EventsNext Saturday, 24th October is Trinnacle at Wirksworth Town Hall featuring Isy Suttie, Strange Loop, Andy B from the Megalithic Portal, Richard Bradley (aka Weird Derbyshire), films by Scientific Rambles, T’Owd Man Morris and of course the enigmatic Listening Stone! Taking its name from a remote Peak District rock formation, Trinnacle is a special evening celebrating standing stones, megalithic structures and stone circles through stories, talks and performance.
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Early MedievalSituated within the Paphos Archaeological Park. Built during the Byzantine period around the 7th cent CE Saranta Kolones takes its name from the granite columns that once formed part of its impressive structure. Destroyed by an earthquake in 1223 CE it was never rebuilt but it still impressive ruins and well worth a visit.
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Pre-ContactThe reconstruction is on the site of an ancient Tagoror erected by the Guanches, Tenerife's original pre-colonial inhabitants who were of Berber descent. It had many purposes, an outdoor public square, a council chamber and as a court of law where the local king (Mencey) and tribal elders (Achimency) gathered to hear and decide on matters.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe remains of an embanked stone circle near Glandy Cross, Carmarthenshire. Just two stones remain of Meini Gwyr, once a spectacular circle (part of the Glandy Cross monument complex). Photos on our page.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryThis hillfort in Norway is located on the southern of two rocky hills. From the plateau within its walls there are expansive views to the east, south, and west; to the north, the view is blocked by the central hill. Views from the eastern section include Larviksfjorden, the Skagerrak, and the farms of Katrineborg, Torsrød, Fredriksvern, and parts of Brunla. On the eastern side of Larviksfjorden, to the north-northeast, lies the hillfort at Gon in Tjølling and Viksfjorden.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThere are menhirs in various gardens and along the street in Lambel (Baud), SE Camors, Morbihan - would you like your own like this?
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Neolithic and Bronze AgePossible Long Barrow in Gloucestershire. This is a site which has caused much conflicting discussion over the years, all of which remains unresolved even today - both the Bris. & Glos. Arch. Society and Pastscape remain unconvinced either way - is it a ruined Long Barrow or are they old quarry workings? What do you think?
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA 3 metre tall standing stone near the village of St Ishmaels, Pembrokeshire.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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