Andy Burnham's Blog, page 218

Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas

Re-erected in recent years, there is a video of this in the Mora centre. There is a single large stone almost 4 metres tall standing in a part circle of half a dozen smoothed and rounded smaller stones. Just nearby across the track is a further smaller stone, and approx a hundred metres distant to the northeast is a further outlier.

Nucleo Regional do Megalitismo

Museum in Mora (Alto Alentejo, Distrito Evora). The museum opened in September 2016 in a disused train station, which has been impressively converted into exhibition rooms.

Dinas Bran

Dramatically situated high on the hill that overlooks Llangollen, Dinas Bran must be one of the most romantic and magical places in Britain. In song and story it is the castle of the Holy Grail! Although the stone ruin of Castell Dinas Bran is medieval, it stands on the site of an ancient Iron-Age hill-fort, the ditch and earth banks that enclose the southern and eastern parts of the fortress date to the this period.

St.Quirin Necropolis

A Gallo-Roman necropolis in a valley south of Abreschviller, Alsace-Lorraine.

Jörlov Hällristningar

Rock Art in Bohuslän - Several rock art panels around Jörlov farm.

Our Next Talks: Tues 12th Nov North Devon, Sat 17th Beaconsfield

Andy Burnham presents a highly illustrated talk based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in the book The Old Stones, the most comprehensive and thought-provoking field guide ever published to the iconic standing stones and prehistoric places of Britain and Ireland. He will also look at lesser known but interesting sites in Sussex and Kent.

High Cross (Teampall Bhreacain)

See the nearby sites list on this page for many more sites on Inishmore Island such as Dún Aengus, Clochan na Carraige and Dún Eochla but here is a new page of the remnants of this high cross. A fallen and broken carved high cross on Inishmore Island, off the coast of Galway.The base of the cross still stands, the rest is in pieces in front of the standing section. Unfortunately it is very grown over and somewhat difficult to access.

Hunt House Road Standing Stone

Marked as a standing stone on the OS map but in reality is only a fairly modern waymarker. It stands at the south east corner of the junction between the Goathland road and the road that leads to Hunt House, North Yorkshire.

National Museum of Qatar

The National Museum of Qatar is located in Doha City near the port area. It is a magnificent building designed to reflect the Desert Rose (a natural rock formation of sandy-coloured gypsum discs found in the nearby desert). The museum has a world class display of historical and cultural material from Qatar.

Llangors Crannog

The site of the only known crannog in Wales. A dug-out canoe found some 400 metres from the site and now in Brecknock Museum has been radio carbon dated to between 760 AD and 1020 AD suggesting an age for the site. There is a reconstructed crannog house created on an island some 70 metres from the original crannog which has display panels and a replica of the canoe.