Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Honiton in Devon . It dates from the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC onwards to the Roman invasion. The fort is situated on a promontory to the north of and overlooking the River Otter valley at approx 178 metres above sea level. ref cite book last Sellman first R.R. title Aspects of Devon History publisher Devon Books location Exeter year 1985 isbn 0861147561 chapter The Iron Age in Devon ch.2 pages 11 Map of Iron Age hill forts in Devon including Hembury Castle ref It has given its name to some of the earliest Neolithic pottery in southern Prehistoric Britain Britain . An Iron Age hill fort ref R.R.Sellman Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 ISBN 0861147561 Chapter 2 The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Hembury. ref was later built on the same site. There has been archaeological evidence found on the site of Roman Empire Roman military occupation, suggesting a fort within the existing Iron Age site. It was excavated between 1930 and 1935 by Dorothy Liddell . She identified a timber framed entrance to the causeway ed enclosure and an oval arrangement of posthole s in the middle which she interpreted as being a building destroyed by fire before the enclosure earthworks were built. Hembury pottery was generally round bottomed bowls with Lug knob lug handles, much of it was made further west, around The Lizard and it was traded throughout the British Isles . References references External links gbmapping ST112031 http www.roman britain.org places hembury.htm Hembury at Roman Britain http www.megalithic.co.uk article.php?sid 4609 Hembury at Megalithic Portal coord 50.82061 N 3.26200 W region GB source enwiki osgb36 ST112031 display title Note WGS84 lat long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref Category Hill forts in Devon Category History of Devon Category Iron Age sites in England ... it Hembury ... more details
coord 50.9375 4.2470 display title region GB scale 5000 Hembury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated close to Tythecott, south of Buckland Brewer in Devon . The fort is situated on a promontory off the East of a large hill at some 137 Metres above Sea Level. ref R.R.Sellman Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 ISBN 0861147561 Chapter 2 The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Hembury Castle. ref References references Category Hill forts in Devon Devon struct stub UK archaeology stub ... more details
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Greenwich after the town of Greenwich , now part of London HMS Greenwich 1666 HMS Greenwich was a 54 gun fourth rate launched in 1666. She was rebuilt in 1699 and again in 1730, before being wrecked in 1744. HMS Greenwich 1747 HMS Greenwich was a 50 gun fourth rate launched in 1747 and captured by the French in 1757. HMS Greenwich 1777 HMS Greenwich was a 26 gun sixth rate East Indiaman purchased in 1777 and sold in 1783. HMS Greenwich 1778 HMS Greenwich was a 12 gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1778 and wrecked in 1789. HMS Greenwich was previously HMS Rodney 1809 HMS Rodney , a 74 gun third rate launched in 1809. She was renamed Greenwich in 1827 and rearmed to 50 guns before being sold in 1836. HMS Greenwich 1915 HMS Greenwich was a Greek merchantman, converted on the stocks to a depot ship and launched in 1915. She was sold into mercantile service in 1946 and renamed Hembury . Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Greenwich, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names ... more details
infobox UK place country England official name Broadhembury latitude 50.835556 longitude 3.2775 label position bottom area total sq mi population density area footnotes population 654 population ref United Kingdom Census 2001 2001 Census civil parish Broadhembury shire district East Devon shire county Devon region South West England london distance constituency westminster post town postcode area postcode district dial code os grid reference website refimprove date March 2009 Broadhembury is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon , England , about 5 miles north west of Honiton . According to the 2001 census the village had a population of 654. It is within the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History Image Broadhembury towards the village geograph.org.uk 178663.jpg thumb left Broadhembury, seen from the west. Image Broadhembury geograph.org.uk 6855.jpg thumb left Church Broadhembury is set in the centre of a horseshoe of the hills of Hembury Fort and North Hill, which rise to 1000 feet and create a sheltered, beautiful Fact date February 2012 valley. Hembury Fort, a prehistoric hill fort dating from 3000 BCE, was also used by the Roman Empire Romans . After the departure of the Romans, this area of Devon was sparsely occupied by the Celts Celtic people . In those years Hembury Fort was called Handria. With the arrival of the Saxons , little wattle churches were built and the villagers lived in little cells or wooden huts. The Saxons brought the plough and cultivated the holdings. At the time of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, the population density of Broadhembury was 9 per square mile. During the Black Death of 1364, the population was affected, with two priests dying of it. Henry VIII of England Henry VIII presented the land at Broadhembury to his faithful courtier, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton Thomas Wriothesley , Earl of Southampton , who sold it Sir Thomas Drewe, son of Edward Drewe. Edward Drewe ... more details
