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Uruk.
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Iraq
Visited: Would like to visit
Uruk. submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Nov 2006. Excavated remains of the Inana Temple (Ishtar Temple) dating to ca 1400 BCE from Uruk at the Berlin Pergamum museum.
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Log Text: Featured in the BBC programme, Ancient Worlds with Richard Miles
Tell Brak
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 19th Nov 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit
Tell Brak Statue menhir submitted by AlexHunger on 30th Jan 2006. Statue Menhir from Tell Brak in Modern Syria now in Louvre Museum in Paris. Dated to about 2000-1600 BCE.
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Log Text: Featured in the BBC programme, Ancient Worlds with Richard Miles
Castell Goetre
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Castell Goetre submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. Castell Goetre (Possibly from Goed-Tref or 'settlement in the wood') is an Iron Age hill fort on the ridgeway between the Teifi and Dulas valleys. It is located in the northwest of this square and extends into SN6051 to the north.
The fort, now populated by sheep and home to a small reservoir, consists of an oval banked and ditched enclosure with a cross-bank through the centre, possibly part of an earlier phase. From ground level it appears much eroded but in places is still well defined, as ...
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Castell Allt-Goch
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Castell Allt-Goch submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. This Iron Age hill fort occupies high ground in the south-west of the square and is used as pasture for sheep. A more detailed description is included at
http://www.cambria.org.uk/projects/prehistdefenc/SN54AND55GAZETTEER.pdf
Copyright Dan Gregory and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Mesolithic Human Footprints at Uskmouth
Trip No.3 Entry No.1 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 15th Feb 2011
Mesolithic Human Footprints at Uskmouth submitted by Andy B on 15th Feb 2011. The Usk Estuary, Newport
Copyright Matt Rosser and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Boxgrove
Trip No.3 Entry No.2 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2007
Boxgrove submitted by Andy B on 16th Aug 2007. Reconstruction drawing of Boxgrove Animals by Judith Dobie.
Image credit: English Heritage, used with permission.
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Swanscombe Heritage Park
Trip No.3 Entry No.3 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 16th Feb 2011
Swanscombe Heritage Park submitted by Creative Commons on 16th Feb 2011. Hand Axe Sculpture in Swanscombe Heritage Park
In 2004, a competition was held to design an eye catching landmark for the Swanscombe Heritage Park. The winning sculpture was designed by Landscape Architects David Robinson and Peter Greenstreet of Dartford based GES Ltd. It was installed in 2005.
Copyright David Anstiss and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Goat's Cave, Paviland
Trip No.3 Entry No.4 Date Added: 14th Feb 2011
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Goat's Cave, Paviland submitted by nahwah on 6th Apr 2010. View inside cave to sea (note small person seen in entrance this is my son who was seven at time, gives an idea of scale).
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Creswell Crags
Trip No.3 Entry No.5 Date Added: 14th Feb 2011
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Creswell Crags submitted by stu on 10th Dec 2005. Looking down the limestone gorge of Creswell Crags...the cliffs and caves almost completely hidden by the trees.
Even if you don't go for any of the cave tours on offer....Creswell is a great place to spend an afternoon.
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Church Hole
Trip No.3 Entry No.6 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2007
Church Hole submitted by Andy B on 20th Aug 2007. Archaeologists at work in the caves of Cresswell Crags Monday 30th June 2003. Dr Paul Bahu (L) and Dr Pettitt look out for more cave art at the site. Picture Credit: Steve Parkin
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Fiskary Bay Mesolithic Settlement
Trip No.3 Entry No.7 Date Added: 15th Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Isle of Coll)
Visited: Would like to visit
Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
British Museum
Trip No.3 Entry No.8 Date Added: 17th May 2016
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 10th Feb 2013
British Museum submitted by Andy B on 10th Feb 2013. Spear thrower made from reindeer antler, sculpted as a mammoth. Found in the rock shelter of Montastruc, France. Approximately 13,000–14,000 years old
Image Credit: British Museum
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Oronsay Shell Middens
Trip No.3 Entry No.9 Date Added: 12th May 2016
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Isle of Colonsay)
Visited: Would like to visit
Oronsay Shell Middens submitted by durhamnature on 29th Oct 2012. Artifacts from the shell mounds, from "Prehistoric Britain" via archive.org
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
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
Bouldnor Underwater Settlement and Wooden Structure
Trip No.4 Entry No.2 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Isle of Wight)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2002
Bouldnor Underwater Settlement and Wooden Structure submitted by dodomad on 21st Aug 2002. Divers examine core from undersea forest
English Heritage divers in the Solent, examining core samples of the remains of the undersea oak forest discovered near Hurst spit. English Heritage Pic by Phil Yeomans
Discovery not from this site but bringing together images from sites under the Solent.
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Log Text: Mesolithic sites under the Solent (not necessarily this one) featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Kermario Alignements
Trip No.4 Entry No.3 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Would like to visit
Kermario alignements submitted by rw1 on 20th Jan 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
La Table des Marchands
Trip No.4 Entry No.4 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2009
La Table des Marchands submitted by Andy B on 21st Jul 2009. Vintage photograph from the 1927 book Menhirs et Dolmens Bretons by Paul Gruyer
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Log Text: Serge Cassen is interviewed in here and we look at the carvings in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Coldrum
Trip No.4 Entry No.5 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Would like to visit
Coldrum submitted by enkidu41 on 8th Apr 2004. The surviving sarsens of the chamber of large oval-shaped mound tomb, now virtually disappeared. This is the rear of the east-facing chamber. TQ 654 607
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Ness of Brodgar
Trip No.4 Entry No.6 Date Added: 12th Jun 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2013
Ness of Brodgar submitted by dodomad on 2nd Aug 2013. One side of the newly discovered carved stone from the Ness of Brodgar.
Image Credit: Orca
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Log Text: OK this site wasn't actually in the Ancient History of Britain programme but I wanted a link to all our sites in Orkney as Neil visited to look at the Orkney vole.
Céide Fields
Trip No.4 Entry No.7 Date Added: 4th Apr 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Yes on 16th Feb 2011
Céide Fields submitted by Creative Commons on 16th Feb 2011. Entrance to Ceide Fields Visitor Centre.
An archaeological site of major importance.
Copyright Oliver Dixon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver