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| Wigber Low | | Submitted by Orcinus on Thursday, 14 January 2021 (10960 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age Round Barrow in Derbyshire. Look around you and take in the spread of stones across the ground – this is an area with distinct historical significance. The clues are in the name of this site: Wigber most likely originates from the Anglo-Saxon name of ‘Wigca’ and ‘Low’ meant small hill or burial ground. The barrow was first built between 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, but several Anglo-Saxon graves from between 500 to 600 CE were later inserted into the mound. | | Archive photos from the Wigber Low excavation in 1990 by Sheffield University, visit Orcinus' page for more
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| Gurness | | Submitted by C_Michael_Hogan on Thursday, 14 January 2021 (23758 reads) | Iron Age and Later Prehistory The Broch of Gurness is an imposing fort on the north shore of Mainland Orkney. Of classic drystone construction the Iron Age round tower fort is flanked by a number of ancillary structures and impressive concentric ditch and rampart outer defenses; moreover, the rocky shoreline cliffs posed an formidable approach for marine invaders. | | The Brock of Gurness at midsummer dawn, more amazing photos on our page
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| Carnedd Moel Y Ci | | Submitted by TAlanJones on Monday, 11 January 2021 (205 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age Round Cairn in Gwynedd. Situated on the leading lower edge of the NW summit of Moel Y Ci, the cairn is easily accessed via well established footpaths. Moel Y Ci is an enclosed moorland environment. The cairn is circular with a diameter of 14m and raised to about 1m. A walkers shelter has been constructed within the cairn from the available stones and a concrete pillar has been erected at it's centre. | | Snow!
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| Cool East wedge tomb | | Submitted by GaelicLaird on Monday, 11 January 2021 (749 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age A well-preserved wedge-tomb in Co. Kerry, situated on a level terrace, towards the end of an elevated ridge which extends SW from Feaghmann mountain, Valencia Island. Local tradition suggests that the monument was altered for use as a shelter by a family in the nineteenth century, who were evicted. The monument consists of a short, unusually broad chamber covered by a single roof-stone. It is aligned ENE-WSW and is set in a low mound which rises to a height of .5m at the west. The chamber measures 3.5m long, 2m wide, and decreases from 1.25m in height at W to 1.1m at the east. | | | ( Read Article | 4 News and Comments | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Sima de los Huesos | | Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 08 January 2021 (10329 reads) | Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and Earlier The Sima de los Huesos Cave in Castilla y León is a specific site within the famous Atapuerca complex. The very peculiar geological structure of this site is the only explanation so far conceived for the phenomenon observed at Sima de los Huesos: the site has been a tomb for different kinds of hominids and humans (including especially Neanderthals) for thousand of years. | | Evidence from this cave suggests that early humans may have survived the harsh winters by hibernating, more details in the comments on our page.
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| Mossyard 1 | | Submitted by markj99 on Tuesday, 05 January 2021 (754 reads) | Rock Art Mossyard 1 consists of two cup and ring marks on a 12 foot wedge of exposed rock on the coast at Ringdoo Point in Dumfries and Galloway. It lies 700 yards SW of Mossyard Caravan Park.
There are two distinct panels, 1a and 1b. Each panel has a line of natural depressions running down the centre. There are a number of other rock art panels in the area - see the nearby sites list below. | | | ( Read Article | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Far Hearkening Rock | | Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 27 December 2020 (6428 reads) | Natural Places One of the famous rocks from which the King's gamekeepers kept a look out for poachers hunting deer - it features a natural concave listening post and apparently served the Romans and the Dobunni well when they kept a watch over the Welsh Silures and Druids seeking to protect the border and the riches (Iron/Coal/Timber) of the Forest of Dean. Royalist Troops also kept watch during the Civil War. | | | ( Read Article | 3 News and Comments | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Rollright Stones | | Submitted by Tom_Wilson on Monday, 21 December 2020 (91128 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age This remarkable and atmospheric megalithic complex has so much to say for itself that entire books have been written on the place, dealing with its archaeology, folklore and ritual use.
Photo: The Kings Men on a freezing January dawn - taken from the edge of the road.
| | Winter Solstice Sunrise over the Rollright Stones. More details of the alignment in our Forum. Please upload your winter solstice or planetary alignment photos to our ancient site pages. Have a Happy New Year from all of us at the Megalithic Portal!
