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Crackstone Long Barrow

4clydesdale7 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:38:16 GMT

]]>Possible 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?

Mabesgate Longstone

TheCaptain — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:09:48 GMT

]]>"It's a fairly big thing." - TheCaptain, master of understatement. A 3 metre tall standing stone near the village of St Ishmaels, Pembrokeshire.

Zlot's Cave (Lazareva Pećina)

Anne T — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:11:42 GMT

]]>The 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.

North Dumpling Henge

Aluta — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:33:52 GMT

]]>In 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).

Kearton Cottages "Stonehenge"

Aluta — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:20:10 GMT

]]>Yes, 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.

Medicine Creek Rock Shelter

LongWayHome — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:31:09 GMT

]]>LongWayHome 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.

Tell el-Abqain

Andy B — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:01:38 GMT

]]>A 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.

Breach Farm Barrows

Anne T — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:18:52 GMT

]]>This 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.

Oppidum de Moulay

TheCaptain — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:30:08 GMT

]]>Located 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.

Carreg Y Bwci

postman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:46:17 GMT

]]>This 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.

Carreg y Milwr Stone Ring

HistoryHikerWales — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:34:43 GMT

]]>Just 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.

Martin's Haven fort

TheCaptain — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:42:55 GMT

]]>Fortified 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.

Dolmen del Monte Freddone (Alpi Apuane)

ciatology — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:42:35 GMT

]]>The 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.

Old Stones Talk Sat 10th October as part of Fishbourne Art & Literature Festival

Andy B — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:09:18 GMT

]]>Andy'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

White Shaman

Andy B — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:48:56 GMT

]]>Blasting from the construction of Trump's border wall looks to threaten many rock art sites, some up to 4000 years old . The 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.