The Windmill Hill culture was a name given to a people inhabiting southern Prehistoric Britain Britain , in particular in the Salisbury Plain area close to Stonehenge , around approximately 3000BC . They were an agrarian Neolithic people their name comes from Windmill Hill , a causewayed camp. Together with another Neolithic tribe from East Anglia , a tribe whose worship was for stone circles, it is thought that they were responsible for the earliest work on the Stonehenge site. The material record left by these people includes large circular hill top enclosures, Causewayed camp s, Long barrow s, leaf shaped arrowheads and polished stone axes. They raised cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, grew wheat and mined flints. Since the term was first coined by archaeologists , further excavation and analysis has indicated that it consisted of several discrete archaeological culture cultures such as the Hembury and the Abingdon, Oxfordshire Abingdon culture s and that Windmill Hill culture is too general a term. External links http www.fortunecity.com roswell blavatsky 123 stonebuilt.html Stonehenge builders Neolithic Europe England hist stub Category Archaeological cultures of Western Europe Category Stone Age Britain fr Windmilliens ru ... more details
Infobox UK place country England latitude 50.73268 longitude 2.66864 map type Dorset official name Askerswell civil parish Askerswell population 150 population ref ref Census, 2001 ref shire district West Dorset shire county Dorset region South West England constituency westminster West Dorset UK Parliament constituency West Dorset post town DORCHESTER postcode district DT2 postcode area DT dial code 01305 website http www.askerswell.co.uk os grid reference SY529927 you can use the template mi to km enter data precision 0 to help convert miles to km automatically both are displayed london distance convert 140 mi km 0 Askerswell is a small village and civil parish in the West Dorset district of Dorset , England situated convert 11 mi km west of Dorchester, Dorset Dorchester . The local travel links are located convert 5 mi km from the village to Maiden Newton railway station and convert 33 mi km to Exeter International Airport . The main road running through the village is Hembury Road. The village has a population of 150 according to the United Kingdom Census 2001 2001 Census . The village is on the River Asker Asker Brook . References Reflist External links Commons category Askerswell http www1.dorsetcc.gov.uk LIVING FACTS Census2001.nsf 6cadf4da179fc19500256663004afece 247e374ba2475a2780256ec500505142?OpenDocument Census data Category Villages in Dorset Dorset geo stub nl Askerswell pl Askerswell ... more details
Dumpdon Hill is an Iron Age Hill Fort near Honiton in Devon , somewhat overshadowed by its better known neighbour Hembury Fort it is nonetheless as impressive an earthwork. ref R.R.Sellman Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 ISBN 0861147561 Chapter 2 The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Dumpdon. ref Situated in a rather central location in the Otter Valley it is one of the largest, and most distinct hills in the area due to a large clump of beech trees situated at its summit. The top of Dumpdon is owned and maintained by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty National Trust and is 250 Metres 800 ft above Sea Level. The small forest on the top of Dumpdon Hill is considered locally as slightly mysterious and, due probably to its long history, is a popular hotspot for practitioners of paganism and other types of the occult . There is also much mystery over an incident in the 1970s concerning a certain Dr Glanvill, and the rumoured discovery of bodies of which very little is known. References references coord 50 49 50 N 3 10 17 W display title type landmark region GB Category Hill forts in Devon Category Hills of Devon ... more details
