Submitted by Postman on Wednesday, 17 April 2024 (5408 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeStanding Stone near Llanegryn in Gwynedd. About six feet tall, worn smooth and black by sheltering sheep. Lovely views east towards Birds rock (Craig yr Aderyn) and off towards Cader Idris. Image submitted by Geraint1
Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 16 April 2024 (289 reads)
Multi-periodArchaeologists have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire, today dominated by the ruins of its medieval abbey. Local tradition holds that the area was the site of an Anglo-Saxon hermitage belonging to Saint Guthlac, who died in the year 714 and was famed for his life of solitude, having given up a life of riches as the son of a nobleman. The first discovery from the dig was a previously unknown henge - one of the largest in eastern England. Image submitted by Dodomad
Submitted by SolarMegalith on Monday, 15 April 2024 (308 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeNuraghe in Sardinia (Sardegna). This spectacularly located nuraghe overlooks the coastal area north of Villaputzu. It consists of two towers - possibly the monument was constructed in two phases. The structure rests upon a large rock outcrop. The western tower has a small window which opens to the N-NW. Below the rock with the nuraghe there are heavily overgrown remains of a settlement. Image submitted by SolarMegalith
Submitted by AKFisher on Monday, 15 April 2024 (662 reads)
Pre-ColumbianA well preserved site within the Shiloh National Military Park. Follow the battlefield driving tour between stops 19 and 20. About 800 years ago, a town occupied the high Tennessee River bluff at the eastern edge of the Shiloh plateau. Between two steep ravines, a wooden palisade enclosed seven earthen mounds and dozens of houses. Six mounds, rectangular in shape with flat tops, probably served as platforms for the town’s important buildings. Image submitted by stonetracker
Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 14 April 2024 (500 reads)
MuseumsMinster Gatehouse Museum is housed in a 1000 year old grade 1 listed building adjacent to the historic Minster Abbey. Many fascinating local artefacts with connections to the Isle Of Sheppey, fossils and a view from the roof are just some of the attractions. Image submitted by Andy B
Submitted by Bladup on Sunday, 14 April 2024 (15472 reads)
Iron Age and Later PrehistoryA circular fort high on a hilltop with fantastic views. It has the outer bank and ditch separated by a wide space from an inner ditch. Why have an inner ditch in a fortification? It is almost as if it is a fort and henge combined. Rather strange. Image submitted by Bladup
Submitted by Aska on Friday, 12 April 2024 (1486 reads)
Multi-periodHegura-jima island is situated 50km northbound from Wajima port in the Sea of Japan (Koreans call it the East Sea). It is only 2km in length and 25m maximum altitude. Once there were 70 cairns on this flat island, now only a few of them remain in seven areas, we have photos: Image submitted by Aska
Submitted by Tonnox on Thursday, 11 April 2024 (2162 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeA dolmen built in to a mound in Holbæk. Known as Prinsehøjene as the Danish crown prince, later King Frederik d. 7, excavated these mounds in the 1830s. There are two mounds next to each other, restored in 1937. In the eastern mound the chamber is open. In the western mound the chamber is covered with earth.
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Submitted by NeolithicFanatic on Wednesday, 10 April 2024 (1478 reads)
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySituated next to the tennis courts in the southern part of Båstad in Skåne, Sweden are two standing stones. The standing stones are placed at the bottom of a gravel path and with a large tree between them both. The two stones are believed to have been raised during the Iron Age and placed over burials from that period. Image submitted by NeolithicFanatic
Submitted by TAlanJones on Wednesday, 10 April 2024 (603 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSituated within a high marshland to the west of Tyrrau Mawr this cairn shares the immediate area with another cairn about 20m to the NE. A prehistoric settlement lies further to the SW. The cairn is located at the eastern end of a long terrace. Image submitted by TAlanJones
Submitted by stonetracker on Tuesday, 09 April 2024 (784 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe surface of this stone, a very hard fine-grained metamorphic boulder, contains a series of long V-shaped grooves as well as scattered depressions. National Park Service interpretation at the site describes the depressions as areas where Native Americans sharpened their stone axe blades. The V-shaped grooves, now fairly worn, were used to sharpen bone fish hooks. Image submitted by stonetracker
Submitted by Geraint1 on Monday, 08 April 2024 (1143 reads)
Date UncertainThe site is a large boulder that seems to have been used as the core to extract monoliths. I noticed an 'odd' cairn whilst visiting/photographing the nearby settlement, approx 100m away. On closer inspection the cairn was seen to be a scattering of 6 or 7 stones that look like monoliths, one of which appeared finished - complete with one chisel shaped end - the others all looked to be, at least partially, unfinished. Image submitted by Geraint1
Submitted by Ladrin on Saturday, 06 April 2024 (8299 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeA pair of standing stones located by the green garden hedge of the small cottage. Both monoliths are quite impressive slabs up to 230cm and 260cm tall. The western stone has a distinctive vertical quartzite vein. According to existing sources the stones are not in its origin location. They were relocated and rearranged after one was hit by the bus and broken sometimes before 1975. Image submitted by ladrin
Submitted by SolarMegalith on Friday, 05 April 2024 (3595 reads)
Multi-periodXunantunich is a Mayan centre in Cayo District, Western Belize. The structures are dated to the Classic period (300 - 900 CE). Among the structures there is El Castillo, one of the largest known Mayan pyramids. There is evidence that the city was abandoned after an earthquake. Image submitted by AKFisher
Submitted by Aska on Thursday, 04 April 2024 (1979 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeIn the south-eastern residential area of Seoul city, a "gobun-gun" (tumulus group) is preserved as a park. Most are thought to have been constructed in the early 4th century during the Baekje kingdom (18BCE?-660CE). Once there seemed to be 66 chambered cairns, but now only the following monuments remain: Image submitted by Aska
Submitted by MMG on Thursday, 04 April 2024 (13649 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeOne of the few square stone circles (!), in the whole world - or cromlech as the Portuguese call them. Rebuilt in quadrangular form, with 52 small fragmented monoliths of various shapes made out of granite. A huge menhir in the centre about 4 meters tall, also fragmented, which has near its base a set of small carved dimples. Image submitted by Bak_teria
Submitted by EbenMC on Wednesday, 03 April 2024 (1114 reads)
Multi-periodDesignated as a site where four parishes converge the Ring-in-the-Mire is an ancient pond where the parishes of Honiton, Sidbury, Gittisham and Farway meet. It is said that Isabella De Fortibus, the 8th Countess of Devon settled the boundaries after a dispute by throwing her ring into the mire, the name has since stuck. The pond was later associated with Farway Castle in Devon Image submitted by EbenMC
Submitted by JJ on Wednesday, 03 April 2024 (25620 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThree tall stones stand leaning at all angles in an open field. Their purpose is unknown, and they may once have been part of a larger stone monument, possibly a circle. Although they were said to commemorate a battle won by King Harold, they very likely date from the Bronze Age. Image submitted by Horatio
Submitted by Boeddel on Monday, 01 April 2024 (865 reads)
Early Medieval (Dark Age)The Slavic hillfort "Rugard" is located at the highest point on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is a two-part hillfort on the summit of the Rugard, on an area of about 2 hectares. The hillfort was the preferred seat of power for the Ranish elite until 1325. Image submitted by Boeddel
Submitted by KaiHofmann on Monday, 01 April 2024 (2121 reads)
Date UncertainAn ancient relief of a human figure (a Slavonic deity?) in the wall at the entrance of the Marienkirche Bergen. Image submitted by fornjotr