Amesbury History Centre

01/12/2017

Current Archaeology Awards - Current Archaeology

Blick mead has been nominated for research project of the year, please all vote and get this project the award it well deserves. This is a award not just for the dig team but for the whole of amesbury and all the people who have supported the project over the years.

Below are the nominees for the 10th annual Current Archaeology Awards, which celebrate the projects and publications that made the pages of the magazine over the past 12 months, and the people judged to have made outstanding contributions to archaeology. These awards are voted for entirely by the pu...

25/10/2017

Historic England on Twitter

Historic England on Twitter

“Newly Scheduled: a rare monument that characterises the later Neolithic period via @wessexarch https://t.co/RVS7YIXUvD”

17/10/2017

An Evening with David Jacques

An Evening with David Jacques

Its that time of year again and the Blick Mead Archaeological dig is coming to the end of another fabulous few weeks of digging. Prof. David Jacques will be giving a talk at the Amesbury History Ce…

10/10/2017

New Stonehenge path open – at last - Your Valley News

You can now walk right up to the mesolithic post hole markers, the first monuments at stonehenge put there by the people at blick mead.

Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn The new Permissive Path at Stonehenge is finally open after a three-year delay waiting for the grass to grow strong enough to bear the weight of a few cyclists and pedestrians. A group of pedestrians and cyclists from surrounding villages joined together t...

13/09/2017

The next round of tunnel consultations will take place soon, the first being at antrobus house on tbe 22nd September 2pm -8pm. Go and have your voice heard. There are other dates which we will put on here when we find them.

11/09/2017

Stonehenge tunnel to follow A303 route

Despite huge fears from experts and residents the tunnel will go ahead. Although the western portal will no longer affect the Midwinter sunset it is still a huge blow to Amesbury and especially the Blick mead dig which is still unsure how this will affect the area around the dig.

The work is part of £1.6bn upgrade to the road but campaigners have called for a "complete re-think".

19/08/2017

Imberbus will be running on the 26th August

Imberbus will be running on the 26th August

This year’s Imberbus event is being held on Saturday 26th August and it is already looking like it will be the biggest one yet, with people coming long distances to ride on a Routemaster bus …

22/07/2017

This morning we entertained the lovely DownlandWalking group who were braving the rain for a stonehenge landscape walk after having a talk about the landscape from our chair.

16/06/2017

Amesbury history Centre will be at amesbury carnival tomorrow, come and say hi to us on our stall and win a lolly on our digging for treasure game.

13/06/2017

The Amesbury History Centre will be hosting its yearly AGM tonight where members will be able to hear about the previous years performance and have a vote on key issues. There is still time if you want to get your name down for our committee posts. We are mainly looking for anyone who wants to be our Secretary. If you have a few hours spare each week and want to help out, please let us know.

05/05/2017

Astronomy of Stonehenge

Simon Banton is back once again to give his unique and intriguing talk on the astronomy of Stonehenge on 26th May 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm).

The Amesbury History Centre is very pleased to announce that, after the success of last years talk, Archaeoastronomer Simon Banton will be back again on the 26th May 2017, 8pm to give us his talk o…

27/04/2017

Amesbury Museum and Heritage Trust

I can personally recommend this mooc it's fantastic.

Interested in the only Free Stonehenge mass online open course? Book here...https://iversity.org/en/courses/stonehenge-january-2016?r=aac64

07/04/2017

We are joined today by jurgen who has been taking ice crystal pictures from water taken from all the sacred sites around amesbury. Pop in and have a chat with him, you will be amazed by these pictures.

06/04/2017

On this day 5 years ago the first Blickmead items went on show to the public for the first time in a special Easter Weekend exhibition in what was later to become the Amesbury History Centre :)

08/03/2017

International experts join call to scrap Stonehenge tunnel bid

International experts join call to scrap Stonehenge tunnel bid

INTERNATIONAL advisers have joined objections to plans to put a major road into a tunnel by Stonehenge because of "negative and…

07/03/2017

Now ICOMOS-UK totally condemns the short tunnel at Stonehenge!

Now ICOMOS-UK totally condemns the short tunnel at Stonehenge!

Now it’s not just the 21 independent experts, it’s ICOMOS-UK! (See its response to the  public consultation): “On the basis of evidence set out below, ICOMOS-UK firmly objects to …

01/03/2017

Tunnel lights will ruin sunset at Stonehenge, say archaeologists

This is from the most notable archaeologists of the stonehenge landscape, recent discoveries have proven there is not one spot in the landscape where we can say with confidence there is nothing of importance there.

The view of the setting sun that Stonehenge was designed to capture would be destroyed by plans for a road tunnel under the world heritage site, according to leading archaeologists. The stones were...

27/02/2017

Wrecking the Stonehenge landscape: Julian Richards nails it – again!

One week left to have your say on the a303. Julian Richards has had his say.

Two weeks ago we linked to this video by Julian Richards in which he destroyed the pro-short tunnel case. Now he’s done it again, this time in print. It’s important because it contains …

13/02/2017

Ancient Origins

Wouldn't it be great to see one of these huge animals for real after hearing so much about them from blick mead.

A plan to use back-breeding to resurrect extinct aurochs of Europe and reintroduce them to wild habitats is under way. Scientists have established an organization called Rewilding Europe that aims to return 2.47 million acres to a more natural state. They also intend to reintroduce wild bison, ibexes and wild horses.