In NE145, a review of the ‘Celts’ exhibition that took place in London and Edinburgh observed the curiosity of a wooden keg assumed to have held drink being made from the highly toxic yew. Mark Greener considered the implications. At first sight, yew isn’t the wood you’d choose for a tankard, bucket or barrel. […]
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Senegambia in West Africa has a remarkable collection of megalithic monuments and corresponding narratives, shared here by Mark Greener Even setting the pyramids aside, Africa is home to rich and diverse megalithic traditions. The Ntondomo complex in western Mali, for instance, consists of almost 150 barrows and stone circles.1 One Ghanaian complex contains at least
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March 2020 was a tense time for us, as the government considered the first lockdown and we had a groundbreaking event planned in Hebden Bridge! In the end, we made it with a week to spare, and the day was lapped up by a motley crowd of folklorists, geographers, historians, earth mysterians and psychogeographers sharing
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NE172 is at the printers and will be ready for publication by May 18th. Subscribe now to ensure your copy! https://northernearth.co.uk/subscription/ Contents The Season’s Gleanings: Our usual eclectic eye across the news media Mike Haigh’s Archaeology Review: Another investigation into hidden meanings in cave art, Neanderthal social diversity, and history for hens Were the Wollaton
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We have received several copies of back issues of Northern Earth dating from the last decade or so. Most of these issues sold out at the time of publication. Any readers who would be interested in specific issues or enhancing their collection of the world’s longest established and agenda-free journal of antiquarian and folklore issues,
Digging through old newspapers can bring some strange rewards, as Kai Roberts found in West Yorkshire Sowood House (Kai Roberts) Situated at the junction of Coley Road with the A644 between Hipperholme and Stone Chair in the dispersed settlement of Coley on the hills above Halifax (W Yorks), Sowood House is a minor but typical
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All of us at Northern Earth were saddened to hear of the passing of Kai Roberts, at far too young an age. For a short while Kai was a stand-in editor of NE in 2014-15, and he wrote some finely researched and written books on Robin Hood’s Grave, Yorkshire folklore, and hauntings in and around
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