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Parkfields Park Stone Circle

TimPrevett — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:30:41 GMT

]]>Parkfields Park Modern Stone Circle - Tour and Talk, 12th September with tour guide, author and MegP contributor Tim Prevett, more details on our page. An impressive modern stone circle just north of Warrington with a henge, inner ring or cove of stones, solsticial (or near solsticial) alignments, outlying stones in direct alignment with the main circle, holed stones with possible astronomical alignments, a long barrow, sympathetic layout and planting of vegetation and more.

Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site

davidmorgan — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:44:52 GMT

]]>A hundred and sixty-five miles of border barrier are proposed straight through a federal and state protected canyon holding twenty-seven painted rock shelters. The threat is not the bulldozer but the blasting: vibration can shake painted limestone off a cliff face hundreds of yards from the workings. More on our page. This page includes several sites of the Pecos River culture in the Seminole Canyon State Historical Park including Panther Cave, Fate Bell Shelter, Black Cave

National Museum of Ireland

thelaoiscyclist — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:22:26 GMT

]]>Many thousands of photographs (a whole hard disk!) of sites and artefacts from Ireland kindly shared with us by TheLaoisCyclist - click his name for more and visit his blog laoiscyclist.blogspot.com. We are still going through them but most are now posted.. Museum in Dublin with an incredible collection of prehistoric gold and lots else less blingy, also Viking and early Christian artefacts.

Ingbybergen

jopplanje — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:10:38 GMT

]]>Two ancient cairns on a summit on the island of Fasta. The smallest cairn still has a part of a dry-walling, but most is collapsed during time. The site is visitable by a nice 500 m long footpath through a canyon, passing a small cave, a boulderfield and a tower.

Ohio Historical Center

bat400 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:27:18 GMT

]]>Prehistoric Map of Ohio by H. R. Goodwin colourized by Bob Thomas. With thanks to Brad Lepper, Ohio History Connection . Museum in Franklin County, Ohio. The Ohio Historical Society (OHS) is tasked to interpret, collect and preserve the state's heritage. Of primary interest is the Society's archeological collections.

Cherkley Court Western Barrow

Andy B — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:51:16 GMT

]]>You can just make out the curve of the barrow. Taken on 20th August, the day the drought eased off - look at the clouds!. A round barrow near the golf course at Cherkley Court on the North Downs near Leatherhead. Still just about visible, located via the 1894 OS Map.

Ultach Fhinn

DavidHoyle — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:55:43 GMT

]]>A recumbent megalith on North Uist 7m (23ft) long with a maximum width of 2m (6ft 6ins) and a minimum thickness of c. 40cm (16ins). It lies approximately north-south, resting upon half a dozen comparatively small stones which are in turn supported by an underlying cairn

Leac A' Mhiosachan

DavidHoyle — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:53:13 GMT

]]>Two recumbent stone slabs on the north-westerly side of the two summits of Craonaval, North Uist. They may mark the site of a burial but could be natural. There does not seem to be an associated cairn. The view is over Benbecula.

Qasr Al-Amra

mrcrow — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:14:04 GMT

]]>The timeless artistry of Quseir ‘Amra and Its 1300-year-old frescoes, watch the cinematic low-light 4K Film by Aysar Yousef, link on our page. An ancient bathhouse in Jordan best known for its colourful frescoes adorning its walls and ceilings. The site was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. The paintings show the artistic transition between Byzantine culture and the new Islamic era. Additionally, the caldarium (hot room) of the bath house has a domed ceiling with the earliest known representation of the celestial dome painted on a non-flat, hemispherical surface

Jabal Fatouma Dolmen

Bashendi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:32:06 GMT

]]>Bruce A writes:I was taken to a site on top of Jabal Fatouma on the ad-Deir plateau in Petra, southern Jordan, where I was shown this dolmen / propped stone. Despite research, I can find no reference to it. This spot is extremely difficult to get to and while the Bdoul Bedouin seem to find it easy, I struggled along a ledge less than the width of my boot, high up on the cliff face along Wadi Fatouma. I'm sure you could get to it if you started from the north-east, off the Baydah road; it would be a much easier, but longer, stroll.

Petra, Nabataean Town

AlexHunger — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:03:01 GMT

]]>Walk Through Petra: A Cinematic Journey through Jordan's rose-red wonder - a film by Aysar Yousef - watch now on Youtube. Former capital of the Nabataeans, half built and half carved into the cliffs. Petra is without doubt Jordan’s most valuable treasure and world heritage site. A vast, unique city, carved into the sheer rock face.

Clifford's Hill Earthwork

Bladup — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:37:29 GMT

]]>Possibly an Iron Age outwork of the nearby Rybury Camp - this is a roughly 'L' shaped scarp slope, 2.2m high, with an outer causewayed ditch, 0.2m deep. Arms extend to the north and west, 40m and 60m long respectively.

Rybury Camp

Coldrum — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:35:53 GMT

]]>A hillfort and Neolithic causewayed enclosure a few km south of Avebury. There are two circuits of bank and ditch plus a separate causewayed 'cross-dyke' outwork. A trial trench cut in 1963 found flint flakes and animal bones, while Neolithic sherds have also been found at the site.

Qermez Dere

Anne T — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:20 GMT

]]>The houses here are almost 10,000 years old, dug into the ground, plastered, and each was fitted with one or two pairs of clay pillars, set symmetrically either side of the axis of the chamber, with modelled tops. The pillars hold nothing up. They are not structural, so what they were for is an intriguing question.

Grabhügel Kapellenberg

KaiHofmann — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:02:18 GMT

]]>Current excavations are finding new evidence for the lost central tomb of the Kapellenberg mound. Two burial mounds of the Corded Ware culture stand on the Kapellenberg above Hofheim am Taunus, raised somewhere between 2900 and 2350 BCE. They are the latest prehistoric monuments on a hill that had already been in use for well over a thousand years by the time they were built.