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Auchnacraig 1

The excavations at Auchnacraig 1 and 3 rock art panels, June 2019. More in the comments on our page. Rock Art in West Dunbartonshire. A gristone slab with over 100 cup-marks of 5-10 cm diameter. Some of the cup-marks have rings around them.

Grønnegade Runddysse 2

Megalitgrav (Burial Chamber) in Maribo

Woofa Bank 07

Rock Art in West Yorkshire. The stone forms part of a prehistoric enclosure and looks to be in its original position. The rock art panel is recorded as having twenty one cups, a further cup partly enclosed by an L-shaped groove (possibly having a third side) and four shallow depressions that are probably natural.

Gørlev stenene 1 og 2

Both stones were found in the Gørlev Church during restoration work, the stones are now placed in the porch of the church. The largest, Gørlev sten 1 was discovered in 1921 and has the following dimensions: Height: 315 cm. Width: 88 cm. Thickness: approx. 35 cm. The stone is dated to between 800-850 AD (Older Viking age). There is a Runic inscription on either side of the stone. The rune height is 17-32 cm and the inscription is not very clear nowadays.

The best ancient sites to visit around Dubrovnik and the Southern Adriatic Coast

In this article we’ll be looking at some of the best ancient sites to visit around Dubrovnik and the southern Adriatic coast of Croatia. The greatest gems of this area are its magnificent hillforts, begun in Iron Age times with megalithic or cyclopean walls, and later taken over and added to by the Romans.

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino de Santiago de Chile

The museum is housed in the late colonial era Real Casa de Aduana at Bandera 361 in central Santiago (Chile) just a block from the Plaza de Armas. It contains a large collection of pre-Colombian artefacts from across South America including a number of figurines.

North Park Farm

Publication of A Mesolithic 'Persistent Place', Prehistoric and early medieval landscapes at North Park Farm, Bletchingley, more in the comments. Also a look at a decorated Neolithic bowl recovered during excavations at Hengrove Farm, near Staines

. In 2005 the Megalithic Portal visited one of the most important mesolithic excavations in the UK North Park Farm, Bletchingley is a sand quarry located on the Folkestone Beds sand, just to the south of the North Downs, in East Surrey.

Sandy’s Seven Years of Stone Rows

Anne Tate writes: When a recent update from the Stone Rows of Great Britain website popped into my email inbox late on Sunday evening a few weeks ago, it was simply headed “Seven Years”. In this latest news bulletin, Sandy Gerrard quietly announced “It is more than seven years since I embarked on the journey to visit, record, and interpret the known stone rows of Great Britain …. Later this week I will be setting out to visit the two most northerly rows. Once these have been visited all of the surviving original rows identified from documentation will have been inspected”.

Hengistbury Head

Performing the Past, Monday 5 August to Friday 9th August, Walk and Art/Craft Events at the new Hengistbury Head visitor centre. Evidence of a very long period of occupation with evidence of palaeolithic and mesolithic hunters, 13 Bronze Age barrows and an Iron Age promontory fort in Dorset. Numerous finds particularly from the period after 7th century BC when the area became a major port trading with Gaul and the Mediterranean.

Buckland Rings

Video Talk: Will Buckland Rings Reveal its secrets? Josie Hagan, Bournemouth University, and various other New Forest related talks, from the New Forest Knowledge Conference 2017. Buckland Rings, a Scheduled Ancient Monument on the outskirts of Lymington, has impressive earthworks comprising three banks or ramparts and two ditches enclosing a rectangular area of about 4.5 hectares. The ramparts and ditches are substantially complete except on the east side, where in the 18th century, a farmer levelled the banks to gain easier access to the interior. The only original entrance was on this side and traces of it are still visible to the trained eye.