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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just scanned the carvings on Long Meg, Cumbria. 🤔 There are five circular motifs carved on the stone... not just the three that are visible (one is a spiral!). I believe there was a previous study that suspected five, but would say there is 100%... @surveylikeagirl.bsky.social

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 NEW VIDEO - OUT at 6PM TODAY! 🚨 A deep dive into a number of VERY interesting cropmarks along the coast of Cumbria... what I dubbed "The Millom Lines" #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO // OUT TODAY // 6:15PM 🌟 LiDAR Hotseat with the wonderful Stefan Milo. Where we explore the incredible British Camp and Arthur's Stone... But also Thornbough and Long Meg. We got carried away. @stefanmilo.bsky.social #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY 6:15PM 🌟 A video on the recent geology article on the Devil's Arrows - finding their origin, a new stone... and even a stone of my own, which I think is a good candidate! #archaeology #prehistory #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Extremely excited by the new study provenancing the Devil's Arrows standing stones. 🤩 It is marvellous work! My photo also made the cover of the journal this month! Much needed work by Anthony Clarke, @jimleary.bsky.social and Chris Kirkland! Link: doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2026.0504 #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY 6:15PM! 🌟 A very exciting episode of the LiDAR Hotseat with the Prehistory Guys! We look at a "super-henge", Britain's largest hillfort, and a LOT of prehistoric burial mounds... Tune in! @prehistoryguy.bsky.social

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We get a lot of stupid outside right-wing opinions about minority groups visiting the Lake District. But they aren't the ones buying up 2/3rds of the properties to convert to holiday lets, and getting the entire Romantic philosophy of the region wrong...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT TODAY - 5PM 🌟 A little dive into the Hellvi Mask. A Roman cavalry helmet found on the Island of Gotland, Sweden... If that's not strange enough, it had been modified with these bronze eyes. 🤔 #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW 🌟 A new episode of the LiDAR Hotseat. This week with special guest: Pete Kelly of History Time! We find evidence of Boudica's tibal tribe - the Iceni; a Dark Age fortress on the edge of the British Isles; and the lost gardens of a castle! #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT at 5PM TODAY! (in 15 mins) 🌟 A new episode of the LiDAR Hotseat. This week with special guest Paul Whitewick! @paulwhitewick.bsky.social Featuring the most fascinating Roman mystery I've ever seen... and possibly solving it! As well as some peculiar prehistoric mounds. 🏺

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hallucinating, I reckon. A doctor may be able to help with that.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’d be skeptical of the other two - but certainly could be, yes. Remember though, my absolute certainty should have an asterisk attached. But I’m pretty sure those are Bronze Age mounds

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

There is a very large, circular enclosure just southeast of Darlington, County Durham. 🤔 I would love to hear what folk on here think it may be... #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I know a Langdale Axe when I see one! The Irish came to northwest England (and probably East Riding / Wales) a LOT in the Neolithic. Particularly around the same time stone circles started showing up in the landscape!

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW! 🌟 A deep dive into Britain's most unusual Roman villa - Castle Dykes. Which holds the unique moniker "Defended Roman Villa". Check it out on my channel: www.youtube.com/@AdamMorganI... #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Rudston is very interesting! Same landscape as the Folkton Drums too. Much more to that place than the stone!

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Very jealous! That’s a magnificent one! I bet there’s tons lost under the sprawl of Greater London. (Also, don’t let my jealous grumblings make you think I hate Stonehenge. I’m just particularly into lost sites!)

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Whereas, the five cursus monuments at Rudston are completely lost. The superhenge and cursus at the Devil’s Arrows and Long Meg are lost. All earthworks at Stanton Drew are gone. And Shap Avenue was blown up to make way for a rail line. Stonehenge has relatively few losses

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Re. outlier - There are few cursus monuments in Britain as well preserved as the one right next to Stonehenge. I’d reckon it, and Stonehenge, are both examples of marginal, rural landscape preservation. And it’s the only one in that western megalithic tradition.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hm, I’m not sure. Waun Mawn was supposedly made into it. Flagstones “inspired Stonehenge”. There was buzz about the altar stone being “brought from Orkney”. This one claims a “Stonehenge prototype” Not to mention the many books that claim that it’s “the last great monument of the Neolithic”.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The comparison I often make is Liverpool Cathedral. THE biggest Cathedral in the UK - perfectly preserved. Yet, it’s not the cultural icon you might suspect based on the architecture alone.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No doubt! But I highly doubt the rare survival of that cursus at Stonehenge is a coincidence. It’s an incredibly important outlier! It’s the comparison as equals that’s lacking in my opinion. Rather, every other site falls into the narrative that Stonehenge was the pinnacle.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Basically what I meant by “Stonehenge-like” - but specifically Neolithic. Sites like Rudston, for example, actually have a larger Neolithic footprint than Stonehenge. Avebury and Shap Avenue are also far larger.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s still a one-of-a-kind incredibly important site today (because of the survivorship / history). But, the narrative behind it is purely for the press. And I’m very skeptical of anything that places it as THE proto-capital of Neolithic Britain.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

