Doctor Who: pictures of series 5 finale filming at Stonehenge

Earlier in the year, filming took place of the finale episode of series five and one of the film locations was Stonehenge. Here are a few amateur pics taken on the night – courtesy of someone called Scooty – you can see his Doctor Who photos here.

See Archaeology in action at Dartmoor dig

From the Dartmoor National Park pages, 21st July 2009
Come to Bellever, near Postbridge on 1 August 2009 and see archaeology in action at the excavation of a pre-historic round house. There will also be displays and demonstrations on a Bronze Age theme at Postbridge, throughout the day, setting the scene for those wishing to walk [...]

Barrows

“The hobbits shuddered. Even in the Shire the rumour of the Barrow-wights of the Barrow-downs beyond the Forest had been heard. But it was not a tale that any hobbit liked to listen to, even by a comfortable fireside far away.” – From ‘The Lord of the Rings’; J.R.R. Tolkien
Maybe my thoughts and feelings about [...]

Free Lecture on the Monkswood Hoard

“The Monkswood hoard was found in the St Catherine’s valley near Bath during the construction of a reservoir in the 1930s. It contains 38 pieces of Bronze age metalwork. This talk by Stephen Clews, Manager of the Roman Baths & Pump Room, looks at the objects in the hoard from the perspective of what they [...]

Lecture by archaeologist Aubrey Burl at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum

LECTURE: The Invisible Stone Circle: To See or Not to See
2:30 pm, Saturday, 21 March, 2009 at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum

A lecture by renowned archaeologist Aubrey Burl.
There are hundreds of stone circles in the British Isles. Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit them. Sometimes there is a sign, usually uninformative, occasionally inaccurate. [...]

British Rock Art Group 2009 meeting

The following posted by Aron Mazel at the British Rock Art Blog.

BRAG 2009 will be held on Sat 9 May at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies (ICCHS), Newcastle University. Depending on interest, a trip to visit rock art panels in the region may be organised on the following day.

London Screening at the Synergy Centre

Standing With Stones :
A Journey Through Megalithic Britain
Screening with the Director, Michael Bott in London
Hosted by Raga Woods.
Sunday 14 December 2008, 2-6 pm, at:
The Synergy Centre, 220 Farmers Road, off Camberwell New Road,
London SE5 0TW. www.thesynergycentre.org
2pm for delicious, healthy vegetarian food from Ollie and The Sattva Cafe
3pm Film + Q&A with Michael.
Shaun Kirwan (of [...]

Scorhill

This magnificent stone circle is the first that we ever shot serious footage at for ‘Standing with Stones’. Sadly though, Scorhill does not appear in the final film. Why? Well, Rupert and I first shot ’serious footage’ for Standing with Stones way back in 2001 – and then we were not filming for the DVD [...]

Megalithomania 2009

Rupert and I will be doing our best to be at Megalithomania in May 2009:

Out of the Ordinary Festival

I will be talking at the “Out of the Ordinary Festival” this year: 12th – 14th September, 2008. Not quite sure about my times and days yet, but should be fun. I will be bringing many copies of ‘Standing with Stones’ for people to buy, FYI.
“When you step into the Out of the Ordinary Festival [...]

Megalithomania ‘08

Just wanted to say what a great time Sharon & I had over last weekend. Hats off to Hugh and John for organising and holding the weekend together.
Speakers were, on Saturday: myself; Peter Marshall; Jay Wakefield & Reinoud de Jonge; Chris Morton & Ceri Louise Thomas; Tony Perrot; Tom Graves; David H. Childress, and on [...]

Premiere at Chipping Norton

I’m afraid there’s much that’s going to come all in a rush now as I’ve finally seem to have the time to attend to this blog.
Anyway, first thing to report is the wonderful success of Standing with Stones at its first public showing at the Chipping Norton Theatre in Oxfordshire – not a stones throw [...]

Standing with Stones premiere at Chipping Norton

Really excited because it’s the premiere of the film tomorrow at the Chipping Norton Theatre. Evening is a benefit for the Rollrights Trust – the organisation that looks after the Rollright Stones – and all proceeds go to them. Tickets are £10.00 each and available from the box office on 01608 642350. The theatre only [...]