Arthur’s Stone: A Neolithic Chambered Tomb in Herefordshire by Professor Julian Thomas FSA

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For more than a decade, the Beneath Hay Bluff project has been investigating the prehistoric archaeology of southwest Herefordshire. This work has included excavations on the remarkable complex of Neolithic structures on Dorstone Hill: three timber halls, replaced on the same footprint by three long barrows, and an adjacent causewayed enclosure. More recently, the project has turned its attention to another monument in the Golden Valley: the long cairn of Arthur’s Stone.

This structure has been known for centuries, and it occupies an outstanding location looking toward the façade of the Black Mountains of South Wales. But despite this the site has been poorly understood, and even its attribution to the Cotswold-Severn group of tombs has been conjectural. Over four seasons of excavation the project has teased apart the complex sequence of construction and use at Arthur’s Stone, and demonstrated that it formed the focal element in a long-lived monumental complex comparable with that on Dorstone Hill. In this presentation, the speaker will outline the development of the site, discuss the finds and their significance, and put the results into the context of the developing Neolithic of western Britain.

Please remember, this is the annual Out of London Meeting for the South West Regional Group and will be in Exeter. You are welcome to join in person or online.

Timings:
1pm-2pm: Lecture
2pm-3pm: Sandwich lunch

Venue:
Streatham Court, Room 0.28, University of Exeter. Please see this link for a campus map (Streatham Court is building number 31 on the map)

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to illness. We apologise for any inconvenience.

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