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White Shaman

Andy B — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:48:56 GMT

]]>Blasting from the construction of Trump's border wall looks to threaten many rock art sites, some up to 4000 years old . The painting faces west. At sunset on the lunar standstill the light climbs the wall and stops at the neck of the headless white figure, so that the sun appears to decapitate her. The mural is a panel some 30m (100 ft) long in a rock shelter above the Pecos River, a few miles from where it meets the Rio Grande and within sight of the highway bridge.

Temang Dongan Rock Cut Tombs

Anne T — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:15:41 GMT

]]>Seven stone coffins lie scattered across the terraces of a low hill at Pungkit, in the Lopok district of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Some of them split open and are carved with human faces and animals that local people call the Doll Stones, Batu Babung.

Little Woodbury

Anne T — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:08:07 GMT

]]>One of the most important Iron Age settlements ever dug in Britain, the site that gave its name to the "Little Woodbury" type of enclosed farmstead. This reconstructed roundhouse in the style is at Butser Ancient Farm. The original location is a roughly D-shaped enclosure of about 1.5 hectares, bounded by a single ditch with an elaborate antenna-style entrance on the east, standing on a low chalk ridge in Britford parish south of Salisbury.

Kergadiou Menhirs

TheCaptain — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:02:37 GMT

]]>The backlit standing menhir - cue the "Also Sprach Zarathustra 2001 Space Odyssey" music writes Stonetracker!. The two giant menhirs of Kergadiou are a fine place to visit, and fairly easily found in a field a couple of kilometres north of the Aber Ildut estuary in furthest western Brittany. Kergadiou menhir 1 (pictured) is a really magnificent monster menhir, 8.8 metres tall, and the most beautifully and perfectly smoothed and shaped menhir there is.

Zappeio Roman Baths

TAlanJones — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:58:24 GMT

]]>Situated along the Amalias Ave and just to the west of the National Gardens the Zappeio Roman Baths complex was a real surprise as I meandered towards Hadrian's Arch one morning. Originating from the 3rd /4th century CE following the Herulian invasion it was redesigned and rebuilt over the following centuries.

Piève statues-menhirs

Aska — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:42:54 GMT

]]>Three late Bronze Age statue-menhirs: Buccentone, Murellu, Murtola, originally from different parts of the Commune of Santo-Pietro-di-Tenda, now set up near the church in Piève. Get there early if you want to get a good shot - after 10am they are in the shadow of the church and in the afternoon the sun shines on their rear side.

Devils Den

thecaptain — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:07:16 GMT

]]>One of two paintings by Kerry Webb inspired by a recent visit to the Devil's Den - the other is on our page. Thanks for sharing Kerry, looking forward to seeing more soon. Burial chamber in Wiltshire, reconstructed (rather badly) in 1921. All that remains are two standing stones and a capstone with two fallen stones underneath. This was originally placed in the south-eastern end of a long mound which was described in the 1920s as being around 230ft long.

Laaddenhøj Jættestue

kristiansen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:43:41 GMT

]]>Jættestue (Passage Grave) in Holbæk. The eastern chamber is quite small, 3.1 m in length, 2.1 m wide. and 1.4 m high. The western chamber (seen at front) is similar but without a capstone, approx 3.0 by 2.5 and 1.7 metres high.

Ahuahu (Great Mercury Island)

Anne T — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:08:18 GMT

]]>Some of the earliest gardens in Aotearoa (New Zealand) were dug on this small island off the Coromandel Peninsula, within a century or two of the first Polynesian settlement. Ahuahu, also known as Great Mercury Island, carries one of the richest and best-studied early Maori landscapes: more than twenty pa, or fortified settlements, defended by ditches and banks on its headlands, together with garden soils, middens and living sites that record how people made a home here from the fourteenth century onwards.

Solberg-Øvre Barrow Cemetery

kenntha88 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:58:20 GMT

]]>This small and beautiful barrow cemetery consists of approximately nine stone-mixed round barrows and three cairns. It is located in a spruce forest on a natural flat hill. Unfortunately the road Mellomgårdsveien runs directly through the site. On the west side of the road, about 16 meters away lies one large oval barrow. The other eleven barrows are located to the east of the road. Two of these are also oval in shape, oriented north-south, and both measure 12 by 6 meters.

Achanarnich cup and ring marks

Billythefish — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:11:52 GMT

]]>A rock outcrop beside the access drive to Achanarnich. I am told by locals that access is unrestricted with the usual caveats of not obstructing gates or causing damage.

Stockton Stone

juamei — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:17:06 GMT

]]>If you are coming to Andy B's (Sold Out) talk in Norwich next week you will hear about this strange little stone. Situated on the edge of the A146 just before the Stockton sign as you come from Norwich. This stone is missed no doubt by 99 percent of the people hurtling past on a reasonably busy A road.

Horsford Woods Barrow Cemetery

Andy B — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:46:53 GMT

]]>If you are coming to Andy B's (Sold Out) talk in Norwich next week you will hear about these barrows. A possible short long barrow (yes that is a thing - can you see it?) and round barrow that were in a pine plantation. This recent photo sent by Rebecca Penkett (thanks!) shows the plantation has been cleared around the long barrow. No surrounding ditch is evident at either barrow.

Littlecote Roman Villa

GEdge — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:29:18 GMT

]]>An extensive villa at Littlecote Park just over a mile west of Hungerford. The Orpheus mosaic (pictured) would have been in a large hall dedicated to the Greek legendary hero. The mosaic is one of the best I (GEdge) have seen in this country and the remains of the grand villa are extensive.

Ysbyty Cynfyn

Johnny — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:33:01 GMT

]]>Is this site an embanked Bronze Age stone circle converted to be a Christian Church in later times? CoralJackz investigate in their video and article linked from our page. The roughly circular churchyard has a surrounding wall into which are set five upright stones, at least one of which is almost certainly in its original position (see separate submission). Some of the other stones are not sunk into socket holes and have masonry below implying that they may not be in their original positions.