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Tim Daw

@timdaw.bsky.social
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Worked at Stonehenge, built a Long Barrow. Peasant farmer in Wiltshire.

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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape, not just Stonehenge but also Woodhenge and the new Bulford post alignment. It runs in your web browser, no app to download. Details: www.sarsen.org/flyover
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Stonehenge Landscape Flyover
Fly over the Stonehenge landscape, and watch the sun rise in 2500 BC I've put a new tool online: a 3D flyover of the Stonehenge landscape...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...
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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive
Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic England still holds the negatives, the prints and the scans. What the public lost, in early Sept...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The claimed solstitial alignment of Woodhenge is not supported by the layout of its posts. Details: www.sarsen.org/2026/09/wood...
Plan of Woodhenge with solstitial alignments marked
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An interactive 3D model of Woodhenge, accurately georeferenced with the sun, sky and moon modelled over the age of the monument: timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My interactive 3D Stonehenge model timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b... has been significantly updated; there are lots of new features to discover.
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b... now with added Station Stone solar and lunar alignments, have another look and tell me what you think.
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Stonehenge 3D Model
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Deceptively simple: Stonehenge as blocks on the real contoured surface — orbit on your phone, tap for coords, sun & moon for today or c. 2500 BC. A lot of work so it feels easy. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-b...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Simply described as: "aerial view of barrows north of Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire" I think there may be more going on, can't quite place it though. @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social DZSWS:1985.7881
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Which Neolithic megaliths were hauled long-distance, and which just used the nearest outcrop? An interactive gazetteer of every petrographically-matched haul in Europe — Stonehenge included, easy to exclude. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/euro...
European Anthropic Megalithic Transport Interactive Gazetteer
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An interactive, fully referenced viewer of published palaeoclimate proxies for Britain across the Stonehenge-building millennia is now online, and the surprise is there are no surprises: www.sarsen.org/2026/09/brit...
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Britain, 5000–2000 BC: no ice, no catastrophe, a familiar climate
An interactive, fully referenced viewer of published palaeoclimate proxies for Britain across the Stonehenge-building millennia is now onlin...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Come fly with me: A fully interactive virtual landscape of the Stonehenge area www.sarsen.org/2026/09/an-i...
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An Interactive model of the Stonehenge Landscape
A fully interactive virtual landscape of the Stonehenge area  https://stonehenge-3d-flythru.netlify.app/ The latest Julian Richards video ...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are Wiltshire Long Barrows aligned to the sun? Not really... www.sarsen.org/2026/09/the-...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A new epic video on "Secrets of Stonehenge’s Hidden Landscapes | Stonehenge Access All Areas: youtu.be/jZquXrmj2KQ?... via @YouTube
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Secrets of Stonehenge’s Hidden Landscapes | Stonehenge Access All Areas, Ep 10
YouTube video by Archaemedia
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wiltshire’s long barrows go every which way. 129 mounds on a map; full details and tested for alignment, ridge following and prominence as a landscape marker. Gazetteer: www.sarsen.org/2026/09/the-...
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The Wiltshire Long Barrow Gazetteer
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#HillfortsWednesday My interactive gazetteer of 52 hillforts in Wiltshire - www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A new paper on the Devil's Arrows and their neolithic sourcing. (Spoiler alert - it wasn't a glacier) www.sarsen.org/2026/09/the-...
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The Devil’s Arrows and the glacier that probably didn’t
Clarke, Leary and Kirkland have published a detrital zircon–apatite provenance study of the Devil’s Arrows (Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire...
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Paul Whitewick @paulwhitewick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One of Stonehenges biggest mysteries has now been made a little easier to solve thanks to @timdaw.bsky.social see this weeks video!!
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The boring truth about glaciers and floods around Stonehenge - www.sarsen.org/2026/09/a303...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Altar Stone at Stonehenge. New research shows the museum samples don't match the top surface petrography. It's weathered, it's sedimentary, it has layers, why it's not a problem - www.sarsen.org/2026/09/dont...
