Submitted by Anne T on Friday, 09 October 2026 (289 reads)
Natural PlacesThe longest known cave in Serbia, with 9.4 km of explored passages, and one of the most important prehistoric copper-working sites in the central Balkans. Excavations recovered about 50 copper objects of late Eneolithic (Copper Age) and Early Bronze Age date, including chisels, awls, needles, flat axes and ornaments, found alongside Vinča-related pottery and a complete Bronze Age belt of eight linked bronze spirals, indicating a trading network extending as far as the Aegean. If anyone can help with photographs of the copper and other artefacts found in this cave, please do submit them to our page - thanks. Image submitted by Anne T
Submitted by Aluta on Friday, 09 October 2026 (907 reads)
Modern SitesIn Long Island Sound between Fishers Island and the Connecticut shore (New York State), an island belonging to inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen, who has declared it his own micronation "The Kingdom of North Dumpling" and added this rather skinny "Stonehenge" (if we can call it that). Image submitted by Creative Commons
Submitted by Aluta on Friday, 09 October 2026 (429 reads)
Modern SitesYes, you too, can stay in a holiday cottage with it's very own Stonehenge, at Kearton Cottage in the hamlet of Boldron, two miles from Barnard Castle. This construction has three trilithons and a scatter of single uprights, a wagon wheel set incongruously on its side as a bench in the middle of the ring, and Shetland ponies who graze right up to the stones. Lots more 'Clonehenges' are appearing on our pages as we investigate Nancy Wisser's incomparable archive for odd and interesting Stonehenge influenced sites. Image submitted by Aluta
Submitted by LongWayHome on Wednesday, 07 October 2026 (733 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 (488 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 (596 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 (4246 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 (10408 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 (705 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 (6079 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 (701 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 (1039 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 (1008 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 (549 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 (765 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 (12417 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 (632 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 (11264 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 (43438 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 (3256 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