PhotographyContinuing our photo competition catch-up, we are delighted to announce the winners for photos submitted to us between January and March 2021. As always these were all voted for by you, our visitors and contributors. Votes are still being collected for all photos submitted since then and we will be announcing more winners soon.
1st Prize: Knocknagappul Stone Row by GaelicLaird
2nd Prize: Broch of Gurness by PAB
3rd Prize: The Bullstones by Gritstone
View the winning photos and highly commendeds below.
Image submitted by GaelicLaird

Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe bronze age barrow cemetery south of Stonehenge, the other side of the A303. Including Early Bronze Age Beaker burials and the remains of a Neolithic long barrow.
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Multi-periodThe history of Nalanda goes back to the days of Mahavira and Buddha in the 6th century BCE. It was the place of birth and nirvana of Sariputra, one of the famous disciples of Buddha. The place rose into prominence in the 5th century CE as a great monastic-cum-educational institution for oriental art and learning in the whole Buddhist world, attracting students from distant countries including China.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryOne of the oldest rock-cut caves in India (300 BCE). Some of the caves have Ashokan inscriptions. Most of the caves consist of two chambers.The caves were carved out of granite. The interior has a highly polished surface. Most of the caves have an interesting echo effect.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis bronze age barrow - RB4 on the sketch map - is one of at least seven which comprise the barrow cemetery spread across the relatively level ground on the north east part of Newton Mulgrave Moor, North Yorkshire. Read on for information on the other barrows.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryA simple cliff castle or promontory fort (Iron Age) on a headland consisting of a prominent granite outcrop with steep cliffs forming some of the sides. A wall has been built across the promontory linking the cliffs to fortify or enclose it. There are no traces of any ditches as a defence or any evidence for occupation within the enclosed area. The wall is around 100 metres long, its construction and the size of the wall vary along its length - suggesting later alterations.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe necropolis of S'Iscrithola consists of five Neolithic domus de janas (rock-cut tombs) located on a slope descending towards the artificial lake of Gusana, in a beautiful forest area in Sardinia. The tombs are cut in relatively small rock outcrops. All the tombs are single-chambered, except for tomb 5, which has an antechamber and main chamber. Tomb 3 is partly damaged due to rock collapse.
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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierCooper's Ferry is an archaeological site along the lower Salmon River, Idaho. Various lithic and animal remains from the Pleistocene to early Holocene ages have been found there. Radiocarbon dating provided a date mapping to 15,700 years calendar years ago. This would be several thousand years before the Clovis fluted points. The excavators have suggested their finds support the idea that early Americans arrived via a coastal route followed by riverine travel.
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Early Medieval (Dark Age)This wheel-headed wayside cross is found in front of the church at Trevalga, Cornwall. It is believed to date from the 8th century. It used to stand by the churchpath but was moved to the churchyard in the early 19th century by the then rector.
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Multi-periodA very remote site high upon a hill, at the steep borders of a canyon river. It was discovered in 1869, now dated 2200 - 1550 BC - a bronze age city of the Al Algar Culture that conquered cities such as Knossos and Mykonos. Archaeologists are still excavating the hill and probably it was completely inhabited. The defence walls are thick and high. The work, which continues today, shows an authentic city of some 40,000 m2 which, at its peak, some 3,800 years ago, was inhabited by some 1,000 people.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeStanding Stone near Llanegryn in Gwynedd. About six feet tall, worn smooth and black by sheltering sheep. Lovely views east towards Birds rock (Craig yr Aderyn) and off towards Cader Idris.
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Multi-periodArchaeologists have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire, today dominated by the ruins of its medieval abbey. Local tradition holds that the area was the site of an Anglo-Saxon hermitage belonging to Saint Guthlac, who died in the year 714 and was famed for his life of solitude, having given up a life of riches as the son of a nobleman. The first discovery from the dig was a previously unknown henge - one of the largest in eastern England.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeNuraghe in Sardinia (Sardegna). This spectacularly located nuraghe overlooks the coastal area north of Villaputzu. It consists of two towers - possibly the monument was constructed in two phases. The structure rests upon a large rock outcrop. The western tower has a small window which opens to the N-NW. Below the rock with the nuraghe there are heavily overgrown remains of a settlement.
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Pre-ColumbianA well preserved site within the Shiloh National Military Park. Follow the battlefield driving tour between stops 19 and 20. About 800 years ago, a town occupied the high Tennessee River bluff at the eastern edge of the Shiloh plateau. Between two steep ravines, a wooden palisade enclosed seven earthen mounds and dozens of houses. Six mounds, rectangular in shape with flat tops, probably served as platforms for the town’s important buildings.
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MuseumsMinster Gatehouse Museum is housed in a 1000 year old grade 1 listed building adjacent to the historic Minster Abbey. Many fascinating local artefacts with connections to the Isle Of Sheppey, fossils and a view from the roof are just some of the attractions.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryA circular fort high on a hilltop with fantastic views. It has the outer bank and ditch separated by a wide space from an inner ditch. Why have an inner ditch in a fortification? It is almost as if it is a fort and henge combined. Rather strange.
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Multi-periodHegura-jima island is situated 50km northbound from Wajima port in the Sea of Japan (Koreans call it the East Sea). It is only 2km in length and 25m maximum altitude. Once there were 70 cairns on this flat island, now only a few of them remain in seven areas, we have photos:
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA dolmen built in to a mound in Holbæk. Known as Prinsehøjene as the Danish crown prince, later King Frederik d. 7, excavated these mounds in the 1830s. There are two mounds next to each other, restored in 1937. In the eastern mound the chamber is open. In the western mound the chamber is covered with earth.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySituated next to the tennis courts in the southern part of Båstad in Skåne, Sweden are two standing stones. The standing stones are placed at the bottom of a gravel path and with a large tree between them both. The two stones are believed to have been raised during the Iron Age and placed over burials from that period.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSituated within a high marshland to the west of Tyrrau Mawr this cairn shares the immediate area with another cairn about 20m to the NE. A prehistoric settlement lies further to the SW. The cairn is located at the eastern end of a long terrace.
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