This post has the particularity(is that a word! it sounds Spanglish to me )that will probably be not much longer than the title. The previous post about Robin Hood´s Butts refers to Elford Lowe a probable bronze age barrow, located by farm of the same name. The other butt mentioned, Wigginton butt (2 miles away) [...]
Archive for October, 2010
ELFORD LOW(AKA ROBIN HOOD´S BUTT) AND BEYOND
Posted in earthwork, tagged earthworks, elford, rivers on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ROBIN HOOD´S BUTT
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged abe and ernst, earthworks, elford, robin Hood on October 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This will get the American tourists coming in, come to Tamworth and see Robin Hood’ s Butt! Well according to history of the town and castle of Tamworth, by Charles Ferrers Raymond Palmer, 1845 they were located nearby in Elford and Wigginton. I´ll stop going on and leave pasted below this extract from the remarkable [...]
GOLD’S CLUMP, HINTS
Posted in earthwork, tagged earthworks, hints, treasure on October 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If there´s a candidate for hordes of treasure hunters descending on a place in the area, it´s got to be the circular mound called Gold´s clump, overlooking the village of Hints, next to the roman A5. Thats not to advocate treasure hunting and wanton destruction of sites, but the idea of treasure does seem to [...]
OFFLOW
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, earthwork, tagged dissappeared, earthworks, map studies on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After my curiosity was awakened by Bill´s comment about Offlow, I decided to embark on this post about Offlow, although it´s a little further out than the remit of this blog. The rule of thumb is basically if you can hike there and back from Tamworth, or more specifically Leyfields within a day then it’s [...]
Decision to demolish Woodhouse
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Hopwas, tagged abandoned, council, country houses, Hopwas, quarry, woodhouse on October 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The demolishing of the Woodhouse is happening right now(see comment on post, woodhouse 1730-2010) , so thought it was time to post the authorities decision to allow demolition. Below English Heritage have kindly allowed me to share the English Heritage advice report in response to my application and the reasons for it being denied. It’s [...]
22 WAYS TO SPELL TAMWORTH
Posted in Musings, tagged lichfield, names, prairyerth, Tamworth on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This post is taking as a starting point a great chapter in the even greater Prairyerth book, from which this blog takes so much inspiration. The chapter is about names and as this is about Tamworth, well it´s about the name Tamworth. the chapter quotes ‘Sockless’ Simpson(what a name) I wouldn´t give a tinker´s durn [...]
COPYRIGHT
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, tagged abe and ernst, copyright on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this blog I´m often using material, especially maps from sites such as Staffordshire Past tracks, British library, and I´d like to take out some time to thank them and others for providing the material online without which blogs like this or other landscape investigation blogs wouldn´t be possible. To stop this sounding like an [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS:THE LAST CRUSADE
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, coton green, dissappeared, housing estates, woods on October 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Windmill Farm taken from OS OpenData showing windmill farm and windmill Close, located on outer limit of Coton Green, Tamworth, click on for larger view. This is the best candidates for Tamworth´s very own windmill. Moneymore mill is on the outer limits of this blogs area and windmill hill, Whittington is a big maybe. Windmill´s [...]
CHASING WINDMILLS II
Posted in Abe and Ernst adventures, Windmills, tagged abe and ernst, moneymore, quarry, windmills on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
With the whole Don Quijote theme running through the last posts it seems appropriate to put this link to a great new idea in theory from Spain to participate in reading out loud the Cervantes classic Don Quijote on youtube(I think in Spanish). It’s a hefty book and anything that makes Cervante´s all time classic [...]