When, realistically, Stonehenge is an incredibly well researched example of survivorship bias. There were likely dozens of Stonehenge-like sites across Britain. So the relatively small Neolithic ritual complex on Salisbury Plain is blown way out of proportion.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There’s a strange idea that’s always pinned to Stonehenge, and not really anywhere else. That it was all one continuous plan, whereby sites across the country were all a warm up to it. The “last great monument of the Neolithic”, the “first Stonehenge” etc. But that’s pure fiction.

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A lot frustrates me about the press release put out. Why is the date so precise? All C14 dates are a range - is 2950BCE the median, the start, or the end of the range? And the interpretation of the (very nice) discoidal knife/scraper as a symbol of the sun disc is many levels of bonkers.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - Out NOW! 🌟 A deep dive into the lost stone circle of Grasmere... and the many hints that it did, indeed once exist. It's a thrilling ride - so come along!!! #archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

⭐ NEW VIDEO - Out Today at 5PM! ⭐ How I Discovered a LOST Roman Road... Using LiDAR If that title and thumbnail don't get to titillated, I don't know what will...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT at 5PM TODAY 🌟 A deep-dive on Gamelands Stone Circle! And how it may help us explain Stonehenge, and more importantly - Shap Avenue 🤓 It's a good one... #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Thornborough … has stumped historians” If some of our very “best” prehistorians explored any sites outside Wiltshire / Orkney, we’d probably know more about them 😬 (and that counts describing sites only in reference to Stonehenge…) #archaeology #prehistory www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-n...

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Yorkshire's mysterious 'Stonehenge of the North' which has stumped historians

They are around 5,000 years old.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

⭐ NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW!! ⭐ About a tower, found buried under the streets of York. Now known as the "Anglian Tower", or "The Most Interesting Building in Britain"... wow 😱 LINK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzot... (I forgot to promote this - as it was my 30th birthday yesterday!) #archaeology #youtube

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🌑 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW! 🌑 “This Statue Fell Out of a Cliff - and Nobody Knows Why…” A video on the so-called “Huntcliff Figure” of Saltburn, which allegedly dates to the Bronze Age… 🤩 Featuring three guests (of which only @paulwhitewick.bsky.social is on BlueSky!) LINK: youtu.be/E-ThrhjxUZ0?...

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This Statue Fell Out of a Cliff - and NOBODY Can Explain It

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm about to go live with the AMAZING Pete Kelly of History Time! To talk our favourite sites around the world! 😀 Come check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pXk...

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Ten Amazing Prehistoric Monuments - @AdamMorganIbbotson + @HistoryTime

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🌟 NEW VIDEO - OUT NOW 🌟 " The Horrible Truth About Stonehenge... " A sequel to a video I made a year ago, listing off many reasons not to romanticise prehistoric sites. Not specifically about Stonehenge. And no, they didn't sleep with them like 'that'. GROW UP... Link: youtu.be/L7FqBZpjkYg

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

⭐⭐ SURPRISE NEW VIDEO! ⭐⭐ Exploring an out-of-place Roman coffin, allegedly found within a Norman castle in Northallerton, Yorkshire... LINK: youtu.be/ACACVax-UDo

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The Ancient Roman Coffin MYSTERY...

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I was at Moulton just last week. Impressive one.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Something like that I think. And rivers / topo.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Don’t forget Kirk Hammerton - if you believe in that one! There are many more beyond even them. There’s actually a potential one to the immediate west of the Thornborough three.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I’m not saying they were cosmically aligned. But it’s a hell of a coincidence.

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Well, they do, actually. Go on Google Maps, use the measuring tool. Draw a line though the northern henges entrance, through the southern henge - then all the way to the Devil’s Arrows (arbitrary I know). This passes directly through Nunwick Henge’s causeways.

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