hannah Wiggens, Durham County Council – County Durham Historic Landscape Characterisation project
• David Mason, Durham County Council – The Peter Scott excavations at Piercebridge Roman Fort
• Martin Roberts, English Heritage – Middridge Grange – historic farm building and Grade 1 listed building
• Richard Annis, Archaeological Serives Durham University – Excavations at East Park Sedgefield 2006
• Richard Hewitt, Archaeological Research Services – Archaeological Assessment of the aggregate producing areas of the County Durham Magnesium Limestone plateau
• Robin Taylor-Wilson, Pre-Construct Archaeology – Roman Chester-le-Street
• David Butler, Local Historian – Aykley Heads House, Durham
Tickets must be purchased in advance and are now on sale. Tickets cost £8.50 (the cost has increased slightly this year due to increases in catering costs) and will include a buffet lunch and tea and coffee in the morning and afternoon. There will be stalls in the Durham Room during the morning tea break and lunch which will include local historical and archaeological societies as well as bookstalls.
durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/Archaeology+2001+-+Archaeology+News+and+Events
Treasure hunters – the new heroes of national heritage
Members of the public unearthed 57,566 ancient objects last year, according to the British Museum — an increase of 45 per cent on 2005. The items included a spectacular Viking hoard of 20 silver bracelets.
Two reports published yesterday show how finds by people walking, gardening, farming or actively searching for treasure provide a wealth of information about our past.
David Lammy, the Culture Minister, described metal detector users as “the unsung heroes of the UK’s heritage”.
The Times 18/01/07
The UCD School of Archaeology and Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin present a conference on the materiality of stone, with an evening reception and keynote address by Richard Bradley on Friday 9th March, and papers by invited
Speakers including specialists on stone monuments, lithic objects, rock art and quarrying, on Saturday 10th March.
Confirmed speakers include Lara Bacelar Alves, Stefan Bergh, Gabriel Cooney, Mark Edmonds, Andy Jones, Katina Lillios, Blaze O’Connor, Muiris O’Sullivan, Yvan Pailler, Colin Richards, Chris Scarre, Annelou Van Gijn, Aaron Watson, and Chris Gosden (Discussant). We welcome anyone with an interest in people’s engagement with stone, and more broadly in the theme of approaches to material culture, to attend.
Further details on registration, getting to UCD, maps, eating out, and accommodation are available on the conference website: ucd.ie/archaeology/materialitas
- guided tours
- have-a-go dig sessions
- storytelling
- re-enactment group
- make a coil pot
- iron age costumes...and much more
In 2002, the first archaeological excavation took place, followed by further digs in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
The 2006 excavation begins in September including two weeks of school visits followed by the family open day on Sunday 1st October between 10am and 4pm.
Details here
redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/Leisur1.nsf/0/10B84ADB4C00F87F80256CC3004A2634?OpenDocument
The next meeting of the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age archaeology of Ireland, Britain and our nearest Continental neighbours.
Date 17-19 November 2006
Further information regarding the meeting will be made available soon at: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/groups/BronzeAgeForum
” The 2006 Rock Art Meeting (RAM’06) is sheduled for
Sunday 4th of June 2006 in Wooler, Northumberland
You are most welcome to take part in this meeting. Bring camera’s, childern, wellies, lunch packet, water and good weather! After coffees between 10.30 and 11.00 AM at ‘The Mother of all B&B’s’; Weetwood Farm Guesthouse, West Weetwood, Wooler NE71 6AQ, phone: 01668 281497 (see: map) we’ve planned to visit the rock art sites of Gled Law, Buttony and West Horton and maybe a surprise site as dessert.”
£1m to be cut from Lakes’ budget
Almost £1m is to be slashed from the budget of the organisation responsible for the Lake District National Park.
read more here
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4521944.stm
On the Brighter side
Lottery cash opens up Lakes’ past
A treasure trove of information about the Lake District’s archaeology is being opened up to the public thanks to a £171,000 grant.
read more here
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4651436.stm
Mongolian Bronze Age Megaliths
An interesting article from this months Archaeology magazine
archaeology.org/0601/abstracts/mongolia.html
More bits and bobs on the Mongolian ‘Deer Stones’ here
si.edu/scmre/educationoutreach/acp2005.htm
mongolart.mn/history_fine_art.html
doncroner.com/2005/09/mongolia-khovd-aimag-bayanzurkh-bulgan_29.html
smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues02/nov02/object.html
Serious questions have reportedly emerged about the qualifications of the Government’s chief archaeologist.
Reports this morning said Brian Duffy, who advised the Government on matters such as the controversial Tara motorway scheme, got the job in July 2003 ahead of candidates with superior qualifications and experience.
