As the sadly late Desmond Morris would have probably said you need to look much further back than prehistory to start understanding human behaviour.

The Fremington Clays - extent and source. Two papers uploaded today : Constraining the Fremington Glaciolacustrine Clays: and its implications for the Irish Sea Ice extent. and A Ca...

I have sorted out a lot of misinformation about the Fremington Clays and the implications they have for how far and high the Irish Sea Ice was.
Why it is important for Stonehenge: the Glacial Transport theory needs a mighty wall of ice to reach Salisbury Plain.

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Raking a garden at All Cannings Cross, almost bound to find some iron age pottery.

Stonehenge: The Story of an Icon - I'm looking forward to it.

Stonehenge - Access All Areas. A new YouTube series by Julian Richards launching in May. The most comprehensive and accurate documentaries on Stonehenge, ever. It's going to be epic.

A giraffe mitograph?

Yes, it is very intriguing because of that. Thanks.

Thanks, how applicable to the similar decline in England is it I wonder as I download the paper.

@wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social interaction over at the old place, even though they no longer linger there.

April - etching by Robin Tanner

April by Robin Tanner, from the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social collection, the greatest twentieth century Wiltshire artist in there, but a bit unfashionable.

The Breast on Stone 16: An Update The Breast on Stone 16: An Update Tim Daw  |  www.sarsen.org  |  2026   The Original Observation (2015) In March 2015I noted a f...

Is there a sculpted breast on one of the megaliths at Stonehenge - examining the evidence. With large nod to @tom.goskar.com

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Ah, the rapture caught on film.

The Stones Are Losing Their Pull - What's Going Wrong (A guest Op-Ed) For a family of four arriving at Stonehenge on a summer Saturday, the bill starts at roughly £80 before anyone has set foot ...

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Same year though

Archaeopress Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives This volume features 16 papers from the European Megalithic Studies Group, exploring monuments across Europe. It reveals new insights into megalithic traditions and practices. Free ebook www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Thank you, my problem was I thought she looked older in that picture. I'm a very bad judge of such things. I'm happy to disagree, we can discuss the similarities of Antitragii or not another time. My artificial three Mauds:

Do you mean the ears in this photo? This is the fashion of 1910-1915 and where she would be a just a bit older than the sewcongAncestry photo, if we think that is about 1905 not 1919.

The only other photo is a very partial view from 1924 - Wiltshire Museum DZSWS:1983.8618 Hairstyle, for what it is worth similar and the ear not inconsistent. And that is the only museum provenanced photo of her I can find, bizarre for a fairly public figure. Anything in there I have wrong?

which looks about right to me. The well known Wiltshire Museum photo has no provenance and is probably about 1910-15, facial features harder to make out but jaw, mouth, nose, eyebrows and cheeks similar to the Ancestry photos.Very much not definitive but enough of a match. 2/n

Ears are a good point. I'm getting confused now. My understanding is that the two ancestry photos are the same woman, the fashion suggests about 1896 and 1908, the provenance is from a Cunnington family researcher who has post many other old family photos. Maud would have been 27 and 39, 1/n

I have sent her a message. Take this artificial photo comparison with a large pinch of salt but it is striking and interesting.

The date of that dress, brooch, and hairstyle is about 1903-1910, (I would guess in the middle roughly). so not 1919. And it is the same person as the younger photo, I'm sure.

And this one is claimed to be 1919. when she would have been 50, but looks to me like it might be about ten years earlier by the fashion.

This is the 1896 photo - the Gigot sleeves are absolutely right for that year, Maud would have been 27, which looks about right.

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She has also posted other pictures of that generation of the Cunnington family

They were posted by a relative, described as "Auntie' so some provenance, but not 100%. But they also seem to match her other photo.

Maud Cunnington Photographs I was pleased to find on Ancestry.com a couple of photographs of Maud Cunnington, which can be used as alternatives to the widely known, sli...

I unearthed a couple of photos of her, she seems to be remarkably unphotographed, and the one that is usually used is unflattering. www.sarsen.org/2025/11/maud...

Huge thanks to @timdaw.bsky.social for unearthing this one

Why West Kennet Long Barrow Is Unlikely to Mark the Spring Equinox West Kennet Long Barrow - Tim Daw For decades, West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire has been described in popular guides, visitor leaflets...

Why West Kennet Long Barrow Is Unlikely to Mark the Spring Equinox - with a hat-tip to @suegreaney.bsky.social for using her research , the concluisons though are mine. www.sarsen.org/2026/03/why-...