Littlestone
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Silbury Dig: The Heart of the Mound
Jan 20, 2010, 19:41
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CHANNEL | BBC 2
FIRST BROADCAST | 27 July 1968
DURATION | 39 minutes 12 seconds
"Silbury is one of the largest prehistoric earthworks in Europe, possibly dating to 2400BC. In this programme, originally broadcast live, Magnus Magnusson meets the archaeologists who have uncovered a tunnel that leads into the heart of the mound."
More here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/chronicle/8607.shtml
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Littlestone
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Edited Jan 22, 2010, 17:45
Panoramic views of Avebury
Jan 22, 2010, 17:07
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Thanks to Goff for this one.
For those unable to get to Avebury as often as they might like, this is a useful tool for exploring the Henge (might take a few seconds to load) -
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.428491,-1.853803&spn=0,359.995177&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.429131,-1.853932&panoid=H45A_ZEl-30QZAHaOxg00w&cbp=12,206.68,,0,4.7
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tjj
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Edited Jan 22, 2010, 18:55
Re: Panoramic views of Avebury
Jan 22, 2010, 17:16
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Littlestone wrote:
Good link!
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tjj
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Edited Jan 24, 2010, 11:53
Re: White Horse Walking Holidays
Jan 24, 2010, 11:47
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Set in a superb location.
Anyone travelling long distance and planning a visit to Wiltshire, this is good news.
http://www.whitehorsewalking.co.uk/index.htm
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Littlestone
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Megaliths that baffle man
Jan 24, 2010, 12:14
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This one for mini megaraks -
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2010/01/24/jun01.asp
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Mr Hamhead
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Flying Through Cornwalls Past
Jan 25, 2010, 00:13
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http://www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/flyingpast/index.html
I may have added this as a link somewhere before...but it is worth flagging up again I think...
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Littlestone
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A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape: Wessex Archaeology
Jan 26, 2010, 19:47
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A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape by Wessex Archaeology.
"This short film shows the landscape around Stonehenge as recorded by LIDAR survey (airborne 3D scanning). Millions of measurements were taken across the landscape, and here they have been turned into a 'solid' computer model to show how well the archaeology is recorded by this method."
More here - http://www.vimeo.com/387367
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Branwen
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Re: Blogs and websites of possible interest
Jan 28, 2010, 21:10
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http://geo.nls.uk/os25inch/
Type in the nearest town then zoom into this old hand coloured OS map. Goes into great detail of sites now gone, finds made in an area, etc...
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Branwen
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Re: Blogs and websites of possible interest
Jan 30, 2010, 15:20
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http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/ 'nother map
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Littlestone
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Megaliths in Britain and Ireland
Feb 04, 2010, 11:21
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Megaliths in Britain and Ireland is for the Japanese visitor to these islands. Stunning photographs of many sites. In Japanese with captions in English.
http://www.lithos-graphics.com/stonecircle/circletop.html
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