Submitted by LongWayHome on Wednesday, 07 October 2026 (376 reads)
Pre-ContactLongWayHome writes: Located in the Umpqua National Forest and decorated with red and very rare and beautiful green pictograms, photos of these on our page. The staff archeologist informed me they date from 300 to potentially 9000 years ago. In order to discourage artifact hunters from digging in the ground beneath over-hang, the Forest Service has constructed a wooden viewing platform. Image submitted by LongWayHome
Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 07 October 2026 (25 reads)
Multi-periodA horse buried with care inside a garrison, a stela of Merneptah written in hieratic (cursive Egyptian), scarabs and other amulets (pictured), all found within two streets of mudbrick living quarters and grain stores. Just some of the discoveries from the most recent dig at this fortress of Ramesses II in the western Nile Delta which is helping to illuminate the daily lives of the soldiers who held ancient Egypt's frontier against the Libyans. Image submitted by Dodomad
Submitted by Anne T on Wednesday, 07 October 2026 (398 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis Early Bronze Age round barrow produced one of the richest cremation burials known from south Wales. Pictured are some of the arrowheads found, by kind permission of Amgueddfa Cymru. Also on our page are archive photos of the 1937 excavators and details of the other five barrows which date from around 1950 to 1750 BCE, all on farmland in the Vale of Glamorgan. Image submitted by Anne T
Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 07 October 2026 (4025 reads)
Iron Age and Later PrehistoryLocated on a naturally defended granite promontory at the confluence of the Mayenne and Aron rivers. With its exceptional size and planned internal layout, Moulay is the largest known oppidum in the Armorican Massif and was probably the principal centre of the Aulerci Diablintes, the Gaulish people who lived in much of what is now northern Mayenne. Image submitted by Lemmy
Submitted by postman on Tuesday, 06 October 2026 (10011 reads)
Multi-periodThis is a weird one. About seven kilometres from Lampeter, on a saddle in the hills and right by the road sits this giant sunken doughnut of a mound with a massive slab, four or five metres long, lying across its south-west side with a cluster of smaller boulders beside it. The name means the Goblin Stone - the story goes that a seventeenth-century traveller who bedded down beside it was pinched, prodded and shrieked at by a crowd of unspeakable creatures until first light. More on this intriguing site in the comments on our page. Image submitted by Penbron
Submitted by HistoryHikerWales on Tuesday, 06 October 2026 (469 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeJust along the ridge from the Soldiers Grave, Carreg Y Milwr, and near to the Carreg Y Bwci site and Roman road of Sarn Helen, is this low ring of stones. It is the kerb of a Bronze Age burial cairn, the north-eastern of the two Esgair Ffraith Round Cairns. with a well-defined kerb, 27m (89 ft) east-north-east of the larger cairn on the summit, the Soldier's Grave, which contains a cist. See the Nearby Sites list on our page for links to these. During the summer months, in the heatwave of 2026, they sat very clearly in the landscape. Image submitted by HistoryHikerWales
Submitted by TheCaptain on Monday, 05 October 2026 (5995 reads)
Iron Age and Later PrehistoryFortified headland at Martin`s Haven, overlooking Skomer Island and on National Trust land. An interpretive board in the National Trust hut shows the hillfort encompassing this rocky outcrop. An entrance is clearly visible with grassed over walls 3 feet high. Image submitted by TheCaptain
Submitted by ciatology on Monday, 05 October 2026 (497 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe most strikingly situated dolmen I have ever seen writes Ciatology. It lies in the magnificent Apuan Alps, on the ridge between Monte Paglino and Monte Freddone - though actually closer to Paglino. Enrico Calzolari has conducted various studies on its orientation (linked to the sun as well as Monte Altissimo and other nearby peaks), and researchers Paolo Debertolis, Natalia Tarabella, and Lorenzo Marcuccetti have carried out archaeoacoustic studies. Image submitted by ciatology
Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 05 October 2026 (977 reads)
EventsAndy's next talk date is the amazing Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester, West Sussex this Saturday afternoon. Last few tickets available! The Old Stones - a field guide to the megalithic sites of Britain and Ireland won (as you probably know by now) Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019 Image submitted by Andy B
Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 03 October 2026 (946 reads)
