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University of the Highlands (UHI) Archaeology Institute Orkney Archaeology Projects – Interactive Map
With locations and excavation opening hours over summer 2018
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2018/02/14/uhi-archaeology-institute-orkney-archaeology-projects-interactive-map/
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| Posted 15-02-2018 at 17:55
Archaeological Sites in Al Jouf Province, Saudi Arabia:
With lat/long locations
eg 3-6 Alshoihaitia Site:
It is located on 040.13.199 longitude and 30.17. 000 latitude, approximat ely 45 kilometers to
the north of Sakaka stretching out through a wide valley to the north of Al Shoihaitia village.
Alshoihaitia site is considered as oldest archaeological site in the Kingdom so far as it
reaches the age of one million three hundred thousand years to one million B C, and return to
the age of Al Oldawan in the stone ages. Field survey the field survey t eams found some 16
settlements, in which are found about 2,000 pieces of stone tools, including: stone knives,
hammers, the heads of arrows, and some of the t ools of multi -spherical surfaces. The area
has been fenced with great columns erected on large distances at the ent rance of site.
There is also a site on the outskirts of a small hill in which many rocky paintings of camels,
ibex, and fishing manifestations. In addition to a drawing pres ents three men riding on
camels, besides engravings, straight geometrical lines stand on three legs they could be
marks or incomplete drawing in such irregular line forms that they are looking like the
following figures:
Rocky drawings coordinate: 040.090. 279 longitude and 30.17.58 latitude
https://scth.gov.sa/en/Antiquities-Museums/Researches/Documents/Archeological_Sites_in_AlJouf.pdf
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| Posted 18-02-2018 at 14:04
Prehistoric wine discovered in inaccessible caves forces a rethink of ancient Sicilian culture
At lower levels, these caves average 99 degrees Fahrenheit and 100 percent humidity. Human sweat cannot evaporate and heat stroke can result in less than 20 minutes of exposure to these underground conditions.
Nonetheless, people have been visiting the caves of Monte Kronio (Sicily) since as far back as 8,000 years ago. They’ve left behind vessels from the Copper Age (early sixth to early third millennium B.C.) as well as various sizes of ceramic storage jars, jugs and basins. In the deepest cavities of the mountain these artifacts sometimes lie with human skeletons.
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https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/02/prehistoric-wine-discovered-inaccessible-caves-forces-rethink-ancient-sicilian-culture/118462
With thanks to Pål Svensson for the link
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| Posted 24-02-2018 at 14:09
Terry Sturgill writes:
I was browsing the web today when I came across your site. I noticed the mound sites in Ohio and happens to notice a mound site not listed that I remember from my child hood. It is located outside Trenton Oh on Wayne Madison road.
If you care to look at at map you will find it just North if Signal Mound road I believe it was reviewed by archeologists years ago and noted as a non burial site. But it is a interesting site
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| Posted 25-02-2018 at 18:59
All our links to 'Exploring Scotand's Places' need updating to the equivalent one on Canmore. They should show up here
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/google_results.php?cx=partner-pub-4246035596572293%3A5pf3mx-mylq&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=scotlandsplaces&sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=scotlandsplaces&gsc.page=1
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| Posted 27-02-2018 at 17:31
Another link fixing one - Past Horizons News has disappeared off the face of the earth with all their archaeology news articles gone. Fortunately some of them have been saved by archive.org but all our Past Horizons links need converting to archive.org ones.
Here they are
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/google_results.php?cx=partner-pub-4246035596572293%3A5pf3mx-mylq&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pasthorizonspr&sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=pasthorizonspr&gsc.page=1
also some will be listed under their old domain name
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/google_results.php?cx=partner-pub-4246035596572293%3A5pf3mx-mylq&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pasthorizonspr&sa=Search#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=pasthorizons
Also another useful one would be to catalogue and link to all the other Past Horizons articles in the archive that relate to specific sites, so the information can still be accessed. Currently unless you know they are in the archive and know how to get to them they aren't really accessible.
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| Posted 08-03-2018 at 18:15
Alan Hunter Blair (GUARD Archaeology) presents a short lecture on "Neolithic halls, Bronze Age roundhouses and a Late Bronze Age hoard at Carnoustie" at the Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP 2017) national day conference on Saturday 27th May 2017 at the National Museums Scotland auditorium, Edinburgh.
