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Small Islands : Big History. The British Isles and its near neighbours pack an amazing amount of visible history into a small area. Sometimes it is layered and takes some sifting; often it stands defiant. Always it intrigues.

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 10

Photo of Stonehenge with horse-pulled carts crossing the henge. c.1885

Stonehenge #7

Stonehenge — No Way To Treat An Iconic Landmark

The nearly-wasn’t of…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 2

Stonehenge standing stones with King Barrow cemetery mounds in the background.

STONEHENGE #6

Stonehenge: Before and After

Of Cursuses and Barrows: long, round, dish…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Feb 21

Rear view of Stonehenge, showing different heights of Sarsen stones, some with lintels.

STONEHENGE #5

Stonehenge: Raising The Sarsen Megaliths

Was the Age of Ancestors moving…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Feb 2

Stonehenge showing the processional Stonehenge Avenue (forground) and the enclosure ditch mid either side.

Stonehenge #4

Stonehenge — The Land of the Dead?

The protracted building of a British…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Nov 28, 2023

Durrington Walls, Stonehenge landscape in Wiltshire. The ring in the grassland shows about half the size of the henge enclosure.

Stonehenge #3

Durrington Walls — The Land of the Living?

Come visit the people who…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Nov 5, 2023

View looking down into a Neolithic house: hearth bottom centre, beyond quern stones, bond shelving; left part of a box bed with double shelving recesses.

Stonehenge #2

The Orkney Isles — Homes Set In Stone

Skara Brae’s blueprint for…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Oct 16, 2023

Stonehenge #1

Stonehenge Sacred Landscape — An Overview

One piece in History’s gigantic…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Dec 4, 2021

3000 year old chalk hill figure of a white horse, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England

3,000 Year Old White Horse Of Uffington, England

An iconic geoglyph set in a sacred landscape.

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 5, 2021

Newgrange Neolithic Passage Tomb — a huge shallow-domed edifice, edges faced in white stone and grass-topped.

Deep into Newgrange Passage Tomb in Ireland’s ‘Valley of the Kings’

Stone-age peoples didn’t live in…

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Linda Acaster in Escape Into History

Apr 21, 2022

Man in white hard hat going down a safety ladder into Grime’s Graves

Grime’s Graves — Though Woden Was Never Here

Into a Neolithic Flint Mine — Hard hats at the ready!

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