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Don't Judge The Altar Stone By Its Cover
Ciborowski and Nash, in their 2026 reply to Pearce et al., replot the dry pXRF of the Altar Stone’s upper surface against Salisbury Museum s...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Altar Stone - reanalysis in the light of justified criticism still favours the Northeast of Scotland as the source - www.sarsen.org/2026/09/the-...
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The Altar Stone Zircons, One Sample at a Time
The previous post treated a sentence in Ciborowski and Nash’s reply to Pearce et al. as a live problem for the Sarclet zircon match. The se...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A new paper, Ciborowski & Nash 2026, claims: "This observation alone suggests that the Altar Stone is not from northeast Scotland." For details see: www.sarsen.org/2026/09/not-...
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"Not From Northeast Scotland At All"
A bold claim buried inside a methods dispute — and what happens when you check whether the follow-up paper answered it Ciborowski and Nash...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Sarsens of Devon - an interactive Gazetteer (in case you have ever wondered about them, and if you haven't why not?) www.sarsen.org/2026/09/sars...
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Sarsens in Devon - A Gazetteer
https://devon-sarsens.netlify.app/  I was asked about Sarsens in Devon, and how unique the Shebbear two are.  So here is the interactive G...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stonehenge nerdy goodness, surprisingly hard to create, maybe that is why I had to make it myself. A georeferenced plan of Stonehenge. timdaw37.github.io/stonehenge-p...
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A georeferenced plan of Stonehenge
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Bulford Pit Alignment model - a fully interactive 3D plan - Have a play and judge for yourself. www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Bulford posts in 3D
Open this to understand this post: https://timdaw37.github.io/bulford-posts-3d/ Drag to rotate, right-drag to pan, scroll to zoom. Click a...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The 52 Hillforts of Wiltshire is a standalone interactive gazetteer, search by name, parish or grid; filters for type, confidence and access; GPX, GeoJSON and KML downloads; and links out to OS Maps, the Atlas record and the NLS six-inch. 52-hillforts-of-wiltshire.netlify.app
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get out and about this weekend - an interactive map of all the Wiltshire Trig points, with lots of features including mapping data downloads. wiltshire-trig-points.netlify.app
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OS triangulation stations in Wiltshire
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An interactive map and gazetteer of the Standing Stones of northwest Devon - www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-... for information.
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The Standing Stones of North West Devon
There is a corner of Devon that the megalith books skip. Dartmoor gets its rows and circles, Exmoor gets its miniliths and stone settings, a...
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Nikola Vuković @nikolavukovic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy to share our latest paper on the reuse of Neolithic burial monuments in southwestern Britain. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some of the key findings (1/4):
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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today and the same place in 1944 - Photo of Flax harvesting from Museums Victoria Collections collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/804010 (I have planted some trees do the cottages are no longer visible)
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New book alert! Historic England have published a book version of a report I commissioned back in c2012 to help inform the Stonehenge visitor centre reconstructions and other parts of the interpretation scheme. 1/2
Front cover of a hardback book featuring an aerial photo of Stonehenge and its avenue. The title is The Stonehenge World: Living, landscape, food and design at the time of our greatest monument. Edited by Matthew Canti
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The new paper by Vuković et al on the reuse of neolithic monuments by Bronze Age Newcomers in Southwestern Britain is reviewed at: www.sarsen.org/2026/08/a-st...
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A stranger in the family grave
Thirty new genomes from southwestern Britain: Bronze Age newcomers burying their dead in thousand-year-old Neolithic tombs — and why we stil...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Stonehenge Sarsen Route - link to the interactive model and the technical paper. www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Sarsen Transport Routes - A Least Cost Model
A terrain model you can argue with. Open this to understand this post: https://sarsenroute.netlify.app/   Fifty of the fifty-two sarsens at...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When Spinal Tap played Stonehenge at Stonehenge
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
sarsenroute.netlify.app Investigate 360 possible Sarsen routes from West Woods to Stonehenge with an interactive map - notes on what is behind it at www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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Sarsen transport modeller — the dials
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Friday find. Crisp Packet Archaeology
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Version 2 - An improved Avebury Fly through available at the link below.
