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Photo Pages: Pierre Folle de Saint-Priest-la-Feuille
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 06 September 2008 (1684 reads)
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 A beautiful little dolmen in a lovely landscaped park around it, near to the village of St-Priest-la-Feuille in Creuse |
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Photo Pages: Magelowberg
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Submitted by stollentroll on Wednesday, 03 September 2008 (139 reads)
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 Burial Chamber in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, excavated in the late 1960's due to impending destruction from nearby quarry activity. The site was found to include a passage grave, long barrow, ring cairn and dolmen! |
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The Great Stone Circles – How They Work Part 16. Types of Goddess Stone
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Submitted by JACKME on Monday, 01 September 2008 (264 reads)
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 This Stone is the most like a human figure that I have found in UK. It appears to be facing the Midsummer sunrise, but I have not seen this happen. I saw a better one in the Alepo Museum, Syria, but was not allowed to photograph it. However it makes a good starting point for this request for help in locating any other likely stones. |
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Photo Pages: Maen Castle
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Submitted by JimChampion on Sunday, 31 August 2008 (1462 reads)
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 Cliff castle in Cornwall
This small rocky headland is the site of one of the oldest cliff castles on the Cornish coast. On the landward side it was defended by a substantial stone wall, ditch and counter-scarp bank. The ditch is deepest on the northern side of the headland, where the counter-scarp bank is revetted with large granite blocks. The stonework of the narrow entrance still stands, and just outside the gateway lies one of the former gate jambs. |
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Photo Pages: Mayon Cliff cairn
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Submitted by JimChampion on Sunday, 31 August 2008 (279 reads)
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 Ruined cairn on Mayon Cliff, an earth mound with some surviving granite kerbstones and a central kist. Located on the south-west coastal path to the west of Sennen Cove. |
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Photo Pages: St Levan's Well
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Submitted by JimChampion on Saturday, 30 August 2008 (1561 reads)
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 Situated on the southern coast of Cornwall, above the beach at Porth Chapel: this is probably the most spectacularly placed well in Cornwall.
The site was first recorded by Borlase in the mid-18th century, when it had a roof. The undressed stonework has been compared to a typical 'Cornish hedge'. More recently the well has been restored by the addition of a protective wall on the northern side. |
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Photo Pages: Dyrham Camp
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 30 August 2008 (2435 reads)
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 Dyrham Camp, otherwise known as Hinton Hillfort, is not so much a hillfort, but more a promontary fort, on a southwest facing spur of the Cotswold Hills north of Bath. Basically triangular in shape, it is cut into two by the little road up the hillside from the village of Hinton below.
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Photo Pages: Carn Lês Boel
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Submitted by JimChampion on Friday, 29 August 2008 (393 reads)
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 Promontory fort in Cornwall
A small and very exposed Iron Age promontory fort or "cliff castle" in a spectacular setting. There are the remains of a shallow ditch and bank on the north side of the promontory. Two large stones, one still standing, are presumably mark the entrance to the fort. There are no traces of settlement (hut circles, for example) within the defended area. |
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Books/Products: MeZolith a stone age horror comic strip
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 29 August 2008 (188 reads)
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Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank are thrilled to announce the launch of
'MeZolith' a stunning Stone Age Horror Strip
by Ben Haggarty (Story) & Adam Brockbank (Art)
on September 5th 2008, in issue 15 of the new weekly subscription comic, The DFC. |
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Photo Pages: Longar Arazuri Hipogeo
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Friday, 29 August 2008 (921 reads)
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 This chambered tomb is located on the hill near the town Viana. It was reconstructed aftear archaeological excavations (which brought a big number of artefacts) and nowdays it's in very good condition. |
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Text Pages: Copacabana Ceremonial Center
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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 29 August 2008 (251 reads)
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Ancient Temple in La Paz State, Bolivia.
An ancient ceremonial site in eastern Bolivia dating as far back as 3,000 years ago. Remains were found when clearing the ground to build a new market in the tourist town of Copacabana, on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Some relics go back as far as 3,000 years, when a little-known religious tradition called Yayamama is thought to have flourished in the Andes. |
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Photo Pages: Mørsvikbotn sacrificial site
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Submitted by kenntha88 on Thursday, 28 August 2008 (423 reads)
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 Sacrificial Site in Norway. This site was not hard to find because of the details I had found in an old book of ancient Sami heritage sites, however this was perhaps the most hazardous trip I have ever had to photograph any site!
The site is an ancient Sami sacrificial site located on the top of a huge steep mountainside littered with huge rocks and boulders once fallen out of the cliff side further up. The mountainside was really dangerous, many large loose rocks, deep cracks between them and the slippery stone surface made this trip dangerous. |
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Sites under Threat: Quarry plan for Ladybridge site near Thornborough Henges
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Submitted by PaulM on Thursday, 28 August 2008 (1821 reads)
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 Tarmac Northern are currently quarrying nearby Nosterfield Quarry and have applied to quarry Ladybridge Farm – half a mile away from the Henges – next year. |
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News: Melting alpine glaciers reveal fascinating clues to Neolithic life
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Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 28 August 2008 (198 reads)
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Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains. And, as a conference of archaeologists and climatologists meeting in the Swiss capital Berne has been discussing, the finds are also providing key indicators to climate change. |
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Text Pages: Huaca Pucllana
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 28 August 2008 (276 reads)
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Pyramid in Liberec State, Peru.
The massive multilevel adobe brick pyramid lies in what is now the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. It was originally built by people of the Lima culture (200AD - 700AD) but was used by successive cultures up to the Inca conquest. The pyramid and surrounding site were originally a ceremonial complex with plazas and ramps and stairs to platforms at different levels on the pyramid. |
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Photo Pages: Steinkistengrab Flögeln
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Submitted by Martin_L on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 (320 reads)
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 Rare Late-Neolithic stone cist (from the single-grave culture) near Cuxhaven. Similar monuments are known from Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark. |
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Text Pages: Tahtzibichen Labyrinth
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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 (445 reads)
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Ancient Temple in Yucatan State, Mexico.
A natural cave labyrinth contains stone temples, small pyramids, and a causeway. Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda believes these structures and finds of sculpture, ceramics and human remains indicate the Maya viewed these passageways as an entrance to the mystic underworld, Xibalba. |
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| See linked National Geographic story on the Tahtzibichen cave system in comment.
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Text Pages: Monte Verde
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Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 23 August 2008 (381 reads)
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Los Lagos State, Chile.
Discovered in 1976 from "cow bone" eroding out of a bank, Monte Verde is one of the best documented and most accepted “pre-Clovis” sites in the Americas. In the peat bog on both sides of Chinchihuapi Creek finds of stone tools, non-local plant remains, animal bones, and the wooden foundations of huts indicate a year round settlement of at least 30 individuals. Radio-carbon dating of objects within artifact bearing strata indicate dates to 13000 years ago. |
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| Monte Verde site in Chile offers clues on New World exploration. See Comment.
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Photo Pages: Bras dolmen
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Friday, 22 August 2008 (1058 reads)
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 Cute little dolmen a few kilometres to the southwest of the village of Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles in Haute-Vienne |
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Text Pages: Kendrew Quadrangle Henge
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 22 August 2008 (510 reads)
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Henge in Oxfordshire. A ditch discovered as part of excavations in March 2008 has recently been identified as being part of henge monument, which was created in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age (c. 2300). The ditch excavated here is up to 8m across and at least 2.5m deep, curves only very slightly and based on the small part of the plan so far recovered, would have enclosed an area of at least 150m diameter, encompassing all of what is now Keble College and the Pitt Rivers Museum. |
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The Lockington Gold Hoard |
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