Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com · Dec 17 Buzza Hill was the site of excavations by William Borlase (1695-1772) in 1752. Reported in Phil. Trans. Of The R. Soc (XLVIII, 1753) these are among the earliest formally reported archaeological observations 🧵
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“We pitch’d upon a hill, where there are many of these Barrows and, as the story goes, Giants were buried, with a design to search them, and… having hired some soldiers, proceeded to open them” 🧵