Andy Burnham's Blog, page 142

Altgrüt Lochstein

Reports that this stone in Switzerland has been broken in half and the top part is missing.. This stone lies on the southeast corner of a small wood near the Kronau shooting club, and is similar to other holed stones in the area, such as Grüti, Rembrig, and Baaregg Haselbach. (see nearby site list) The hole's azimuth is 353°. almost N / S.

Dun Maraig

The tidal island of Dun Maraig in Poll na h-Ealaidh, Isle of Skye has the vague remains of a fort on it. Once it was connected to the shore by a causeway, and it is still possible to walk across to it at very low tide.
Perhaps more interestingly, the small island was won as the star prize in a 1994 German TV game show by a Stefan Schluznus of Bremen. A pretty useless, but fun, sort of prize.

Melitopol Museum of Local History

Reports that Russia has looted ancient gold artefacts from this museum in Ukraine. More in the comments on our page. Also lots of photos of their anthropomorphic stelae. Melitopol Museum of Local History exhibits objects relating to the history and nature of the region.
It's collection consists of approximately 60,000 objects including a unique collection of Scythian gold of the fourth century BC, obtained as a result of excavations of the Melitopol kurgan.

Kasaishi

Stone phalluses on Mishima (見島) island 50 km away from the Honshū mainland.
More than seven Kasaishi's seem to have stood in Honmura (本村) village but only four remain. As at Rocha dos Namorados in Portugal, people who wish for fertility place pebbles on the cap stone. Top photo: a stone phallus beside the police office.

Knap Hill

Situated in the vale of Pewsey this is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, or camp approximately 1.6 hectare in size. On the north-west side seven ditch sections follow the 255m contour. The ditch dates to 3500BC. Windmill Hill & Beaker (date 2200BC) pottery has been found.

Wanna Steingrab (5)

The impressive remains of this passage grave are located in a small grove surrounded by open fields and moorland 1km west of the village of Wanna, Lower Saxony. The tomb's round barrow was excavated in earlier times so it looks a bit like a crater now, but the barrow is comparatively well preserved. It has a small gap at the northern side where easy access is possible.

St Margaret's Island

On the eastern part of St Margaret's Island, Pembrokeshire there are remains of religious and domestic usage covering many centuries. The chapel remains are considered to have originally been the location of a remote (hermit) cell linked to the priory on the (tidally) adjacent Caldey Island - and Caldey was itself the more austere wing of a mainland-based monastery.

Megalithomania Conference 2022, 7th-8th May, Back in Glastonbury

The 2022 conference takes place in the Town Hall of Glastonbury on 7th - 8th May 2022, and with four days of tours, or you can watch the Live-Stream online. Last year we went online. This year back live, and featuring a stunning line-up of speakers at the cutting edge of ancient mysteries, including Prof. Timothy Darvill, Andrew Collins, Kathy Jones, Peter Harris and Thomas Gough, Maria Wheatley, Ralph Ellis, Peter Knight and Sue Wallace, , Hugh Evans, JJ Ainsworth, Tom Bree and Hugh Newman, with Christine Rhone presenting the John Michell Memorial Lecture.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

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Special exhibition: Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs, runs until May 23rd, more in the comments on our page. The Houston Museum of Natural Sciences deals with many topics, including palaeontology, zoology, mineralogy, chemistry, astronomy and energy.
It also contains permanent exhibitions on pre-Columbian America and ancient Egypt.

Cuckoo Stone (Wiltshire)

A fallen sarsen stone about 6 feet in length, a short detour off the path from the Great Cursus to Woodhenge. This is one of the stones spoken of as being dropped by the devil, having fooled the old lady in Ireland from whom he took Stonehenge, dropping some of the stones in the area of Stonehenge.