Topic: Monuments
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Porths and Gigs of the Isles of Scilly
Pilot gigs are one of the Isles of Scilly’s best-known traditions, but behind the modern sport lies a much older maritime landscape. Around the islands, gig sheds, slipways, drangs and lookout points still survive as evidence of a working world shaped by pilotage, island communications, wreck response and coastal labour. In 2024 I joined a…
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Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’: Revealing the Most Decorated Stone in Southern Britain
A 16-tonne greenstone slab in a Cornish pasture field turned out to conceal one of the most complex rock art programmes in southern Britain — but only a systematic programme of 3D recording and surface analysis could make that case rigorously enough to stand up to scrutiny.