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Delphi Temple
Trip No.9 Entry No.4 Date Added: 11th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Would like to visit
Delphi Temple submitted by davidmorgan on 15th May 2007. The Temple of Apollo.
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Log Text: Visited in episode one of the BBC TV series Divine Women by Bettany Hughes
Rome.
Trip No.9 Entry No.5 Date Added: 11th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rome. Pantheon submitted by Bjorn on 5th Jun 2007. The Pantheon in Piazza della Rotonda in central Rome.
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Log Text: Visited in episode one of the BBC TV series Divine Women by Bettany Hughes. More on Early Christian Basilicas here
Tiger Headed Rock-Cut Cave
Trip No.9 Entry No.6 Date Added: 11th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: India
Visited: Would like to visit
Tiger Headed Rock-Cut Cave submitted by motist on 17th Dec 2006. Tiger Headed rock-cut cave: 5 KM North of Mamallapuram (Mahablipuram) in Tamil Nadu
80 11 39 E 12 37 02 N
Ancient sea port on the golf of Bengal from the beginning of the CE, rock-cut temples and carvings, the capital of the Pallava dynasty (from 630 CE).
Most beautiful rock carvings in India, UNESCO World Heritage
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Log Text: This amazing mandapa contains a shrine that is dedicated to the goddess Durga. Bettany visited the Kamakhya Temple which we don't have listed, but here it is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya_Temple
Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
Trip No.9 Entry No.7 Date Added: 11th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: India
Visited: Would like to visit
Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh submitted by motist on 10th Jul 2010. Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh
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Log Text: Fascinating workshops where they sculpture statues of the Mother Goddess Durga. Bettany visited the Kamakhya Temple which we don't have listed, but here it is on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamakhya_Temple
Midas City
Trip No.9 Entry No.8 Date Added: 12th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Would like to visit
Midas City submitted by davidmorgan on 7th Dec 2006. The shrine of Cybele or the Midas Monument. August 1993.
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Log Text: Visited in episode one of the BBC TV series Divine Women by Bettany Hughes
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2003
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Andy B on 27th Feb 2003. Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002
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St Breock Downs Menhir
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 8th Oct 2003
St Breock Downs Menhir submitted by Andy B on 8th Oct 2003.
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Tom Nan Carragh
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2004
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003
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Inveravon
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2004
Inveravon submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003
ed: The four pictish stones are now (2012) on display inside the church
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Tullochgorum Cairn
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2004
Tullochgorum Cairn submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003
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Tullochgorum Stones
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2004
Tullochgorum Stones submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003
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Menhir de Kerscaven 1
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2009
Menhir de Kerscaven 1 submitted by Andy B on 21st Jul 2009. Vintage photograph from the 1927 book Menhirs et Dolmens Bretons by Paul Gruyer Menhir de Kerscaven 1
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Coed y Caerau
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2010
Coed y Caerau submitted by Creative Commons on 15th Oct 2010. Part of the ramparts of a hill fort designed to protect lives and property in less settled times. This area is now largely ungrazed and there is a light covering of ash, oak and hazel.
Copyright Marion Phillips and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Doggerland
Trip No.4 Entry No.1 Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Netherlands
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2012
Doggerland submitted by dodomad on 12th Jul 2012. An interactive game for the Royal Society Drowned landscapes Exhibit. Will Mesolithic man survive and flourish or will he drown under the waves? - It’s for you to discover!
The photo below shows development in progress on our Mechdyne touch table, with Simon guiding Mesolithic man away from the rising tide to his new home.
With thanks to Drowned Landscapes for the photo
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
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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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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Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Museum
Country: Netherlands (Zuid-Holland)
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2012
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden submitted by Andy B on 4th May 2012. Restored beakers (2500–2000 BC)
From the exhibition "100,000 Hours of Archaeology - Collecting in the Veluwe" - The remarkable collection of amateur rchaeologist and collector Eduard Zuurdeeg.
Image Copyright RMO
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Vashtëmi
Date Added: 11th Jan 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Albania
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2012
Vashtëmi submitted by Andy B on 9th May 2012. UC students Kassi Bailey (yellow shirt), Michael Crusham (blue shirt), and Kathleen Forste (red shirt) at work on the excavation.
Photo copyright University of Cincinnati
Site in Albania
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