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Font-de-Gaume
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Font-de-Gaume submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24)
Entrance of Font de Gaume cave, Dordogne, France.
The entrance is on the right on the photo (the cave on the left is a dead end and presents no drawing)
Inside the cave, a great number of buffalos and horses drawings and some engraved drawings.
Magdalenian period (about 20.000 BCE)
One of the rare prehistoric cave with drawings still open to public.
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Grotte des Combarelles 1
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grotte des Combarelles 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Combarelles cave, Dordogne, France
The entrance of the cave is on the left of the photo.
Great number of engravings (horses, buffalos, enigmatic signs...)
Magdlenian period (about 20,000 BCE)
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Grotte de Lascaux
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Grotte de Lascaux submitted by ocdolmen on 22nd Apr 2006. Unicorn in Lascaux cave.
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Abri du Cap-Blanc
Date Added: 21st Nov 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Abri du Cap-Blanc submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In this now walled up cliff shelter, there is a massive frieze of sculpted animals. It was discovered in about 1909, and still bears the scars of the picks used in the excavations, and some of the animals were destroyed. There are horses, bison and the main event, a 2 metre long horse and bison combined, the bison looking to the left, while the horse looks to the right.
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Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Log Text: The great mound inside of Mound Cemetery is really well preserved with its enclosure intact. Very fine setting in a charming town.
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2006. Hopewell Culture NHP, Mound City Group.
Inside the main enclosure, this is a view looking toward the west. The large mound farthest back is the "Central Mound," the largest of the group. Closer is an elliptical mound, and a smaller conical mound is closest.
* The "Central Mound" was erected over the remains of two timber buildings with 13 cremated burials. Artifacts found included falcon effigies cut from copper sheets and fragments of human skull that had been cut and drilled (perhaps ...
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Log Text: second visit to this remarkable place. Its a knockout.
Portsmouth Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Portsmouth Works submitted by durhamnature on 21st Feb 2013. Old plan of the works, from "Prehistoric America" via archive.org
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Log Text: Only one horseshoe shaped mound remains in Portsmouth. Easy to visit and despite its modest size and location in a city park it still had a good ambience.
Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Circle Mound Enclosure
A stitched photo. The viewer is standing before the entrance, looking due west, into the enclosure.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Log Text: Second visit to this remarkable site. Camp sites are close by. Really superb as is the so called circle mound nearby within the same park.
Signal Hill
Date Added: 18th May 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Signal Hill submitted by bat400 on 18th Sep 2006. Signal Hill, Pima County, Arizona.
Large spiral petroglyph on Signal Hill in the Saguaro National Park. The figure is placed on a sloping bolder. The angle is such that the surface facing north is in the shadow from the fall to the spring equinox and only lit in the "summer" half of the year.
Photo by bat400, June 2003.
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Log Text: Great visit late in the day.
Palatki
Date Added: 1st Jun 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Palatki submitted by TimPrevett on 1st Jun 2010. Visit to Palatki Pictographs & Cliff Dwelling site, Arizona, 16/08/09. More info following in comments. These are just a small selection of the photos I took that day!
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Agua Fria National Monument
Date Added: 1st Jun 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Agua Fria National Monument submitted by Flickr on 25th Mar 2015. Petroglyphs spotted at Pueblo Pato in the Agua Fria National Monument Image copyright: Andreas Schmalz (Andreas Schmalz), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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V/V
Date Added: 1st Jun 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
V/V submitted by TimPrevett on 1st Jun 2010. V/V Petroglyph Site, Arizona, 15/08/09
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Montezuma Well
Date Added: 1st Jun 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Montezuma Well submitted by davidmorgan on 26th May 2009. Montezuma Well. Photo by JW.
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Newspaper Rock State Park
Date Added: 29th Jun 2016
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Newspaper Rock State Park submitted by baz on 5th Jun 2011. Newspaper Rock
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Black Dragon Canyon
Date Added: 29th Jun 2016
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Black Dragon Canyon submitted by bat400_photo on 26th Aug 2015. Compiled DStretch images that show the rock art drawings in their entirety. From left to right, notice the two quadrupeds, the tall person, the supplicating person and the snakelike figure. The style of these images matches other Fremont culture rock-art paintings in the region.
Credit: Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Paul Bahn and Marvin Rowe, "The death of a pterodactyl," Antiquity, Volume 89, p 872-884, 2015, Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd., published by Cambridge University Press, reproduced ...
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Chrysler Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Jun 2017
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Chrysler Enclosure submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2007. Chrysler Enclosure, Henry County, IN.
Circular Earthwork Enclosure.
An earthen ring thrown up on the outside of a circular ditch, about 30 ft dia. The ditch is broken by an entry way sited to align the center of the enclosure with the winter solstice sunrise.
Photo by bat400 Oct 2006.
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Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Roches Aux Fees viewed from North West
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Log Text: massive structure. Great ambiance in the rain.
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf)
Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf) submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Jun 2007. The true extent of these stones was only discovered in the last 20 years or so after a forest fire, yet this set of aligned menhirs is probably one of the most important in France.
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Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer)
Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Les Pierres Plates
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Log Text: chamber was wet but passable. need a flashlight to see inner chamber.
La Table des Marchands
Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
La Table des Marchands submitted by JJ on 9th Nov 2002. La Table des Marchands
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