Barbara Hepworth, 'The Family of Man' 1970 Bronze

The lumps and bumps at Grime’s Graves are huge, a really impressive and rare landscape. I’m off to look for a puddingstone which marks the start of a supposed lost trade route from Grimes Graves to Stonehenge proposed by Dr Ernest Rudge. Can I find it? Read on… /1

I don't think I've come across a place that captures so evocatively the memory of the past within the fabric, as the sea of steps at Wells Cathedral.

Secklow #MootMound in #MiltonKeynes , where Anglo Saxons met to talk local issues & serve justice. Today, the law courts, registry office & council buildings surround the mound. People still gather here from across the region, a grassy forerunner of many of our municipal systems.

The 4m tall Pierre du Domaine in Plerguer (Ille-et-Vilaine) was said to stand on the site of a battle between armies. When only one man survived from each army the menhir sprang out of the ground and separated them and they made peace. #FolkloreThursday .

An ancient relief of a human figure (a Slavonic deity?) set into the wall at the entrance of the Marienkirche (St Mary's Church) Bergen, #FolkloreThursday More 1/

#Clootietree dripping with offerings at the #kingscircle #stonecircle , part of the #rollrightstones , #Oxfordshire . #folklorethursday

Flat sump boxed by seven rivers—Ouse
and Trent, Idle, Torne, Don, Aire and Went.
Winding and doodling over their warps,
slow broadening to Humber.

'Eely'
Steve Ely

A symphony in four movements
Published today by Longbarrow Press
longbarrowpress.com/current-public…

Here's an #urbanprehistory contender for #tombtuesday . It's the #RomanoBritish Highfield Barrow in Hemel Hempstead, dwarfed by the new town. Unbelievably, in the recent past, cars have been driven over it, and plans submitted to turn it into a skate park, but for now, it's safe.

The #Tibblestone marks the boundary of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. It now finds itself on the verge of a Texaco petrol station. Despite its short stature, it was recorded as being over 8ft high when rediscovered. Perfect #urbanprehistory for #StandingStoneSunday !

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing understanding of the humans, plants and animals once living on land now under the North Sea, submerged in the Stone Age.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thornborough Henges in North Yorkshire has been reunited 🎉

We’ve acquired the 3rd & final henge meaning that public access across the entirety of this major Neolithic site is guaranteed. It is a remarkable survivor from the prehistoric past & we can’t wait to share its stories.

There Really Is A 'Weald Stone' At Harrow And Wealdstone | Londonist londonist.com/london/secret/…

Can we fix it? More lost, forgotten and discarded objects found washed up on Cornish beaches.
#plasticarchaeology

Stunning pics by Ken Williams of the 4200 years old Grange Stone Circle, the largest stone circle in Ireland, Lough Gur, County Limerick.

This is NOT the National Trust.

This is a bunch of far right loons seeking to DESTROY the National Trust.

Don't be fooled.

'A farmer should live as though he were going to die tomorrow; but he should farm as though he were going to live forever'

Old proverb on the bond between the farmer & the soil.

George Ewart Evans. The Pattern Under The Plough

I’ve been sent a 2 for 1 code for tickets to Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother art exhibition, in Oxford until 25th Feb. ⛔️Warning the following is not suitable for archaeologists of an easily triggered disposition 🙄Thread 🧵1/

Worth watching out for how the prehistoric past and Neolithic farmers become appropriated by ‘the far right’s new agrarian populism’.

What do angry farmers in Nevada and Germany have in common? They’re being exploited by the far right | George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

And in Hampshire, culture dies

@Hantsconnect cuts £600,000 of funding per year to the charity Hampshire Cultural Trust

Heritage sites, arts centres and museums, including the unique Iron Age Andover Museum are to close

A greater act of vandalism by a County Council is hard to imagine 😡