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A stone wall nearly a kilometre long has been found under the Baltic Sea, off the German coast. It could be the largest Stone Age megastructure in Europe!

The discovery was made by chance. In 2021, students on a training exercise with geophysicist Jacob Geersen at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde in Germany used a multibeam sonar to map the seafloor 10 kilometres offshore from the town of Rerik.
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The wall runs alongside what was once a lake. It contains around 10 large rocks up to 3 metres across and weighing several tonnes, connected by more than 1600 smaller stones mostly under 100 kilograms in weight. The stones are placed next to one another rather than on top of each other, and the wall is less than a metre high in most places.
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It's thought it was used by hunters to channel deer into a confined space.

Submerged wall could be the largest Stone Age megastructure in Europe
 
We were supposed to have a talk about Doggerland at the local history club last year but the speaker had to postpone unfortunately.
Hopefully they'll rebook soon.
Fascinating subject that I really know very little about.
Artefacts do get brought up to the surface by fishermen every now and then. Stone tools etc.

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Doggerland - The Europe That Was

A map showing Doggerland, a region of northwest Europe that was home to Mesolithic people before rising sea levels inundated the area and created a Europe better resembling today's.
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Some of Cornwall's lesser known quoits (except to Voley obviously).


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Zennor Quoit, about a mile east of the village of Zennor.


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Pawton Quoit, also known locally as the Giant's Quoit, this dolmen is in a field on the edge of St Breock Downs. It's thought to have the heaviest capstone (14.4 tonnes) of any in Cornwall. The capstone is now broken in two, but was once 4.6m long.


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Lesquite Quoit, (also known as Lanivet or Trebyan Quoit) is located in a field just the other side of the A30 from Lanivet.
 
RoyReed said:
Some of Cornwall's lesser known quoits (except to Voley obviously).


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Zennor Quoit, about a mile east of the village of Zennor.


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Pawton Quoit, also known locally as the Giant's Quoit, this dolmen is in a field on the edge of St Breock Downs. It's thought to have the heaviest capstone (14.4 tonnes) of any in Cornwall. The capstone is now broken in two, but was once 4.6m long.


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Lesquite Quoit, (also known as Lanivet or Trebyan Quoit) is located in a field just the other side of the A30 from Lanivet.
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Couple of lesser known ones there, Roy, very nice. Lesquite took a bit of tracking down for us (and quite a climb over a hedge).
 
This is the first aerial photograph of Stonehenge and it was taken 118 years ago. It was shot from a military air balloon in 1906 by Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe of the Royal Engineers’ Balloon Section. Image Credit: Historic England Archive.

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The 4,300 Years Old Amesbury Archer 'King of Stonehenge' - RuralHistoria

The Amesbury Archer is a significant archaeological discovery, one of the richest early Bronze Age burials found in Britain
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A couple more Cornish standing stones, this time from stone circles on Bodmin Moor.

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The triangular stone from the Louden Hill Stone Circle with Rough Tor (pronounced 'rauter') in the background.

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One of the Stripple Stones, just south of Hawk's Tor, the only stone circle in Cornwall to be in a henge (a bank and ditch). Rough Tor and Bronn Wennili are on the horizon.
 
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A couple more Cornish standing stones, this time from stone circles on Bodmin Moor.

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The triangular stone from the Louden Hill Stone Circle with Rough Tor (pronounced 'rauter') in the background.

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One of the Stripple Stones, just south of Hawk's Tor, the only stone circle in Cornwall to be in a henge (a bank and ditch). Rough Tor and Bronn Wennili are on the horizon.
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That wasn't yesterday was it? You might've bumped into my other half!
 
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Rock art indicates cows once grazed a lush, green Sahara

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a resource-rich home to a diverse community of animal species.
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"In Wadi Halfa, one of the driest and most desolate parts of the Sahara, the archeologists discovered 16 new rock art sites dating back 4,000 years. What surprised them most was that cattle featured in almost all of them."
 
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From the Cornish Ancient Sites Protection Network walking weekend, this is the Cuckoo Stone, or Carfury Menhir near Towednack.

I love this one. Quite remote, hard to find and often overgrown. Once part of a pair and James who took the walk had found and cleared its fallen comrade, seen here modelled by us two.

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I'd never seen this before, just heard of it, so very pleased to get a look before the gorse inevitably shallows it again.

CASPN are ace - keeping sites open and accessible round our way.

I've purchased one of their slightly phallic T-Shirts. :D

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