Megalithic and Prehistoric Sites

[JimW]

Maiden Castle is impressive, have soft spot for Crickley Hill by home as volunteered on the dig for a couple of seasons.

 

[Dystopiary]

It’s good to combine hill fort and rotten borough tourism.

No.

 

[Dystopiary]

St Catherine's Hill for me as well.

 

[Silas Loom]

No.

Why not? Admittedly, I’ve never been to Old Sarum, but it would tick two boxes for me.

 

[RiderOnTheStorm]

great thread .... i will enjoy going through this (over next few hours / days ) but the link on the first post no linger works and a Google give many hits but all are 404. Is there a site / map where I can see whats close to me?

(apologies if this was answered at another point, but Im still getting through)

PS great pics, people

 

[RoyReed]

great thread .... i will enjoy going through this (over next few hours / days ) but the link on the first post no linger works and a Google give many hits but all are 404. Is there a site / map where I can see whats close to me?

(apologies if this was answered at another point, but Im still getting through)

PS great pics, people

Here's a link to Megalithic that works:

World-wide Ancient Site Database, Photos and Prehistoric Archaeology News with geolocation : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

www.megalithic.co.uk

And here's an alternative site:

Julian Cope presents The Modern Antiquarian

A collaborative guide to the ancient sites of the UK and Europe, based on Julian Cope’s epic guidebook of the same name.

www.themodernantiquarian.com

 

[bcuster]

A Piece of Evidence May Explain Why the Woolly Mammoth Disappeared So Suddenly

This clue could solve an enduring prehistoric mystery.

www.popularmechanics.com

 

[bcuster]

Proof finally found that YOU started it:

Musket balls fired during ‘shot heard round the world’ battle found in Concord

Five musket balls from the event known as “The Shot Heard Round the World” on April 19, 1775 were discovered by archeologists in Concord.

www.boston.com

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

CSI 13 colonies

 

[bcuster]

 

[A380]

Proof finally found that YOU started it:

Musket balls fired during ‘shot heard round the world’ battle found in Concord

Five musket balls from the event known as “The Shot Heard Round the World” on April 19, 1775 were discovered by archeologists in Concord.

www.boston.com

Doesn’t matter who started it. It’s who finishes it that counts. In your case the French army and navy…

 

[bcuster]

Doesn’t matter who started it. It who finishes it that counts. In your case the French army and navy…

Largely true. However, I think the colonists would’ve eventually prevailed, regardless of French intervention. I liken the situation to the US experience in Vietnam

 

[cesare]

Turns out the Altar Stone in Stonehenge came from the north of Scotland

BBC News - Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

www.bbc.com

 

[ska invita]

Turns out the Altar Stone in Stonehenge came from the north of Scotland

BBC News - Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

Stonehenge: Central Altar Stone from Scotland not Wales

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

www.bbc.com

"Stonehenge seems to be this great British endeavour involving all the different people from all over the island," he said.

...built by Iberians originally from Turkey!

 

[Chilli.s]

Nice discovery on Dartmoor

Bronze Age burial chamber unearthed on Dartmoor

The excavation took place at one of the remotest hills on Dartmoor.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Voley]

Nice discovery on Dartmoor

Bronze Age burial chamber unearthed on Dartmoor

The excavation took place at one of the remotest hills on Dartmoor.

www.bbc.co.uk

I had a sneak peek of that before they excavated it. It's on a great bit of the moor - near Fur Tor; the really remote one.

Paul, our guide, was very excited about it even back then (a year or so ago). The peat preserved wood is amazing. How the hell anything organic remains intact from the Bronze Age is incredible.

He was talking about getting the army to help get the excavation equipment out to Cut Hill - it half-killed me just walking out there and back tbh.

 

[Chilli.s]

I had a sneak peek of that before they excavated

I was hoping youd have been there, thanks

 

[Chilli.s]

Not a site but a nice artifact

Bronze age jewellery restored to former glory after 4,000 years

A necklace and bracelet are painstakingly recreated for a new display in Dundee.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[RoyReed]

One of the Nine Maidens on the west edge of St Breock/Rosnannon Downs, Cornwall, just off the A39.

 

[bcuster]

One of the Nine Maidens on the west edge of St Breock/Rosnannon Downs, Cornwall, just off the A39.View attachment 440123

spectacular

 

[bcuster]

Boy accidentally smashes 3,500-year-old jar on museum visit

A 3,500-year-old jar has been accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy during a trip to a museum in Israel.



The Hecht Museum in Haifa told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC - and was a rare artefact because it was so intact.



It had been on display near the entrance of the museum without glass, as the museum believes there is "special charm" in showing archaeological finds "without obstructions".



The boy's father, Alex, said his son "pulled the jar slightly" because he was "curious about what was inside", causing it to fall.

 

[Voley]

Nice response from the museum:

"The Hecht Museum said the child has been invited back to the exhibition with his family for an organised tour after the incident happened a few days ago."

 

[RoyReed]

Driving round some lanes near St Eval, Cornwall I spotted a standing stone in a field that I hadn't known of before. It's The Long Stone, also known as the Music Water Stone or Eddystone - a standing stone of unworked white quartz 3.6m high, tapering from a 1.8m square base. The gate into the field was covered in brambles and barbed wire, so this is as close as I could get.

 

[Voley]

A beast, that one, Roy. Love all the quartz in it.

 

[RoyReed]

A beast, that one, Roy. Love all the quartz in it.

It's nearly as big as Men Gurta (St Breock Downs Monolith) which at 4.9m high and weighing 16.5 tonnes is meant to be the largest and heaviest standing stone in Cornwall.

 

[RoyReed]

About 100m south of the Men Gurta standing stone lies the much less well known St Breock Beacon Kistvaen, the remains of a neolithic dolmen tomb (Kist-Vaen means 'earth-fast'.) Unfortunately the dolmen is surrounded by a sea of waist high gorse and brambles.

 

[Voley]

The Nine Maidens, West Penwith on Friday night. Went there for lunar standstill moonrise / hoping for some aurora. The sunset beat the lot.




Carn Galva on the horizon that ska invita mentions upthread. It's a great spot, this one; obviously very important to our ancestors.

 

[Elpenor]

Been around Bodmin Moor today : Trevethy Quoit, Hurlers stone circle (and sheep) and Long Tom

 

[Voley]

Also on Bodmin Moor ... quick plug for my other half. She'll be on The Sky at Night this evening talking about Goodaver Stone Circle and its relationship to the sky.

BBC4 10:15pm, short clip here:

BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Ancestral Skies, Back to the Bronze Age

Dr George explores a Bronze Age stone circle and its connections to the sky.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Elpenor]

I’ve decided I liked my trip to Bodmin moor so much I’m going to have a week in a caravan nearby next March to explore a bit more rather than be restricted to a few hours there