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A 3D topographical fly through of the Avebury Landscape - avebury-3d-flythru.netlify.app . Play with it and get back to me with comments.
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Avebury landscape — 3D
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@boothicus.bsky.social Apologies for straying from my lane but I hope you find it, and the paper interesting, maybe even useful. It is a hope anyway.
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Britain’s leftover ~7–9% Neolithic ancestry looks like a thin layer in everyone, not a mosaic of local survivors. The open question: local remnant population, or already mixed and brought from Europe? We don't know. My take, with a data-rich linked paper: www.sarsen.org/2026/08/why-...
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Why We Still Don’t Know Where Britain’s “Missing” Neolithic Ancestry Came From
I’m not a geneticist by trade. I’m an amateur who got stuck on a question that the big Beaker papers leave half-open, and then spent a long ...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The paper behind the Bulford Solstice Alignment - www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...
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PAST 113 - Summer 2026 | The Prehistoric Society
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Genius level of Stonehenge Geekery needed to identify this stone. collections.salisburymuseum.org.uk/object/SBYWM...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As the Vale is enveloped with smoke and we worry about friend and neighbours who are closer to the wildfires I thought it worthwhile to note the background: www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Plain Truth About Wildfires
Chalk downland has three available trajectories, and only one preserves the habitat as designated. It can be grazed to a standard. It can...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Answering your questions about Stonehenge, if they can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Yc...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sarsen stone somewhere in France, they have a lot of them but don't make a fuss about it.
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The OD recorded for on an excavation that is over a meter different to adjacent benchmarks (a meter away), I have spent hours trying to work out the true figure, frustrating, www.sarsen.org/2026/08/how-...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Heel Stone and Stonehole 97 The published plans show it is one end of a wider arrangement of stone and timber settings that have received far less attention. The evidence was largely recorded by Hawley in 1923 — it has simply not been brought together. www.sarsen.org/2026/08/rows...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@salisburymuseum.bsky.social Has a far more extensive and important archive of Hawley's Stonehenge work than I realised - a catalogue of it: www.sarsen.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Hawley Stonehenge Archive at Salisbury Museum
Salisbury Museum holds, under accession SBYWM:2005.66 , what is almost certainly the most complete working record of Lt-Col. William Hawley’...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
With @weborguk.bsky.social help in digitising I have produced a reappraisal of Hawley's excavations from a century ago, many details and insights have been forgotten - www.sarsen.org/2026/08/hawl...
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Hawley's Excavations Reappraised
With the centenary of the end of Hawley's Excavations at Stonehenge next month, I thought it worthwhile to reappraise all his excavation rep...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How much of Neolithic Britain survived the Beaker transition, and whose ancestry was it? Somewhere between 0 and 8%, and the answer is in the existing data, it just needs to be analysed. How and why: www.sarsen.org/2026/08/how-... (sightly updated)
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How much of Neolithic Britain survived the Beaker transition, and whose ancestry it was
This is a technical discussion draft relating to the Population Replacement Evidence post. Revised 3 August 2026. This version replaces th...
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Tim Daw @timdaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Neolithic Britain's genetic survival: the quantity is settled at 7–9%. But is it British survivors, or continental Neolithic ancestry arriving pre-mixed? The data to settle it exist. Nobody has run the analysis. www.sarsen.org/2026/08/how-...
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How much of Neolithic Britain survived the Beaker transition, and whose ancestry it was
This is a technical discussion draft relating to the Population Replacement Evidence post. https://www.sarsen.org/2026/08/population-replace...
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