Two versions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxL0AbnD_2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zta-eWoS_EA
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| Posted 10-03-2018 at 18:13
Many 'Wonders of the Peak' to link from various of our pages:
https://www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk/pocketwonders/archaeology/
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| Posted 15-03-2018 at 18:20
Perthi Duon, Portal Dolmen on Anglesey at SH480668
Excavation of Neolithic chambered tomb on Anglesey begins
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/03/excavation-of-neolithic-chambered-tomb-on-anglesey-begins/102592
Anglesey: Mysterious artefact discovered at Neolithic tomb
Find at Perthi Duon excavation site near Brynsiencyn could prove existence of a British Copper Age says Dr George Nash
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anglesey-mysterious-artefact-discovered-neolithic-6997721
Facebook photos from George
https://www.facebook.com/groups/525116760924617/permalink/1276795509090068/
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| Posted 15-03-2018 at 21:46
Kidlandlee Dean excavations, house platform and field boundaries. Late Iron Age or Bronze Age date.
One of the cairns investigated is of particular note in that it is a tri-radial type.
This is similar to cairns found at Hart Heugh, near Wooler, Lordenshaws and Turf Knowe. A tri-radial cairn has, as the name implies, three radiating arms of stone boulders. These look like a three pointed star, with one ray pointing to the north, another pointing to the rising sun on Midsummer day, and the other to the sunset on Midsummers Day.
The cairn at Hart Heugh was excavated by the Border Archaeological Society and a team led by Bill Ford.
A radiocarbon date from a burnt area underneath one of the arms gave a date in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. This is around 2600BC. It is fair to assume that the tri-radial cairn (and the more usual round burial cairns) at Kidlandlee Dean could be of a similar date.
http://www.gefrin.com/kidlandlee/kidlandlee.html
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| Posted 21-03-2018 at 20:33
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we have a page about vasagård here. the excavations are there.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6338055
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| Posted 12-04-2018 at 16:02
The University of Helsinki has an Archaeoacoustics research project running:
In Finland, there are a number of steep cliffs situated on old water routes. Many of these cliffs include rock paintings or offering sites that indicate past ritual activity, possibly including sound and music making. In 2013, a joint musicological and archaeological research project was started to examine the acoustic properties of these sacred sites. The acoustic measurements carried out between 2013 and 2016 indicate that the painted and sacrificial cliffs reflect sound forcibly, forming a special acoustic environment distinct from the nearby surroundings. This suggests a link between sound rituals and the sacred sites.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/acoustics-of-sacred-sites
Study sites
So far acoustic measurements have been performed at three sacred sites in northern Finland, namely, two prehistoric rock paintings (5200 to 1000 BC) and one Sámi offering site from the historical period (circa 1100 to present). All of these sites are located on steep cliffs rising on the shores of narrow canyon-like lakes, where the water levels have remained constant throughout the past millennia. As the cliffs fall straight into the water, the sites can only be accessed by boat or, during the winter, over the frozen surface of the lake.
Värikallio
The rock painting of Värikallio, in Suomussalmi, is one of the largest of its type in Finland, with at least 60 distinguishable images. The paintings have been crafted in a tight cluster on the face of a smallish cliff at the eastern end of Lake Somerjärvi. They include characteristic figures of triangle-headed humans, stick-figure elk or deer, geometric motifs and non-cervid animals that may represent lizards or beavers. In addition, several drumming human figures previously unknown in Finnish rock art were identified during our fieldwork.
Julma-Ölkky
The rock painting of Julma-Ölkky, in Kuusamo, lies approximately 3.5 km to the north-east of Värikallio, on a tall fractured cliff rising on the eastern shore of a lake similarly called Julma-Ölkky. With just three or four faint images, it is a much humbler site than Värikallio. There is a small painting of an elk facing right and two stick-figure humans of roughly the same size. A fourth figure, perhaps another elk, may be present to the right of the elk. The cliff itself, however, is more imposing than Värikallio.
Taatsinkirkko
The offering site of Taatsinkirkko is a smooth cliff surface rising on the northern shore of a narrow canyon lake called Rotkojärvi in Kittilä. Ethno-historical sources describe that the Sámi used to offer fish and reindeer there. According to Samuli Paulaharju (1932), a collector of ethnographic knowledge, the Sámi sang "their sieidi-prayers" at the foot of Taatsinkirkko because the cliff echoed. The expression "sieidi-prayer" undoubtedly refers to what, in Sámi culture, is known as joik, a type of magical singing.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/acoustics-of-sacred-sites/study-sites#section-24840
Another Finnish rock art site is Syrjäsalmi
Source:
RED OCHRE OR SOMETHING ELSE? GEOCHEMICAL TESTS ON FINNISH ROCK ART PAINTS
Abstract author(s): Kailamaki, Uine - Holmqvist-Sipilä, Elisabeth (University of Helsinki) - Vajanto, Krista (Nanomicroscopy
Center of Aalto University) - Lahelma, Antti (University of Helsinki)
Finnish rock paintings can be seen as a part of a larger northern hunter-gatherer rock art tradition. The red paintings depict stylized
animals, humans, boats and geometric patterns painted on steep rock surfaces near ancient waterways. They have been preserved
by naturally accumulating silica glazes, and based on shore displacement chronology they are typically associated with Subneolithic
northeast European Pit-Comb Ware cultures.
