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Windmill Hill Barrows

A group of four Bronze Age round barrows (Grinsell's Winterbourne Monkton 1 and 2, and Avebury 44a and b) inside the area of the Windmill Hill Neolithic causewayed enclosure. One of these mounds may also have borne the windmill which gave the hill its name.

Wollschow Ringwall

A henge near the Wollschow Necropolis of about 40 tombs (see our nearby site pages for these). In Brandenburg, Berlin

Allée Couverte dite le Lit de Saint-Jean

Allée Couverte in Kermanac'h, Squiffiec, Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany.
Near to the chapel of Keramanac’h, the enormous capstone is broken in three pieces, resting on 7 uprights.

Druidenstein Kirchen

The Druidenstein (Druid's stone) is a legendary volcanic basalt cone. It´s liek a smaller brother of the Devil's Tower in the United States. In the Iron Age it was probably a Celtic sanctuary and a congregation place.

Roseberry Topping

Roseberry Topping in North Yorkshire is a distinctive landmark, an outlier on the northern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors. Clearly visible from many places on Teesside, it can also be often seen popping up on the skyline in the far distance from within the moors which no doubt would have been an aid to travellers in times past. Its distinctive shape however is recent.

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park

Mounds and ancient town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. The site was first occupied around AD800 and in the next 400 years developed into a town with the characteristics of the Missippian Culture, including large earthen mounds surrounding central plazas and residential sites.

Ancient sites to see around Kraków, Poland

The city of Kraków is similar to Edinburgh in that it has a royal castle on a hill right at its heart. It shares this hill with the cathedral, first constructed in the 11th century and containing tombs of the Polish kings. As well as these important sites in Polish history we'll be taking a look at some of the caves, mines and prehistoric sites in the area.

Low Plain 31

Rock Art in West Yorkshire, pictured around the time of the the Winter Solstice. Recorded as Boughey & Vickerman 184, this rock is "on Baildon Moor, Windy Hill, Low Plain, 1 metre south west of the path along the edge south of crater." The stone is has "four clear cups and one possible cup, possible ring and groove."

Manitou Mounds

Largest group of burial mounds and associated village sites in Canada. The archaeological record dates back 8000 years, with 15 burial mounds dating to what is termed the Laurel culture (300 BC to 1100 AD). The mounds vary in size with the largest being 7 meters tall.

Aydin Archaeological Museum

Explore ancient Turkey on the Megalithic Portal. Aydın Archaeological Museum is in Aydın, western Turkey. Established in 1959, it contains numerous statues, tombs, columns and stone carvings from the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, unearthed in ancient cities such as Alinda, Alabanda, Amyzon, Harpasa, Magnesia on the Maeander, Mastaura, Myus, Nisa, Orthosia, Piginda, Pygela and Tralleis. The museum also has a section devoted to ancient coin finds.