EventsAndy returns to Canterbury Waterstones for the third time on the 12th March this year to present his talk, which covers many of the fascinating themes, mysteries and new discoveries highlighted in our book, The Old Stones, a past winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year.
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Events Join Megalithic Portal founder Andy Burnham for a lively and highly illustrated talk based around many of the themes and new discoveries from our book The Old Stones. Including:
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EventsMegalithic Portal founder Andy B is the guest of the London Dowsers. We will be at the Coborn Arms, Mile End, London E3 2DA. A highly illustrated and fast paced talk based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones, along with a look at many lesser known but interesting sites.
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EventsMegalithic Portal founder Andy B is the guest of The Last Tuesday Society for an online talk. Join us for a highly illustrated and fast paced talk based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones.
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EventsAndy B's highly illustrated and fast paced look at many of the fascinating themes, mysteries and new discoveries from Neolithic Britain, including lesser known but interesting sites. Also Sussex’s lesser-known ancient stones with Serena Mitchell and David Bramwell and a showing of the new Monolith film by Danny Hammond.
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EventsStone Club are hosting an afternoon at Real Magic Books in Wendover at the foot of the Chiltern Hills near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. 4 to 6pm, Sunday 8th October. Speaking in person are Andy Burnham, Megalithic Portal founder and author Justin Robertson.
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EventsAndy is lead author of 'The Old Stones' book (winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019) alongside contributors to the vast Megalithic Portal web resource, which he founded. The Old Stones is the most comprehensive and thought-provoking field guide ever published to the iconic standing stones and prehistoric places of Britain and Ireland. Archaeology and more - Andy's talk covers many of the fascinating themes, mysteries and new discoveries highlighted in the book.
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EventsWe don't usually put bands in our main news but this is a bit special. Sister Wives are a fantastic, psych, heavy, stone-tinged band from Sheffield and Wales who are playing in London for the first time. 6th April, Shacklewell Arms London, FREE. Organised by Baba Yaga's Hut. The band are ancient site enthusiasts like us, in the photo here they are at Creswell Crags and they have a song about the witch there. They named their album Y-Gawres and have also done promotional and cover photos at Arbor Low.

Tickets are via Dice.fm - hope to see you there if you can. Sister Wives are also playing in Brighton and regularly play gigs and festivals in the north of England and Wales so catch them there otherwise.
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EventsBen Pitcher gave a fascinating talk at Stone Club's First Birthday Event on Monday. Ben is a reader in Sociology and the Megalithic Portal was there to record it (and drink some Stone Club beer). Ben's forthcoming book is Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture. Who are we? Where did we come from? What are we like? These questions are alive in contemporary culture.
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ResourcesIf you are a new visitor (welcome!) you may not know we offer downloads to view the locations of the tens of thousands of sites in our database on Google Earth,and in various GPS and satnav formats (GPX, Garmin and CSV). You can select which countries, regions, counties or site types you are interested in and download these individually as KML data files. Clicking on a point in Google Earth will pop up a summary description and thumbnail image from our site, where available. The icons are colour coded red and green like on the Portal's maps, red means we have images available, and green means please go and take one for us! (*)
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EventsMegalithic Portal founder Andy B is the guest of Edgeways for an online talk. Join us for a highly illustrated and fast paced talk based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones, along with a look at many lesser known but interesting sites.
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EventsOdditorium and Stone Club present: Whisper of the Stones. A megalithic collaboration:
Guest speakers: Prof. Ronald Hutton (Stonehenge)
David Bramwell (Children of the Stones)
Dr Matt Pope (Brighton’s Sacred Stones)
Watkin’s Books Fiona Robertson (How to Read a Stone)
Matthew Shaw and Lally Macbeth (The Living Stones)
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EventsThe 2022 conference takes place in the Town Hall of Glastonbury on 7th - 8th May 2022, and with four days of tours, or you can watch the Live-Stream online. Last year we went online. This year back live, and featuring a stunning line-up of speakers at the cutting edge of ancient mysteries, including Prof. Timothy Darvill, Andrew Collins, Kathy Jones, Peter Harris and Thomas Gough, Maria Wheatley, Ralph Ellis, Peter Knight and Sue Wallace, , Hugh Evans, JJ Ainsworth, Tom Bree and Hugh Newman, with Christine Rhone presenting the John Michell Memorial Lecture.
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EventsAndy's highly illustrated talk will be live online this Wednesday at 7.30pm, hosted by the Marlow Archaeology societies. The talk is based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones, along with a look at many lesser known but interesting sites.
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MysteriesPrepare yourselves for this: "These Stones can change people and they’re calling to you. Are you scared yet? Do you feel the shiver?
"Smash your speakers. Destroy your headphones. Whatever you do, don’t listen... The world depends on it."
The new Podcast stars Reece Shearsmith, India Brown (Worzel Gummidge) and Steve Oram (Sightseers)
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EventsA chance to meet some of the faces behind the scenes, fellow members and contributors. Megalithic Portal Founder Andy B will start things off by answering any questions you may have about the site and what we do then it's open to you to talk or just listen. (Pic: One of our past 'in the flesh' meetings - fewer safety precautions needed this time!)
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EventsThe prehistoric meets the present with our first informal Zoom meeting. Isolating when you can is still good and pubs and the like are unlikely to be open for some time. A chance to meet some of the faces behind those posts and feel less isolated. Portal Founder Andy B will start things off with a short live tutorial then it's a free for all to talk or just listen. It won't be much like the attached photo, and hopefully with a few more people, but we can dream and talk of past visits.
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EventsAs you may have heard, Dr Aubrey Burl sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago. To celebrate and commomorate his life we are proud to present an Exclusive Talk and Q&A with Dr Burl that I recorded in the year 2000 when he gave a talk to ASLaN and the Rollrights Trust in Long Compton Village Hall. To my knowledge this is the only video available of a talk by Dr Burl online anywhere. Here's the link to watch the full video You can turn on and follow the live chat from when we watched it live.
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EventsDue to the developing Coronavirus situation we have taken the difficult decision to cancel the talk this Saturday afternoon. For those who have booked, The Blackden Trust will be in touch about refunds. Many apologies but I hope you understand it's best to play things safe.
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EventsAndy B's next 'Old Stones' Talks are as follows: This Thursday 6th February - Ashford, Surrey, which is off the western M25 J13; 13th Feb - Kingston-upon-Thames - actually Surbiton - South-West London, which is just 20 mins from Waterloo by train. Then on the 14th March Andy is heading up to give the Friends of The Blackden Trust annual lecture, near Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. This last one is Andy's only trip north for the next few months so get it in your diary if you can get there. More details of all these talks on our page.
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