In this pioneering pilot study we examined pigment-containing and plain reference samples from two rock art sites in Finland with en-
ergy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (EDXRF) and scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spec-
troscopy (SEM-EDS). Even though the paintings are commonly designated as ‘red ochre rock paintings’, actual studies of pigment
composition have been few and far between. The presence of some kind of binders is suggested by thickness of paint, but little is
known of their nature, and even the prevalence of ochre in the paint remains more an assumption than a demonstrated fact. Our
goal was to test feasibility of chemical fingerprinting of these paints with EDXRF spectroscopy, and to gain further insight into their
composition with SEM-EDS.
Our results highlight a difference in composition between the red paints used in our two test sites. The painting of Syrjäsalmi in
south-eastern Finland is enriched in iron in comparison to the bare bedrock, thus tentatively confirming the red ochre hypothesis in
this case. However, the strikingly red paint of the Värikallio site in north-eastern Finland shows almost no trace of iron in either EDXRF
or SEM-EDS results, and in comparison to background bedrock samples it seems to be enriched in potassium and rubidium instead.
This suggests that in some cases the red colour may have been achieved without the use of ferric earth pigments, and other reds
such as organic dyes may have been used instead.
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| Posted 14-04-2018 at 04:47
I wonder if there are similar acoustic sites in UK
Eg
Neolithic rock art at Ballochmyle
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6564
https://www.scottishheritagehub.com/content/case-study-creative-archaeological-visualization-rock-art-ballochmyle
Steven J. Waller's Rock Art Acoustics page
https://sites.google.com/site/rockartacoustics/
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| Posted 27-04-2018 at 22:07
[site page http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50484 created 27th September 2018. Note: I didn't put this site on in the TNA linking exercise, as it was classed as a sacred mountain, but this site is really interesting! I've also added the Canmore link].
Creag na Cailleach, Killin, Perthshire
NN 5640 3715
https://megalithix.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/creag-na-cailleach/
Here, where axes were quarried by ancient man from beneath Her rocky slopes, this ‘Hill of the Old Woman’, or ‘Hag’, was one of the abodes of the primal Mother Goddess in olden times, so says her name.
Axe production has been found to have occurred as early as 2500 BC. There have been numerous flint finds hereabouts aswell – but considering this is a mountain, you’d expect to find something on or about Her slopes!
... two upland axe quarries, the first was at Langdale in Cumbria, the source of Group VI
[Epidotized intermediate tuff] axeheads (Bradley & Edmonds 1988; 1993), and
the second was at Creag na Caillich near Killin in Perthshire (Edmonds et al.
1992), which was the source of Group XXIV [Calc-silicate hornfels] axeheads.
p28 of The Social Context of Prehistoric Extraction Sites in the UK
https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10443/3697/1/Topping%2C%20P.%202017.pdf
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| Posted 27-04-2018 at 22:11
[Site page http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50483 created 27th September 2018]
In Depth - Neolithic & Bronze Age Burwick - Archaeology Shetland
On the west mainland coast just north of Scalloway and situated between the hills of Burwick and Houlland is the coastal community of Burwick itself. What was once a more vibrant place with a fishing station as its central feature is now but two crofts settled amongst a variety of period ruins. The base of a long sloping valley with several small lochs culminating at the Hill of Griesta, this lower coastal area is littered with the remains of horizontal mills, field boundaries and several croft houses, most from the 19th and early 20th centuries, with the odd Bronze Age site in evidence such as the ubiquitous burnt mounds. However, as you climb away from this tight cluster and just past the Loch of Burwick you enter an area rich in Neolithic sites.
It is a challenging place to field study. Always marshy in the lowest reaches around the lochs, any elevation gives way to thick heather and peat obscuring both objective details on the landscape and rather insecure footing. With two former 19th century crofts nestled in the slopes just east of the Loch of Houlland and the Loch of Garth, the area has seen some mixed use. Of this, the removal of peat has been perhaps the most damaging and as a result further and more intense study has been hindered by these landscape elements.
Nonetheless, the first feature of note and one that stands most starkly against the landscape is a Neolithic structure just west of the Loch of Houlland, NGR HU 3975 4161 and scheduled as “Loch of Houlland, homestead”. It must be mentioned this site bears an uncanny resemblance to Stanydale Temple, another large structure of late Neolithic origin...
