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Noh Mul Pyramid
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Submitted by guile on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 (264 reads)
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Site Watch  A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project.
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Kuelap Citadel
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Submitted by durhamnature on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 (8529 reads)
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South America  Ancient Village in Amazonas State, Peru.
A large worked-stone settlement of approximately 400 buildings, all within an encircling stone wall as much as 66 feet high. Many of the round stone houses display a zig-zag and diamond decorations in stone. Excavations are still on-going, but some of the buildings have been reconstructed with roof poles and thatch.
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| More superb archive photos
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Jonathan’s Cave
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 13 May 2013 (1092 reads)
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Scotland  Cave in Fife with Pictish carvings This cave received its name from a poor man, Jonathan who lived here with his family during the 18th Century. He was a nail-maker but hand-made nails were priced out of the market when the Carron Iron Works was established in 1759. However a few years ago some of his nails were found on the floor of the Cave.
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| MSP calls for action to save Wemyss caves
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U 170 (Vaxholm)
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Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 13 May 2013 (165 reads)
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Discoveries  A Viking-era rune stone has been "rediscovered" near Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago after a group of university students stumbled across the historic rock that had been hiding in plain sight for nearly 300 years.
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Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
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Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 13 May 2013 (2896 reads)
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England  Museum in West Sussex. Brighton Museum houses one of the most important and eclectic collections outside national institutions.
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| See the unique Bronze Age 'Sussex Loops' and visit the new Chilled to the Bone: Ice Age Sussex exhibition. Also see our page for Hove Park's Goldstone which may contain the remnants of a local stone circle
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Knockdrum Stone Fort
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Submitted by KaiHofmann on Sunday, 12 May 2013 (492 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Stone fort in Co. Cork. The Iron Age stone fort measures 29m in diameter and has 3m thick walls. It is located 1km east of Castletownshend.
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Scargill Low Moor 2
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Sunday, 12 May 2013 (150 reads)
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Rock Art  Rock Art in County Durham. This flat rock surface is located on the southern slope of Pinlow Hill, just few meters south of Scargill Low Moor 1 panel. The motifs include a cup with single ring and groove, as well as simple cup-marks.
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Gray Hill circle
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Friday, 10 May 2013 (17385 reads)
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Site Watch  At least 16 stones can be seen making up this circle on the upper slopes of Gray Hill. Many of the slab like stones are positioned so they are touching each other end to end. Within the circle are a couple of large fallen slabs, possibly remains of an internal chamber.
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| To the hand-print spray paint vandal of Wales, we're on to you...
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Crescent Stone Pillar Taidong
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Submitted by KaiHofmann on Friday, 10 May 2013 (261 reads)
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Digs  3m tall standing stone with remains (3-4 smaller stones left) of a stone circle around it. The site is situated east of the Taidong railway station. Part of the Peinan Cultural Park (see that page for more details)
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| Another ten prehistoric stone coffins discovered close to the Peinan Archaeological Site
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The acclaimed documentary Standing with Stones - view now
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 (6210 reads)
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Resources  Standing with Stones, the classic megalithic road trip by Rupert Soskin and Michael Bott is now available to view online or download for keeps. The film is an exploration into the wealth of prehistoric sites in Britain and Ireland on a scale never previously attempted on film, and aims to give a fresh insight into our megalithic past.
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| Standing with Stones feature doc released for free viewing on Vimeo
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Hall Well
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Submitted by kernunos on Monday, 06 May 2013 (2667 reads)
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England  Holy Well in Derbyshire. This is the grandest of the six Tissington wells. It stands on the grass verge opposite Tissington Hall. It is a magnificent structure with a large overhanging arch.
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| The Tissington Well Dressings are on show from 9-15th May. See the nearby sites list for photos and Google Street Views of all six wells. Also scroll down this page for a new video talk made specially for us by Rose Welch about holy wells, water lore and Derbyshire well dressing.
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Climperwell Round Barrows
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Submitted by 4clydesdale7 on Sunday, 05 May 2013 (334 reads)
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England  Round Barrows in Gloucestershire. This pair of round/bowl barrows (aligned N/S) near Climperwell Farm (a known medieval estate) has been included in the English Heritage 'at risk' Register (1017074) because EH believe the condition of the barrows to suffer from 'extensive significant problems'.
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Jenny's Lantern
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Sunday, 05 May 2013 (349 reads)
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England  Hillfort and settlement in Northumberland. An Iron Age fort and Romano-British settlement are located near the ruins of Jenny's Lantern, SE of Eglingham. The hillfort is of multivallate type with three rings of earth-and-stone ramparts which are well-preserved at the west and SE, but partly damaged at the south and E-NE. The fort covers 0.28ha.
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Whithorn Museum
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Submitted by cosmic on Saturday, 04 May 2013 (5393 reads)
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Scotland  Museum in Dumfries and Galloway. For hundreds of years, pilgrims heading to Whithorn crossed a landscape dotted with ancient churches and ornately carved stone crosses. Such sculpted stones included grave markers of early Christians who lived through the centuries of conflict after the collapse of Roman authority.
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| Funding to Whithorn Priory Museum cut such that it may have to close at the end of July - petition created
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Hafen stone pair alignment
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Submitted by cerrig on Friday, 03 May 2013 (5603 reads)
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Wales  The Hafen stone pair forms an alignment with a small cairn some 40 meters away. The two stones are about 18 meters apart, on a gentle N/E slope . They are quite unusual because of their possibly obvious astronomical setting (obvious to me anyway).
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| The curious case of the moving Hafen stone, see Cerrig's most recent photos near the top
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Dun Na Maraig
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Friday, 03 May 2013 (357 reads)
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Kilmartin  Stone Fort in Argyll. Dun Na Maraig fort is located 450m west of Achnabreck rock art, on the summit of a rocky hill. The best preserved part of the wall is at the west, it survives as a bank of rubble with remains of an entrance. The total area enclosed by the walls of the fort measures 43 x 37m.
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Mohenjo-daro
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 02 May 2013 (4700 reads)
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Site Watch  Ancient City in Sindh.Built around 2600 BC and situated on a ridge, Mohenjo-daro was one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization. It was contemporary to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete, and is a prime example of ancient urban planning.
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| Episodes of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, Armchair Voyage, Buried Treasure and a selection of other vintage TV programmes have been made available from the BBC archives. See comment on this page.
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Skelpick Chambered Cairn 1
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Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 (550 reads)
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Scotland  A long cairn 350m NE of an Orkney-Cromarty type chambered long cairn situated on a low terrace. In rough grassland 70m E of the Skelpick Burn. It is patchily covered by heather.
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Los Millares
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Submitted by FXF on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 (4318 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  Chalcolithic settlement where earliest metal (copper) production in western Europe is documented. Calibrated C14 dating gave ages between 3090 BCE and 2285 BCE. Also a site of tholos (beehive) graves. Was it a local development or a colony of the Minoans? The debate continues...
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Welsh Uplands Archaeology Forum & Guided walk, 10 May 2013
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Submitted by PAB on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 (331 reads)
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Events  This year’s Uplands Archaeology Forum will be held at Plas Tan y Bwlch, Maentwrog, in the Snowdonia National Park on Friday 10 May 2013. The Forum is a day-school entitled ‘Archaeology in the Uplands’ and is organised by the Royal Commission, Snowdonia National Park and Gwynedd Archaeological Trust.
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