Andy Burnham's Blog, page 95

Big Mound

The largest and northern-most earthen mound of what is now called the Saint Louis Group was 34 feet high and covered more area than a city block. It is assumed to have dated to the same time period as Cahokia, (1100-1300s CE) It was a prominent landmark from the nearby Mississippi River and helped earned the early nickname of European Saint Louis - Mound City.

Cuatro Puertas

A sanctuary of pre-Hispanic inhabitants in the Canary Isles with very a big main cave (temple), Tagoror (gathering place), Almogaren (place for sacrifices) and further caves arranged as a village. The biggest cave has four carved out doors (from which comes the name of the site). Each door is in rectangular form and in front of the main cave a gathering place is situated.

Schälchenstein Hindenburg

The approx. 70 cm high stone stands next to the entrance to house number 62 in the village of Hindenburg near Templin. The stone has 4 fairly large cup-marks on the top.

Gammel Køgegård Rundhøj 1

A fine round barrow, 2m tall by 15m diameter. With a very old oak tree on the barrow. One of the surviving burial mounds along the road named Ølbyvej in Køge, Sjælland. Here's an interactive map of the others or see the nearby sites list on this page.

Torr Head Passage Tomb

A passage tomb comprising a cairn kerb forming an almost complete oval 19.5m at its widest point. The chamber is 1.8m long x 1.15m wide

Museo Canario

A fantastic museum that displays the most important archaeological finds of the Canary Islands. Including this menhir which has many cupmarks and carvings.

Les Varines

Earliest art in the British Isles discovered on Jersey (first announced in 2020 but wanted to add). Evidence of Magdalenian (Palaeolithic) art was uncovered here in the form of ten fragments of engraved fine-grained flat stones (plaquettes) recovered during different seasons of field excavations between 2014 and 2018.

Cueva del Romeral

The three chambered cairns just outside Antequera (Andalucia) are rightly famous but this is the only one which is open to the public. It consists of a long 2m high passage leading to a 4.5m diameter circular chamber with a high corbelled roof beyond which is a smaller circular chamber - all covered in a near 90m diameter mound.

Dunleith Mounds

More photos courtesy of Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks kindly uploaded by AKFisher. The Dunleith Mounds are located atop the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River and across the river from Dubuque, Iowa. Originally investigated by Col. P.W. Norris for the Smithsonian Institution during the latter half of the 19th Century, the mounds are believed to have been built by the Middle Woodland peoples around 2,000 years ago. In the late 19th century the Dunleith Mound Group consisted of 26 mounds. Today, only 20 mounds can be identified.

Gorteanish

Photos of the completion of the recent excavation by archaeologists from University College Cork, more on our page.. This is a good example of an 11 stone axial stone circle which suffers from the fact that 7 of the stones are prostrate. Both portal stones and the axial have fallen and only two of the S/SE stones stand well enough to give an impression of how it once looked.