Andy Burnham's Blog, page 37

Botudo menhirs

The story goes that in times past single women would throw little stones up to the top of this menhir in Côtes-d'Armor. Should one remain up there it meant they would get married in the coming months. Cows also find it attractive! There are two menhirs at this location so could have been an alignment. The second one is located in a field on the other side of the road.

Stanton Drew - Avenue

An avenue of stones leading in an east-north-easterly direction from the great circle to what is thought was once the edge of a lake on the floodplain of the river Chew. See our nearby sites list on this page for more to explore around Stanton Drew.

Taageruphøj

The remains of a round barrow in Sjælland. Size 25 x 4 meters. Located next to Taagerup Rundhøj.

Drumfad Cup & Ring Marked Rock

More about the eccentric archaeologist and antiquarian Ludovic Mann in the comments. A boulder of schist, presumably an ice-carried one, about 1.5m (5ft) in height, and 15m (48ft) in girth, making a prominent landmark. It has many well-preserved cups, rings, and other markings such as modern graffiti on its surface. An attempt to break up the boulder resulted in it being split into four unequal parts. The carvings were preserved under the guidance of Mr Ludovic Mann.

Low Brown Hill Funerary Monument

Located on the gently sloping ground of the western flank of Low Brown Hill / southern flank of Brown Hill and just over ¼ of mile north west of WHITE CROSS is an unusual bronze age funerary arrangement. The arrangement consists of a small standing stone between a round cairn to its immediate north east and a ‘D’ shaped enclosure to its immediate south west.

Cana Henge

More from Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping on Sketchfab. The late afternoon sunlight in this photo reveals the slight outline of this henge near the city of Ripon, North Yorkshire. Not visible on the ground but a decent view over to the Dales and North York Moors, but there would probably have been tree cover in the Neolithic. With thanks to Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping for the use of the images and Bladup for uploading them.

Castle Dykes

A very well preserved henge in North Yorkshire which sits astride a ridge. The henge is roughly circular and has a maximum diameter of 75m. There are 3 entrances, north, south & east, the eastern entrance is thought to be the only original one and has a causeway. The one and only excavation of the site was carried out by Canon Wylie in 1908.

Long Meg And Her Daughters

Stone circle and standing stone in Cumbria. This is an amazing Bronze Age site covering quite a large area. The stones are placed in a flattened oval 100 by 93 metres, and there were originally about seventy. Today there are fifty-nine, twenty-seven of them still standing. Hazel charcoal in one of the stoneholes dates the site to 3340–3100 BC which is early for a stone circle

Teufelsmauer

The Teufelsmauer (devil´s wall) is a large natural wall of rocks in front of the Harz mountains in Saxony-Anhalt.

Therfield Heath Five Hills

These barrows are located on a golf course so beware of flying balls!. A barrow cemetery in Hertfordshire of six round barrows with four others and a long barrow close by. So altogether ten Bronze Age round barrows at this prominent location - one of the best in eastern England.