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Museu Municipal de Marvão
Date Added: 17th Mar 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: Portugal (Portalegre)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Museu Municipal de Marvão submitted by Alta-Falisa on 9th Aug 2015. The former church, now the "Municipal Museo", stands in the foreground. Photo taken from the castle.
Author : Rosino.
Source: Wikipedia Commons.
Date : June 2007.
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Log Text: Marvão itself is one of the most fantastic places I have ever been in my life. Like a giant Glastonbury Tor, the high stony mount on which it is built stands high high above all of the land around it so that you can see for miles until everything becomes small and blue in every direction. It is like being on a ship sailing high above the world.
As the area at the top is relatively small, each new-ovulation to conquer it obliterated almost everything left by the people before. Fortunately the municipal museum is there to give a sense of the long history of the area, stretching far into prehistory. Outside the door is a restored menhir, the top, rather phallic, still intact.
Inside among many other artifacts, the one I found most fascinating is the stone head of a boar, part of one of the so-called worship statues or guardian statues carved and placed by the pre-Roman people of the area. These large stone statues, called in Spanish verracos and in Portuguese berrãos, mostly boars but a few bears or bulls, were thought to have been set out on the landscape to guard and to signify the territories of those Celtic-related peoples. Some of the statues can be seen still entire in the north of Portugal and in parts of Spain, but this is the only part of one of these fascinating carvings that I was able to see on my visit.
Menhires por la Paz
Date Added: 18th Nov 2018
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Would like to visit
Menhires por la Paz submitted by Flickr on 18th Nov 2018. Menhires no Parque Escultorico da Torre de Hercules (Coruña) Image copyright: jl.cernadas (Jose Luis Cernadas Iglesias), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Waun Mawn NE
Date Added: 10th Oct 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Waun Mawn NE submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Waun Mawn Stone Circle SN083341. Only 3 stones remain.
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Log Text: Visited not long after MPP's excavation there. The squares of turf were still freshly replaced. Most of my lingering impressions are of the treelessness of the hill and the views of hills nearby.
And the wind.
Pentre Ifan
Date Added: 10th Oct 2018
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Pentre Ifan submitted by Postman on 28th Oct 2015. Sunrise February 2010
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Log Text: Had always wanted to see it and was delighted to get there. I was most impressed with the views of the mountain outcroppings from there. Surely its placement must have had something to do with that.
Columcille Megalith Park
Date Added: 28th Jun 2015
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Columcille Megalith Park submitted by Aluta on 8th Sep 2006. This trilithon, called Thor's Gate, is one of the highlights of Columcille. Other features include a circle of low stones and a construction that gives the appearance of being the entrance to a long barrow.
There are also two very small chapels, not megalithic, built more on a medieval model. A third chapel, to be built underground, is under construction.
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Log Text: A fun place for US megalith fans. Built after a dream about megaliths, and it does have a dreaminess about it. It's up on the Kittatinny Ridge, surrounded by woodland and next to a religious retreat. There is a lovely chapel with a big stone in the centre, where you can sit and read or contemplate.
Bosley Minn 1
Date Added: 15th Jun 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2015. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 5
Bosley Minn 1 submitted by Vicky on 18th Oct 2001. THE MINN END LANE I STANDING STONE, Wincle, near Macclesfield, Cheshire SJ9393165865
This possibly prehistoric standing stone was in more recent times adapted to gate post duty. It is unknown whether it sits in it original position. The stone now leans heavily to the east. Fantastic views across the Staffordshire Moorlands, The Roaches, Bosley Cloud and the Cheshire plain can be had from here. It is listed on the County Sites and Monuments Record as a Bronze Age standing stone. (Two furth...
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Log Text: Beautiful spot, but it was unclear whether the stones were ever part of an ancient site. Still, it's worth a visit, since perhaps they were, and anyway, there are beautiful views from up on the hill, and a tranquil feel to the area.
Swinside
Date Added: 25th Feb 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Would like to visit
Swinside submitted by rldixon on 26th Apr 2010. Swinside simply amazing stone circle
never fails to impress!!!!
Aprill 2010
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Monte Bubbonia
Date Added: 7th Dec 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Would like to visit
Monte Bubbonia submitted by Salvatore on 5th Dec 2010. Monte Bubbonia dolmen
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North Salem Dolmen
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 27th Jul 2004
North Salem Dolmen submitted by aluta on 27th Jul 2004. This famous boulder, in New York State, was featured on the cover of an album by Robin Williamson, of Incredible String Band fame (fame?). My suspicions that it is a natural feature were put aside when I finally got to see it in person. The stone holding it up are very similarly shaped to one another, and no stones nearby resemble them at all. The whole structure is aesthetically pleasing from all angles. Worth a visit.
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Scotrun
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2005
Scotrun submitted by Aluta on 27th Oct 2005. During the conference that brought together schooled archaeologists, non-academic researchers and Lenape descendants, members examine the now-damaged Monroe County site. Note the walls in the background and the smaller size of the cairns.
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Columcille Megalith Park
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2006
Columcille Megalith Park submitted by Aluta on 8th Sep 2006. When we arrived at Columcille the other day after two days of heavy rain, this young raptor was using the taller stones to watch for small creatures coming out for the plentiful beech nuts knocked to the ground by the rains. I was so intent on the stones, I didn't notice him until I was this close.
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Bucks County PA Sacred Ceremonial Stone Landscape
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2007
Bucks County PA Sacred Ceremonial Stone Landscape submitted by Aluta on 24th Apr 2007. Propped, perched, and pedestaled rocks are among the most common features of these ceremonial stone landscapes. Look carefully at the shadow on this picture, and you can see the stone propping this boulder up.
For those who hike in the eastern U.S., it is always worth scouting around at a lookout on the side or top of a mountain. Such sites frequently boast small propped boulders, sometimes even pedestaled on very small stones so they don't touch the base stone. They seem to be markers of imp...
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Ringing Rocks
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2007
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta on 7th May 2007. A propped boulder only meters from the boulder field.
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Archaeolink
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2007
Archaeolink submitted by aluta on 3rd Aug 2007. The Bronze Age workshop at Archaeolink. The axe-casting demonstrations are done here.
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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2008
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by Aluta on 24th Oct 2008. Poles outside the Burke Museum. These carvings may have been done by people from the Salish culture.
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Vera Cruz Quarry Pits
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2004
Vera Cruz Quarry Pits submitted by aluta on 9th Jan 2004. A site even archaeologists agree on, although the dates they give vary. This is a chunk of yellow jasper, in one of the pits of the jasper quarries found along the Highlands ridge, also known as South Mountain, in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. This kind of stone was used by the native people for spear points, possibly mined here as early as 9 thousand years ago, up to the advent of the bow and arrow. Vera Cruz is best known, but similar quarries exist elsewhere along the ridge.
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Oley Hills
Date Added: 30th Oct 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Yes on 16th Dec 2003
Oley Hills submitted by aluta on 16th Dec 2003. Another of the many elements of the Oley Hills site in Berks County, Pennsylvania, a large cairn on a boulder, linked to others by a low wall. Note the lichens on the stones--these are not recently built.
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