ResourcesThe Megalithic Portal offers the facility to log sites you've visited, and our dedicated contributors have now added almost 55,000 individual entries to our site visit logs! As well as a simple list…

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSomething we did in our book The Old Stones, was to attempt objective ratings of the best of various types of megalithic monuments to visit in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. We did this by…

Neolithic and Bronze AgeMost site-hounds have a list of places they want to visit as long as their arm. So Neil Mortimer set off for southeast Dartmoor to walk the length of the world's longest stone row, situated in the…

Other ArchaeologyDavid Hoyle has written an introduction to how his landscape and horizon viewer web site app that links from our site pages works: Archaeoastronomy is the study of how ancient people understood and…

PhotographyThe Megalithic Portal has the facility to log sites that you have visited, and our dedicated contributors have now logged over 60,000 visits to ancient sites on our pages! We also have another way to…

StonehengeWe present a retrospective by Rob Ixer, Peter Turner, Richard Bevins and Nick Pearce outlining 21st century Altar Stone research; it highlights the incremental ‘journey’ taken by researchers and the…

ResourcesVal Evans writes: I see that Tracey Ramsbottom has uploaded back copies of her Devon earth mysteries magazine, Wisht Maen. I would be pleased to offer up the original version of my book The Celtic…

FunThe full rundown of the Top 15 single standing stones (and pairs) in the UK according to you, our Megalithic Portal visitors and contributors is here. Also announcing the two winners of the…

FunTim Webb writes: Who cannot be moved by this site? It may lack the scope and scale of some and not have the same ambience of others. However it has a certain charm I feel and is possibly a one off…

PhotographyBruce Adams, one of our members since 2012, sadly died late last year - he had motor neurone disease. Over the years Bruce assembled albums documenting his visits to many stone circles and related…

Medieval (High and Late)　Chashi are earthen structures, i.e. area partitioned by deep ditch(es) constructed by Ainu people modifying the natural topographic features. More than 500 chashi are found in Hokkaidō and the total…

ResourcesHere is our pick of some of the most interesting prehistoric sites to visit in the French Alps in the summertime. Click on the headings below to read more about each site and see their location. We…

Multi-periodAn exclusive series on the North Wales uplands by archaeologist M M Robinson all linked from this page. The tide of human settlement has largely receded from the hills and mountains of North Wales,…

MysteriesA fascinating article from Anthony Weir: Are Irish sweathouses a continuation of a prehistoric tradition of inhaling consciousness-altering smoke, recently overlaid with the prophylactic function of…

Multi-periodThis article was originally published in 2005: Is there a lost Neolithic trade route that took high quality flint from the mines at Grimes Graves to Stonehenge? Dr Ernest Rudge certainly thought so…

Neolithic and Bronze AgeA fresh look at the Neolithic Cotswolds brings to light how its people lived their lives. Research has traditionally focused on the tombs and monuments of the period but Dr Nick Snashall (National…

Natural PlacesDavid Shepherd writes: A little while ago I was in contact with Tony Blackman regarding propped stones we had noted in Cornwall, the South Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales (Blackman 2011, Shepherd…