Adam M Ibbotson 🏺
@adamibbotson.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, and champion of pop-archaeology. Windermere, UK ⭐️ Senior Lecturer at Shap University.
Boroughbridge up to Nosterfield for the main part of it yes. It’s where the River Ure meets the Swale.
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Boroughbridge up to Nosterfield for the main part of it yes. It’s where the River Ure meets the Swale.
I know that map can look cooky. But in this case, you can literally draw a line through their causeways, directly through one another to the Devil's Arrows.
A blatant long-distance alignment of ceremonial enclosures.
There's also a potential suerhenge just north of the Devil's Arrows. 🏺
A blatant long-distance alignment of ceremonial enclosures.
There's also a potential suerhenge just north of the Devil's Arrows. 🏺
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I know that map can look cooky. But in this case, you can literally draw a line through their causeways, directly through one another to the Devil's Arrows.
A blatant long-distance alignment of ceremonial enclosures.
There's also a potential suerhenge just north of the Devil's Arrows. 🏺
A blatant long-distance alignment of ceremonial enclosures.
There's also a potential suerhenge just north of the Devil's Arrows. 🏺
Reposted by Adam M Ibbotson 🏺
I'm aware that there was disagreement about the article by Steve Dickinson on a potential new Cumbrian Stone Circle (@adamibbotson.bsky.social). I wonder whether this is the reason that the Autumn Issue of PAST 111 has been deleted online. I am sad because we had an article on malt in this issue. 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm aware that there was disagreement about the article by Steve Dickinson on a potential new Cumbrian Stone Circle (@adamibbotson.bsky.social). I wonder whether this is the reason that the Autumn Issue of PAST 111 has been deleted online. I am sad because we had an article on malt in this issue. 🤔
Oops - just saw you were one of those authors! If they did take it down because of the Dickinson article, I really hope they republish your work again elsewhere.
It’s a real baby and bathwater situation, as I and many others found the other articles very interesting.
It’s a real baby and bathwater situation, as I and many others found the other articles very interesting.
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Oops - just saw you were one of those authors! If they did take it down because of the Dickinson article, I really hope they republish your work again elsewhere.
It’s a real baby and bathwater situation, as I and many others found the other articles very interesting.
It’s a real baby and bathwater situation, as I and many others found the other articles very interesting.
If so, good. Far too big a claim to be throwing around willy nilly.
But the rest of the work in there was great. Hope that’s not been lost.
But the rest of the work in there was great. Hope that’s not been lost.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If so, good. Far too big a claim to be throwing around willy nilly.
But the rest of the work in there was great. Hope that’s not been lost.
But the rest of the work in there was great. Hope that’s not been lost.
Some people just like the acclaim. And the news will take literally anything you give them.
Archaeology is an easy pull.
Archaeology is an easy pull.
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Some people just like the acclaim. And the news will take literally anything you give them.
Archaeology is an easy pull.
Archaeology is an easy pull.
Nobody in the know believes it. The LDNP archaeo visited the site with him and told him it’s very unlikely.
Yet, he’s on the news stating that it’s 100% real.
I was the one who found the LiDAR feature. So, if anything, it’s my discovery haha
Yet, he’s on the news stating that it’s 100% real.
I was the one who found the LiDAR feature. So, if anything, it’s my discovery haha
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nobody in the know believes it. The LDNP archaeo visited the site with him and told him it’s very unlikely.
Yet, he’s on the news stating that it’s 100% real.
I was the one who found the LiDAR feature. So, if anything, it’s my discovery haha
Yet, he’s on the news stating that it’s 100% real.
I was the one who found the LiDAR feature. So, if anything, it’s my discovery haha
I won’t be having misinformation spread on my turf…
(Jokes aside, I’ll be responding to it in a more formal capacity.)
(Jokes aside, I’ll be responding to it in a more formal capacity.)
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November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I won’t be having misinformation spread on my turf…
(Jokes aside, I’ll be responding to it in a more formal capacity.)
(Jokes aside, I’ll be responding to it in a more formal capacity.)
Pure speculation to be honest! But, carvings like this are found in Neolithic contexts - stone circles, tombs eyc.
I should really have said Neolithic/Bronze Age.
I should really have said Neolithic/Bronze Age.
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Pure speculation to be honest! But, carvings like this are found in Neolithic contexts - stone circles, tombs eyc.
I should really have said Neolithic/Bronze Age.
I should really have said Neolithic/Bronze Age.
Hi Ade - I’d rather take that kind of thing off my social media accounts. Best way to fight disinformation is with good information!
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hi Ade - I’d rather take that kind of thing off my social media accounts. Best way to fight disinformation is with good information!
For those too lazy to zoom:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
For those too lazy to zoom:
Moral of the story - if you say "possibly", "maybe", and "potentially", everythig might just be fine. Though, it'd take a lot of convincing.
Not doing so, in circumstances like this, is simply spreading misinformation.
Not doing so, in circumstances like this, is simply spreading misinformation.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Moral of the story - if you say "possibly", "maybe", and "potentially", everythig might just be fine. Though, it'd take a lot of convincing.
Not doing so, in circumstances like this, is simply spreading misinformation.
Not doing so, in circumstances like this, is simply spreading misinformation.
Yeah, it’s just bogus. We have our own very specific style of megalithic circles here - which this looks nothing like. And they’re all mid-to-late Neolithic.
The article ties it to the Nebra Sky Disk, and cup marks, for some reason…
The article ties it to the Nebra Sky Disk, and cup marks, for some reason…
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Yeah, it’s just bogus. We have our own very specific style of megalithic circles here - which this looks nothing like. And they’re all mid-to-late Neolithic.
The article ties it to the Nebra Sky Disk, and cup marks, for some reason…
The article ties it to the Nebra Sky Disk, and cup marks, for some reason…
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As in - I know my Lake District stone circles.
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I've visited the site over 12 times, and it's on a steep slope. Nothing like the site of a stone circle. And surely the author should understand the local context of henge-like stone circles. Not Scotish recumbents...
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I've visited the site over 12 times, and it's on a steep slope. Nothing like the site of a stone circle. And surely the author should understand the local context of henge-like stone circles. Not Scotish recumbents...
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
As in - I know my Lake District stone circles.
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I've visited the site over 12 times, and it's on a steep slope. Nothing like the site of a stone circle. And surely the author should understand the local context of henge-like stone circles. Not Scotish recumbents...
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I've visited the site over 12 times, and it's on a steep slope. Nothing like the site of a stone circle. And surely the author should understand the local context of henge-like stone circles. Not Scotish recumbents...
You’re beginning to scare me…
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
You’re beginning to scare me…