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Mynydd Troed
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2004
Mynydd Troed submitted by TheCaptain on 9th May 2004. Mynydd Troed, Chambered Tomb in Powys, SO161284
The remains of this tomb, marked Long Cairn on the map, are nicely positioned at the top of the pass to the west end of Mynydd Troed hill.
This view of the mound is looking south across the pass towards Mynydd Llangorse.
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Mynydd Cefn Amlwch
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jan 2018
Mynydd Cefn Amlwch submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jan 2018. Fenced off in its field half way up the hillside on a fairly substantial slope, this has a lovely shaped capstone sat on top of three uprights, with a few other large stones laying around.
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Mynydd Bach Cairn 2
Date Added: 22nd Mar 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Mynydd Bach Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Mar 2020. Found the remains of this cairn fairly easily, making a circular patch of green grass amongst the gorse and other growth. It is not a great monument being very flattened and destroyed, and also the whole area is absolutely covered with rubbish of all sorts.
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Log Text: First cairn of four marked on the OS Map during a walk from the Sirhowy Country Park around the Cwmfelinfach valley, up the Sirhowy River and back along the Rhymney Ridgeway path. Found the remains of this cairn fairly easily, making a circular patch of green grass amongst the gorse and other growth. It is not a great monument being very flattened and destroyed, and also the whole area is absolutely covered with rubbish of all sorts. The whole area is used by people for offroading and all sorts of other activities, some not so wholesome.
Mynydd Bach
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2017
Mynydd Bach submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jun 2017. Seen looking north along the coastline
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Must Farm
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jan 2016
Must Farm submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2016. Overview of the Must Farm site excavations.
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Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Portugal (Lisboa)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Oct 2019. The Portugese National Museum of Archaeology is in the building adjoined to the wonderful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Belem.
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Log Text: The Portugese National Museum of Archaeology is in the building adjacent to the wonderful Mosteiro dos Jerónimos. It is is the largest Archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula.
We didn't have long here at the end of a busy day, but had a quick look around the fabulous display of ancient gold and other objects from prehistorical times, the Egyptian gallery and the large Lusitanian (Portugal in the times of the Romans) displays. This is somewhere which would justify many small visits or perhaps a whole day.
Nearby to the bag lockers are a couple of ancient standing stones, one with a large square spiral carving, and the other worked into a very phallic shape.
Museo Vasco
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Pais Vasco)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2013
Museo Vasco submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jul 2013. Devoted to Basque archaeology, ethnology, and history, this museum opened to the public in 1921, and is located in a Baroque-style building in Bilbao's old quarter.
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Museo de Santa Cruz
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Castilla La Mancha y Madrid)
Visited: Yes on 13th May 2007
Museo de Santa Cruz submitted by thecaptain on 13th May 2007. The Santa Cruz Museum is located in the beautiful World Heritage city of Toledo.
The building itself has lovely architecture, with its cloisters, coffered ceilings, palatial staircases etc.
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Museo Arqueológico Nacional
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Castilla La Mancha y Madrid)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2007
Museo Arqueológico Nacional submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2007. The entrance to the splendid Spanish National Archaeology Museum, in Madrid.
Taking pictures inside is not encouraged.
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Museo Archeologico (Mantova)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Italy (Lombardia)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2007
Museo Archeologico (Mantova) submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Aug 2007. In a part of the Palazzo Ducale, on Piazza Castello, in the lovely ancient city of Mantova, is a branch of the Italian Museo Archeologico Nazionale.
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Musee Rouergue
Trip No.203 Entry No.186 Date Added: 20th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Access 5
Musee Rouergue submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Apr 2011. In the village of Salles-la-Source can be found this museum of Rouergue life. Amongst much old farming machinery and suchlike the museum has a prehistoric collection.
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Log Text: In the village of Salles-la-Source can be found this museum of Rouergue life. Amongst much old farming machinery and suchlike the museum has a prehistoric collection.
Musée National de Préhistoire
Trip No.203 Entry No.78 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Access 4
Musée National de Préhistoire submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Jun 2010. The iconic statue of Cro-Magnon Man, on the cliffedge balcony of the Musée National de Préhistoire, at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.
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Log Text: Recently completely rebuilt this is one of the must sees of the area. There are loads and loads of tools and lots of videos of people making and using them. On the second floor there are some nice finds and again more tools. I thought that there were too many tools on display and not enough other things it seemed to be an ancient tool museum rather than a complete prehistory museum but then again I guess that they are all we have to see. But there's nothing much from the bronze age onwards nothing at all concerning megalithic structures which was a bit of a shame. There was however one representation of a very early burial found nearby where the body of a girl was found in what it called a “proto-dolmen” where the body was placed in a stone lined cist and covered by two large stones.
I have to admit I was expecting better such as more artwork statuettes explanation of how the paintings were done etc but it was an enjoyable couple of hours before it shut for lunch. I did however buy myself a little replica of the Dame de Brassempouy a 25000 year old babe to keep me company on my travels round these ancient sites.