coord 50.809 3.549 display title region GB scale 5000 Raddon Top is the highest point of the Raddon Hills, a small ridge of hills in the Shobrooke area of Mid Devon . The summit is at some 235 Metres above Sea Level, making it a significant feature in the surrounding countryside. Image RaddonTop.jpg thumb View of Raddon Top from Cadbury Castle Raddon top is reported to have once had an earthwork at its summit, possibly an Iron age Hill fort or enclosure, though it was even supposed to have been ploughed down some centuries ago. ref cite book last Hoskins first W.G. title Devon publisher location year 1954 isbn chapter pages ref Hoskins Devon from 1954 mentions Thomas Westcote , in his A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX writing of the earthworks being ploughed down in the 16th Century. One of the most amazing views of Raddon Top is from Hembury , from which it appears like a massive Pyramid on the Western Horizon. References reflist Category Hill forts in Devon Category Hills of Devon Devon geo stub UK archaeology stub ... more details
italic title Taxobox name Ectoedemia heckfordi image Ectoedemia heckfordi male and male hindwing.JPG image width 230px image caption male and male hindwing image2 Ectoedemia heckfordi.JPG image2 width 230px regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera cohorto Myoglossata subcohorto Neolepidoptera familia Nepticulidae genus Ectoedemia species E. heckfordi binomial Ectoedemia heckfordi binomial authority van Nieukerken, A. & Z. Lastuvka, 2009 synonyms Ectoedemia heckfordi is a moth of the Nepticulidae family. It is only known from Devon in Great Britain , having been discovered in 2004 ref name EarthNews cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk earth hi earth news newsid 8647000 8647558.stm title New British moth found in Hembury Woods is world first last Walker first Matt date 2010 04 28 publisher BBC Earth News accessdate 28 April 2010 ref at the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty National Trust s Hembury Woods ref name EarthNews by amateur naturalist Bob Heckford, for whom it is named. ref name EarthNews The wingspan is 4.8 6.2 mm. Adults are on wing from April to May. There is one generation per year. The bright green ref name EarthNews larvae feed on oaks, Quercus petraea and Quercus robur . They leaf miner mine the leaves of their host plant. ref name EarthNews The mine consists of a short, highly contorted gallery, occupying a small space only, filled with black frass , later broken. The mine suddenly enlarges into an elongated blotch, with frass concentrated in two lines along the edges. The mines usually occur on saplings, seedlings or low growth and in shade. ref name EarthNews In April 2010, Heckford presented the Type biology type specimen to the Natural History Museum in London. ref name EarthNews gallery Image Ectoedemia heckfordi male genitalia.JPG Male genitalia Image Ectoedemia heckfordi male genitalia2.JPG Male genitalia Image Ectoedemia heckfordi female genitalia.JPG Female genitalia Image Ectoedem ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Devil in Brisbane is a 2005 speculative fiction anthology edited by Zoran ivkovi and Geoff Maloney . The project was born out of a masterclass held by the editor at the 2004 Brisbane Writers Festival . The theme of the anthology is a meeting between a writer and the devil , set in Brisbane . Contents A DEVIL OF A JOB , T. J. Banks GUNSLINGER , Lee Battersby AN INNOCENT T TE A T TE WITH THE DEVIL , Celeste Birt BETWEEN THE COVERS , K. J. Bishop THE BLANK PAGE , Michele Cashmore CHILD SUPPORT , Kylie chan LAST NIGHT , Mark Curtis VIVA LA REVOLUTION , E. Robert Dobson AN HOUR WITH THE DEVIL , Lee Dublin THE DEVIL BEHIND THE LOUVRES , Grace Dugan THE AGREEMENT , Paul Garrety FACT THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL , Hugh C. Gray DEVIL S DEBRIEF , Lea Greenaway DOONICE , Kristopher Lee Hembury AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA , Robert Hoge THE THIRD STAIR FROM THE TOP , Vanda Ivanovic THE CONF RENCIER , Vanda Ivanovic NEIGHBOURS , Trent Jamieson THE DEAL , Gary Kemble author Gary Kemble THE PLURIPOTENTIARY , Chris Lynch THE WRITER WHO COULD HAVE BEEN DOSTOYEVSKY , Geoffrey Maloney A BARGAIN WITH THE WRITER , Michael S. Martin ICE CUBE , Chris McMahon TIME TO WRITE , Jason Nahrung SHARP , Richard Pitchforth DEVIL VERSUS WRITER , Bronwyn Price SKIMMING STONES , Michelle Riedlinger HEART AND SOUL , Nigel Stones HABERDASHERY , Kim Westwood DEVIL S BLOCK , Mirjana Zivkovic DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIa DEFAULTSORT Devil In Brisbane, The Category Fantasy anthologies Category 2005 short story collections Fantasy story collection stub ... more details
Image Gebel el Arak knife mp3h8791.jpg thumb upright Single suspension lug knob , vertical hole, of the Gebel el Arak Knife . A Lug knob is a typically flattened protuberance, a knob , or extrusion on the side of a vessel pottery , jug , glass , vase , etc. They are sometimes found on prehistoric ceramics stone vessels such as pots from Ancient Egypt , Hembury ware, claw beaker s, and boar spear s. A lug may also only be shaped as a lip for suspension&ndash no hole . In Ancient Egypt, lugs contained a hole for Hang disambiguation suspension , with 2&ndash or 3&ndash lugged vessels most common. In ancient Rome Roman times, lugs were on some types of Column column sections to aid in construction. After Sling slung by rope into position with a Crane machine crane , the lugs were then Stonemason masoned off. gallery Image