Neolithic and Bronze AgeA nine metre long megalithic tomb with a 21 metre wide arc shaped facade of stone slabs and large stone stele. Oriented south-easterly and at 437 metres altitude. This tomb has a larger than usual mound in order to bring the rear level with the front as it faces uphill. 13 of the 14 capstones are still intact.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryMarko writes: Half a hill fort is better than none! #HillFortsWednesday The half I did see was worth the climb up from Oldcastle. The other (north-west rampart) is under bracken but still impressive, as is the central bank. A modern track runs right alongside the south-western rampart. The north-eastern side is defended by the natural steep slope of Hatterall Hill.
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Modern SitesA theme park in Uppland dedicated to exploring the history and art of runestones. The owner and operator, Kalle, offers guided tours of Birka (as well as boat crossings) and personally crafts and paints the rune stones; many of the replicas found in museums and runestones used in modern cemeteries across the region are his work.
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Neolithic and Bronze Age80 standing stones dated to approximately 3,500-4,000 years ago. The site includes stone circles and boulder formations, some with rock art. Certain stones align with the sun during equinoxes and solstices, indicating deliberate astronomical planning alongside the sky-map carvings (details of these on our page). Added to India's UNESCO Tentative World Heritage List in 2025.
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MuseumsIn a castle overlooking the village of Pontremoli, Lunigiana, Italy. About 16 Lunigiana type Statue Menhir / stelae were found near the village of Zignago, starting in 1867, some abandoned near Taponecco, under the basement of the Sorano church and in the woods and mountains near Pontevecchio and Filetto. Six of these stelea are now shown in the La Spezia Ethnographic and Civic Museum and eight in the Pontremoli Museum. Reproductions of some, (including the 2 lost statue menhir made from old drawings at Pontremoli), are located in both museums.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA row of four stones on Mull surveyed by Professor Alexander Thom, aligned NNW-SSE. Only one remains upright currently. Sandy Gerrard from Stone Rows of Great Britain warns it is difficult to reach. A map and/or reliable GPS device is essential, or "the chances of getting hopelessly lost are high". Close by are 2 fallen stones with an almost concealed fourth pillar. Earlier reports indicate a fifth stone, now gone, which suggests that this was formerly a 5-stone row about 33' long.
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Early MedievalThis wayside cross shaft, reported stolen in the 1970s, appears to be back! It would seem stylistically to date to the late Anglo Saxon period. It has the initials EB carved at the top, these belonging to one of the Bradburys who farmed at Coldwell Clough for centuries, where it was previously reused and probably turned into a sundial to decorate the farm.
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Multi-periodFive monumental stone pillars from the entrance portico stand against the desert sky in eastern Yemen, the most recognisable image of ancient South Arabian civilisation. Known as Arsh Bilqis - the Throne of Bilqis, or Throne of the Queen of Sheba - this Sabaean sun temple at Marib dates to approximately the 7th century BCE. Note: this site has been in the middle of an active conflict zone since 2014.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeRemnants of a ruined stone circle near to the southern end of Loch Frisa on the Isle of Mull. The circle would have had a diameter of approx. 33m - 40m with 4 surviving stones from an original estimated 11 to 14. The stones range in height from 0.95m to 2.2m.
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Rock ArtOn the mountain slopes surrounding the city of Valencia in Venezuela are numerous ancient indigenous paths, with many painted rocks and ceramic artifacts left by those inhabitants. The site has a small museum where some of these indigenous ceramics and sculpted rocks are exhibited.
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Natural PlacesA rock highly valued by the indigenous tribes that inhabit this region of Venezuela. They consider this stone to be their ancestral grandmother. In 1998, the German visual artist Wolfgang von Schwarzenfeld removed it from its location and exhibited it in the Tiergarten park in Berlin (Germany). In 2020, the rock was returned to Venezuela, and is currently on display at a small tourist centre, next to an important natural river resort called "Quebrada de Jaspe".
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Early MedievalCurrently on display in the library above Wakefield Museum, this log boat is on loan from York Museums Trust, this is "Britain's only known Anglo-Scandinavian boat", discovered beneath the bed of the River Calder in 1838 during construction of the Stanley Ferry Aqueduct, and is a rare example of a Viking-period dugout boat in Britain.
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ReviewsTerence Meaden's work has been known to readers of the Megalithic Portal for many years. His systematic study of British and Irish stone circles, arguing that their stone arrangements enact a recurring fertility symbolism - tall thin stones as the male principle, broader flat ones as female - is one of those bodies of research to engage with seriously whether or not you end up persuaded. Meaden visits sites at sunrise on the relevant festival dates. He measures, photographs, and documents. This book is the fullest statement of that fieldwork to date, covering around 120 stone circles across Cork and Kerry with analyses, dawn photography, and a complete site-by-site gazetteer.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeTwo cairns - burial monuments dating from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, visible as two stony mounds. On the headland at Gallanach Bay, Isle of Muck.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeNeolithic (and Roman) Long Barrow which comprises a 44m long 15m wide, 2.5 m high earthen and turf covered chalk structure. A flint axe head dating to circa 2000BCE was found in the core. A ditch extends along eastern and western side side and southern end. In the upper layer of the ditch 4 Romano British burials were found.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeMegalitgrav (Burial Chamber) in Holbæk. A dolmen on a low mound with one capstone, 5 orthostats (uprights) and one entrance stone.
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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierA Lower Palaeolithic site in the Vertes Hills of northwestern Hungary where Homo heidelbergensis (or possibly Homo erectus) left traces dating to approximately 350,000-400,000 years ago - among the earliest evidence of human presence in Central Europe. Excavations were carried out in the 1960s by Laszlo Vertes. The site has produced stone tools and, most remarkably, a partial occipital bone (the back of a skull) known as 'Vertesszollos Man' (Samu) - pictured.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryOne of the largest pastoralist cemeteries in Africa, with over 3,000 burials excavated from a shallow valley on the isolated rocky hill of Jebel Moya in the Gezira plain of central Sudan, between the White Nile and Blue Nile rivers south of Khartoum. The site was first excavated by Henry Wellcome between 1911 and 1914 in one of the largest archaeological excavations ever conducted in Africa at that time, employing thousands of workers. The cemetery dates primarily to the 1st millennium BCE and early 1st millennium CE [Old Kingdom Period], though earlier occupation phases exist. The Wellcome Collection has records and photographs from the excavations, linked from our page.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeAn Early Neolithic stalled chambered cairn at the northern tip of Holm of Papa Westray, the small islet lying east of Papa Westray, Orkney. Ancient DNA results published in 2026 by Prof. Vicki Cummings and colleagues identified a father and son entombed here in the mid-3300s BCE alongside the father's maternal uncle or half-brother, and revealed that two of the women buried here were genetically connected to a male at Tulach an t-Sionnaich in Caithness - family links across the Pentland Firth at the very edge of early Neolithic Britain.
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