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Sighthill Park Stone Circle
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Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 (8142 reads)
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Scotland  Modern Stone Circle in Glasgow city. It was created in the late 1970s by amateur astronomer and science writer Duncan Lunan to mirror the rise and fall of the moon and sun across Glasgow.
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| Summer solstice at Sighthill Park Stone Circle: Talk 20th June, Sunset on the 21st. Also a concert fundraising to save the circle on 27th July 2013 featuring members of Mogwai, Arab Strap and many more. * Are you holding a local solstice event, please let us know and view or send some photos *
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Fanmore Midden
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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 17 June 2013 (227 reads)
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Republic of Ireland  High tides exposed this shellfish midden in north Clare October 2008. Radiocarbon dating revealed it to be at least 6,000 years old. The midden - a cooking area where nomad hunter-gatherers boiled or roasted shellfish - contained Stone Age implements, including two axes and a number of smaller stone tools.
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| 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery in County Clare, Ireland. See comment.
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Ceibal
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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 14 June 2013 (3951 reads)
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Central America  Ancient Town in Peten. With one of the longest occupation sequences of all Mayan sites, Ceibal was first occupied in 800 BC, and reached its peak (~50 AD) in the Classic Period. The city was abandoned during the 6thC, but quickly re-occupied until its final abandonment in the 9thC.
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| New evidence unearthed for the origins of the Maya
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Museo Arqueológico Gregorio Aguilar Barea
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 14 June 2013 (222 reads)
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Museums  The massive collection of pre-Columbian artifacts and items is one of the most spellbinding attractions in Juigalpa. The elaborately carved statues, of which some are over seven meters in height, are estimated to be between a thousand to a thousand-five hundred years old, and represent human figures, idols, deities and zoomorphic figures. There are more than a hundred and twenty statues in the museum collection.
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Benzaiten Kofun
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Submitted by Aska on Friday, 14 June 2013 (223 reads)
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Resources  Passage Grave in Kyūshū. Aa odd oval tumulus in a reclaimed area, its chamber is a pile of flat stones.
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Megalithic Portal Summer 2013 Events, July 2013 Gower, Wales
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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 (776 reads)
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Events  Megalithic Portal walks at Rhossili, Gower, South Wales
Sat 20th Jul 2013 - Sun 21st Jul 2013
Volunteers from the Megalithic Portal Society will be available in the car park at Rhossili to direct and guide people on walks to the many prehistoric sites in the area. There is a good range of types and length of walk, and we hope to arrange other activities depending on the weather.
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Wisht Maen, Devon Earth Mysteries Magazine
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Submitted by traceyramsbottom on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 (560 reads)
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Alternative Archaeology  Tracey Ramsbottom (nee Brown) writes: I produced and edited the Devon earth mysteries magazine Wisht Maen between 1993-1996. I have now scanned and made all the issues available to download via the Megalithic Portal. The issues feature some fantastic artwork by Anna Clarke and some very interesting articles by Paul Broadhurst, Cheryl Straffon, Andy Norfolk, Jeremy Harte, Pete Glastonbury and others.
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Green (Eday)
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Submitted by MickM on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 (13051 reads)
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Digs  Fieldwalking at this site produced quantities of worked stone and in 2004 a test pit revealed in situ masonry together with a possible hearth, suggesting the presence of a Neolithic building. In 2006 a geophysical survey seemed to confirm this. Excavations are ongoing each summer at this site, a farm on the south coast of the Isle of Eday.
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| Summer 2013 open days for the Neolithic excavation at Green, Eday
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Megaliths of the Upland South, Imposing stones of uncertain function
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Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 10 June 2013 (635 reads)
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Discoveries  Donald B Ball writes: Having had the pleasure of reading many of the interesting postings on the Megalithic Portal web site, I felt it more than appropriate to contribute to the content of your site rather than merely stand in the sidelines while others do all of the work. I believe you might find of interest the attached extended article about prehistoric megaliths in the Upland South region of the southeastern United States.
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Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 10 June 2013 (14676 reads)
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North America  Misc. Earthworks in USA. Mound City Group - Hopewell Culture NHP, Lower Ohio Valley, Ohio. A religious and civic centre consisting of earthwork enclosures, burial mounds, misc. mounds, and the location of a timber building.
