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Articles, news and new discoveries from the Megalithic Portal featuring geolocation and maps of ancient and prehistoric sites
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Ballymacdermot
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6333456
Published: October 7, 2024 21:33
Some stunning photos on this page. On the southerly slopes of Camlough Mountain, near Newry, Co. Armagh and commanding fine views to the east, this 3-chambered tomb Court Tomb is entered through a shallow, asymmetrical forecourt of small stones. A few of…
The Sanctuary.
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=3447
Published: October 7, 2024 12:23
Situated at the end of the West Kennet Avenue, alongside the A4 on Overton Hill, the Sanctuary at Avebury sadly now just consists of circles of concrete marker posts. The site was constructed and modified in a number of phases, with eight rings in total -…
Slawenburg Mellenthin auf Usedom
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=60949
Published: October 7, 2024 12:15
The remains of a Slavic hill fort lie in the forest to the north-north-west of the village of Mellenthin on the island of Usedom. A pointed oval rampart with a maximum outer diameter of up to 250 x 195 metres.
Sa Comerma de sa Garita
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=34549
Published: October 5, 2024 08:17
A complicated ruin of a kind of sacred temple in Menorca. It has a small taula (T-shaped stone setting) and bridge-like constructions ; stone girders on straight or piled pillars, which resemble the trilithons of Stonehenge. Scholars and guidebook writers…
Sinsam-ni goindol
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=47512
Published: October 5, 2024 07:55
From the better known Bugeun-ri Jeomgol dolmen, one of South Korea's UNESCO World Heritage Ganghwa Dolmens - go straight westbound for 4km, a dolmen on a small hill can be seen on the right side beneath the road.
Ekeberg Stone Settings
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=36215
Published: October 3, 2024 10:51
That other Kenneth (Brophy) has just blogged about a visit here - more on our page. This site consists of a ship-shaped stone setting, a stone circle and around 10 round barrows and cairns dated to be from early to later iron age. It is close to the bronze…
Allard Pierson Museum
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=13033
Published: October 2, 2024 20:12
In the Amsterdam University Allard Pierson Museum was a special exhibition about the reconstruction of the lost colours used in antiquity to enhance sculptures. To see them as they were seen in their own time often completely changes the rather strict and…
Vilnes Standing Stones
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=60896
Published: October 1, 2024 16:52
Vilnes church on Atløyna island, western Norway has 3 huge and beautiful standing stones inside the churchyard. They all have the shape of large massive standing slabs and are well known locally. A local legend also includes the standing stones and some…
Kerzerho Alignements
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1506
Published: October 1, 2024 13:17
You an still walk among the stones at Kerzerho, which are near the more famous Carnac alignments but not quite so busy. Head up the D781 to Erdeven. You can park nearby, and from there you can also take the path to the large stones of the Table du…
Rabenfels (Hengen)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=60898
Published: October 1, 2024 13:12
A rock shelter / overhang on the border of the former MĂĽnsingen military training area in Baden-Wuerttemberg. There have been finds from the Middle Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Middle Ages and there is an old information plaque attached.