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For the #Stonehenge area, there is new imagery on Google Earth from August this year showing lots of #archaeology. Pits for missing stones at #Stonehenge plus the barrows just to the SW. Read this thread for more examples ... 1/8

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Very hot survey yesterday of a fantastic long barrow near Downton, #Wiltshire. Great detail of internal trapezoidal enclosure and interesting segmented ditch. Similar barrows with enclosures all seem to be along the eastern edge of the Avon Valley. #Neolithic #Archaeology

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The outer ditches flanking the Portway #Roman road are currently showing clearly as parch marks near Old Sarum hillfort, #Wiltshire. They line up with the modern road through Old Sarum that follows the line of the Portway. #Archaeology

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A recently recognised 80 metre #Neolithic long barrow near the coast at Southbourne in West #Sussex. To find out more, read this thread or check out this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology ... 1/10

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Back in 2022 I spotted unrecorded cropmarks of a #Neolithic long barrow near East Meon, #Hampshire. It is positioned next to the source of the River Meon. Full details here: wp.me/pgKiQE-29 or read this thread ... 1/7

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

An unrecognised #Neolithic long barrow near Whitsbury, #Hampshire? Shown as a substantial barrow on the Old Series OS Map NW of Whitsbury, recent cropmarks suggest a flanking ditch. Read the full details here: wp.me/pgKiQE-1d or for a summary see this thread 1/7 ...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Sometime between AD 55 and 65 a man named Lucius Julius Hipponicus scratched his named into a Samian Ware drinking cup Because of this simple act, he is one of the first residents of Exeter (ISCA) for whom we have a name 📷 May 2025 @rammuseum.bsky.social #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology #Devon

A sherd of red-slip pottery scratched with the name of its last owner: L IVLI IPPONI

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Previously unrecognised as the longest #Neolithic long barrow in #Hampshire? New cropmark and LiDAR evidence suggests the Warren Farm long barrow near Winchester is not, as recorded, 60m, but an amazing 135m in length. Read the full details here: wp.me/pgKiQE-c or for a summary see this thread 1/9

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Unrecognised as the longest long barrow in Hampshire? The Warren Farm long barrow at Morestead

by Michael Gill This article can be accessed / cited here: and is available for download as a PDF at the end of this article. Although long barrow discoveries are still being made, it is fair to sa…

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

1/4 Traces of possible ditches flanking the Portway #Roman road at Old Sarum #Wiltshire currently showing as cropmarks. You can see the modern road in the background that follows the line of the Roman Road. #Archaeology

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

For #MapMonday, here is the fantastic Ordnance Survey 1932 Map of Neolithic Wessex in 3D. I've uploaded a copy of the model to #Sketchfab so anyone can zoom in and out, spin the map around etc: skfb.ly/pxySs. #Archaeology #OrdnanceSurvey #Neolithic #Wessex 1/2

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here is a #Lidar map of the #Neolithic long barrows north-east of the village of Martin #Hampshire, up on Cranborne Chase. The insets are all at the same scale and allow a comparison of the extant mounds, which are diverse in shape and size. #Archaeology

Lidar map of long barrows north east of the village of Martin, Hampshire

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

There are some very 'long' #Neolithic long barrows on Cranborne Chase near Martin, #Hampshire. Buried ditches shown in magnetometer survey results, draped on #Lidar. #Archaeology #TombTuesday

Magnetometer surveys of Neolithic long barrows near Martin. Results plotted on Lidar visualisations of the mounds.

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

1/5 Just finished the report for a #geophysics survey of ploughed out barrow 'Pentridge 26'. Located next to the Dorset Cursus, it is scheduled as a bowl barrow, but the survey shows it is in fact a much earlier #Neolithic long barrow. Download from: avonvalleyarchsoc.wordpress.com/reports/ ...

Plot of magnetometer survey of Pentridge 26 long barrow

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A quick #Lidar map showing the positions of #Neolithic long barrows near the Dorset Cursus, with the long barrows shown as insets. #Archaeology

Lidar map of the Dorset Cursus with insets showing long barrow mounds

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Outrageous comments from Pitt Rivers in Excavations in Cranborne Chase v4 p145, re disc barrows. "The habit of all primitive people, including the modern Irish... of lashing themselves up into a frenzy on the occasion of a death ... followed by a speedy relapse, favours this hypothesis" #Archaeology

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just in case it wasn't seen the first time, reposting this for #HillfortsWednesday 🙂

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I've been out surveying around a #Neolithic long barrow with AVAS this weekend. The results are superb, particularly as we were using an old Geoscan single sensor FM36, kindly loaned by Bournemouth University via the LoCATE project. Surveyed under a Section 42 licence. #Archaeology #Geophysics

Geophysics results draped on a 3D plot of a long barrow

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Mike Gill @mikegill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just made the jump from X! To test the water, I am posting some #LiDAR snippets of #hillforts from central southern England. This image was my most popular post on X, let's see how many views and followers I can get on here 🙂. #Archaeology

Picture of 66 Lidar snippets showing hillforts in central Southern England

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