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Angel Mounds

Again highlighting our epic Music Inspired by Prehistoric Sites thread here's the completely 'out there' Four Assignments by Max Syedtollan featuring Angel Mounds, Indiana.. Angel Mounds Historic Site, off Pollack Avenue, Newburgh, Indiana is a Middle Mississippian village (ca. 1100 - 1450 AD) along the Ohio River. There are earthen flat-topped mounds, indications of protective earthworks, a protective stockade, and burial and building sites on and near mounds.

Andy B's Old Stones Talk Live Online this Wednesday 24th March

Andy's highly illustrated talk will be live online this Wednesday at 7.30pm, hosted by the Marlow Archaeology societies. The talk is based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones, along with a look at many lesser known but interesting sites.

Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve

A superb rock art centre near Phoenix, AZ with excellent interpretational facilities. The rock art was produced by Archaic (before 150 CE,) Hohokam (1 - 1450 CE,) and Patayan (ca. 900-800 CE) cultures. It focuses on the rock art found a short way from the building on an outcropping of basalt boulders found along a quarter mile trail facing south east, and in general North American context.

Noth Ings Bride Stones

This single stone row lies on the North York Moors at an altitude of 282 metres. Made up of 83 medium and large stones it has a total length of 490.6 metres. One stone has a small cross carved on it.

Sig More

See our page for an aerial view of this chambered cairn on a beach in South Uist. A much reduced chambered cairn on the north coast of South Uist. It is constructed on a tidal islet approximately 2 miles east of Buaile Dubh. The cairn is around 65 feet in diameter but has been extensively robbed. There are apparently remnants of a chamber on the eastern side but it is rather covered with seaweed! There was a ring of stones c. 60 feet in diameter forming a peristalith but by 2010 only 13 remained.

Grimsay, Bagh Nam Feadhag

A 3D model of a late prehistoric wheelhouse, made using photogrammetry by the ACCORD project. Model, video and more details in the comments on our page.. Possibly the best preserved example of a wheelhouse on North Uist and not shown on the OS maps. Difficult to find, it is located between Loch Hornary and the north coast of Grimsay. It dates from the Iron Age.

East Balhalgardy

A Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Aberdeenshire, now used as the lintel over the window of a farmhouse. The vertical cracks below the window and the height of the lintel seem to indicate this was originally a doorway.

Hoar Stone at Enstone

This was evidently a site of considerable, importance in ancient days if the volume of folklore has anything to go by. Nearly hidden in a small wooded enclosure, between Enstone and Fulwell, where the B4022 meets the Enstone to Ditchley road, we find the ruins of this large chambered tomb. Although today only comprising of three large stones, one of which is almost nine feet tall, when Crawford [1925] visited here there were six stones visible and the remnants stood upon a mound of earth, which is no longer visible.

Alto de Almoloya

This Bronze Age burial site in Spain has sparked speculation that women may have been among the rulers of a highly stratified society that flourished on the Iberian peninsula until 1550BC.. An exceptionally rich grave at La Almoloya in south-eastern Spain illuminates the political context of Early Bronze Age El Argar society. The quantity, variety and opulence of the grave goods emphasise the technological, economic and social dimensions of this unique culture. The assemblage includes politically and ideologically emblematic objects, among which a silver diadem stands out.

Smørumovre Bautasten

Located in a newly built housing estate and by a public footpath are four standing stones believed to be from the Iron Age. The stones were discovered back in 2017 during an excavation before the construction of the housing estate had started. All four stones had fallen over and had been buried before being raised again, in their original positions, and cleaned up. Archaeologists also found four pits where four other stones would've stood, but those four stones have been lost sometime in the past. Today the four remaining stones now stand beside the public path.