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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds

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Levalsa Meor Neolithic Tin Mine

Submitted by Anne T on Monday, 08 June 2026   (87 reads)

Neolithic and Bronze AgeDescribed as "a probable Neolithic tin mine in Cornwall, one of the earliest known examples of tin extraction in Britain". An oak trunk recovered from the mine was radiocarbon dated to 4140 +/- 100 BP, placing the earliest phase of activity in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age period, around 2200-2000 BCE.

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Rattar East

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 07 June 2026   (82 reads)

Neolithic and Bronze AgeAn Early Neolithic stalled chambered cairn on the north coast of Caithness, on the high ground between Dunnet and Mey, looking out over the Pentland Firth towards the Orkney Islands. The monument belongs to the wider tradition of stalled cairns found across northern Scotland: a drystone chamber set within an encircling cairn, with a series of upright slabs protruding into the chamber at right angles to its long axis to divide it into compartments or 'stalls'.

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Caithness Archaeology: Aspects of Prehistory

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