Andy Burnham's Blog, page 59

Little Kit's Coty

Lower Kit's Coty House or "The Countless Stones" consists of 20 or so sarsen stones which are all that remains of a tomb demolished in the 18th century. It is thought that the 21 remaining fallen stones were part of the chamber, facade, and sides of a chambered long-barrow.

The incremental search for the Origin of Stonehenge's Altar Stone

We present a retrospective by Rob Ixer, Peter Turner, Richard Bevins and Nick Pearce outlining 21st century Altar Stone research; it highlights the incremental ‘journey’ taken by researchers and the stone as they progressively moved away from west Wales. Research is ongoing...

Les Causeurs

On a grassy mound at the south-west side of St Guénolé’s church on the I’le de Sein (Sein Island) – five miles off the Finistere coast at Pointe du Raz (Bretagne), Brittany, are two tall granite standing stones (menhirs) that may have once been part of a stone circle. There are a number of myths and legends associated with these menhirs, the island known as Enez Sun in Breton has long been steeped in pre-Christiand myths and druidic ritual.

Ai Grass/Crestone Lower Stone

One of two stones at Ai Grass/Crestone pasture above Madesimo, Lombardia. Already recorded in a 1980s census of carved stones in Valchiavenna, it presents several cup marks along its South-Eastern edge.

Man Mound Park

A man-shaped effigy mound in a park 4 miles (6km) NE of the town of Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisconsin. The figure is about 64 metres by 16 metres and part of this mound has been destroyed where the nearby road has cut through the effigy's legs.

Menhir de Sainte-Évette

Most likely a fallen menhir. Located between the boulders on the coast of Sainte Evette. About 6 meters long and only visible at low tide.

Lagwine

Lagwine Cairn is located c. 0.5 mile N of Carsphairn in Dumfries and Galloway. According to Canmore, the oval cairn originally measured 30.0m E-W by 25.0m N-S. There has been some stone robbing, probably for the construction of a sheepfold c. 50 yards NE of the cairn. However, a ridge of apparently undisturbed stones survives,

Avebury - The Cove

Video Talk: Avebury - Rethinking a Henge and its Landscape with Prof Joshua Polllard, details in the comments on our page. Marking the centre of the northern ring in Avebury's henge are the two large sarsen slabs known as 'The Cove'. One theory has it that the larger of the stones may have once stood alone as a menhir and that reason may have been enough to build a ring around it or maybe the whole henge because of this one stone.

Nesscliffe

From this year’s dig, Lisa one of the excavators drawing a patch of ancient pavement. This hillfort sits on top of a sandstone escarpment overlooking the Shropshire Plain. It is a D shaped fort with double-ditched inner and outer ramparts.

Bachwen

This dolmen, with a thin wedge-shaped capstone supported on 4 stones, is in a farmer's field with views down to the sea, and over to the hills Yr Eifl with its hillfort Tre'r Ceiri.