Scantastic

An hour and a half later I emerged from the scanner.....but couldn't stand up! A big thankyou to the Scanner Team and once again there was a bizarre collection of music on "Heart FM" in between bumping and grinding.
 

Twa Dogs- Happy 90th Birthday Dad, Burn's Night 2026

"Twa Dogs" by Robbie Burns......this drawing inspired by a dog in a kilt I saw in Rugeley on our December. See : https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/robertburns/works/the_twa_dogs/

 

Newsham Abandoned Village & Metlow Hill Tumulus

Tumulus spotting trip last year to find the Bronze Age round barrow at Metlow Hill, of which there was virtually nothing left due to ploughing. I walked along the cliffs at Bempton, past the nesting gannets, kittiwakes and puffins, all around the site, which was on private farmland.  The isolated and windswept site was excavated in 1889 and held an arc of stones and a plank-lined grave with the remains of a 5 or 6 year old child, buried with a food pot, 16 flint scrapers, 3 flint saws, 3 flint knives and a broken Neolithic arrowhead. There was little to see of Newsham abandoned village, possibly disturbed during the building of the railway line. The landscape is much changed since the child was laid to rest.

 

Bartindale Abandoned Village

These drawings are from last year, when I visited the site of an abandoned medieval village near Hunmanby

 

Hunmanby Chariot Burial and Tumulus

 

Garton Slack Chariot Burial

I've not visited this site, but some of the remains are in Hull museum....I didn't see the chariot. The chariot burial was excavated in 1971 by T.C.M. Brewster

Wetwang Slack

Wetwang Slack....on my list of barrows to visit when fitter....