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| Sarsen Stones, Three Crutches | | Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 20 December 2020 (8039 reads) | Natural Places These four sarsen stones were found during road works in 1997 and were put up beside Watling Street in a four poster configuration to mark the opening of the bypass. They have a bubbly appearance and look similar to some sarsen stones in Rochester used as decoration, outside the gardens of the historic Eastgate House. | | | ( Read Article | 2 News and Comments | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Cairn Catto | | Submitted by Danr89 on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 (11268 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age A long cairn in Aberdeenshire, a great mound of bare stones, some of considerable size. In spite of much disturbance the plan is fairly clear, giving a length of 157 feet NW-SE and a breadth of 73 feet across the SE end, which is straight with rounded corners, and 22 feet across the square NE end to which the sides taper regularly. | | | ( Read Article | 6 News and Comments | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Loch Head | | Submitted by markj99 on Sunday, 13 December 2020 (788 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age Cairn in Dumfries and Galloway. Loch Head Cairn is a low lying grass cairn in Loch Head, a hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway. The cairn is c. 50 feet across and has a surrounding earth bank c. 3 feet high. The interior of the cairn is a 2 feet high shallow depression covered in grass with a small clump of stones in the SW perimeter. | | | ( Read Article | Category: Our Photo Pages ) |
| Pömmelte Kultstätte | | Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 10 December 2020 (13521 reads) | Neolithic and Bronze Age A 115 metre diameter timber circle or woodhenge in Saxony-Anhalt which has been excavated by Martin-Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. The site dates to 2250 BCE was discovered in 1991 thanks to aerial photography archaeologists say it was in use for about 250 years. | | The results of excavations over the last 15 years suggest this site was closely linked to Stonehenge. Franziska Knoll the lead archaeologist argues the wooden structure may have been built by people who had visited the henges of Britain.
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| The Puddingstone Trail - fact or fantasy? | | Submitted by Thorgrim on Monday, 07 December 2020 (19668 reads) | Multi-period This article was originally published in 2005: Is there a lost Neolithic trade route that took high quality flint from the mines at Grimes Graves to Stonehenge? Dr Ernest Rudge certainly thought so and spent many years researching what he called a "Lost Highway". Rudge located many puddingstone boulders that he thought acted as marker stones along the way. After his death in 1984, his work was summarised by John Cooper of the Department of Palaeontology at London's Natural History Museum. His summary gives a detailed itinerary, much of which I have now plotted on the Megalithic Map. I have John's permission to use information from his publication and he is delighted that further research will continue. | | Mike Burgess has completed his nine-year project examining Dr. Ernest Rudge's doubtful Puddingstone Track theory. The write-up is now available on his web site Hidden East Anglia. Mike has photographed and measured every stone he could access from Norfolk to Oxfordshire and finds that sadly the idea doesn't hold water. But as we like cataloguing and 'collecting' stones in the landscape we're glad he did it.
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| Book Review: A Neolithic Universe by Jonathan Morris | | Submitted by Sem on Sunday, 06 December 2020 (1164 reads) | Reviews This is the third book written by Jonathan Morris. The first, ‘The Broken Stone’, is a novel about Stonehenge with an explanation of the science behind the novel and the second, ‘Stonehenge: Solving the Neolithic Universe’, explains the science further. The book is a further update, delving deeper into the science and explains why the author thinks Stonehenge could have been constructed to demonstrate a geocentric (i.e. earth-centred) universe. Drawing on many disciplines, including archaeology, history, geology, folklore, and mathematics (the latter being in a very simple form), he puts forward this suggestion in a coherent and easy to understand way. | | | ( Read Article | 1 News and Comments | Category: Books/Products ) |
| Offa's Dyke near Brockweir | | Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 05 December 2020 (1317 reads) | Early Medieval (Dark Age) Well preserved and significantly built section of Offa's Dyke high up on the eastern side of the River Wye near the village of Brockweir. The Offa's Dyke path is well used here, and in places offers splendid views over the river to Wales, especially at the well known "Devil's Pulpit" rock stack allowing intrepid visitors a superb vista of Tintern Abbey. | | Offa’s Dyke: A Watery Perspective Video Talk by Prof Howard M R Williams, more on our page
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| Texcotzingo | | Submitted by AlexHunger on Friday, 04 December 2020 (13191 reads) | Multi-period Ancient Palace of the Poet King Netzahualcoyotl which had rock hewn baths, conference rooms, treasury, statues created. Adjacent to the Axtec city of Texcoco, the palace included gardens watered by an extensive hydraulic system, which were decorated by statues and carvings associating the gardens Aztec mythology. | | Aztec Maps Put Cortés to Shame. See comment.
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