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Kent's Cavern

Kents Cavern up for sale for ~£2.5m (or offers!). Kents Cavern is a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable for its paleolithic archaeological and geological features. The caves are a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and are open to the public.

Llech Y Dribedd

Llech y Dribedd Chambered Tomb is located on a public footpath near Moylgrove at SN101432 and is definitely worth a visit. In a field near the village of Moylegrove. It is variously described as a burial chamber, dolmen or cromlech. At a distance it resembles a sort of alien craft from outer space, but closer up it is a huge lump of stone standing on three smaller up-rights.

Poole’s Cavern

One of the formations in this beautiful Derbyshire cave. Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Roman artefacts have been excavated here. The name Poole’s Cavern comes from a 15th-century outlaw who used it as a lair.

Pipers (nr Merry Maidens)

A pair of large standing stones, outliers of the Merry Maidens stone circle, the legend being that they were the pipers playing for the dancers there who were also turned to stone. The Pipers are the tallest of Cornwall's remaining standing stones, the northeastern being 4.6m (15ft) tall, the southwestern 4.1m (13.5ft) tall.

Gentofte Ellehøj

An attractive round barrow near Copenhagen with steps set into it to reach the top.

Prestonbury Castle

An Iron Age hillfort consisting of three enclosures covering the area of 6.4 ha. Its outworks were never finished.

Menhir de Lacoste n°1

A large limestone menhir 3.8m tall stuck in the ground vertically on a slope 200m south-west of Château de Lacoste, in its park. Its four faces seem to have been shaped. However, an oblique break at the base separates the entire vertical part from the buried part.

Bussoku-seki of Yakushi-ji temple

Before the arrival of Hellenism (the Greek statue-making culture; Anabasis of King Alexander) to India, Buddhism denied idol worship like Islam and worshipped indirect icons. This one placed in the Great Lecture Hall (Daikōdō 大講堂) of Yakushi-ji temple in Nara city is the oldest in Japan. The Buddha footprints include pictorial symbols which represent Buddha’s virtue on fingers, root, centre and heel. Bu(t)s = Buddha + Soku = foot + Seki = stone.

Necrópolis de la Angostura

According to internet sources these graves relate to a nearby Roman settlement and are of similar date. The state of the graves within can be seen, they are slowly falling apart and some capstones appear to have been cast aside or left where removed to by excavation. The site has two nearby off road parking spaces and is contained within a low walled and chain-link fence enclosure with an unlocked gate.

Bjørnegård Runddysse

On a small flat-like mound in Odense stands a dolmen chamber. In part on top of these 3 of 4 stones lies a capstone, which is 3.0m long and 0.75 to 1.00 m thick. It was restored in 1957. The side stones are partly covered with earth.