Andy Burnham's Blog, page 68

Rolstone

I have added some more stones mentioned by Phil Quinn in The Forgotten Stones of West Mendip, 3rd Stone Issue 25 (Spring 1997) - details on this page. This stone is in a field off of Silver Moor Lane. This can be reached via Woolvers Hill Road near the village of Banwell, North Somerset.

Maes-y-Bwlch standing stone

This stone stands 0.8m high, 0.75m wide, 0.35m to 0.4m thick. I have probed gently down with a 2mm blunt end metal rod, the stone has 0.4m of its length (a third of its total length) set in the ground. It has been incorporated into a dry stone wall. It can be seen to have weather erosion far in excess of any other stone in the wall, (the surface is smooth and rounded equally all over including the majority of its top that is sheltered by the wall stones above it), and has lichens that appear much more widespread and established than anything in the wall. The wall appears to have been built over and around the stone.

Waqrapukara Archaeological Park

An archaeological park site in Peru located in the Cusco Region, near the Apurímac River. At 4,300 meters (14,107 ft) above sea level, it was built by the Canchis people (1500 - 1000 BCE) and later conquered by the Incas. It is estimated that under the government of the Inca emperor Túpac Yupanqui (1471 – 1493 CE) the main temples and platforms were built.

Syvhøje Troldebjerg

Have you visited this site? Do you have any photographs or comments to add?. A beautiful group of six round barrows in Denmark. Originally there were seven mounds, But one is ploughed out.

Les Huguettes

Excavation set getting underway at Iron Age and Roman site next month, more on our page. Ancient Settlement on Alderney. Supposedly a Bronze Age and Iron Age site, originally excavated in the 1970s, many pots, stone tools, bronze artifacts, and a hearth have been identified. Longis Common has many discoveries, including a hoard and skeletons, but is deep with blown sand.

Mas Baleta 3

Barrow Cemetry in Cataluña. This tomb is part of a complex of two overlapping Neolithic tombs from 2500 BCE and five Iron Age tumuli from about 700 BCE. It was excavated and restored between 2004 and 2006.

Face au Penker menhir

This one has been incorporated into a war memorial, but stands quite conspicuously amongst the statues, flags and memorials in the churchyard. I'm not sure if the menhir was relocated to here from another position, or whether the memorial diorama was built up around it.

Druidtemple

A lovely sketch by the late Bruce Adams to introduce this photo and art album he made. Stone Circles and Clava cairns around Inverness, all scanned ready to browse, either on Flickr or PDF here. As with other sites in this area such as Dalcross Mains, Cullearnie and Carn Urnan, Druidtemple comprises a kerb cairn surrounded by a stone circle. Located to the south-east of the River Ness in a small forest on the Leys Castle Estate, the site is overgrown with oak trees and grass but nevertheless survives relatively well.

Royston Cave

Royston Cave now has an amazing VR experience on its web site. No one knows the age of this a man-made bell-shaped structure, situated at the crossroads of the Icknield Way and Ermine Street (virtually directly under the original site of the Roysia Stione). It is just under 8m deep and is covered in crude medieval religious carvings. Curiously, amongst the saints a Sheela Na Gig is situated between a carving of a horse and a sword.

Tigh Cloiche Chambered Cairn

A substantial Chambered Cairn, one of North Uist's best examples, although a long way across unforgiving ground!