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Carnac Discovery Centre
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (99 reads)
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France  After 25 years living in Carnac, independent researcher Howard Crowhurst has opened a centre to facilitate access and understanding of the incredible megalithic Carnac sites in English. The centre is open from March to November and organises one week seminars, conferences, visits and talks.
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Video: Ancient Routes of North Wales, illustrated talk by Tim Prevett
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (105 reads)
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Wales  Author and tour guide Tim Prevett (The Portal's ShropshireTraveller) gives an illustrated talk about Ancient Routes of North Wales. An excellent talk with lots of stones and ancient sites featured in it.
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Carn Dubh, Crannog (Loch Awe)
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Submitted by crannog on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (77 reads)
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Scotland  Investigation in 1972 by a naval sub-aqua team under the direction of Dr T D McArdle of Edinburgh University confirmed that the stony island in Loch Awe, known as Carn Dubh, is a crannog.
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La Zarza
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Submitted by Klingon on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (2496 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  One of a pair of Rock Art locations near the village of Garafia in the north of the island of La Palma. Together with La Zarcita, it is located in the Parque Cultural La Zarza which also houses a small but informative museum. There is also a spring nearby.
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Musashi-Fuchū Kumano-Jinja Kofun
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Submitted by Aska on Monday, 06 February 2012 (132 reads)
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 Round Barrows in Honshū. Recently (2003) excavated 'push button (=a dome on a 2-layered square fundation)' shaped tumulus paved with pebbles behind Kumano Jinja (熊野神社) shinto shrine in a populated area. A museum attached.
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Robin Hood's Barrow (Winchester)
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Saturday, 04 February 2012 (380 reads)
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England  Remains of this bowl barrow are located on edge of the wood west from Winchester. The barrow is surrounded with traces of a with of 0,3 m depth. The site is marked on 16th century map as "Robin Hode's Barrow".
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| SolarMegalith has been exploring this and many other little-known sites west of Winchester
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Mynydd y Betws
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Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 04 February 2012 (296 reads)
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Wales  Sandy Gerrard describes a stone row and associated archaeology he has recently co-discovered on the site of an active wind farm development. The row is associated with over 30 cairns, some of which are kerbed, and he suggests that it may form the focus of an incredibly important ceremonial landscape where the form of space between the numerous earthwork and built elements are as integral and important as the earthworks themselves.
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| 700+ metre stone row at new wind farm appears to have been missed by archaeologists carrying out the pre-development survey, surely building work must cease until the site is more thoroughly explored, as 'Rescue' are calling for?
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Tutuveni
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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 02 February 2012 (229 reads)
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North America  Rock Art in Coconino County, Arizona.
The Tutuveni site contains over 5000 individual petroglyphs on a collection of 150 sandstone boulders set along the Moenkopi Wash. The site is an important stop on a Hopi pilgrimage route that ran from the Hopi heartland to Ongtuvqa, the Grand Canyon. The petroglyphs consist of Hopi clan symbols, and unlike other petroglyph sites where figures of different styles and time periods overlay each other, the symbols here have been applied in rows. This supports oral history and archaeological evidence of the continuity of Hopi ceremonialism and culture dating back to the migration of Anestral Puebloan people to the current pueblo cultures of northeast Arizona and northern New Mexico.
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| Tribal Archaeologists, Academics, and NGOs Perserve and Document Petroglyph Site in Three Dimensions.
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La Gelie
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Submitted by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 (1127 reads)
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France  La Gelie is a burial chamber in the community of Edon, Departement of Charente, Region of Poitou-Charentes
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| Pictures and description in of this wonderful looking but little known site in Charente thanks to TAUPIN. Merci bien.
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Announcing the Megalithic Portal photo competiton winners for September 2011
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 (583 reads)
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Photography  I'm very pleased to announce the winners of the competition for the best photos submitted to us in September 2011, voted for by you. This time Hamish our favourite kite aerial maestro is back in the top spot, just overtaking Tiompan's stunningly atmospheric image of Creag Ard, which is in second place. There are some other fantastic entries as well, read on.