The reports said Mr Duffy had a general BA degree in archaeology and had no track record of archaeological excavations or publications.
The latest revelation follows the recent controversy surrounding the Government’s chief science adviser, who was moved to another job when it emerged that he received his PhD from a US university known to sell such qualifications over the internet.
irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=190268270&p=y9xz69x85&n=190269156
Britain’s first cave art is more than 12,800 years old, scientific testing has shown. Engravings of a deer and other creatures at Creswell Crags, in Derbyshire, have proved to be genuine Ice Age creations, and not modern fakes, as some had feared.
The engravings were found in 2003 at two caves, Church Hole and Robin Hood’s Cave, which lie close together in the Creswell gorge. Palaeolithic occupation deposits dating to the last Ice Age were excavated there in 1875-76, but the art remained unnoticed. Although the most notable finds were from 15,000-13,000 years ago, even older tools were noted, some dating to the Middle Palaeolithic between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago, others a few millennia later.
Read the full article here
timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-1910329,00.html
Eden District Council’s Penrith Museum is celebrating news that they have been awarded over £24,000 from the Local Heritage Initiative, a scheme run by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Nationwide Building Society.
The funding will allow the Museum to run a series of events during 2006 aimed at broadening awareness of, and accessibility to, prehistoric heritage in the Vale of Eden. This area is a major focus for Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments, including stone circles, henges, burial cairns and rock art sites. The project aims to forge new interest in these monuments that have survived for over four thousand years, and which can still be seen so dramatically across the varied landscapes of the Vale of Eden.
Read it all here
eden.gov.uk/main.asp?page=3972
Thanks to Kate Sharpe
Whitby Museum, Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Thursday 1st December 2005
A seminar, sponsored by English Heritage: Fire and the Archaeology of Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire
This seminar will review the responses to the needs of ecology and archaeology on 2.5 square kilometres of moorland on the coast of north-east Yorkshire, the subject of a disastrous fire in September 2003. The morning session will discuss what has been done to record the archaeology revealed by the fire, and how this has been integrated with efforts to safeguard the archaeology and regenerate the ecology of the moor. The afternoon session with consider continuing management and research requirements, including a discussion of the now-famous carved slab, and what the wider lessons of the project are.
Draft Programme:
MORNING: RESPONSES TO THE FIRE (chair – TBC)
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.40 Introoduction – Fylingdales Moor before the fire (Graham Lee (NYMNPA)
10.55 Introduction – aftermath of the fire: archaeological management issues (Neil Redfern, EH)
11.10 Introduction – aftermath of the fire: ecological management issues (Rachel Pickering, NYMNPA)
11.25 The application of air photography to the burnt moorland (Jane Stone, EH)
11.45 Detailed survey and its results (Al Oswald, EH)
12.05 Walk-over survey and its results (Blaise Vyner)
12.25 Rock art on Fylingdales Moor (Paul Brown/Graeme Chappell)
12.40 New approaches to recording rock art (Paul Bryan, EH)
12.55 Summing up (Neil Redfern)
13.00 Lunch – a buffet lunch will be available – please book your place (see below)
AFTERNOON: TIDYING UP THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY (chair – Graham Lee, NYMNPA)
13.45 Introduction – The land-owner’s perspective
13.55 Overview of the archaeology of Fylingdales Moor (Blaise Vyner)
14.10 The longer-term ecological ambitions (Rachel Pickering)
14.25 The Stoupe Brow monument – opportunity and dilemma (Neil Redfern/Blaise Vyner)
15.00 Discussion of further research requirements led by Neil Redfern
16.00 Conclusion
Please book in advance by e-mailing Blaise Vyner at [email protected],co,uk or writing to 16 College Square, Stokesley, North Yorkshire TS9 5DL. If directions or other information are needed please inquire at the time of booking.
26th November 2005
The annual archaeology conference at the Lakes School , Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere.
Including -
Exploring Lower Eskdale.
Re-Opening of Leverswater mine, Coniston
Bales sites smelting in Yorkshire & Cumbria
Rock Art in Cumbria: Context & Connections
Monks Farmers & Raiders – The early Medieval Period in the Lake District.
Conservation & Interpretation at Force Crag Mine.
Tickets £8 including tea & coffee. £14 with lunch
Avilable from The Lake District National Park Authority.
