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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.
Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Canada
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island submitted by bat400_photo on 4th Apr 2014. Ancient clam gardens on Quadra Island, BC, Canada, are intertidal beach terraces built by humans by constructing a rock wall at low tide typically between 0.7–1.3 m above chart datum.
Quadra Island clam gardens range in size and shape but generally create shallow sloping intertidal terraces encompassing tidal heights of 0.9–1.5 m above chart datum.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091235.g001
Citation: Groesbeck AS, Rowell K, Lepofsky D, Salomon AK (2014) Ancient Clam Gardens Increased Sh...
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Anasazi Indian State Park
Date Added: 25th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Anasazi Indian State Park submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Dec 2010. Pit house structure at Boulder Anasazi village.
Picture from a 1990 trip, and now faded and deteriorated.
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Alligator Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2007
Alligator Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Dec 2007. Alligator Mound. What you cannot tell from satellite views and most photos of the site is that there would have been a clear view of the effigy from higher ground immediately to the west of the mound. In this photo you can just make out the irregular lines of the mound through the recently planted trees in the upscale neighborhood that surrounds the mound.
Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Akrokorinthos
Date Added: 7th Apr 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Saw from a distance. My rating: Ambience 5
Akrokorinthos submitted by Antonios on 24th May 2008. Site in Peloponnese Peninsula, Greece: Acrocorinth.
The walled gates of Acrocorinth from the west, as rebuilt by the Venetians.
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Log Text: Drive to the entrance of the fortress, but it was too late in the day to enter and visit.
Agua Fria National Monument - Badger Springs Wash
Date Added: 21st Aug 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Agua Fria National Monument - Badger Springs Wash submitted by bat400 on 21st Aug 2023. Panel at the Badger Springs Wash site.
Photo by bat400. Taken in March 2023.
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Log Text: I visited on a weekday morning in overcast conditions. In March the vegetation is not as thick as it appears to get later in the year. The trail from the trail head rapidly becomes the spring itself, and although there are places along the left hand bank heading down to the site, You are likely to get your feet wet if there has been recent rain in the area.
This is a beautiful site, with a large pool at the confluence. At this point the Agua Fria canyon is not particularly deep, but at other locations the river is cut deeply into the mesa.