Gebel el Arak knife mp3h8790.jpg Front side of Gebel el Arak Knife knife Image Gebel el Arak knife mp3h8791.jpg Lugged side of Gebel el Arak Knife Image Egypte louvre 294.jpg Ancient Egyptian lugged and Hand drill hieroglyph drilled pot of stone 3rd millennium BC Image Egypte louvre 293 pot.jpg Ancient Egypt lugged pottery early dynasties gallery See also Handle grip Handle External links http www.globalegyptianmuseum.org detail.aspx?id 3204 Ancient Egypt stone pot, with suspending hole lugs. Click on picture. http www.globalegyptianmuseum.org detail.aspx?id 5715 Stone pot, with suspending hole lugs. Click on picture. http www.globalegyptianmuseum.org detail.aspx?id 5477 Pottery vessel from Predynastic Egypt . Suspension handles . Click on picture. Category Pottery ceramics stub tool stub Ancient Egypt stub it Lug knob ... more details
Infobox World Heritage Site WHS Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites Image File Windmill Hill from the White Horse Trail, Winterbourne Monkton geograph.org.uk 1010976.jpg thumb 250px View looking up Windmill Hill from the southeast State Party Image Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 22px United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Type Cultural Criteria i, ii, iii ID 373 Region List of World Heritage Sites in Europe Europe and North America Year 1986 Session 10th Link http whc.unesco.org en list 373 Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire , part of the Avebury Avebury World Heritage Site , about 1 mile 2 km northwest of Avebury. ref name EH1 citation title Windmill Hill, Avebury url http www.english heritage.org.uk daysout properties windmill hill publisher English Heritage accessdate 25 April 2012 ref Enclosing an area of convert 21 acre , it is the largest known causewayed enclosure in Britain. ref name EH2 citation title History and research Windmill Hill publisher English Heritage accessdate 25 April 2012 ref The site was first occupied around 3800 BC, although the only evidence is a series of pits apparently dug by an agrarian society using Hembury pottery. During a later phase, c. 3300 BC, three concentric segmented ditches were placed around the hilltop site, the outermost with a diameter of 365 metres. The causeways interrupting the ditches vary in width from a few centimetres to 7 m. Material from the ditches was piled up to create internal banks, the deepest ditches and largest banks are on the outer circuit. The site was bought by Alexander Keiller in 1924 and excavated over several seasons from 1926 1929 by Keiller and Harold St George Gray whose work established it as the type site for causewayed camps as they were then called. Pottery from the bottom of the ditches was also the type style for the Windmill Hill culture . Later occupation layers contained early Peterborough ware then t ... more details
Image CranmoreCastle1.jpg thumb 250px Cranmore Castle Cranmore Castle is an British Iron Age Iron Age Earthworks Archaeology earthwork ref R. R. Sellman, Aspects of Devon History Devon Books, 1985 , p. 11 map . ISBN 0861147561 ref situated on a hillside above the Devon town of Tiverton, Devon Tiverton in south west England . Its British national grid reference system National Grid reference is SS958118. It is an English Heritage scheduled monument , and has been given a National Monument number of 34256. The earthwork is widely described in guidebooks and histories as an Iron Age hill fort ref R. R. Sellman, Aspects of Devon History Devon Books, 1985 , p. 11 map . ISBN 0861147561 ref though more recent archaeology archaeological evaluations and histories, such as Mike Sampson s recently published work, ref Mike Sampson, History of Tiverton 2004 ISBN 0954878809 ref point out that it is seems inefficient as a fortification, since it is overlooked from the south by the higher slope of Exeter Hill Newtes Hill. The earthwork is also unusual in that the area it encloses slopes from convert 120 m ft to convert 170 m ft above sea level. This arrangement does however offer clear lines of sight to Cadbury Castle, Devon Cadbury Castle , Castle Close below Stoodleigh up the Exe Valley, Huntsham castle , Hembury fort and other significant hills and earthworks, suggesting that all were contemporary. It also manages to overlook the confluence of the rivers River Lowman Lowman and Exe and the forded crossings on those rivers, which a higher position would not allow. The hillside that Cranmore Castle stands above is called Skrink Hills or Shrink Hills in various early histories of the area. ref Martin Dunsford, Historical Memoirs of Tiverton Brice, Exeter, 1790 ref ref Lt Col Harding FGS, The History of Tiverton, In the County of Devon Boyce, Whittaker, 1845 , ref and it is from here that Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Thomas Fairfax s artillery laid siege to Tiverton C ... more details
