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Columbia Hills State Park
Date Added: 11th Oct 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Columbia Hills State Park submitted by Flickr on 29th Sep 2015. She Who Watches Petroglyph Image copyright: Lorene Flaming, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: There were no tours to the "She Who Watches" figure on the day we were visiting, but we were able to see many other examples of rock art. Well worth a visit.
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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Rockfield Road site
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Would like to visit on 21st Oct 2013
Rockfield Road site submitted by bat400 on 21st Oct 2013. Copyright Wales News Service.
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Indiana State Museum
Date Added: 21st Aug 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Indiana State Museum submitted by bat400 on 22nd Aug 2015. Bird Stones. Most are two to five inches long. They are relatively rare artifacts from the Archaic period and generally found in the eastern half of North America.
Indiana State Museum. Photo by bat400 ca. 2013.
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Log Text: Not an anthropology museum per se, and fairly pricey if your only interest are the galleries on the first people who lived in this region between the last Ice Age and European-contact. However, if you were flying into Indianapolis to visit the area, the collection would be a good introduction prior to visiting sites like Angel Mounds, Mounds State Park and particularly, other smaller locations without on site information.
Other galleries are more spectacular, including the collection of early marine life forms preserved in the extensive limestone deposits of Indiana.
Goodall Site
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2014
Goodall Site submitted by bat400 on 7th Apr 2014. Goodall.
Photo by bat400, ca. 2010.
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Jupiter Inlet Mound
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2014
Jupiter Inlet Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Apr 2014. Jupiter Inlet Mound. View from the west.
Photo by bat400, ca. 2008.
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Kilpeck church
Date Added: 21st Nov 2018
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Kilpeck church submitted by bat400 on 21st Nov 2018. The entry of Kilpeck Chruch. A wooden porch (not original) that covered this doorway for a period of time it thought to have helped protect the carvings.
Photo by bat400, 2014.
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Log Text: A must see church.
Beattie Park Mound Group
Date Added: 5th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Dec 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Beattie Park Mound Group submitted by bat400 on 5th May 2015. Linear Shaped Mound in the Beattie Park Mound Group. Photo taken in November 2014 at dusk.
Photo by bat400.
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Log Text: Pleasant small city park along the Rock River is the location of these mounds, one a turtle effigy. Signage describes the mounds and historic information on how they were preserved. Parking nearby
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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Grimes Point Arch. Area
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Would like to visit on 11th Dec 2016
Grimes Point Arch. Area submitted by bat400 on 11th Dec 2016. Example of Native American rock art on the Grimes Point trail.
Source: US BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT website: https://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/carson_city_field/blm_programs/recreation/grimes_point.html
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Cahokia
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Monk's Mound taken from the SE.
bat 400. 23 June 2007.
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Log Text: A huge, sprawling site that gives you more and more if you spend some time at both the museum and walking the huge expanse. I've visited many times starting in the mid 1990's. The earthen mounds are so large and so many in number that it's easy to become overwhelmed and a bit numb ("... oh, there's another mound ...")
Walking around the site and climbing to the top of the largest earthwork in the US, Monk's Mound, gives you an idea of the size of the site. This is a truncated pyramid with several terraces. The footprint is larger than that of the stone pyramids of Giza.
Portland Art Museum
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Yes on 4th Feb 2017
Portland Art Museum submitted by bat400 on 4th Feb 2017. An Anthropomorphic Figure carved from basalt. Columbia River Valley. Pre-European Contact period.
The figure is over four and a half feet tall. From the catalog: "Considering its massive size and the exaggerated genitalia touching the ground, it probably served as a public monument to commemorate an individual either real or mythical, as a symbol of fertility, strength, and renewal."
Photo by bat400, May 2013.
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Olympia.
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Olympia. submitted by Andy B on 21st Feb 2013. Temple of Zeus conserved and partially reconstructed using the original remains
Photo: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
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Sesklo
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sesklo submitted by Antonios on 14th Jun 2008. Sesklo
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Pella (Greece)
Date Added: 17th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pella (Greece) submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Dec 2006. Not a lot to see here, the mosaics in the museum are good (if they're not on tour).
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Log Text: The main fully excavated and stabilized portions of the city are substantial, but one could wander over all the open areas and sporadic marked tombs outside the city for days. The site of the palace lies uphill from the new museum, and is not open to the public.
The new museum (opened in 2009) is amazing, with very good signage in Greek and English.
Tomb of Philip II
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Log Text: The Great Mound was apparently an overgrown but noted site into modern times when excavated formally in the 1970's. Now the multiple tombs and graves are displayed in this museum setting, with the beautiful finds along side the tombs. The lighting is very dim at first and especially when they first open each day, the site is very crowded, but in 2017, the site appears to be open into the early evening and the crowds die down by mid afternoon.
Vergina
Date Added: 27th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Visited (still working on) on 8th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Vergina submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Dec 2006. The tombs down the road are much more interesting. Photo taken in 1993.
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Log Text: Maps still show the major buildings, tombs, and sanctuaries, but almost all of the ancient city of Aigai is currently closed to visitors. However, you can still hike up to see the fenced off (but visible) theater from the big parking lot on the east side of the modern village of Vergina. From here you have a great view to the north over what was the agora, a portion of the city's eastern wall, and the cemetery complexes.
To the east you can see the modern village of Palatitsia ("palace,") where the 16th century church of St. Demetrius can be seen with ancient column drums making up part of the walls. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23715229
Gla.
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 12th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Gla. submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Greek Hillfort dating back to Mycenae era near Thebes.
South East Gate
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Log Text: We circled the site, admiring the walls and gateways. If anything, the site is more overgrown in 2017 than when davidmorgan visited in 1993.
Thebes Museum
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Thebes Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. The Museum in Thebes looked like a mediaval tower built from antique blocks and is recommended by the Michelin Guide for Greece. It is however still being renovated at this time.
Thebes is the legendary city of Cadmus and Oedipus, though only few antique monuments can be found.
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Log Text: A fine modern regional museum, covering Thebes and major sites in Boeotia.
Mieza
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mieza submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Ruins of theatre from 2nd century BC in Mieza (photo taken on May 2003).
Site in Northern Greece and Macedonia Greece
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Log Text: The only part of the ancient city one can easily visit today is the Hellenistic theater. There are apparently the foundations of a villa near the theater, but the site itself seems to be grown over. The city site itself is visible as a tree and brush covered high ground, but that portion is not accessible.
Outside the city one can visit the "School of Aristotle" and several tombs.