The Boyle Family at The Henry Moore Institute
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds is bringing together a glittering array of archaeologists, art historians and sculptors, to consider the overlap between sculpture and archaeology. Their motif is the Boyle Family’s ‘Study of Broken Up Concrete and Earth’ (2002-3). Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, while making psychedelic stage sets for the band Soft Machine in the 1960s, began a series of resin ground casts-eerily like the bottom of excavation trenches-that continues today with the participation of their two artist children. A film about the Boyle Family will be screened at ‘Object-Excavation-Intervention’, 3-5 June. Tickets from Liz Aston, tel 0113 246 7467, email [email protected]
Day School – Archaeological Research in North East England
Venue: University of Durham, Stockton Campus
Date: 06-11-04
Time: 10.15 -16.15
Speakers include:
Chris Tolan-Smith, Paul Frodsham, Nick Hodgson, David Petts, Pam Graves.
Cost £8 per person, £5.25 unwaged, seniors, students.
Contact
Tees Archaeology, Sir William Grey House, Clarence Road, Hartlepool. TS24 8BT
Tel 01429 523455
A day in tribute to the work of Tony Pacitto
Venue – Hemsley Arts Centre
Date 26th Sept 2004
Time 10:00-17:00hrs
Speakers include
John Dent – The Rudston Neolithic Monuments
Stephany Leach – Re-analysis of human skeletal remains from the Windy Pits
Graeme Lee – Aerial archaeology & the NYM
Gerry McDonnell – Ironworking in Ryedale
Rodney Mackey – I.A. cart burials & reconstructions.
Terry Manby – B.A. barrow excavations
Dominic Powesland – Geophysical research on the Wolds & Vale of Pickering
Ian Stead – Beyond Yorkshire
Peter Wilson – The Beadlam Villa & the Romano British period in Ryedale.
Tea & coffee
ALL FOR A TENNER – EXCELLENT VALUE!
Contact
Graeme Lee
Archaeological Conservation Officer
NYMNPA
The Old Vicarage
Bondgate Helmsley
YO62 5BP
Tel 01439 770657
[email protected]
Update on the Bronze Age Forum 13-14/11-04
SPEAKERS UPDATE
The Bronze Age Forum 13th & 14th November 2004 University of Southampton
Please see our website for all information regarding programme, registration
and suggested accommodation www.soton.ac.uk/~baforum1/. Places are limited
and
you advised to book early to avoid disappointment.
Confirmed Speakers:
Fleshhooks: technological complexity and forging chiefly authority (Stuart
Needham & Sheridan Bowman – British Museum)
Croft Moraig and the chronology of stone circles (Professor Richard
Bradley -
University of Reading & Alison Sheridan University of Edinburgh)
Deconstructing the Irish Bronze Age rapier...literally (Barry Molloy -
University College Dublin)
The role of barrows and bronze deposition in the shaping and valuing of
Bronze
Age landscapes (David Fontijn – University of Leiden)
A comparative study of Hungarian and British/Irish Bronze Age ceramics (Jo
Sofaer Derevenski – University of Southampton)
Llanmaes: a newly discovered Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age site in the
Vale of Glamorgan (Adam Gwilt – National Museums & Galleries of Wales)
Personal Appearance in Prehistory: the Middle Bronze Age ‘ornament horizon‘
in
context (Ben Roberts – Cambridge University)
Investigating Arable Agricultural Systems of Bronze Age Ireland (Meriel
McClatchie – University College London)
Where have all the flowers gone? Empty landscapes, sacred places and
contemplation in the Bronze Age landscape of Somerset (Clive Bond – King
Alfred’s College)
Aspects of the Bronze Age Landscape of the North West English Midlands
(David Mullin – Gloucestershire County Council Archaeology Service)
Standing Stones and Islandscapes in Western Scotland (Joanna Wright -
University of Manchester)
A recently discovered and fairly substantial complex of funerary and
ceremonial monuments at Damerham, Hampshire (Martyn Barber – English
Heritage)
The recent excavation of a Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial site at
Eweford, East Lothian (Gavin MacGregor – GUARD University of Glasgow)
Forgotten Land: What’s going on in Bronze Age Cumbria? (Helen. L. Loney &
Andrew W. Hoaen – University of Glasgow)
New light on depositional practices and the treatment of metalwork in SE
Wales
(Mark Lodwick – National Museums & Galleries of Wales)
The first wave of metalworkers – new evidence for Beaker/EBA prospecting and
mining within the UK (Simon Timberlake – Coventry University)
Biographies in stone: rock art, landscape and the Neolithic/Early Bronze Age
transition in Kilmartin, Scotland (Andy Jones – University of Southampton)
Approaching later prehistoric ritual traditions c.1500-600 BC (Rachael
Pope -
University of Wales)
From Dorchester to Dieskau: Relations between Britain and Central Europe in
the Early Bronze Age (Brendan O’Connor)
Atlantic swords: a technological approach for Late Bronze Age societies
(Bénédicte Quilliec – Universite de Nanterre)
Revisiting Bronze Age Gwithian 50 Years On (Jacky Nowkowski – Cornwall
Archaeology)
This years Bronze Age Forum – Southampton
The Bronze Age Forum
13th & 14th NOVEMBER 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS
The fourth Bronze Age Forum will be held at the University of Southampton on Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th November 2004. This meeting is open to anyone with an interest in Bronze Age archaeology and short papers are invited on any aspect of the period. We are especially interested in topics relating to recent discoveries and original research and it is also hoped to have one session devoted to work in Southern England.
