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Finding long barrows in Google Earth

We’ve shown you some work from Henry Rothwell’s Digital Digging site before (such as the Hillforts we showed you back in April), and felt it was time to head back out there to see what’s new.  Along with a slick new mobile responsive design, Henry has a handful of great new features on the site.  One of those new features is a great collection of “long barrows”.

long-barrow

Long barrows are prehistoric monuments, typically rectangular or trapezoidal in shape.  Tim Darvill, author of “Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas” has been helping Henry build out this section of the site.

Thanks to the new changes that Henry has made to his site, he hopes to be able to “spend less time tinkering, and more time creating content”.  He already produces quite a lot of excellent content, so we’re looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next.

In the meantime, if you’d like to keep up with the site you can grab their RSS feed or follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

Great work Henry!

Hillforts in Google Earth

If you’ve not come across it before, Henry Rothwell’s Digital Digging site has a great deal of interesting content for Google Earth.  They’ve recently been adding a lot of information about “hillforts”, and they do a remarkable job of using Google Maps and Google Earth to show off these items.  A good example is the Banwell Camp page, shown below.

banwell

The screenshot above is an embedded Google Earth tour from that page.

As you dig around the site you’ll find quiet a few items of interest.  Check out the entire hillfort section for more on those; in particular, the Bat’s Castle page also includes the tour and other features similar to what is found on the Banwell Camp page.

Over the next few years, Henry plans to add every hillfort found in the country to the site.  In addition, he’s also adding embedded tours to the Sketchup model section.

If you’d like to keep up with the site you can grab their RSS feed, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

Great work Henry!