More at
https://www.archaeologyshetland.org/single-post/2015/05/13/In-Depth-Neolithic-Bronze-Age-Burwick
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| Posted 08-06-2018 at 15:17
Fragmenting the Chieftain
Late Bronze and Early Iron Age elite burials in the Low Countries
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof | 2017
Sidestone Press
There is a cluster of Early Iron Age (800–500 BC) elite burials in the Low Countries in which bronze vessels, weaponry, horse-gear and wagons were interred as grave goods. Mostly imports from Central Europe, these objects are found brought together in varying configurations in cremation burials generally known as chieftains’ graves or princely burials. In terms of grave goods they resemble the Fürstengräber of the Hallstatt Culture of Central Europe, with famous Dutch and Belgian examples being the Chieftain’s grave of Oss, the wagon-grave of Wijchen and the elite cemetery of Court-St-Etienne.
The majority of the Dutch and Belgian burials were found several decades to several centuries ago and context information tends to be limited. They also tend to be published in Dutch or French or otherwise difficult to access publications. This research went back to the original reports and studied the objects found in these graves in detail. This generated new and evidence-based insights and interpretations into these exceptional burials and allowed for the reconstruction of the individual burial rituals. Fragmenting the Chieftain – Catalogue presents the first comprehensive overview of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves (in English) and the objects they contain.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/fragmenting-the-chieftain-catalogue
The results of an in-depth and practice-based archaeological analysis of the Dutch and Belgian elite graves and the burial practice through which they were created can be found in Fragmenting the Chieftain. A practice-based study of Early Iron Age Hallstatt C elite burials in the Low Countries.
It was established that the elite burials are embedded in the local burial practices – as reflected by the use of the cremation rite, the bending and breaking of grave goods, and the pars pro toto deposition of human remains and objects, all in accordance with the dominant local urnfield burial practice. It appears that those individuals interred with wagons and related items warranted a more elaborate funerary rite, most likely because these ceremonial and cosmologically charged vehicles marked their owners out as exceptional individuals. Furthermore, in a few graves the configuration of the grave good set, the use of textiles to wrap grave goods and the dead and the reuse of burial mounds show the influence of individuals familiar with Hallstatt Culture burial customs.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/fragmenting-the-chieftain
Both freely readable online
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| Posted 08-06-2018 at 15:35
I'm not sure where best to put this but here is as good a place as any. Partial archive / backup of many megalithic photos from Panoramio posted by user mYr -
Panoramio has now been shut down but some of the photo collection is here
https://web.archive.org/web/20170206003124/http://www.panoramio.com/user/5623898?photo_page=1
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| Posted 10-06-2018 at 09:59
No locations but many photos and diagrams of Swedish runestones here
http://www.arild-hauge.com/sweden.htm
From ARILD HAUGE’S RUNES
A summary about Runes and Viking related stuff in English.
http://www.arild-hauge.com/eindex.htm
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| Posted 02-07-2018 at 11:33
We have most of the sites from the excellent resource 'Ancient Stones' listed but I found one we didn't - the stones at Whiteadder Reservoir, which I added with a credit / source link to them. Possibly they have others we don't list. This is their Lothian section.
http://www.ancient-stones.co.uk/lothian/main.htm
They also have Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway and Fife.
Update from Anne T, 23rd October 2018: As we are travelling up to the Lothian's next week, I was keen to have a look at Ancient Stones's Lothian pages. I've have created the following new site pages (below). I've added a link to the AS webpage for existing SIDs.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50509
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50518
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50526
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50534
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50573
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50574
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50627
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50628
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50634
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50635
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50636
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50637
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50639
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50640
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50641
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50642
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50653
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50654
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=50655
Hopefully I'll be able to add photographs for a few of these shortly.
I'll also have a look at the other areas when I get back from my travels, unless anyone else would like to help?
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| Posted 19-07-2018 at 13:34
Robert Chapple writes: Lisnacroppan Barrow (‘the fort of the hillock’) is comprised of a mound and enclosure ditch and would appear to date to the prehistoric period. In later times it was used as an inauguration site. The HED’s online Sites & Monuments Record
https://apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/NISMR-PUBLIC/Details.aspx?MonID=8204
notes that ‘It has been ploughed down in the E half, in a line NW-SE, both parts are separated by a fence’. A report by David Bell from 2011 notes that ‘This appears to have occurred between the publication of the 1st and 3rd editions of the relevant OS 6” map, probably in the later half of the 19th century.’ Although slightly difficult to see, the aerial photograph can be seen to show a curving arc running through the missing portion of the site.
Initially, I though it may have represented an inner ditch between the mound and the external bank, but the more I look at it, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that it's a previously unrecognised ditch, external to the whole site. Perhaps further flights will reveal more of this site and even some further features, as yet unrecognised, in the surrounding fields.
More here
http://rmchapple.blogspot.com/2018/07/crop-marks-reveal-little-more-of.html?m=1
I am grateful to the Save Knock Iveagh group for the use of their photography. Please support them by giving their page a ‘like’ here
https://www.facebook.com/saveknockiveagh/
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