Musée National de Préhistoire
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Musée National de Préhistoire submitted by dodomad on 5th Jul 2015. Exhibition: Signs of wealth. Inequalities in the Neolithic, running from 27th June 2015 to 15th November 2015
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Musée Fenaille
Trip No.203 Entry No.183 Date Added: 19th Apr 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Aveyron (12))
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Musée Fenaille submitted by thecaptain on 4th Jul 2005. The Fenaille museum in Rodez, Aveyron, which has the most wonderful collection of statue menhirs from the region.
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Log Text: This magnificent museum is found in the old city of Rodez, inside a beautiful old building which is as much part of the museum as all the collections of items within it. The museum is perhaps best known for its superb collection of statue menhirs, extremely well presented on the top floor, but there is much more besides.
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon
Trip No.204 Entry No.133 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Musée des Tumulus de Bougon submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2010. Outside the museum is a large exhibition and event area, where there are displays of dolmen building, a 40 metre long longhouse based on nearby archaeological finds, and many other things.
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Log Text: I don't really know where to start except to say that it's not far from the town of St-Maixent-l'Ecole, and signposted for miles around. It was about €4 to get in, and this includes everything. I spent more than three hours here, and went back the next day for more, as it had shut before I had finished seeing everythng I wanted to, so it was good value. With lots of parking and disabled access, the museum is built within the archaeological remains of an ancient priory, itself an interesting place to visit. The displays within the museum show with various visual aids time from the creation of the universe, but concentrate here on the late stone age, when man settled down from nomadic hunter-gatherer to become builder and farmer, and all the associated crafts. There are the usual maps and collection of tools, but there was also an interesting display of ancient megalithic art, showing some lovely copies of engraved stones, including several of which I have now seen for myself earlier on this trip, and some of which I did not know for sure were real megalithic art, for example the crosse at the dolmen where the odd German couple were, and the protruding "legs" at the tomb where I had met the old collector man in his van. This megalithic art display culminates in a full size reconstruction of the Gavrinis internal chamber. I thought I had seen these stones somewhere before ! Upstairs, there is a room for temporary exhibitions, and this had an exhibition of Woman in Art - "Femmes Déesses". There was a wonderful collection of items and photographs of woman, with comparisons of modern art to prehistoric art. I must go back and buy the book if there is one. There were some fantastic items on display, with reproductions of Brassempuy, Willendorf, Lespugue, St Sernin etc, right up to Dali and Picasso. This display was well worth the entry fee on its own. Outside there are displays of dolmen building, a 40 metre long longhouse based on archaeological finds, Souray sheep, ancient plants..... Everything. This is the best museum of ancient stuff I have been to. Then there are the ancient tombs themselves, of which there are basically 5 tumulus mounds, all of different types, and all close together, which can be visited on a meandering walk around the grounds. This is a must visit place.
Musée des Sciences Naturelles et de Préhistoire
Trip No.204 Entry No.254 Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 7th Aug 2005
Log Text: The picture I have seen of the Maison de l'Archaeologie has a dolmen in the front yard, so I go for a look. But it's moved ! I found where the museum was, but its now a private residence. I have no way of knowing where to, so this must go down as the first museum I have failed to find ! Wonder what happened to the dolmen in the yard outside the museum when it moved.
Musée de Préhistoire (Aurignac)
Trip No.205 Entry No.42 Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Haute-Garonne (31))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 5th Sep 2005
Musée de Préhistoire (Aurignac) submitted by theCaptain on 29th Nov 2010. In the centre of Aurignac village is the prehistory museum, with all sorts of finds and items found in the local caves.
However, when I visited in September 2005, it was closed, with a notice stating that it had been closed in May 2004 by the Mairie, for an indefinite period.
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Log Text: In the centre of Aurignac village is the prehistory museum, with all sorts of finds and items found in the local caves. It is situated underneath a little village square with parking available. However, when I visited, it was closed, with a notice stating that it had been closed in May 2004 by the Mairie, for an indefinite period. I have no idea why.
Musée de Mas-d'Azil
Trip No.205 Entry No.73 Date Added: 15th Jun 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Ariège (09))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 10th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 5
Musée de Mas-d'Azil submitted by theCaptain on 29th Nov 2010. In the village of Mas d'Azil is the natural history museum. Its in a nicely kept building just off the main village square, opposite the roofed market place right outside the church.
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Log Text: In the village of Mas d'Azil is the natural history museum. Its in a nicely kept building just off the main village square, opposite the roofed market place right outside the church. As it was late in the day I didn’t go in. I think that if you do the caves tour, the museum visit is included for free.
Musée de Lespugue
Trip No.205 Entry No.43 Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Haute-Garonne (31))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 5th Sep 2005. My rating: Access 5
Musée de Lespugue submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Nov 2010. In the central square of the little village of Lespugue is a museum, which has an exhibition of 35,000 years of Lespugue.
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Log Text: In the central square of the little village of Lespugue is a museum, which, as many European museums are, is closed on a Monday. This museum has an exhibition of 35,000 years of Lespugue. Outside the museum in a little grassy park is a 10 times lifesize copy of the Venus de Lespugue, a pregnant woman figure dated to 33,000BC, carved from a mammouth tusk which was found in a cave just below the village.
Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2009
Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. I believe the real Favarels statue menhir has been taken inside the museum at Murat-sur-Vèbre, but a replica has been made and put in the place of the real one outside the information office.
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