Andy Burnham's Blog, page 64

Fruita Petroglyphs

These vertical sandstone cliff faces have numerous engravings created by the Fremont Culture peoples who settled the area between 600 and 1300 CE. However this European American archaeologist name is rejected by the Hopi, Paiute and Peublo of Zuni tribes who prefer the name Hisatsinom peoples whose history is interlaced with their origin myths and oral traditions.

Musée d'Aquitaine

Museum in Gironde tracing the history of Bordeaux and Aquitaine from Prehistory to today along with 5000 pieces of art from Africa and Oceania.

Lagatjar alignements

The Lagatjar alignements are an intriguing arrangement of stones, mostly consisting of large white quartz blocks on open common land, just to the west of the fishing town of Camaret, in the far west of the Crozon Peninsula, Finistere, Brittany. There are probably over a hundred stones, mostly aligned into three lines, but there are some outliers as well.

Pierre du Grand Tua

A 3.3 metre tall menhir in a hedge near to the village of Bourg-des-Comptes. Located 1.3kms NW of the village near the hamlet of Clermont. Alongside a path passing through La Pregaudais farm.

Skårup Juliegård Dyssekammer

Megalitgrav in Svendborg. A free standing dolmen in a cultivated field. A single chamber with three orthostats, two threshold stones and a capstone with dramatic contrasting colour.

Crawick Multiverse

Crawick Multiverse is a spectacular artland, visitor attraction and events venue in Dumfries & Galloway, utilising landscape art to transform a former open cast coal mine into an outdoor space that can be enjoyed by future generations.

Frobost chambered cairn

Chambered Tomb in South Uist
with a massive chamber capstone 2.5m x 1.65m. On its northern side it has three large kerbstones, two are 1m high and the other is 2m high. The views are pretty spectacular, over lower hills to Beinn Mhor to the NE, and Stulabhal to the East.

Response to review of Gough and Harris’ book: A New Dimension to Ancient Measures

In 2021 Peter Harris and Thomas Gough published a book: A New Dimension to Ancient Measures based on theirs and the late Norman Stockdate's hypothesis that a unit of length, the Harris and Stockdale Megalithic Foot, (HSMF), of 1.1785 feet was known and used in prehistoric Britain. You can read a further summary of the book on our page here. Ancient metrology is a controversial subject but not unheard of in modern archaeology. 
However in February 2023 Liz Henty published a book review in the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology rubbishing their work.

Three Rivers Petroglyphs

The Three Rivers Petroglyph Site is one of the few locations in the Southwest set aside solely because of its rock art. It is also one of the few sites giving visitors such direct access to petroglyphs. More than 21,000 glyphs of birds, humans, animals, fish, insects and plants, as well as numerous geometric and abstract designs are scattered over 50 acres of New Mexico's northern Chihuahuan Desert.

Woodhenge (Wiltshire)

New Woodhenge dating aligns it chronologically with Stonehenge, see the comment on our page for more. Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located to the North of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England - it is closer to Amesbury than is Stonehenge. Before seeing Woodhenge, visitors sometimes anticipate it might partly resemble Stonehenge. But there is little of the original structure easily apparent.