Andy Burnham's Blog, page 94

Massleberg - Skee 622:1

Rock Art in Bohuslän, part way along the lane from Massleberg to Jörlov. It is located on the west side of the road in some trees. There are carvings of many ships, people, animals and other symbolic items.

Legend Rock

Retired cultural resources expert Mike Bies is working fast to document petroglyphs and pictographs on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The ancient rock art is sliding off the face of canyon walls, more in the comments. Also it's Wyoming Archaeology Awareness Month, with an all-day event on the 9th September in Laramie. Rock Art in Hot Springs County, Wyoming. Located approximately 30 miles northwest of Hot Springs State Park, Legend Rock enables visitors to view over 300 petroglyphs spanning a time-period of thousands of years. Although a handful of the rock's beautiful etchings have suffered from various forms of erosion and human defacement, a wide majority of the artwork has been well preserved for public enjoyment.

Kville 149:2 Hällristning Rock Art

Photos from the seminar held by Tanum's Hällristningsmuseum Underslös this July, Tanumshede, Sweden. The pictures are from the rock carving field Kville 149:2. There are mostly ship figures here, but also human figures, animal figures, circular figures and cupmarks.

Northern Earth Issue 173 Out Now

In this issue: • Further reflections on river-names - Is there significance in clusters of similar river names on both sides of the Channel, asks Richard Stead?
• Weird Stones of West Wales - Miriam Perrett asks questions of possible artefactual stones
• ‘Dobby Lives in Our Hearts & Our Socks’ - Ceri Houlbrook investigates how one of Harry Potter’s friends has had an impact on our landscape

Kercado Tumulus

Music created from resonant frequency chanting in Tumulus de Kercado, more in the comments below. This very well preserved Tumulus is about 1km south of the Carnac alignments. It has a modest Menhir on top and is surrounded by standing stones on the south. It appears remarkably undisturbed.

Kahanu Garden and Preserve

Kahanu Garden and Preserve is a botanical garden located on the Hana Highway (close to the 31-mile or 50-kilometre marker) near Hana, Maui, Hawaii. The garden's ethnobotanical collections focus on plants traditionally used by Pacific Island people. Kahanu Garden also contains the 3-acre Piʻilanihale Heiau, a National Historic Landmark believed to be the largest ancient temple in the Hawaiian Islands. (photos on our page)

Lettergorman SW

With two good portal stones, five others visible, and the axial stone is embedded in a fence. The farmer on whose land in Co. Cork the circle stands cleared the field and dumped the stones in the circle, which local opinion considered to have been the cause of the mysterious deaths of his cattle.

Stenstugan (Stone Cottage)

A dolmen situated in a barrow. The chamber consists of three stones covered by a heavy capstone and surrounded by a circle of slabs set on edge. This type of tomb was built in the Early Stone Age, c 2500-2300 BC. No finds of the period of construction have been made here. Dolmens are associated with the introduction of farming in Sweden. The cup-marks on the capstones are probably of a later date - most likely the Bronze Age.

Skystone

The Skystone is an andesite glacial erratic boulder in Bonney Lake, Washington. It was deposited approximately 13,000 years ago. The stone's height and width are 4.5 by 12 feet (1.4 m × 3.7 m) and it has over 20 pits pounded into its surface, presumably by the Puyallup tribe. The holes seem to point towards both astronomical and geographic features.

Torbeg Cursus

The 2023 excavations by Drumadoon Past 2 Present have just finished, read about their discoveries so far in their blog, more on our page. Top photo: Katie, Rosie, Claire & Amelia reveal the eastern end of the cursus. Cursus on the Isle of Arran. Part of a rich prehistoric landscape across Drumadoon, this site being the most complete Neolithic cursus monument found in the UK, but there are also buried and internationally significant traces of Neolithic and Bronze Age farming.