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Bjerne Stenoldgård Runddysse

Is it Christmas yet?. A freestanding Runddysse (dolmen chamber), rectangular, not polygonal in shape. Oriented NNE / SSW, with opening an opening in the south.
Two capstones on each long side. (The NW is split)
in older times, one part lying inside the chamber) and one
threshold stone in N.
Capstone partially tipped down in NW as a result of the broken orthostat.

Northern Earth 181, Autumn 2025, is out now

In this issue:

Frank Edmund Earp 1951–2025: Bob Trubshaw honours a leading light of earth mysteries in Nottinghamshire
Some old stones of Portugal’s Land’s End: Ulrich Magin goes hunting for some elusive European megaliths
The NE interview: Lally MacBeth , the author of the new book The Lost Folk
Reflections in stone: Amy Tryphena encounters Cornwall’s smallest stone circle
The wolf that wasn’t: Rosemary Pardoe questions a strange feature in a Suffolk church
Getting it down on tape: John Billingsley gets entangled with hedge tape theory
Synergies of Powys in Gwynedd : Rob Stepney went on a publishing quest, and the omens were on his side
Hiding in plain sight: N and S letter reversals: Greg Huber begins a two-part study of some intriguing symbols
Mind the gap: NE’s editor reflects on a famous tree

Ek (Onsøy)

I had no idea about this stone circle before I went to seek help from a local farmer to find the nearby rock art site at Onsøy when she told me to follow this country road and where to find the stone circle! This one does not appear in any official website or articles. It is located in an open area in the forest and no large trees appear inside the circle.

Steinplatte Mittelberg

A hillfort on the Mittelberg hill in North Rhine-Westphalia, this chunky rock is close to the hillfort, it has cup marks and other signs of human working.

Menhir La Motte de Beurre

This menhir is broken in two, each part about 1.8m (6 ft) long. Only one is standing, it has a bird carved on it, shown in full flight, superposed over a white quartz vein. A crook, also in cut-away engraving, bars its passage. The name means: pat of butter as you may know.

Løkenveien Løken-Nordre

This medium-sized but pretty round barrow is just next to the main country road 40km south of Oslo. Five large pine trees are growing on the barrow but otherwise the barrow is covered only with short grass, making the details of the barrow easy to see. The barrow is according to kulturminnesøk 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres in height and appears to have no damage.

Stenbjerggård Langdysse

Langdysse (Long Barrow) in Svendborg. There are 5 chambers on this monument. Four are more or less in line, the eastern one is located to the north of that line. Easy to find on road 323 from Orbaek to Ringe. You can park your car on the side of the road.

Pors Poulhan allée couverte

On a headland overlooking the Baie D'Audierne, this allée couverte is in a tremendous position. Excavations have shown it to have not only been constructed and used by neolithic flint workers, but also for burials in the bronze age, iron age, and by the Gallo-Romans. In the middle ages it was used as a quarry for building stone, - since then it has been used as a military look out post, and as such was blown up during the second world war. Fortunately it was restored in 1990.

Menhir de Lestrouguy

A menhir in the flower bed of a private garden. On the D2 road , half way between Plozevet and Pouldreuzic.

Glavendruplunden

A site on the Danish island of Fyn (Funen) with monuments from many time periods: two prehistoric barrows, a stone ship setting from the early 900s, a large Viking Age monolith, which bears Denmark's longest inscription on a rune stone, and more recent additions.