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Owl Creek

Ancient Village and Artificial Mounds in Mississippi. A group of four mounds, the largest being a flat topped pyramid. Carbon 14 dating indicates that the mounds, a central plaza and a village area were built and occupied within 100 years (1100 - 1200 AD.)

Erdwerk Venusberg

The Neolithic earthwork Venusberg is situated on the Venusberg hill in Bonn (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). It was built by the Michelsberg culture ca. 4200 – 4000 BC and was excavated in 2015, see the new photos on our page.

Cregennen standing stone

Cregennen standing stone is a small standing stone about 4 foot tall in a beautiful setting by a lake. It's found by following the path and then climbing a ladder to get over a large dry stone wall.

Aughertree Fell stone circle

Possible Stone Circle in Cumbria. A very large oval stone cicle approximately 150 metres across its longest dimension. There is a mixture of large standing stones which are easy to see and some not so obvious part buried stones, however they are all reasonably large stones some being over 2 metres in length and the majority are around the 1 metre size.. There are at least 12 stones in the outer circle and a further 7 within this area. This site is big and requires further investigation.

Nant-y-Wern

Recorded as scheduled monument BR374, the Nant-y-Wern monument (also known as Pant Serthfa) consists of 4 small and medium stones forming a row 3.2 metres long. Sitting at an altitude of 481 metres, it is sited in the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Folkton Round Barrow

The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge? An exciting new paper on chalk drums which proposes they were part of a standardised measuring system - the 'long foot'. It's been made open access just for a couple of weeks - save yourself a PDF while it's available. Details in the comments on our page. The Folkton Drums were found by Canon William Greenwell in 1889 when he opened this round barrow on Folkton Wold, North Yorkshire. They had been placed behind the head and hips of the body of a child in an oval grave close to the outer of two concentric ditches. Several other bodies shared the monument, these dating to the Late Neolithic period, 2600-2000 BC.

Burderop Down Disc Barrow

Bronze Age disc barrow in Wiltshire containing a cremation, pottery and animal bone, (Grinsell's Chiseldon 1). In 1979 excavations on the barrow bank and ditch, recorded Neolithic ploughsoil, a Bronze Age midden with Burderop Down settlement, and a possible Medieval pillow mound.

Some of the best Dolmen and Temple sites to Visit in Southern Italy

Today we’re looking at some little known megalithic and later temple sites in the southern part of mainland Italy - so in the regions of Puglia, Apulia and Campania. I’m saving the islands of Sicily or Sardinia for another day as these deserve separate articles. But there’s still a lot to see on the mainland. To select the best sites I’ve used the same technique as for our Old Stones book, I created an initial list based on the popularity of sites and submissions, and made the final selection from that. So what is there to see:

Menhir de Kergornec

An incredible 7 metre tall menhir to the south of the hamlet of Kergornec, Côtes-D'Armor, Brittany. A huge stone with an amazing view across rolling countryside. The markings on the stone are (natural) traces of quartz in a triangular pattern.

Mokumanamana

Stone alignment in the North-western Hawaiian Islands. Necker island contains 33 small standing stones/shrines. On this island there are also around 11 petroglyph sites, called "kiʻi pohaku". Anthropologists believe that the island was a ceremonial and religious site.