Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis menhir in in Castilla y León has lots of holes and stands high on a ridge near a more modern wind farm. There is a story that eggs were thrown at it to make the holes in it by the local people. It also marks the boundary of a couple of local villages.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeHenge in Saxony-Anhalt. A replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple of the sun built by a lost culture 6,800 years ago. The circle of posts, in a flat river plain at Goseck south of Halle, has mystified scientists since its discovery in 1991 by an archaeologist studying the landscape from the air. An excavation found post holes and what may be the remains of ritual fires.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeChambered Tomb in Guernsey. The most interesting of the sites to explore I think, this one has four side chambers similar in the style, if not size to West Kennett Long Barrow. You have to almost lie down to see the unique carving of a stylised face - 'the Guardian of the tomb', thought to be prehistoric in origin, possibly a reused carved menhir on the roof of the tomb.
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Pre-ContactA bison jump used again and again for some two thousand years on the edge of the Alberta foothills near Cayley. A cliff of Paskapoo sandstone rises over the coulee, and at its foot the archaeological deposits reach more than six metres deep, the accumulated remains of drive after drive, still largely undisturbed toward the creek. Driving buffalo over a cliff was among the most productive of all plains hunting techniques, a way to take a great quantity of meat at once for drying and storage, and a successful drive demanded ritual, planning and the effort of the whole community.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA standing stone in the grounds of the golf course at Sausmarez Manor. The current Lord of the Manor moved the menhir to this location from a spot NW of here near the road junction. Its origin is unknown, but the Folklore of Guernsey (Marie De Garis) book mentions many menhirs in this neighbourhood. It stands about 6 feet tall, and bears some marks of attempted destruction. Two of it's sides are smoothed flat.
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Multi-periodA suggestion from one of our contributors that these carvings in India of a cobra approaching this disc carving represent a solar eclipse. Liesbeth continues: Many years ago Raja and I noticed reliefs depicting many different curious fish on a ceiling in the Kailasanatha temple in Kanchipuram. After Raja’s discovery of the eclipse depictions in a pavilion near Mamallapuram and in the Sangameshvara temple in Bhavani (Tamil Nadu) we decided to go back to Kanchipuram and check out this ceiling.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe famous figurines of the Cernavodă "Thinker" and the "Sitting Woman" were discovered during excavations of the necropolis of Cernavodă, the figurines themselves are located at the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest. The museum describes these figurines as "The History of Romania in One Object: The Thinker and the Sitting Woman".
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeTranslated as 'The Grave of the Water Monster', Bedd Yr Afanc is said to be the only gallery grave in Wales. Two parallel rows of stones survive. The site is in a spectacular location and is well worth a visit.
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MuseumsA rib bone in a town museum in Washington State carries the oldest known hunting weapon in the Americas, and for thirty years almost nobody believed it. In August 1977 Emanuel Manis was digging a pond on his farm outside Sequim when he turned up two mastodon tusks. Excavations recovered the animal from what was once a peat bog, and one of its ribs had an object embedded in it. The claim that this was a weapon, and that it predated the Clovis culture, sat unaccepted for a generation.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis wedge tomb in Co. Mayo is 9.6 km south of Louisburgh. This well-preserved sepulchre is in a very beautiful location by the roadside northeast of Lough Nahaltora (Altar Lake). A single large roofstone covers most of the main chamber of the gallery, which is 4.2 metres long. Double-walling, a fine large septal slab, and traces of the cairn survive.
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MuseumsThe chalk figure cut into the hill above this village is around three thousand years old. The building that now explains it is a mere four hundred. Uffington Museum occupies the village schoolhouse, put up in the early 17th century on the of bequest from Thomas Saunders, a local merchant, and used to teach the village children for something like two hundred and fifty years. It opened as a musuem in 1984.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA single standing stone rises from farmland near Rhode, on the flat bog-country of north Offaly. Isolated uprights like this may have marked a burial, a boundary or a route across the low ground; most carry no inscription and their exact purpose is long lost.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA menhir near the hamlet of Le Faget, in the commune of Mayrac, Lot. We have just received this photo and the terrible news that it has been completely demolished and removed. The authorities have been informed but if anyone has any information please let us know. Photo Credit: V. Collier. You can see on our page how it looked before being stolen.
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EventsAttention People of Norwich and surroundings - Join Andy B, founder of the Megalithic Portal in the beautiful surroundings of the Grade II listed Orangery for an Evening of Old Stones and Megalithic Portals. (well one to be exact but you know!) Two talks in one focused around our Old Stones book and 25 Years of the Megalithic Portal! Very kindly hosted by Norfolk Folklore Society.
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StonehengeStonehenge's famous outlier. A single large block of sarsen stone standing within the Avenue outside the entrance of the Stonehenge earthwork. In section it has a minimum thickness of 8 ft (2.4m), rising to a tapered top about 16 ft (4.7m) tall. Excavation has shown that a further 4 ft (1.2m) is buried in the ground.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA lost chambered long cairn in Gloucestershire. Nothing seems to remain at the site but in the nearby Duntisbourne Abbots churchyard is this memorial made from the original stones which is worth a visit.
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Multi-periodHetty Pegler's Tump had a close neighbour, also originally from the Neolithic, with quite the narrative arc which sadly ended around 1200 years ago. You will find no standing temple, no ancient walls and almost nothing to suggest that this quiet field on the southern side of the modern road towards Uley was once an important spiritual centre.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA damaged cairn which still stands up to 3.4m high. On the summit of Moel feddau, Pembrokeshire .
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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierFrom all the rock art sites in celebrated Maros-Pangkep karst area, Leang Sumpang Bita holds probably the most spectacular rock painting you can visit by driving to the site, and is pretty amazing decorated cave in it's own right. There are numerous animal paintings (including a huge, over-a-meter-across representation of a deer and several smaller wild pig images), hand stencils and a very interesting representation of a boat. The paintings are of very high quality and very well preserved.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA lovely menhir nearly 3 metres tall, standing beside the Lich Way on open ground in a saddle between the many local high points of the moor. It was re-erected in 1893 by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee from a fallen position in its original socket hole.
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