https://www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/collections/exclusive-collections/coronation-of-king-charles-iii Socks, Royal set, 4 pairs, £30. (And there’s more ..read more

A guest article by Myghal Map Serpren. A granite wayside cross stands at the roadside passing Gwealavellan Farm on the inland side of Reskajeage Downs, one of several such items of historical and archaeological interest in the area between Illogan Parish, Camborne Parish and the rugged North Cliffs of Cornwall. Measuring some 5 feet 10 inches in height, it was one of 13 crosses marking the church route from Gwithian to Camborne Church although it has had something of a chequered history before coming to eventual rest during August 1999 in an ancient landscape which is also rich in the Cornish ..read more

Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain And hang on little twigs and start again.” (John Clare) . . Imagine if a Government somewhere allowed an army of forty thousand mercenaries to hunt them down, every one. And mostly keep shtum! . __________________________________________ More Heritage Journal views on artefact collecting __________________________________________ ..read more

Clive Bentley, acoustic scientist from consultancy Sharps Redmore, presented evidence today (12/6/19) at a hearing into the planned £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge Expressway project. His study found that rerouting traffic through a new 2-mile tunnel below the World Heritage site would have negligible impact on improving tranquillity and visitor experience at the site, contradicting key claims made by project sponsor, Highways England. Bentley explained, “Highways England claims that removing and rerouting the A303 under the site would significantly improve tranquillity and people’s experien ..read more

For years and years, we’ve been saying it (search yowling moggy): the pro-tunnel lobby keeps twisting reality and here’s the latest example: two images of different sections of the A303 carefully selected in time and space to suggest congestion is worse and more frequent than it is. So frankly, a visual fib. . . But this one’s worse: a LOCAL needs a satnav to drive along the road! Really? And that’s not all, he says his Satnav is always wrong, and his journey always takes longer than planned. Really? (Not really! It makes no sense at all ..read more

A guest article by Myghal Map Serpren Treslothan lays just to the south of Camborne in West Cornwall. The location was recorded as ‘Tresulwethan’ in 1319 which translates from the Cornish language ‘tre Sulwedhan’ as ‘Sulwethan’s farm’, with Sulwedhan being a personal name. The very fact that it has a Cornish name suggests that it dates from the times before the arrival of the Norman age. The place was mentioned in 1282. A chapel in Treslothan was licensed in 1427 and dedicated to St. James. This is now no more but it is believed that it lay in the near vicinity of the current church. The pres ..read more

… could frame thy fearful symmetry?” . Imagine if a Government somewhere allowed an army of forty thousand mercenaries to hunt them down, every one. And mostly keep shtum? . __________________________________________ More Heritage Journal views on artefact collecting __________________________________________ ..read more

A “very rare” early medieval brooch of “national significance” found by a detectorist has been acquired by a museum. Bravo! More good publicity for metal detecting. . But only if you don’t read between the lines: Tom Mayberry, chief executive of the South West Heritage Trust, said: “We’re delighted the great generosity of funders has allowed this extraordinary object to be given a permanent home in Somerset.” Why you might ask, is gratitude owed to funders? Why not the finder instead? Not really good publicity for metal detecting is it? “Great generosity of funders”/ “Great generosity of find ..read more

Did you witness this recent spectacle that has been delighting people around the world? Jupiter, Venus and the Moon in close conjunction? Better still, did you travel along the A303 at night and see them over Stonehenge? If so you can consider yourself privileged, not just because viewing such a thing over one of mankind’s most famous timepieces would be enjoyed by very many people but also because in all probability the spectacle will soon be hidden forever from travellers when the road is buried in a tunnel. . . Other “Never Agains ..read more

Heritage Action Founder Member Jamie Stone on a forum 10 years ago: “It doesn’t matter if it’s a digger destroying a stone row, a quarrying company destroying unique evidence of temporary camps around a henge, modern poems placed over a prehistoric landscape, a farmer allowing livestock to slowly destroy cairns or ploughing flat a round barrow, thousands of people stealing our heritage knowledge in the name of a hobby every weekend, landowners driving 4x4s across chambered tombs, tenant farmers flattening henges, 1000s of people denuding Avebury’s banks by not keeping to paths, unused roads be ..read more