Submitted by Bladup on Monday, 18 August 2025 (14 reads)
Multi-periodAt SW40963240 are the remains of a prehistoric field system, which is visible on aerial photographs as both stony banks (the smaller fields) and lynchets, and were plotted as part of the NMP. The remains are sited within an area of Anciently Enclosed Land and are prehistoric in origin. Image submitted by Bladup
Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Friday, 01 August 2025 (1153 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe Dudderhouse Hill long cairn has been designated a Scheduled Monument - the highest level of heritage protection available in England. The long cairn survives as a partly turf-covered oval mound of stones, about 23m (75ft) long, 12m (39m) wide and 1m (3ft) high.
"It doesn't look particularly impressive and that's one of the problems," Paul Jeffery, Historic England's national listings manager, said. "Nearby, about 70m (230ft) away, there's a cairn where people have added stones over time. Unfortunately, because they don't realise that this is such an important site, some people walking past pick up stones from what they think is just this pile and then add them to the other cairn and obviously that causes harm." Image submitted by Dodomad
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 31 July 2025 (3451 reads)
MuseumsRegional history museum with collection located in 22 halls with departments of nature, archaeology and history. The archaeological collection is one of the largest among regional museums in Ukraine. Of particular interest are the unique monuments of the Bronze Age and Scythian times, the periods of the Chernyakhov culture and the Middle Ages.
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Renaming the museum after outstanding Ukrainian historian Yakov Pavlovich Novytsky Read Article | 2 News and Comments | Category: Other Photo Pages
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 31 July 2025 (5887 reads)
MuseumsMuseum in Ukraine with a permanent collection consisting of 283 thousand objects from ancient Palaeolithic implements to World War II. The museum has a large collection of stone baba figures, the Kurgan stelae, Kernosovskiy idol, a particularly rich collection of objects from the Cossack period, and a sizable ethnographic and numismatic collection. Image submitted by dodomad
‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue ancient 'baba' statues from the frontline Read Article | 2 News and Comments | Category: Other Photo Pages
Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 27 July 2025 (5938 reads)
Early Medieval (Dark Age)One of two sarsen stones discovered in the foundations of the original abbey. Nobody knows for certain but it is claimed that Saint Augustine may have used this one as a preaching cross. St Augustine's Abbey was originally created as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent, it is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site, along with the Cathedral and St Martin's Church. Image submitted by Flickr
Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 July 2025 (797 reads)
Neolithic and Bronze AgeOne of the oldest sites in Western Anatolia. The first settlement in the mound dates back to 8850 years ago. For 1150 years, the Neolithic settlement continued - that's 45 generations without interruption. Image submitted by davidmorgan
A recent and rare find from one of the most prominent and oldest Neolithic sites in Türkiye – a clay statuette of a female figurine, dated to ~6000BCE Read Article | 2 News and Comments | Category: Other Photo Pages
Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Friday, 27 June 2025 (929 reads)
Natural PlacesA large glacial erratic deposited after the last ice age. The stone, thought to resemble a resting buffalo, is estimated to have weighed 400 tons and was a sacred site - not only to the Plains Cree, but to other First Nations who traversed the prairies. During the 1960s, when it became apparent the stone would be submerged by the rising waters of Lake Diefenbaker, efforts were made to save the mistasiniy. A long campaign led by the late Zenon S. Pohorecky, professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan, to move the rock to higher ground ultimately proved unsuccessful. Many believe a “quiet” decision was made to quell the lobby - on the morning of December 1, 1966, a crew from the PFRA (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) arrived with a reported 60 sticks of dynamite and reduced the millennia-old stone to rubble. This archive picture was taken with Tribal Elder Wilfred Tootoosis about a year before the stone was blown up. Image submitted by TheDruid-3X3
Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Friday, 27 June 2025 (409 reads)
Pre-ColumbianThis is the Blackfoot Tribe's Sacred Site of the Buffalo Effigy located South of the Village of Big Beaver Saskatchewan. The Buffalo Effigy was constructed by local Indigenous Blackfoot Tribe from fieldstone overlooking West Beaver Creek near the border with Montana. Image submitted by TheDruid-3X3
Submitted by Stonetracker on Thursday, 26 June 2025 (2502 reads)
Pre-ColumbianA Chacoan style great house from the Pueblo 2 period (950 -1150 CE) in Colorado state. Like most great houses, it served as a community center for ritual and social activities. It was also possibly used as a central storage point for harvested produce. The people lived in room blocks in small villages dispersed around the great house. There were at least 50 villages in Far View, of which a handful have been excavated and restored and can be visited today. Image submitted by stonetracker
Submitted by AKFisher on Monday, 23 June 2025 (1783 reads)
Pre-ColumbianAn Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site in Blanding, Utah including a museum, and archaeological repository. Cowboys from the nearby town of Bluff camped there in the late 19th century and called the site Edge of the Cedars because it sits on the edge of a natural boundary, separating a heavily forested region and a treeless landscape to the south. Cedar is a term locals use for the Utah juniper tree. Image submitted by stonetracker
The museum here has one of the most extensive repositories of pottery and ceramics from the Pueblo period and earlier. Stonetracker has kindly posted several videos of his visit, view from the comments section of our page Read Article | 3 News and Comments | Category: Other Photo Pages
Submitted by AKFisher on Thursday, 19 June 2025 (3204 reads)
Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierFor 80 years, only a small collection of fossilized footprints were known to exist at White Sands. However, in 2006, a group of scientists noticed dark spots dotting the expanse of the lakebed that appeared to be footprints. Their curiosities lead them to dig up these dark spots in 2009. This led to the discovery of both Harlan’s ground sloth and human footprints. Image submitted by AKFisher
New dating confirms White Sands footprints in New Mexico are 23,000 years old - pushing the date of human arrival in the Americas earlier, more on our page. Read Article | 3 News and Comments | Category: Other Photo Pages