Snake Iconography in the British Isles The emergence and spread of certain iconographic symbols, such as that of a snake,…
A gazetteer of probable prehistoric mounds, cairns and boundary earthworks in Coverdale. It is not complete and is still being…
On every late-Victorian and early-20th-century OS sheet the surveyors marked any conspicuous heap of stones they could not instantly classify…
These are raised platforms created first and foremost for cult, procession, assembly or conversion—not for fortification or routine boundary-making. They…
These are artificial hills made from the unwanted rock, shale and tailings that come up with coal, metal ore, stone…
Hillfort mounds Hillfort mounds are elevated, man-made (or heavily modified) earthen platforms whose crests carry ramparts, palisades or stone walls…
A barrow is a mound of earth and/or stones raised over a grave or group of graves. Used from the…
Archaeologists use the word “henge” for later-Neolithic and earliest Bronze-Age earthen rings whose ditch lies inside the bank, creating a…
Even in a rural community of mainly farmers, there are often reasons to wish to build or create a structure…
I've started to realise there are an awful lot of myths involving giants in Yorkshire, and in the rest of…