Infobox artist bgcolour e4c422 name Elizabeth Simcoe image Elizabeth Simcoe.jpg imagesize 200px caption birth name Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim birth date Birth date 1762 09 22 birth place Whitchurch, Herefordshire death date Death date and age 1850 01 17 1762 09 22 death place Honiton , Devon nationality field training movement works patrons influenced by influenced awards Elizabeth Simcoe September 22, 1762 January 17, 1850 was an artist and Diary diarist in Canada under British Imperial control 1764 1867 colonial Canada . She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe , the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada . Biography She was born Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in the village of Whitchurch, Herefordshire , England , daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gwillim and Elizabeth Spinckes. Her father died before her birth, and her mother died shortly afterwards. After her baptism , which was on the same day as her mother s burial, she was taken into the care of her mother s younger sister, Margaret. In commemoration of her mother, Elizabeth was given the middle name Posthuma. Margaret married Admiral Samuel Graves on June 14, 1769 and she grew up at Graves s estate, Hembury Fort near Honiton in Devon . Image York Harbour, looking west from the mouth of the Don River, c. 1793.jpg thumb left 220px A 1793 watercolour painting by Simcoe of York Harbour before settlement. York, Upper Canada York would become the city of Toronto . On December 30, 1782, Elizabeth married John Graves Simcoe , Admiral Graves godson. They had four daughters and one son, Francis Simcoe, for whom they named Castle Frank . Katherine Simcoe, their only daughter to be born in Upper Canada, died in childhood of unknown causes she is buried at Fort York Garrison. In 1791 her husband was appointed lieutenant governor of the new province of Upper Canada, and on September 26 the Simcoes with their two youngest children sailed from Weymouth, Dorset Weymouth , leaving their four older daughters at Wolford. They ... more details
her for a dig at St. Albans at the Rome Roman site of Verulamium . Mary s second dig was at Hembury ... served her apprenticeship in archaeology under Dorothy Liddell at Hembury in Devon , England, 1930 ... more details
09 14 ref Notable archaeological sites include the Iron Age hill forts at Membury Castle , Hembury and Castle Neroche . Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Honiton . It dates to the late ... page 11 Map of Iron Age hill forts in Devon including Hembury Castle ref It has given its name to some ... Hembury. ref There has been archaeological evidence found on the site of Roman Empire Roman Military ... more details
Great Britain has many prehistoric sites and structures of interest, dating from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. The most famous one is probably Stonehenge , in Wiltshire . Structures and sites Agricultural structures, mines and roads Bathampton Down , Iron Age earth enclosure with Bronze Age round barrow s in the area. Bindon Hill , Iron Age earth enclosure. Great Orme , Bronze Age copper mines and an Iron Age hill fort . Grimes Graves , Neolithic flint mining complex. The Ridgeway , ancient trackway. Sweet Track , ancient causeway. Tarr Steps , late Bronze Age clapper bridge. Burial structures Barclodiad y Gawres , Neolithic cruciform passage grave . Belas Knap , Neolithic long barrow . Bryn Celli Ddu , Bronze Age passage grave on the site of a Neolithic stone circle and henge. Clava cairn , Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn . Duggleby Howe , round barrow. Fairy Toot , oval barrow Julliberrie s Grave , unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow . Lanyon Quoit , dolmen . Maeshowe , Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave . Pentre Ifan , Neolithic dolmen. Seven Barrows , site of bowl barrows, bell barrows, saucer barrows and disc barrows. St Lythans burial chamber St Lythans , Neolithic dolmen. Stoney Littleton Long Barrow , Neolithic chambered tomb Tinkinswood , Neolithic dolmen. Trethevy Quoit , Neolithic burial chamber. Wayland s Smithy , Neolithic long barrow and chamber tomb. West Kennet Long Barrow , Neolithic chambered long barrow. Causewayed enclosures Coombe Hill, East Sussex Flagstones Hembury Robin Hood s Ball Stonehenge Windmill Hill White Sheet Hill, Wiltshire Fortifications Hill forts Badbury Rings , Iron Age hill fort . Barbury Castle , Iron Age hill fort. Bat s Castle , Iron Age hill fort. Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire , late Bronze Age hill fort. Berry Castle, Weare Giffard , Iron Age hill fort Black Ball Camp , Iron Age hill fort Blackbury Camp , Iron Age hill fort. Blacker s Hill , Iron Age hill fort. Brean Down , Iron Age hi ... more details
, Samson s And Combe Martin Bays url sssi link 2000117 ref Hembury Woods align center y align right 123.6 coord 50.502 3.799 region GB dim 3km name Hembury Woods br SX725685 1976 Nature on the map sssi 1000695 ref cite web title NE Hembury Woods url sssi link 1000695 ref Hense Moor align center ... more details
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