http://www.megalithic.co.uk/latest_comments.php Most the most recent comments left on our pages en-us http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=63955#79430 TimPrevett: I am doing a tour and talk here for Heritage Open Days, with the permission of English Heritage who manage the site. Hopefully will include an observation opportunity for the equinox solar alignment I Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:20:05 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=46500#79429 Andy B: More details of the excavations here in The Army Basing Programme, Stonehenge and the Emergence of the Sacred Landscape of Wessex - Matt Leivers Internet Archaeology 56. doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.2 Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:09:48 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/comments.php?op=showreply&tid=79428&sid=60365&pid=79409&thold=#79428 Andy B: Hello, thanks for that useful link. We are promised full publication and details in due course, it looks like they rushed this announcement out for the Stonehenge silly season. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:44:36 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=60365#79427 : Not sure these rings are really ceremonial or astronomical. Why 2 rings, when 1 would do? But there is another use for a banked ring or rings, that is as livestock pens, eg horses, cattle etc. Suc Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:21:34 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=24541#79426 TimPrevett: There will be a tour and talk including this and the two other prehistoric sites nearby for Heritage Open Days in September, given by myself. More details on the HODs website: Prehistoric Earthworks o Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:52:46 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=24540#79425 TimPrevett: There will be a tour and talk including this and the two other prehistoric sites nearby for Heritage Open Days in September, given by myself. More details on the HODs website: Prehistoric Earthworks o Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:52:39 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=53060#79423 TimPrevett: There will be a tour and talk at this modern megalithic complex in Warrington for Heritage Open Days in September, given by myself. More details on the HODs website: Parkfields Park - the modern Megal Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:42:09 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=125#79422 TimPrevett: More details on the Manchester Evening News website Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:25:42 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=63954#79421 Anne T: Heritage Gateway/Pastscape (site page currently unavailable, so link cannot be included here). The following information has been kindly recorded from the Pastscape record by The Modern Antiquarian: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:33:21 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=58620#79420 Andy B: Tucked beneath the A1 motorway, the Welwyn Roman Baths is one of Hertfordshire’s hidden historic treasures - a Scheduled Ancient Monument and part of the Dicket Mead Roman villa complex. Discover Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:27:25 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1292629588#79419 Andy B: FESTIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT THORNBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE Sat, 18 Jul Thornborough Archaeology Group Come and find out more about Thornborough’s remarkable Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape on Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:14:04 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=63536#79418 Andy B: Step back through 15,000 years of history with an exclusive archaeological walking tour of Bradgate Park. Over five years, researchers from the University of Leicester uncovered remarkable evidence of Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:07:30 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/comments.php?op=showreply&tid=79417&sid=31859&pid=79415&thold=#79417 Andy B: See also a talk at Lutterworth Museum on 9th July Talk: Stone Age Leicestershire, From Hunters to Farmers by Mat Morris, 9th July www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=63952#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:04:38 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=16790#79416 Andy B: Breedon Hill has an Iron Age hillfort containing an Anglo-Saxon monastery which later became a medieval Augustinian priory and then a parish church. Archaeologists Peter Liddle and Rachel Askew will g Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:03:07 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=31859#79415 Andy B: Friday 12th June – Saturday 31st October: Tuesday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 10am – 4pm Harborough Museum, The Symington Building, Adam and Eve Street, Market Harborough LE16 7LT Over t Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:48:33 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=31859#79414 Andy B: Join archaeologist, Peter Liddle, to hear all about 50 years of fieldwork in Leicestershire and how this has helped to transform our understanding of the county’s past. The talk is linked to the cur Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:46:37 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=63952#79413 Andy B: 7:30 PM, Lutterworth Museum The story of Stone Age Leicestershire and Rutland - An epic story of the first 500,000 years of human habitation in Leicestershire and Rutland. Lutterworth Museum, Ma Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:05:41 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6831#79412 Andy B: Prehistoric Dorchester Talk 27 June 2026, 11:00am – 12:00pm Event Details Date and time: 27 June 2026, 11:00am – 12:00pm Location: Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Community Space Tickets: Free – Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:39:58 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6831#79411 Andy B: Medieval and Iron-Age treasures discovered by Bournemouth University (BU) archaeologists are being showcased for the first time at a new exhibition celebrating some of the UK’s most famous objects a Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:29:45 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=54870#79410 johndhunter: Update: The ‘A’ inscribed on the northerly face stands for Ailesbury as in the Earl of Ailesbury. Source of information: Bill Cowley’s 1993 book ‘Snilesworth’ Page 92. Also the stone no lo Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:11:12 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=60365#79409 ArchAstro: Does anyone know where the solstice aligned post holes are actually located in relation to the reconstructed henges? Are they distinguishable on this excavation plan (linked below)? The Army Basin Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:46:10 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15658#79408 tgd: From the official page of the Ministry of Culture: The archaeological site of Dimini includes the Neolithic settlement on the hilltop and the Mycenaean township in the plain east and southeast of t Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:33:24 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15659#79407 tgd: The description is in error. There are two Tholos Tombs in Dimini, and the description mixes the two. This description of "Lamiospito" is from the Ministry of Culture website: The name "Lamiospito Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:14:18 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/comments.php?op=showreply&tid=79406&sid=2146412465&pid=75579&thold=#79406 : Also. connected to the Celtic DoBunni , as well as the Iberian Peninsula, through DNA. My ancestors were settlers of WV, Pennsylvania, KY and TN, with most of my family settling in WV! Immediate fa Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:26:58 GMT http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=9006#79405 AndyS99: I found it! But it didn't show up as a symbol on the map, only as an urn when you really zoomed in close. But it should be on the map as this is a big menhir, and there seems to be some confusion as t Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:44:35 GMT