Andy Burnham's Blog, page 74

St. Martins

A destroyed stone circle near St Martin's in Perthshire. There several stone remnants remaining around the edge of the field.

Waen Llechi

This isolated lichen covered standing stone is approximately 2.4 metres in height and is situated 0.5 miles north of Cerrig Duon stone circle, with which it was probably linked in prehistoric times (see the nearby sites list on our page). It has a classic "playing card" shape and points towards the circle which becomes visible about 200m from the stone.

Rillenstein Criewen

This stone, newly discovered by me, with an artificial groove is located in the forest in the moraine landscape southwest of the village of Criewen (Brandenburg). The groove starts out shallow and gets deeper towards the edge. It is weathered and therefore is hopefully (and looks to me to be) prehistoric.

Woodhouses

A couple of radio features from 2021 you may not have heard, with Dr Seren Griffiths, details in the comments. This enclosures lies at the northern end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge at 137m above sea level in an area heavily overgrown with trees, bracken and shrubs. It is defended by a rampart to the north and east where the ground slopes more gently. A number of small rounded stones, believed to be slingstones, have been found on the site.

Maen Penddu

A 5 foot tall standing stone near Conwy. Look how closely the profile of the stone tracks the contours of the hillock to its west.

Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera

Lots of photos just in from Maria Korh. Museum of pre-Columbian art in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building with a large garden. The chronological galleries show artwork from 4,000 years of Peruvian history grouped by geographic regions.

Parkin

Videos from Stonetracker's visit linked from the comments on our page. This Mississippian era village site in Cross County is an Arkansas State Park. The site includes a platform mound close on the river. Interpretation is provided by a museum and visitor center (see photos). It is highly likely that this is the village Hernando de Soto visited in 1541 and was described by his party as "Casqui".

Gillingham Stone circle

The map of 1869 shows a stone circle near the church of Mary Madgalen in Gillingham. This has now been destroyed and it was was absent from the first OS maps. However, the stones may have possibly been relocated as curbing along an area of green space nearby.

Andy B's Old Stones talk Tues 26th March Online with The Last Tuesday Society

Megalithic Portal founder Andy B is the guest of The Last Tuesday Society for an online talk. Join us for a highly illustrated and fast paced talk based around many of the themes, new discoveries and mysteries highlighted in our book The Old Stones.

Qasr Usaykhim

On a hilltop in Jordan overlooking the surrounding desert of weathered basalt rocks are the remnants of a small Roman fort. This hilltop itself is surrounded by a thick, low wall of basalt rocks. The hilltop provides a near 360-degree view of the surrounding desert, the northwest obscured by hill.