Submitted by Adamibbo789 on Saturday, 21 September 2024 (939 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeAn open-area excavation conducted in advance of development at Marne Barracks, Catterick, in 2004 identified a relatively rare Late Neolithic palisaded enclosure and other features. A number of broadly contemporary monuments, all within 5 km of Marne Barracks, contribute to a significant Neolithic ritual focus on the River Swale gravels. Image submitted by Dodomad
Submitted by TheCaptain on Sunday, 19 March 2023 (8549 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeWilliam Stukeley i wrote: “Upon the heath south of Silbury Hill was a very large oblong work like a long barrow, made only of stones pitch‘d in the ground, no tumulus.” In 1878 A C Smith excavated, or rather in typical antiquarian fashion he ‘set a careful man to dig’(!) “We triumphantly vindicated our impression that it was a circle, by unearthing in that one day no less than twenty-two sarsens, lying from two to 12 inches below the surface”. Leslie Grinsell was the last writer to see any megalithic traces in 1950 when the stones lying in heaps about the area with probably none in situ. Today there is the slightest trace of the bank and ditches in the site’s southernmost sector. The evidence used to classify the Beckhampton Penning site as a stone circle is at best conjectural. But evidence for a long barrow is good, Image submitted by Andy B
Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 02 January 2023 (809 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeIn February and August of 2006, the Jacksonville State University Archaeological Resource Laboratory onducted field investigations at the Shelton Stone Mound Complex, 1Ca637, which straddles the eastern slope of Choccolocco Mountain overlooking Whites Gap in eastern Calhoun County, Alabama. The majority of the stone mound complex is located on the property of A.C. Shelton, with a portion extending into adjacent USFS property. The site, at present, consists of 79 conical stone mounds, one horseshoe-shaped mound, 31 linear stone walls, a serpent-like stone wall, one “Z” –shaped stone wall with natural boulder feature, one “V”- shaped stone wall, and an oval boulder confi guration. Image submitted by dodomad