Rock ArtThe painting faces west. At sunset on the lunar standstill the light climbs the wall and stops at the neck of the headless white figure, so that the sun appears to decapitate her. The mural is a panel some 30m (100 ft) long in a rock shelter above the Pecos River, a few miles from where it meets the Rio Grande and within sight of the highway bridge. Image submitted by Dodomad
Submitted by Anne T on Saturday, 03 October 2026 (512 reads)
Multi-periodSeven stone coffins lie scattered across the terraces of a low hill at Pungkit, in the Lopok district of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Some of them split open and are carved with human faces and animals that local people call the Doll Stones, Batu Babung. Image submitted by Anne T
Submitted by Anne T on Saturday, 03 October 2026 (708 reads)
Multi-periodOne of the most important Iron Age settlements ever dug in Britain, the site that gave its name to the "Little Woodbury" type of enclosed farmstead. This reconstructed roundhouse in the style is at Butser Ancient Farm. The original location is a roughly D-shaped enclosure of about 1.5 hectares, bounded by a single ditch with an elaborate antenna-style entrance on the east, standing on a low chalk ridge in Britford parish south of Salisbury. Image submitted by Anne T
Submitted by TheCaptain on Saturday, 03 October 2026 (12355 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe two giant menhirs of Kergadiou are a fine place to visit, and fairly easily found in a field a couple of kilometres north of the Aber Ildut estuary in furthest western Brittany. Kergadiou menhir 1 (pictured) is a really magnificent monster menhir, 8.8 metres tall, and the most beautifully and perfectly smoothed and shaped menhir there is. Image submitted by stonetracker
Submitted by TAlanJones on Saturday, 03 October 2026 (571 reads)
Roman, Greek and ClassicalSituated along the Amalias Ave and just to the west of the National Gardens the Zappeio Roman Baths complex was a real surprise as I meandered towards Hadrian's Arch one morning. Originating from the 3rd /4th century CE following the Herulian invasion it was redesigned and rebuilt over the following centuries. Image submitted by TAlanJones
Submitted by Aska on Thursday, 01 October 2026 (11214 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThree late Bronze Age statue-menhirs: Buccentone, Murellu, Murtola, originally from different parts of the Commune of Santo-Pietro-di-Tenda, now set up near the church in Piève. Get there early if you want to get a good shot - after 10am they are in the shadow of the church and in the afternoon the sun shines on their rear side. Image submitted by Aska
Submitted by thecaptain on Thursday, 01 October 2026 (43380 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeBurial chamber in Wiltshire, reconstructed (rather badly) in 1921. All that remains are two standing stones and a capstone with two fallen stones underneath. This was originally placed in the south-eastern end of a long mound which was described in the 1920s as being around 230ft long. Image submitted by KerryW
One of two paintings by Kerry Webb inspired by a recent visit to the Devil's Den - the other is on our page. Thanks for sharing Kerry, looking forward to seeing more soon Read More | 12 News and Comments | Category: Our Photo Pages
Submitted by kristiansen on Tuesday, 29 September 2026 (3235 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeJættestue (Passage Grave) in Holbæk. The eastern chamber is quite small, 3.1 m in length, 2.1 m wide. and 1.4 m high. The western chamber (seen at front) is similar but without a capstone, approx 3.0 by 2.5 and 1.7 metres high. Image submitted by ShamrockStone
Submitted by Anne T on Tuesday, 29 September 2026 (607 reads)
Pre-ContactSome of the earliest gardens in Aotearoa (New Zealand) were dug on this small island off the Coromandel Peninsula, within a century or two of the first Polynesian settlement. Ahuahu, also known as Great Mercury Island, carries one of the richest and best-studied early Maori landscapes: more than twenty pa, or fortified settlements, defended by ditches and banks on its headlands, together with garden soils, middens and living sites that record how people made a home here from the fourteenth century onwards. Image submitted by Anne T
Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 28 September 2026 (651 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis small and beautiful barrow cemetery consists of approximately nine stone-mixed round barrows and three cairns. It is located in a spruce forest on a natural flat hill. Unfortunately the road Mellomgårdsveien runs directly through the site. On the west side of the road, about 16 meters away lies one large oval barrow. The other eleven barrows are located to the east of the road. Two of these are also oval in shape, oriented north-south, and both measure 12 by 6 meters. Image submitted by kenntha88
Submitted by Billythefish on Sunday, 27 September 2026 (490 reads)
Rock ArtA rock outcrop beside the access drive to Achanarnich. I am told by locals that access is unrestricted with the usual caveats of not obstructing gates or causing damage. Image submitted by Billythefish