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Little Wood Hill
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Little Wood Hill submitted by bat400 on 8th Mar 2015. "Archaeologists and volunteers spent a week excavating the site" Credit BBC News at http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-30095028
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Loma del Rio Ruins
Trip No.1 Entry No.5 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Loma del Rio Ruins submitted by bat400 on 11th Mar 2010. The ruin from the southeast. On the crest of the hill you're seeing the narrow edge of the building, two rooms across. To the right, and just below, you can make out a single room, separated from the larger, six room building on the hilltop.Photo: Jan 2010, bat400.
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Log Text: Back at the south base of the butte, make your way NW towards Mills Ave, and then walk toward the river in the north bound lane. You'll cross a scenic bridge over Tempe Town Lake. (The year round water level is maintained by the use of inflatable barriers.)
On the north side of the river, watch for a stairway on the right that takes you down on to North Loop road. Keep heading north. As you come out from under the 202 freeway and head up hill, you'll see a large open area and a trail head on the right side of the road, with a barrier to prevent cars from parking there. You are now on the SW corner of Papago Park. The walk from the butte to this point should take less than a half hour.
Take the trail east and watch for a footbridge on your left (north). Cross on this footbridge at the Indian Bend Canal, a modernized remnant of an ancient Hohokam canal. You are now on the trail to the Loma del Rio Ruin which lies at the top of the hill directly to your right. Follow the trail in a clockwise curve up and around the hill to the ruin. There is a shaded area right next to the stabilized seven room ruin.
This was an outlying Hohokam farmstead. It lies close on the elevated freeway and overhead electrical pylons. It takes a good imagination to block these modern developments out and focus on the remains of a prehistoric farm. After visiting, return to the North Loop Road the way you came. The walk up to the ruin and back to the road is about 30 minutes.
Now you can return to a light rail station to complete your journey. If you're heading back west, toward Phoenix, continue north on North Loop Road, to Curry Road. (Nearly at Curry Road, on the left, is a park with shaded picnic areas and restrooms.)
Turn left and walk west on Curry Road, across an intersection, and straight on (Curry Road becomes Washington Street at this point.) Or, if you stopped in the park, you can make your way to the same intersection by walking west through the park.
Walk west on Washington Street until you see a rail station in the median strip. The walk from the trail head on North Loop Road to the station will take about 10 minutes.
There are many other public Hohokam sites in the Valley, but most of them require a bike or car.
Long Man of Wilmington
Date Added: 4th Aug 2017
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (East Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Long Man of Wilmington submitted by wiztwas on 31st Aug 2004.
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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.
Lower Memaloose Island
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st May 2015
Lower Memaloose Island submitted by bat400 on 14th Jan 2017. Photo taken from a roadside overlook on Oregon highway 84.
May 2013.
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Lyminge Anglo Saxon Feasting Hall
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Lyminge Anglo Saxon Feasting Hall submitted by bat400 on 10th Feb 2014. Tayne Field, Lyminge, Kent, UK. Taken by James Armitage, 30th March 2001.
This work has been released into the public domain by its author, JTA at the wikipedia project. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible:
JTA grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
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Lyson and Kallicleus Macedonian Tomb
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Would like to visit
Macedonian Tumulus at Chaeronea
Date Added: 17th Feb 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 0000
Log Text: You can see the tree covered mound from the main road east of the village. There is a large paved layby near an abandoned building on the north side of the road where the mound may be viewed from a distance.
Machu Picchu.
Date Added: 28th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machu Picchu. submitted by KaiHofmann on 6th May 2013. Machu Picchu.
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Maen Llia
Date Added: 4th Aug 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1985. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 23rd Jun 2015. A real life manifestation of the stone 'going down to the stream for a drink' - or its shadow at least! Not quite the solstice , a couple of days late . Kite aerial photo of the sunset shadow , and Maen Llia's new enclosure . No expense was wasted on the planning or erecting , a very frugal venture .
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Malapa
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: South Africa
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Malapa submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2013. The Malapa site, August 2011 site of discovery of australopithecus sediba.
Photo by Lee R. Berger (as Profberger,) 15 July 2011.
Lee R. Berger , the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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Mangum Mound
Date Added: 11th Sep 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Mangum Mound submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. Magnum Mound.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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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.
Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks - Conus
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Conus submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. The Conus Mound and its enclosing ditch and embankment. This view is from the south side.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou submitted by bat400 on 14th Jan 2013. The Quadranaou, a flat topped earthen pyramid with centered ramps on each of the four sides. The slope you see at the extreme right and left are the ramps, and not the pyramid itself.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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Marsden Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2012
Marsden Mounds submitted by bat400 on 3rd Sep 2012. Mound A lies between the marker and Mounds B, C, and D, which are right at the edge of the woods seen in the background. Mound A is large in diameter, but so reduced in height that it is difficult to see at all.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Maryhill Stonehenge
Date Added: 16th Jul 2013
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Maryhill Stonehenge war memorial submitted by stonetramp on 16th Oct 2007. Built by Sam Hill as a tribute to the soldiers of Klickitat County who lost their lives, Maryhill's Stonehenge is the first monument in our nation to honor the dead of World War I. The structure is a full-scale replica of England's famous neolithic Stonehenge. A Quaker pacifist, Hill was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that ''humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.'' The location now...
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McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture submitted by bat400 on 23rd Apr 2017. Siltstone figures found at the Sellars Farm site in 1939. The kneeling male figure (left) is 20 inches tall.
Photo taken in 2013.
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Mesa Grande
Date Added: 28th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 0000. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Log Text: You can observe the mound and some of the excavations from three sides, but the site is enclosed by a high iron rail fence.