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Stanton Drew - The Cove
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Stanton Drew - The Cove submitted by Andy B on 29th Apr 2012. John Oswin from Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society describes their geophysical survey of The Cove at the Megalithic Portal day out on 28th April. Here he describes the profiling, 'worm's eye view' as he called it.
More details in Chapter 5 of the survey here (PDF 4MB)
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Stanton Drew SSW
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Stanton Drew SSW submitted by Andy B on 29th Apr 2012. Terence Meaden describes where last year Pete Glastonbury and himself found fresh 'excavations' by a badger from under stone 10 of the SSW circle. Two scrapers and some bones were found exposed. These were given to English Heritage who we are told are about to start examining them.
Part of at the Megalithic Portal day out on 28th April.
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Skomer south west settlements
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2012
Skomer south west settlements submitted by Andy B on 11th Apr 2012. Archaeologist Toby Driver filming with wilderness expert Ray Mears inside a prehistoric hut on the southern side of Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, June 2011
Image copyright RCAHMW
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Earthfast natural slab in north east Skomer
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2012
Earthfast natural slab in north east Skomer submitted by Andy B on 11th Apr 2012. Probable megalithic site on northeast Skomer, with two orthostats found in close association with a large, earthfast rectangular slab of natural origin, seen from the south. The twin orthostats break the skyline when seen from all southern approaches and look out across St Brides Bay to the peaks of St Davids Head in the north.
Image Crown Copyright: RCAHMW: DS2011_448_001 used for news reporting purposes
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Amesbury History Centre
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2012
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Wadsley Common
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (South))
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2012
Wadsley Common submitted by Andy B on 30th Mar 2012. The drawing showing the circle of stones.
Photo credit: Wadsley and Loxley Commoners
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Musée du Bretagne
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2012
Musée du Bretagne submitted by Andy B on 30th Mar 2012. The Champs Libres includes the Museum of Brittany, the regional library and space sciences (including a planetarium), in a building designed by architect Portzamparc in the center of Rennes.
Creative Commons image by Dalbera
Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Gardoms Edge Stone
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2012
Gardoms Edge Stone submitted by Andy B on 28th Mar 2012. Gardom Monolith: Image from the team’s photographic survey (Oct 2011), taken looking directly to the west. Note the triangular shape and flat north facing side.
Credit: D Brown/Nottingham Trent University
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Kanaljorden
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Sweden (Östergötland)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2012
Kanaljorden submitted by Andy B on 24th Mar 2012. Tove Björk gently lifts up one of the skulls. Photo credit: Fredrik Hallgren.
Site in Östergötland Sweden
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El Hiba
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2012
El Hiba submitted by Andy B on 20th Mar 2012. A general view at El Hibeh showing many looter's pits
Credit: Dr Carol Redmount
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Mulfra Quoit
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 8th Mar 2012
Mulfra Quoit submitted by Andy B on 8th Mar 2012. Photo taken today. You can just make out the quoit (on the right on top of the hill) with flames approaching
Photo copyright Ian McNeil Cooke, with thanks
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Rola.
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: India
Visited: Yes on 8th Mar 2012
Rola. submitted by Andy B on 8th Mar 2012. Subhashis Das with the amazing megaliths of Rola
Image copyright Subhashis Das
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Uffington White Horse
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Mar 2012
Uffington White Horse submitted by dodomad on 8th Mar 2012. The betting firm Paddy Power said it took six hours to create the rider, which was a temporary addition as a publicity stunt.
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Kataliondas Kourvellos
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Cyprus
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2012
Kataliondas Kourvellos submitted by Andy B on 4th Mar 2012. Kataliondas Kourvellos 2011. NW sector. Semi-subterranean rock-cut chambers. Cypro-Classical period.
Image copyright Department of Antiquities / University of Geneva
Site in Cyprus
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Ggantija
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2012
Ggantija submitted by Andy B on 2nd Mar 2012. Plan of Ggantija Temples (after Evans 1971)
Part of book review of An Archaeology of the Senses - Prehistoric Malta
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Hagar Qim
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Malta (Mainland)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2012
Hagar Qim submitted by Andy B on 2nd Mar 2012. Plan of Hagar Qim main temple (after Evans 1971)
Part of book review of An Archaeology of the Senses - Prehistoric Malta
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Xaghra Circle
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Malta (Gozo)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2012
Xaghra Circle submitted by Andy B on 2nd Mar 2012. Reconstruction of Xaghra circle mortuary complex (after Stoddart et al. 1993)
Part of book review of An Archaeology of the Senses - Prehistoric Malta
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Malqui-Machay
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Ecuador
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2012
Malqui-Machay submitted by Andy B on 1st Mar 2012. Georges Lomné, Director of the French Institute of Andean Studies, IFEA and historian Tamara Estupiñán
Source: Historian Tamara Estupiñan, member of the Commission on History, National Section of Ecuador, PAIGH.
Site in Ecuador
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Kulisteinen
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Norway (Møre og Romsdal)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2012
Kulisteinen submitted by Andy B on 27th Feb 2012. The Kuli-stone, now in the The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology. One of the first signs of Christianity in Norway. Smøla, Norway.
Image copyright The Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, NTNU, used with permission
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Lapa do Santo Rock shelter
Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Brazil
Visited: Yes on 23rd Feb 2012
Lapa do Santo Rock shelter submitted by Andy B on 23rd Feb 2012. In July 2009, during the final days of excavation of unit FG-13/14 in Lapa do Santo, an anthropomorphic figure was exposed at the bottom of the archaeological deposit at an approximate depth of 4.0 meters below the surface.
The figure was pecked in the bedrock and consisted of a small anthropomorphic filiform petroglyph with tri-digits, a c-like head, and an oversized phallus. The figure is 30 cm long (from head to feet) and 20 cm wide. Similar filiform figures can be observed in a niche o...
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