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| A review of Mound City: the Archaeology of a Renowned Hopewell Mound Center, the final report and synthesis of 50 years of study. Also, ROBERT L. HARNESS Summer Lecture Series. See comments.
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Bartlow Hills
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Submitted by Thorgrim on Sunday, 09 June 2013 (15043 reads)
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England  These are the largest barrows in Britain, although they are Romano-British rather than prehistoric. Very few people know of them. Originally the largest group in Europe when there were seven enormous barrows here. Then the now disused railway came through and flattened four of them!
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| Bartlow Hills Guided Walk with storytelling, July 3 2013
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The Devil Stones (Maribor)
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Submitted by turmistika on Sunday, 09 June 2013 (547 reads)
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Discoveries  The Devil stones in south Styria, Slovenia. [These are generally considered to be a natural formation but here Turmistika makes the case for it being an unknown megalithic monument] This amazing composition, built from large stones, stands exactly at the top of a panoramic hill.
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Teotihuacan - Temple of Quetzalcoatl
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Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 08 June 2013 (12733 reads)
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Central America  Temple Pyramid in Hidalgo State, Mexico.
Sacred to the Feathered Serpent God, known as Quetzalcoatl by Nahuatl speakers in the later Post Classical era, This temple is the heart of the Ciudadela, a rectangular plaza surrounded by low temple platforms. The Ciudadela [Citadel] was built at a later date than the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon to the northeast. It is sited on the "Street of the Dead" and a the major cross street, and is the center of the quartered ancient city, ca. 300 AD.
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| Robot finds mysterious pyrite spheres in ancient temple. See the most recent comment
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Dilmun Monuments and Settlement
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Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 07 June 2013 (5918 reads)
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New Sites  The following monuments are located with this area: Early Dilmun town, South Burial Complex (the "Honeycomb" complex), North Burial Complex,Late Dilmun temple and various single burial mounds
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| Bahrain digs unveil one of the oldest trading civilisations
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Catstone Hill
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Submitted by ESgt on Friday, 07 June 2013 (1373 reads)
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England  In a bowl shaped depression on the hill there are two sets of boulders which could be passage grave cap stones - the name 'Catstone' could be a corruption of cap-stone. However Frank Earp, who is researching the site as part of the Three Stone project is convinced it is not a burial chamber. What it is however is not clear. He is looking to show that it dates to the Bronze Age, the nearest equivalent would be a stone circle.
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| Ancient stone mysteriously dug up, moved 200 yards away and replaced with rubble, see comment
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Waun Llwyd cairn
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Submitted by Cerrig on Friday, 07 June 2013 (353 reads)
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Wales  Waun Llwyd cairn is a largely ruined and robbed monument. It is found next to an Ancient stream that now runs dry except in very wet weather, quite close to the present day source of the river Usk . It has mostly disappeared except for a few stones protruding through the scrubby vegetation. The central Cist is the only real indication that this is a genuine cairn, as most of the stones have been long robbed, as is the norm in this part of Wales, especially with the lower mountain slopes.
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| There does not seem to be any official record of this cairn, so it may be a new find.
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Motukorea Cone Pa
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Submitted by DrewParsons on Friday, 07 June 2013 (413 reads)
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Other Archaeology  This cone pa is one of three on Browns Island / Motukorea Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. The transverse ditches and banks are still evident on the highest slopes of the cone and can be seen in the photograph opposite.
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Millstone Burn 1g
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Submitted by SolarMegalith on Wednesday, 05 June 2013 (819 reads)
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Rock Art  This pyramid-shaped boulder is decorated with three large cup-marks carved near its top. Erosion of the rock has made it look like a grotesque human face. There are more cup-marks underneath the turf to the west.
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| Prepare to be seriously 'creeped out' by some Rock Art
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Vaison
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Submitted by hobboy on Monday, 03 June 2013 (612 reads)
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France  Four (presumably modern) stone circles, each of different sizes but all inside of each other, like Russian Dolls. They have modern day markings - quotes and writing from different historical figures and in different languages.
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