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Pedra Coberta Dolmen
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pedra Coberta Dolmen submitted by SolarMegalith on 25th Jul 2008. Site in Galicia, Spain: 6.20 meters long dolmen, excavated in 1933. One of the finest megalithic monuments in Galicia, beautifuly hidden betwen the trees near the road.
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Matera
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Italy (Puglia)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2009. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Matera submitted by Bjorn on 4th Jun 2007. Site in Puglia
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Chianca Dolmen
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Italy (Puglia)
Visited: Yes on 15th Aug 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Chianca Dolmen submitted by beefree on 3rd Sep 2011. Bisceglie (BT)
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Log Text: A somewhat sad site, litter strewn and within earshot of the roar of traffic on the autostrada.
Tamgaly Petroglyphs
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Kazakhstan
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tamgaly Petroglyphs submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. The glyphs have been etched into the smooth rock faces with stone or metal tools and consist mainly of various deities, zoomorphic beings and animals.
Site in Kazakhstan
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Palmyra
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2007. Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people.
Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day.
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Palmyra
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2007. Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people.
Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day.
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Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen submitted by AlexHunger on 10th Jan 2007. Temple in Palmyra for the semitic God of luck and rain.
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Palmyra Temple of Baal
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by AlexHunger on 16th Jan 2007. Helenistic Temple of the semitic God Baal in Palmyra. Unfortunately it lost most of the columns except on the East side, seen here.
There is a good part of the compound wall colonade.
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Apamea
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Apamea submitted by AlexHunger on 11th Jan 2007. City dating back to the Seleucid era with 2 Km long collonade, temples and agora.
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Resafe
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Resafe submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. Resafe.
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Ugarit Palace
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ugarit Palace submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jan 2007. Remains of King's Palace Courtyard. The king did a lot of the business deals himself. Foreign traders or dignitaries were received at the palace. Discussions were held at the pool while scribes etched and baked contracts on clay tablets on the spot.
Ancient Cananite city destroyed by the invasion of the Sea People around 1185 BCE.
The people of Ugarit invented one of the first Alphabets and controled trade from Crete and Cyprus to Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Cherhill White Horse
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cherhill White Horse submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Cherhill White Horse - the 18th century hill figure located below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on June 2010).
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Oldbury Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Oldbury Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 23rd Oct 2003. Oldbury Castle and Cherhill Down
Nominated by Andy B
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Oliver's Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Oliver's Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 31st Aug 2003. Accessible by footpath from Bromham or Roundway, this Iron Age promontory fort of 1.2 hectares is at SU 001646.
It has a single ditch and bank with post holes for gates in the eastern entrance.
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Stanton Drew SSW
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew SSW submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Aug 2006. View towards the church from the South West Circle.
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Stanton Drew NE Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew NE Circle submitted by ogham on 12th Mar 2013. Interesting site to wander round and usually there no others with you.
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Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. Stanton Drew Great Circle 01/04/09
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Dura-Europos
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dura-Europos submitted by AlexHunger on 13th Jan 2007. Secondary Gate. Originally Seleucid City on the Wst bank of the EUphrates. Found in the 4th century BCE, Dura-Europos was finally conquered by the Sassanids (fom the current Iran) around 258 CE.
Note the 2 km long town wall on the western side. On the eastern side, the town is protected by the Euphrates and a cliff.
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Cendere Bridge
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cendere Bridge submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Mar 2008. A really nice 1800-year-old bridge. Only three columns now since the disgrace of Septimius Severus' son.
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Karakus Tumulus
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Karakus Tumulus submitted by davidmorgan on 12th Jan 2007. Mt. Nemrut is in the distance on the right.
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