Exciting news from the North Moor: 10 days ago I was invited out to Whitehorse Hill to visit the DNPA's investigation of a prehistoric burial, but couldn't make it since the date of the open afternoon clashed with Okehampton Show. Suffice to say that this – a Scheduled Monument 'at risk', and thought to be the first excavation of a burial cist on Dartmoor for well over 100 years – has revealed part of the contents of the burial, including bone fragments, a shale bead and organic remains. Radio carbon dating will be carried out to establish the age of the burial. The Whitehorse Hill cist is unusual in that it is the only known example on Dartmoor of a cist set within a peat mound. We will publish a feature on the discovery in the winter issue of the magazine.
Monday, 22 August 2011
SUMMER SHOWS UPDATE/WHITEHORSE HILL DISCOVERY
We're right in the middle of the summer show season, and the new Dartmoor Magazine trailer has so far made an appearance at the Dartmoor Folk Festival, Okehampton Show, the Harrowbeer 70th anniversary event (with an estimated Sunday attendance of 8000 people), Chagford Show last week and Christow Show on Saturday. Our next outing will be Lustleigh Show on Bank Holiday Monday, and then Widecombe Fair on 13 September (and possibly Okehampton Camp's Military Heritage weekend on 10/11 September too). As usual the shows have been great fun, and help to get the magazine better known (and to increase subscriptions!).
Exciting news from the North Moor: 10 days ago I was invited out to Whitehorse Hill to visit the DNPA's investigation of a prehistoric burial, but couldn't make it since the date of the open afternoon clashed with Okehampton Show. Suffice to say that this – a Scheduled Monument 'at risk', and thought to be the first excavation of a burial cist on Dartmoor for well over 100 years – has revealed part of the contents of the burial, including bone fragments, a shale bead and organic remains. Radio carbon dating will be carried out to establish the age of the burial. The Whitehorse Hill cist is unusual in that it is the only known example on Dartmoor of a cist set within a peat mound. We will publish a feature on the discovery in the winter issue of the magazine.
Exciting news from the North Moor: 10 days ago I was invited out to Whitehorse Hill to visit the DNPA's investigation of a prehistoric burial, but couldn't make it since the date of the open afternoon clashed with Okehampton Show. Suffice to say that this – a Scheduled Monument 'at risk', and thought to be the first excavation of a burial cist on Dartmoor for well over 100 years – has revealed part of the contents of the burial, including bone fragments, a shale bead and organic remains. Radio carbon dating will be carried out to establish the age of the burial. The Whitehorse Hill cist is unusual in that it is the only known example on Dartmoor of a cist set within a peat mound. We will publish a feature on the discovery in the winter issue of the magazine.
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