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Menhir dit la Chaise-à-Margot

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Published: November 14, 2025 18:04

The name means Margot's Chair - fairies in Breton folklore. A smallish menhir #StandingStoneSunday which does indeed look like a seat. Part of the megalithic complex "La Lande du Gras" with 2 menhirs and 3 long barrows - see the nearby sites list on our…

Chanctonbury Ring

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Published: November 13, 2025 15:27

See how the LiDAR whizzes through all the trees so we can see what's underneath. Photos of Chanctonbury Ring including some from Miles Russell's excavation of 1990 are our page. First inhabited in the Bronze Age, the defensive works are from the Iron Age,…

The Castles (County Durham)

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Published: November 11, 2025 21:19

Pretty much all the vintage Time Team episodes can now be watched on YouTube, along with their new productions of course. Here's a good, if inconclusive one from 2008 featuring this enigmatic site in Co. Durham, linked below. The Castles, near Hamsterley,…

Gallow Howe (Castleton)

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Published: November 11, 2025 16:51

Located to the immediate east of the Castleton / Hutton Le Hole road as it climbs out of Castleton and levels off on Castleton Rigg is the site of what antiquarian John Christopher Atkinson described as a howe (barrow) with a walled chamber (cist /…

Dolmen im Randowtal

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Published: November 11, 2025 16:43

The remains of a destroyed dolmen about 100km NE of Berlin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It was likely part of a larger burial ground in the Randow Valley. About ten years ago, several stone cists and another dolmen were excavated on the opposite side…

Pierre de Fécondité (Camlez)

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Published: November 8, 2025 21:43

A 1.5m tall stele near Chapelle Saint Nicolas, Bretagne. Traditionally women would rub their belly against the stone in the hope of becoming pregnant, and it could reputedly cure young children with disabilities.

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro

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Published: November 8, 2025 19:14

Ukraine’s daring mission to save centuries-old stone figures amid the recent Russian push. Museum in Ukraine with a permanent collection consisting of 283 thousand objects from ancient Palaeolithic implements to World War II. The museum has a large…

Stockland Great Castle

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Published: November 7, 2025 12:12

Hillfort vs Agriculture, you can see who won.... An Iron Age hillfort in Devon which originally had 3 rings of ditches and ramparts. Its earthworks enclose an area of 4 ha.

Dumpdon Great Camp

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Published: November 7, 2025 12:09

A hillfort located on a detached hill at the southern end of a steep-sided ridge of Upper Greensand between the River Otter and the Luppitt Brook. The flat topped and triangular shaped hillfort of 2.6 hectares was defended by two substantial ramparts and…

Templo de Patlachique

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Published: November 6, 2025 18:55

High above the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley (Mexico) rises Cerro Patlachique — a peak now shown to have served as a major pilgrimage shrine long before, during, and after the heyday of the city of Teotihuacan (c. CE 150–550). Recent lidar…

Gabii

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Published: November 6, 2025 18:43

Archaeologists in Italy recently found a massive stone basin dating back more than 2000 years in the remnants of a once-powerful rival of Rome, the now ruined town of Gabii (pictured), about 11 miles to the east. The structure may be one of the earliest…

Toftegård stenen

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Published: November 5, 2025 21:11

This stone east of Roskilde has more than 50 cup marks, and just recently an incredibly rare Bronze Age glyph of a hand (discovered in 2019) has been made visible. Toftegård stenen was found by Erik Twedegård Jensen from Toftegården in Ejby. He came across…

Tolne Langdysse

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Published: November 5, 2025 20:44

Some very Autumnal photos of this great Langdysse (chambered long barrow) near the northernmost tip of Denmark. Situated in Tolne, south of the church and just west of Kirkevej between Steendyssevej and Dybdalsvey. Easily visible on aerial photographs.