1st Prize: Great Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge by Hamish Fenton
2nd Prize: Creag Ard by tiompan
3rd Prize: Harhoog Keitum by Krautrock
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Princes Risborough Puddingstone
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Submitted by thecaptain on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 (4353 reads)
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England  Recently rediscovered ‘Pudding Stone', which has been restored to proper prominence at the roundabout in Horns Lane / New Road. One of several in the Chilterns thought to have been way-markers for prehistoric man. Princes Risborough is an old market town on the Icknield Way at the edge of the Chiltern Hills.
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| The Icknield Way - Track or Fiction?
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Herodion
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Submitted by motist on Monday, 30 January 2012 (2256 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Herodion, to the south of Jerusalem in the Judean hills, is one of the top historical and archeological sites of Israel. Like some famous counterparts, we have one person to thank for this, and that is King Herod (ruling from 37-4 BCE), who might be called "the Great" simply on the basis of his architectural achievements.
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| Top archaeologists condemn Israeli plan to rebuild ancient tomb
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Texas Barrows
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Sunday, 29 January 2012 (366 reads)
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England  Round Barrows in Hampshire. These two Bronze Age bowl barrows are located on a field SW from Winchester. Both burial mounds are overgrown and heavily disturbed by badgers, but distinguishable. The site has never been excavated.
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Carrowkeel Cairn K
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Thursday, 26 January 2012 (3283 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Chambered Cairn in Co. Sligo. Approached via a tarred track leading E from a by-road running from North to South through the hills, and well-signposted this megalithic cemetery is superbly situated on limestone ridges in different townlands, of which Carrowkeel is only one.
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| 100 years on, and presumably just out of copyright, Martin Byrne has republished Macalister's 1911 excavation report on Carrowkeel
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Town Creek Indian Mound
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (343 reads)
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Museums  Town Creek Indian Mound is a National Historic Landmark near Mount Gilead, Montgomery County, North Carolina. The site preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee, a group of Mississippian mound building people that thrived in the Pee Dee region of North and South Carolina during the Pre-Columbian era from about 1100 to 1400 CE.
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Son Real Necropolis
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Submitted by ShropshireTraveller on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (7184 reads)
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Spain and Portugal  The necropolis of Son Real is located in the Mallorcan town of Santa Margarita on the small headland of Punta Fenicis. The 800-square-foot necropolis dates from the 7th to 4th Century BC, but was also later used as a burial place. Archaeological excavations at the site began after the site's discovery in 1957 and continued until 1970.
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Nakovana Cave
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (543 reads)
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Digs  A cave in Croatia which contains the undisturbed remains of an ancient Illyrian cult sanctuary dating from the 1st millennium B.C. This unprecedented discovery was made in a newly discovered chamber within the Nakovana Cave and revealed an astonishing phallic stalagmite surrounded by ritual artifacts.
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| Oldest known astrologer's board discovered in Dalmatia
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Skellig Michael
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Submitted by jeffrep on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (2858 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  Early Christian Sculptured Stones (and lots more) in Co. Kerry. For 600 years, Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhichíl in Irish Gaelic, meaning Michael's rock) was an important center of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. An Irish Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 755 foot high rock, was built beginning in the 7th Century. Legend associates its founding with St. Fionan.
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| Watch the RTÉ Television Documentary: Secrets Of The Stones
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Valley of the Kings
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Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (6493 reads)
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Other Archaeology  Necropolis on West Bank of Nile at Luxor. A valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the kings and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis.
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| Egyptian singer unearthed in Valley of the Kings
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Mnajdra and Hagar-Qim, a Maltese Treasure
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Submitted by LittleEnki on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 (318 reads)
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Mysteries  Recently, while corresponding with a colleague from The West coast, I was introduced to the wonders of the Maltese megalithic sites of Hagar-Qim and Mnajdra. They are not very well known to the average student of civilization studies, well not in the US, but when observed closer, one sees a wondrous treasure trove of technology and spiritual design.
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