Andy Burnham's Blog, page 143

Roskilde Skåltegn

Located in the centre of Roskilde (Denmark) just west of the cathedral stand two large stones placed in the front yard of the former school master's house. One stone is lying down while the other is standing. The northern stone, which is the standing one, was recently noted (2017) to have about 20 cup marks carved into it, see the photos on our page.

East Pentire Barrow

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A round barrow situated on the end of Pentire Point East, which is the SW headland bordering the famous surfing beach of Fistral Bay, Newquay. Recently put on the Heritage at Risk site due to severe erosion, which you can see in the photos.

Trencrom

Dozens of new photos of this fascinating site. Hillfort and possible Early Neolithic enclosure in Cornwall. A wall of large orthostats links natural outcrops of rock and encloses an area of around 1ha. The wall construction is similar to that of Carn Brea. Group II and V axe heads have been found nearby. There are hut circles within the enclosure and the gateways are elaborated, both of these features are likely to be later prehistoric structures

Ved Parken Skåltegn 1

How would you like your house built on top of a rock art boulder?. On a round, coarse-grained rock, which protrudes below the house, 15 large cup-marks and a carving of a foot can be seen. On the island of Bornholm, Denmark

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro

Museum in Ukraine with a permanent collection consisting of 283 thousand objects from ancient Palaeolithic implements to World War II. The museum has a large collection of stone baba figures, the Kurgan stelae, Kernosovskiy idol, a particularly rich collection of objects from the Cossack period, and a sizable ethnographic and numismatic collection. Valuable hand-written books from the early 15th century and archival materials pertaining to the history of the Dnipro region are preserved here.

Whakawhitiwhiti Pā

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Tours and talks (some online and accessible worldwide) for New Zealand Archaeology week, 23rd April to 1st May, including to this site on the North Island, more details in the comment on our page. Whakawhitiwhiti Pā has a commanding presence in the west of New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand. With its well-defined earthworks it is one of the best preserved of New Plymouth's few remaining pa sites.

Figheldean Earthwork

Many Bronze Age field systems have significant alignments on the Solstices - just one discovery from The Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book which is available as a free ebook download. More in the comments on our page. The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of special significance because they differ in character from those in other areas with comparable levels of preservation.
At this location is a small, sub-square, earthwork enclosure, comprising a bank with external ditch. Probably for stock and associated with the nearby field system.

Interpretative Centre of Évora Megalithism

Aluta writes: Setting the menhir upright - the process of moving and placing a menhir without modern machinery. It is a relatively small stone but I thought you might like to see how it can be done. More on the Facebook page of Évora Megalithism. Megalithica Évora is a resource centre for megalithic sites in the city of Évora, Portugal, it's a permanent exhibit in the Remédios convent in São Sebastião avenue.

Kingston Cottage Tomb

Kingston(e), a collapsed Neolithic Dolmen/Chambered Tomb in-between Pembroke and Trewent/Freshwater East, Pembrokeshire. A jumbled collection of huge stones at the entrance of a farm gate. This monument faces Freshwater East beach south by south east in aspect. I think this must have been one of the largest monuments of it's kind in Pembrokeshire.

Tooreen bronze age copper mine

A bronze age copper mine, in Co. Cork. At the base of an east-facing cliff, in an area of rough rocky hill grazing, to the south-wear of the summit of Esk Mountain. An irregularly shaped opening (L 6m; Wth 4.6m; H 3.4m) on the face of the cliff leads into two smaller D-shaped adits in which there are signs of fire-setting and copper staining.