Exmoor Society Archive Volunteers, Graeme Horn and James Radley, will lead this wonderful walk to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the ‘rediscovery’ of the Bronze Age White Ladder monument by eminent amateur archaeologist Hazel Eardley-Wilmot in 1975.
Lying near the barrow complex at Five Barrows, White Ladder is a quarter-mile-long double stone row, partly made of quartz stones. Hazel Eardley-Wilmot also found intriguing evidence of circular, elliptical, linear and other small monuments surrounding the White Ladder, forming what she believed to be a Bronze Age necropolis.
Drawing from an extensive archive left by Hazel and personal recollections, we will tell an exciting tale of archaeological discovery, using replica ‘prodding sticks’ to locate the stones under the turf.
To park and start the walk, meet us in the lay-by by sheep fold on the road between Kinsford Gate and Moles Chamber. (OS Map Ref: SS SS733 371 and What3Words: cloak.invested.basically.)
