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Worms Head, Promontary Fort

Faint remains of hilltop fortifications can be seen on the southern side of the inner head of the Worms Head promontary which can be reached across a causeway at low tide. The single line of defence can be seen as an outward facing scarp up to 4m wide and lm high running in a semi-circle along the sloping southern side of the head, the northern side is defended by naturally steep cliffs.

Star Carr

Star Carr: a persistent place in a changing world - free (and huge!) two part ebook download. Also upcoming publich lecture by Prof Nicky Milner in York. More details in the comments on our page. Mesolithic Settlement in North Yorkshire. A waterlogged lake-side settlement of the Mesolithic dating from 8,700 BC. Wet conditions have preserved many wooden tools, 187 barbed points, bone and stag antler artifacts including 21 perforated red deer frontlets which may have been worn as ceremonial or hunting masks.

Three Howes (Hallow Rigg)

Barrow Cemetery in Yorkshire North - three round barrows in a line, situated in an area where there are many prehistoric monuments, including further barrows as well as field systems and clearance cairns.

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New Mill Farm Enclosure

Cropmarks of a double-ditched concentric circular enclosure to the south of New Mill Farm.

Sydlige Dødning Langdysse

Langdysse (Long Barrow) in Frederiksborg

Blackpark

The remains of the stone circle in Blackpark Plantation on the Isle of Bute has only three stones left standing, the remains of a larger complex of seven stones and is now surrounded by a forestry plantation.

Teos

Ionian Greek City founded in 7th Century BCE at the isthmus of a peninsula. There is an Archaic temple on the acropolis. Other important buildings included the Temple of Dionysus, an odeon/bouleuterion and a theatre. In Izmir Province, Turkey

Cerro Sechin

Ancient Ceremonial/Civic Site in Ancash State, Peru. One of the earliest sites excavated in what is now known as the Sechin Complex, Cerro Sechin is an adobe brick mound topped by a building displaying a wall of granite slabs. This wall is carved with views of warriors and the grisly dead.

Santu Millanu Nuraghe

Nuraghe in Sardinia (Sardegna). This decently preserved complex nuraghe is located south of the road from Nuragus towards Nurallao, on a low hill. The main tower is currently 6m high, it survived in fairly good condition, with partly preserved tholos chamber including three niches. Remains of a quadrilobate bastion are in much worse condition, but outlines of some of the towers are still distinguishable. The nuraghe is built of limestone. Around the structure there are remains of a Nuragic and Roman settlement.