Andy Burnham's Blog, page 57

Strichen House

A very small, but beautiful recumbent stone circle situated on a hill in Strichen Community Park. Quite easy to reach, although not well signposted! When it was excavated, fragments of white quartz were found scattered within the circle. Well worth a visit.

Grevlerupgård Runddysse 1

A free standing dolmen with six orthostats, one capstone and one threshold stone. With a beautiful, angular, red sandstone cap stone. Situated near to Grevlerupgård Runddysse 2 - see the nearby sites list further down our page.

Young Ralph Cross

This 10 foot tall wayside cross is possibly 11th Century. Made of hard gritstone with a large, roughly shaped base. The lower part shows much-weathered interlace ornamentation and a cable-moulded border. The cross has been restored by adding a new (possibly 18thC) head with a nicked top, cementing this into its socket.

La Guancha

Ancient settlement and cemetery with big remains of burial mounds close to the sea. The most interesting part of the area is the biggest tumulus which is similar to a cartwheel with two centres. It was excavated in 1935 and thirty relics of pre-hispanic Canariens were retrieved. Close by you can see further remains of house footings.

New Mineral analysis indicates Stonehenge’s Altar Stone originated from Scotland

By Dr Rob Ixer and Prof. Peter Turner, two key Altar Stone researchers. A new analysis of Stonehenge’s central six-tonne Altar Stone indicates that it is likely to have come from north east Scotland, at least 750 kilometres away from its current site in Wessex, and perhaps more than 1000 kilometres if it travelled following the present-day coastline. Plate tectonics and precise radiometric age dating are the keys to this discovery.

Cloonsherragh

Stone Row in Co. Kerry. Clive Ruggles has suggested an alignment to the summer solstice sunrise over nearby Mt Brandon.

Aztalan State Park

A group of mounds of the Mississippian Culture, in Aztalan State Park, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. The mounds were made between 11th and 13th century CE, although the site was originally occupied by an earlier culture, around 900 CE by Late Woodland Culture people who made their living by hunting and gathering with some corn production.

Couinandré Menhir

This is a nicely curved menhir just down a little track and signposted east of Plouescat. Its about 4 metres tall, but in a strange position, not on top of the hill or by the stream.

Risbyvejen

In 1973, in this meadow by the Risby Å stream on the island of Sjælland the National Museum of Denmark excavated an exceptionally well-preserved 36 x 3 meter stretch of cobbled trackway dating from around 1000CE (Viking Age). Subsequent research has shown that this road is but one of many passing through this junction for traffic across the originally marshy meadows bordering the stream. Around 30 timber trackways as well as four cobbled roads have been found in the area - the oldest timber trackway dating from around 3500 BCE.

Nitschke Mounds State Park

Photos, plans and video commentaries on these mounds from Stonetracker on our page, see the comments section for the videos. Nitschke Mounds Park is located near the center of Dodge County adjacent to the Wild Goose State Trail and just west of the Horicon Marsh. The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy, conical and linear mounds believed to have been constructed around 800 AD - 1100 AD. Nine additional mounds identified in 1927 are no longer visible or have not been found.