Wednesday, 21 October 2026

A LiDAR Lens for the Ure henges: Thornborough to the Devil's Arrows

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  After the Wiltshire LiDAR Lens , I wanted to look at the other great henge landscape, in North Yorkshire. So there is now a second one, fr...

The largest henge in the world?

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This post is the companion to the short film The largest henge in the world? , which revisits a post from October 2016 with fresh LiDAR. Th...
Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Historic Wales: a first look at the new map portal for Welsh heritage

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  I spend most of my time peering at Wiltshire, at sarsens, long barrows and LiDAR hillshades, so it's good to look over the border now ...
Monday, 19 October 2026

The Wiltshire Tornado of 1859: Thirteen Miles of Ruin

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At about half-past one on Friday 30 December 1859 a tornado crossed north Wiltshire from Bowood Park, near Calne, to Ogbourne St George. Th...
Saturday, 17 October 2026

A Mystery Square in the Stonehenge Landscape

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  Lidar Lens view About 650 m north-north-east of Stonehenge, just north of the Avenue, there is a square. On the modern Environment Agency...
Friday, 16 October 2026

Stonehenge Aerodrome in 1919: a 3D model from the US National Archives photographs

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  Between 1917 and 1921 Stonehenge had an aerodrome for a neighbour, just to the west of the stones on either side of what is now the A303. ...
Thursday, 15 October 2026

The Flight of GX 10135 - Down the A303 on an August day, 1940

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On 18 August 1940 a German reconnaissance aircraft crossed south Wiltshire with three cameras running. From near Mere it followed the line o...