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Rocks & Rows, Sailing Routes across the Atlantic and the Copper Trade

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Alun


Real Name: Alun Salt
Your Location: Derby
Your Occupation: Overworked
Your Interests: Archaeoastronomy, Archaeology of Europe, the Americas, and Africa

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I'm currently working on a PhD thesis. The Jerry Springer Summary would be "When good Greeks go bad? Who left messy cosmological fingerprints behind?"
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Co. Derry

Corick Stone Row
Corick Stone Row - PID:12070
Added Feb 06 2005 by alun
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Co. Tyrone

Beaghmore
Beaghmore - PID:11193
Added Jan 01 2005 by alun
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A stone row at Beaghmore. The stone rows tend to run to (or from) a stone...
Beaghmore A
Beaghmore A - PID:11194
Added Jan 01 2005 by alun
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This photo shows how the circles are next to the rows. Some circles in the...
Beaghmore G
Beaghmore G - PID:11192
Added Jan 01 2005 by alun
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A cairn at the far end of the Beaghmore site. It's sat next to a couple of...

Derbyshire

Nine Stones Close
Nine Stones Close - PID:5270
Added Jan 27 2004 by Alun
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A view through the stones to Robin Hood's Stride. Standing in the circle,...

Greece and the Mediterranean

Athens Acropolis
Athens Acropolis - PID:5259
Added Jan 27 2004 by Alun
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The Acropolis at Athens is the big rock which all the temples sit on. The...

Herefordshire & Worcestershire

Rotherwas Ribbon
Rotherwas Ribbon - PID:31616
Added Jul 16 2007 by alun
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A view of the stones laid out on top of a cut ditch. The presence of a early...
Rotherwas Ribbon
Rotherwas Ribbon - PID:31617
Added Jul 16 2007 by alun
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Zoom view of the stones on a sandy soil bed. The stones look as though they...
Rotherwas Ribbon
Rotherwas Ribbon - PID:31618
Added Jul 16 2007 by alun
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View including a Roman ditch cut through the Ribbon. When the ditch was built...

History: Europe

Vianden Castle, Luxembourg
Vianden Castle, Luxembourg - PID:5261
Added Jan 27 2004 by Alun
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History Gallery This is a castle built between the 11th and 14th centuries BC...

Peloponnese Peninsula

Olympia.
Olympia. - PID:5254
Added Jan 27 2004 by Alun
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The 'Workshop of Pheidias' at Olympia. This is said to be the workshop where...

Tunisia

Dougga Dolmen
Dougga Dolmen - PID:333
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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However some Cambridge archaeologists are the dating is wrong, and these are...
Dougga Dolmen
Dougga Dolmen - PID:339
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The dolmens at Dougga sit a few yards beyond the city walls of the Roman city...
Dougga Dolmen
Dougga Dolmen - PID:343
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The dolmens are said to align with sunrise, but there is the problem of a...
Dougga Dolmen
Dougga Dolmen - PID:344
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The dolmens sit at the top of the hill that Dougga is built into, looking...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 17
Eles Megalithic Tomb 17 - PID:342
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The village of Eles is also known as Elles and Al Las. It lies ten or so miles...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 18
Eles Megalithic Tomb 18 - PID:334
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The village is surrounded to the west, south and east by a number of dolmens...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 20
Eles Megalithic Tomb 20 - PID:341
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The reason Eles looks so green is that these photos were taken in Spring 2000.
Eles Megalithic Tomb 22
Eles Megalithic Tomb 22 - PID:340
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The dolmens are in varying states of decay, depending on how big they were to...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 23
Eles Megalithic Tomb 23 - PID:337
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The numbers of the dolmens have been assigned by the Tunisian Archaeological...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 23
Eles Megalithic Tomb 23 - PID:338
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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Some of the tombs are multi-chambered, suggesting family use.
Eles Megalithic Tomb 25
Eles Megalithic Tomb 25 - PID:336
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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There are claims that the dolmens in Eles are aligned on sunrises, equinoxes...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 27
Eles Megalithic Tomb 27 - PID:335
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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But, maybe they chose the sites of each tomb especially for its astronomical...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 39
Eles Megalithic Tomb 39 - PID:332
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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There is argument about the dating of these tombs too. The Tunisian and French...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 41
Eles Megalithic Tomb 41 - PID:330
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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But again some Cambridge archaeologists insist they are Bronze Age in date, as...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 47
Eles Megalithic Tomb 47 - PID:331
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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However, once again no earlier finds than the Massinian / Numidian period in...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 52
Eles Megalithic Tomb 52 - PID:329
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The Cambridge archaeologists believe that the tombs were cleared of earlier...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 61
Eles Megalithic Tomb 61 - PID:345
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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I took astronomical sightings along the backs, or fronts of the tombs and...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 62
Eles Megalithic Tomb 62 - PID:346
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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The tombs are a great source of beer cans and even the odd syringe. It seems...
Eles Megalithic Tomb 63 and 23
Eles Megalithic Tomb 63 and 23 - PID:347
Added Sep 24 2001 by Alun
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For some of these dolmens it may be the last time they are photgraphed. As...