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Brook Down Five Barrows

An impressive, iconic site, a disc barrow, six bowl barrows and one bell barrow overlooking large areas and forming part of a sacred landscape running along the ridge of chalk downland through the centre of the Isle of Wight.

Physic Well (Cumnor)

Very little is known about Physic Well. The name suggests some healing property in times past, but it was already 'long disused' in 1806 (Lysons, 'Magna Britannia: Berkshire'). The well lies a mile west of Cumnor Village close to the ferry point at Bablock Hythe, now in Oxfordshire.

Megalithomania 2019, 11th-12th May, Glastonbury

11th-12th May - Megalithomania 2019
Town Hall Glastonbury
Just a few tickets remaining.
Andy B, founder of the Megalithic Portal and lead author of our Old Stones book is speaking Saturday afternoon. Also on the bill: Paul Devereux and many more

Carman Hill cairn

The remains of a chambered cairn in West Dunbartonshire. The large upright stone is set in a gently-sloping field that gives a view of the River Clyde to the south-west; the stone is what remains of a chambered cairn, which once contained a burial chamber. Photo taken facing west showing the sunset over the 'Arrochar Alps', and many more on our page. l think it is symbolic that the builders placed this Cairn facing this direction, the Sun sets against these mountains every evening, every day of the year.

Moseley Bog Burnt Mound

A nature reserve in suburban Birmingham which gave inspiration to J.R.R Tolkien, who lived nearby as a young boy. It has two burnt mounds, heat shattered pebbles collected in the Bronze Age that may have been used for cooking or possibly to create steam for a 'sweat house'. The mounds were only discovered in 1980 when heat damaged stones were noticed in the bed of the stream that bisects one of the mounds. An excavation followed and the mound pictured here was identified.

Yenworthy

A lovely pair of standing stones, each about a metre tall, stood about 30 metres from each other, to the east and almost at the top of the hill opposite County Gate car park on Exmoor. These stones stand near to the remains of two round barrows, which may or may not be contemporary with them.

Ellebygård Bautasten

A beautiful Bautasten (Menhir) almost 2 m high in the middle of a field.

Blykobbegård Rundhøj

Round Barrow in Bornholm. 4.5 x 25m burial mound is located on a field, but it is accessible all year round. From the Aabyvej an old country lane leads directly to the mound.

Saerbeck Iron Age Settlement

The remains of an Iron Age settlement were found in a sand pit in Saerbeck (North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany). The current excavation of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) has revealed how the ancient farmers built storehouses, stables and residential buildings and what pottery they used.

Mayon Farm Cross

Photos of Mayon Farm Cross from last month. Reports coming in that it has been completely bulldozed, more soon... Details in the comments. . Was once "a Greek cross in relief with expanded limbs, the lower extending the full length of the shaft" Now a pile of stones or less...