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Boyd Mounds
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Boyd Mounds submitted by Flickr on 29th Dec 2018. Boyd Site 1 Mound Image copyright: alopezruiz (Alejandro Lopez Ruiz), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Walk completely around the mounds to better understand the construction. An interpretive sign provides more information.
Grand Village of Natchez Indians
Date Added: 29th Aug 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by bat400 on 30th Aug 2012. Reconstructions of Natchez house and granary from the time of first contact with the Spanish and French (16th-17th C).
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: Interesting site for a short visit. The mounds are reconstructions based on the footprints discovered during excavations. And the layout tells you something about the size of the village.
The small museum is worth a visit, as is a trip to the huge Emerald Mound, outside of Natchez. A comparison of the collossal Emerald Mound ceremonial site to this modest one, seemed to me to tell a lot about the devastation caused by the introduction of "Old World" disease to the Americas.
Admision to the site is free but a donation is suggested.
Lower Jackson
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2
Lower Jackson submitted by bat400 on 30th Aug 2012. The distant view of Lower Jackson Mound from across the cotton fields.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: A marker just off the road identifies the mound, which can be made out from across the cotton fields. Unimproved farm roads provide a way to get closer, but they are all on private land, so you can only view the mound from a distance. The view will be best after the cotton ripens, and the leaves fall off the plants, or, after harvest in the winter.
Tippett Mound
Date Added: 12th Dec 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Log Text: I hiked to this mound from the north entrance of the Taft Reserve. There is a pictorial trail map on a display in a parking area that clearly identifies the mound. The most direct routes appears to be on a trail that starts as a rough, grassy lane from the north east corner of the property, along a fence line, but through woods. Basically stay to the left at all junctions until you find a post marked "9", then turn right. You will very quickly leave the woods and enter a meadow, only some of which is kept mowed. The mound is immediately obvious and straight ahead. You can approach the tree covered mound in order to see the contour clearly, but in late June, this was by make a path through chest high grass, wildflowers and bramble.
Marathon Museum
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Marathon Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Aug 2006. Pleasant and Modern air Conditioned museum next to Tumulus of the Plaeans and the Vranas Middle helladic Tombs with interesting artifacts from various sites in Marathon.
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Log Text: Describes finds from the Marathon area from Neolithic through the Classical Era. A pamphlet is available (free) that shows surrounding ancient sites and how to get to them.
Ancient Plataea
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Ancient Plataea submitted by Antonios on 16th Jun 2008. Site in Attica/Central Greece: Ancient Tower at Plataea.
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Log Text: The site is generally covered in unmowed grasses which makes for some small difficulty walking with uneven ground and loose stones underfoot. There is a very obvious oval on high ground (the acropolis?) with a wall, much broken, on it southern border. At the north border, you overlook the valley where the famous battle against the Persians took place At this northern point someone has set a modern column and a small metal shrine (which is empty).
The much better defined wall of larger, more intact stoves, on a NW - SE line, south of the oval described above. It crosses the main road east of the modern town, and is marked there with the typical "Archaeological Site" brown and yellow sign. This wall is very large and shows several towers in the fortification. I'm uncertain if this separate wall dates from the 5th Century BC, or is a later addition, perhaps when Phillip of Macedon is credited with refounding the previously destroyed city.
Lion of Chaeronea
Date Added: 6th Jun 2011
Site Type: Carving
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Lion of Amphipolis submitted by davidmorgan on 13th Dec 2008. The Lion of Amphipolis. September 1993.
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Log Text: The open area where the monument is sited is now a grassy depression with a semicircular plaza around it.
Cycladic Museum at Athens
Date Added: 8th Jun 2011
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 23rd May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios on 2nd Jun 2008. Female figurine
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Log Text: In addition to the Cycladic Art and artifacts, the museum's collection of classical Greek art and artifacts (including fine examples of arms and armor) is diminished only by the National Archaeological Museum a mile away.
Athens Acropolis
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Athens Acropolis submitted by Alun on 27th Jan 2004. The Acropolis at Athens is the big rock which all the temples sit on.
The temple you can see peeking over the fortifications is the Parthenon.
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Parthenon
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Parthenon submitted by AlexHunger on 25th Aug 2006. Classic 5th Cenury BCE Temple to Athena.
At the moment, the temple is being restored, which may take until 2025. Archeologists are replacing the rusted iron pins used to secure the temple in the 19th century with non coroding Titanium ones, and various damaged pieces of marble are receiving replacement bits and pieces cut from the same quarry. The authorities are however not bringing the parthenon back to how it was before the turkish gun powder magazine explosion as too many pieces are missin...
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Erechteion
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Erechteion submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Temple to Athena and Poseidon next to parthenon.
The Caryatids female figures holding up the Portico are now in the Acropolis Museum, with one more having been taken to the British Museum.
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Propylaia
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Propylaia submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Aug 2006. The Propylaia is the gateway to the Acropolis and a temple in its own right.
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Trophy of the Athenians
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2011. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 5
Trophy of the Athenians submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Aug 2006. Replica of the trophy set up by the Athenians following their victory against the Persians in 490 BCE. The remains of the original are in the Marathon museum, but it is not possible to take photos there.
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Log Text: The site of the trophy is near Panaghia Mesosporitisa Church. The Marathon Museum has a pamphlet of sites in the area which can guide you to the location.
Vranas Middle Helladic Graves
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Vranas Middle Helladic Graves submitted by AlexHunger on 22nd Aug 2006. Chambered tombs dating to between 2000 and 1200 BCE at the €15 million Marathon Museum. The excavated tombs are sheltered under a purpose built air conditioned pavilion, while a further unexcavated tomb still under its mound lies outside.
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Ramnous
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Ramnous submitted by AlexHunger on 24th Aug 2006. Hillfort on the northern coast of Attica. The area has been inhabited since the neolithic, but the Athenians guarisoned the place after the persian invasion in order to watch the straight towards Euboa. There are several necropolises and two temples nearby.
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Ramnous Temple of Nemesis
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ramnous Temple of Nemesis submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Aug 2006. Classic 5th Century marble temple of Nemesis, next to Temple of Themis. Destroyed with the coming of Christianity. Compound retaining wall.
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Ramnous Temple of Themis
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ramnous Temple of Themis submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Aug 2006. 6th Century temple of Themis made of large cyclopean blocks, next to Temple of Nemesis. Destroyed with the coming of Christianity.
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Vravrona Temple of Artemis
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Vravrona Temple of Artemis submitted by AlexHunger on 24th Aug 2006. 5th Century temple of Artemis. The columns are part of the Stoa.
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Log Text: The ruins are in a beautiful location.
National Archaeological Museum Athens
Date Added: 8th Jun 2011
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
National Archaeological Museum Athens submitted by AlexHunger on 1st Dec 2008. Site in Athens, Greece: The museum has been renovated in recent years and is now well organized and pleasantly decoarated. The major Greek treasures are on display here.
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Log Text: An amazing museum and well worth the price. I do note that due to funding reductions some galleries have been closed, I believe on a rotating basis. On the day of my visit, much of the ceramics collections, the Vase and Minor Objects Collection, were not accessible.
Tumulus of the Athenians
Date Added: 12th Jun 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tumulus of the Athenians submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Aug 2006. Tumulus for the Athenians fallen at the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE against the Persians. 7000 Greeks defeated 20,000 Persians.
There was a stele commemorating the dead, but this is now in a museum.
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Log Text: Lies in the center of a park-like area. Admission is charged, but its free if you have already visited the Marathon Museum and show your ticket. Less exciting, than it is inspiring.