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Uley Shrine

Submitted by TimPrevett on Tuesday, 04 August 2026   (95 reads)

Uley Shrine

Multi-periodHetty Pegler's Tump had a close neighbour, also originally from the Neolithic, with quite the narrative arc which sadly ended around 1200 years ago. You will find no standing temple, no ancient walls and almost nothing to suggest that this quiet field on the southern side of the modern road towards Uley was once an important spiritual centre.
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Leang Sumpang Bita

Submitted by Kuba on Tuesday, 04 August 2026   (594 reads)

Leang Sumpang Bita

Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierFrom all the rock art sites in celebrated Maros-Pangkep karst area, Leang Sumpang Bita holds probably the most spectacular rock painting you can visit by driving to the site, and is pretty amazing decorated cave in it's own right. There are numerous animal paintings (including a huge, over-a-meter-across representation of a deer and several smaller wild pig images), hand stencils and a very interesting representation of a boat. The paintings are of very high quality and very well preserved.
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The Langstone

Submitted by TheCaptain on Tuesday, 04 August 2026   (7000 reads)

The Langstone

Neolithic and Bronze AgeA lovely menhir nearly 3 metres tall, standing beside the Lich Way on open ground in a saddle between the many local high points of the moor. It was re-erected in 1893 by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee from a fallen position in its original socket hole.
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Oil on canvas by CazzyJane
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Neonteikhos

Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 03 August 2026   (2216 reads)

Neonteikhos

Multi-periodAn ancient Greek settlement in Turkey that dates from at least the 6th century BCE. An historic road to the ancient city of Neonteikhos in the Aegean province of İzmir, which intersects with a motorway, was removed during the construction of an overpass bridge that was built for its protection, and now the removed stones have been reassembled, like putting a jigsaw puzzle back together.
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Papahi Headland Pa

Submitted by DrewParsons on Monday, 03 August 2026   (920 reads)

Papahi Headland Pa

Other ArchaeologyA small hillfort located on a promontory overlooking the beautiful Tawharanui beaches. The site is a defensive redoubt that would have had palisades as well as the ditch and would have been a place to retreat to in the face of attacks. The peninsula stretches eastward into the Hauraki Gulf and was on the main trade and war party sea route between Northland and Auckland.
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James-Simon-Galerie

Submitted by Noreen on Monday, 03 August 2026   (343 reads)

James-Simon-Galerie

Museums This page is for Museum Island, Berlin, which has a new central area with a modern design befitting one of the largest museum complexes in the world.
Image submitted by Noreen

Top pic - a statue of a man carrying (?) a leopard. Noreen visited the recent special exhibition: Building community, Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and life 12,000 years ago and kindly sent photos - more of the displays on our page
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Mont d'Hubert Neolithic Camp

Submitted by Anne T on Sunday, 02 August 2026   (795 reads)

Mont d'Hubert Neolithic Camp

Neolithic and Bronze AgeA Middle Neolithic hilltop camp at Cap Blanc-Nez, where France comes closest to England, excavated in 2010-2011 by INRAP. The site produced more than 1,500 kg of worked flint, 200 kg of animal bone, human remains, and several thousand litres of marine shells from a ditch dating to c. 4200-3800 BCE. The scale of the assemblage points to sustained, intensive occupation of this chalk headland overlooking the Channel.
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REQUEST FOR UPLOADS - Do you have photos of any of the ancient sites on this list?

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 02 August 2026   (310 reads)

REQUEST FOR UPLOADS - Do you have photos of any of the ancient sites on this list?

DiscoveriesDue to over zealous guarding by our security system the following pages were rejecting photos when someone tried to upload one. I have now fixed the problem so now all we need is some photos - can you help! Fortunately the problem only affected a couple of dozen sites that are completely without photos. Please have a peruse of the list on our page and see if you can add a photo of any of these site - many thanks.
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Metepenagiag Oxbow

Submitted by Anne T on Saturday, 01 August 2026   (277 reads)

Metepenagiag Oxbow

Pre-ContactAn archaeological site of rare depth on the north bank of the Little Southwest Miramichi River, at an oxbow bend within the reserve land of the Metepenagiag Mi'kmaq Nation, across the river from the present community. The annual flooding of the river bank has laid down sediment over the site year on year, so that three thousand years of Mi'kmaq occupation, from about 1000 BCE to the present, are preserved in cleanly separated layers up to two metres deep. This deep stratigraphy is virtually unique in Canada, and it lets the development of the community be read directly through time.
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West Kennett Long Barrow

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 01 August 2026   (55539 reads)

West Kennett Long Barrow

Neolithic and Bronze AgeMore than 100m long and 2.4m high, this is one of Britain's biggest chambered long barrows, and the 10m long interior chambers are open for viewing. Excavations in 1859 and 1955-56 found 46 burials of all ages. The tomb may have been in use for 1000 years - incredible.
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Looking out of this marvellous barrow, have you visited recently?
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Roknia necropolis

Submitted by johnstone on Friday, 31 July 2026   (3332 reads)

Roknia necropolis

Neolithic and Bronze AgeA location in Algeria with an astonishing number of tombs, about 3000, situated on a plateau between Djebel Thaya (1200 m) and Djebel Debar (1030 m). The ensemble is arranged over a length of approximately 2 km on the edge of a cliff. It contains dolmens and a lot of rock cut out tombs dating back to the Late Neolithic/Bronze Age. Drawing from J.R.Bourguignat (who excavated the site in 1868), Histoire des Monuments Mégalithiques de Roknia, Challamel Ainé, Paris, 1868
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Exploring Avebury Competition - the results!

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 30 July 2026   (491 reads)

Events
Lots of entries came in, so thanks to everyone who took the trouble. History Press very kindly let us have three copies of Steve Marshall's Exploring Avebury: The Essential Guide to give away. Picking the winners was tricky, not because the entries were samey but the exact opposite - they weren't.
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Luton Henge

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 July 2026   (659 reads)

Luton Henge

Modern SitesEight new standing stones of pale Totternhoe chalk, raised around a five-metre chalk circle in a Luton park in 2025 - a community-built henge for the present day, set within sight of a real one.
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Luton Henge Festival, this Sat/Sun 1st/2nd Aug, Free! Sat: Neolithic Cannibals sound art, Sun: Archaeology walk, lots of music and art events
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