Andy Burnham's Blog, page 244

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.

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."