Please contact us with your proposals and abstracts at the following address: [email protected]
For all information regarding the meeting please visit our website at: www.soton.ac.uk/~baforum1/
Conference – Object-Excavation-Intervention: Dialogues between Sculpture and Archaeology
Conference – Object-Excavation-Intervention: Dialogues between Sculpture and Archaeology, at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 3-5 June 2004.
This 3 day international conference is dedicated to the intellectual, historical & methodical crossovers between sculpture & archaeology from prehistory to the present. It looks at the myths & metaphors of archaeology & their sculptural currency, the archaeological & sculpural status of the fragment, at the philosophy of place & questions of site-specificity, at the political apprpriation of archaeology by sculptors & writers, and the notion of the artist as archaeologist.
Cost £30 (£15 concessions).
Contact Liz Aston; tel:0113 246 7467
e-mail [email protected]
Experts from the National Museum are rushing to the Borders after a rare piece of treasure was unearthed near Yetholm.
Local historians are already describing the find as one of the most important ever in the south of Scotland.
And if their early calculations are right – the object may be a 3,000 year-old mirror.
Historical author and broadcaster Alistair Moffat was given a sneak preview of the object this week. He said: “I was absolutely astonished when I saw it. This has to be the find of a lifetime.
Full story here:
borderstoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=968&ArticleID=768320
Dales History
Archaeology buffs are invited to a presentation on the Yorkshire Dales next month. The presentation, by local expert Alex Eckford, will be at the next meeting of Bedale Archaeology and History Society on February 3 at Bedale Hall from 7.30pm. Admission £2 for non-members. For more information contact programme secretary Patricia Tricker on 01677 450176
Source
The Evening Gazette 24-01-03
Rock Carvings of North and West Europe Symposium
A symposium organised by the British Academy in association with the Royal Swedish Academy of letters History and Antiquities.
Venue
The Royal Academy
Date
15-16 April 2004
I’m not sure which Irish paper this appeared in , I was handed a photocopy of the article by a bloke who knew I was interested in such things. The article is by Sean O’Riordan and was published on 19-11-03
“Archaeologists have discovered a Bronze Age settlement and a number of other significant finds on the proposed route of a multi-million euro bypass in County Cork.
National Roads Authority project archaeologist Ken Hanley confirmed yesterday that they had made a very exciting find near the village of Rathcormac.
Pottery found on the site at Ballybrowney lower, one mile west of the village indicates it was inhabited around 1,600BC.
The site had three large enclosures and was surrounded by timber defences which were probably around 10ft high.
“A site of this type was unknown in Cork before this,” Mr Hanley said.
Inside the defences there is evidence of a home which was lived in by a high ranking person, he said. A detailed report has been sent to Duchas who will decide where to extend the excavations. Some of the 65 archaeoilogists who worked on the project believe the site could be considerably larger. The site has been preserved in case of future research.
A number of other discoveries have also been made along the 17km route of the bypass which will link Watergrasshill and Fermoy.
The oldest site uncovered is Neolithic and dates from around 3,000BC. This was discovered at Curraghprevin, just south of Rathcormac.
There archaeologists found what appeared to be a temporary enbcampment occupied by “a small hunter-gatherer unit”. Mr Hanley said pottery had been discovered in pits and these items had been sent to specialists for analysis. Cooking pits were also found during the excavations.
A total of 15 of these cooking pits or Fulachta Fiadh have been identified along the bypass route.
“The vast majority are Bronze Age and radio carbon date from 1,800BC to 800BC” Mr Hanley said.
Evidence of a Bronze Age cremation and burial was also found on a hill slightly south of the town of Fermoy.”
A massive blaze has devastated a large area of the North York Moors near Whitby.
An ecological expert fears the moorland at Fylingdales could be a barren wasteland for years.
More than 50 firefighters from across North Yorkshire – a quarter of the county’s force – tackled the blaze, which covered an area of about four square miles.
10,000 year old North Eastern Des-Res
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