Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe remains of the 25m (84ft) cairn of Cors y Gedol lie on the slopes of Moelfre. Little remains of the burial chamber itself apart from a capstone leaning against the cairn and a single standing stone to the east. A similar stone stands at the northern end with another fallen one further north. The site was sketched by William Stukeley in 1766.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeTwo reconstructed henges at Bulford, near the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in a wonderful landscape setting.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryCarn Liath was originally thought to be a burial cairn or carn until excavations revealed it was a broch - however the name carn remains in use today. There have been two excavations at this site, the first by the Duke of Sutherland in the 19th century which unearthed a variety of artifacts ranging from pottery sherds, stone hammers, querns, combs and other domestic articles to a whale bone club.
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Multi-periodNo roads lead to the remote Dun Geilbt at the southern end of the Isle of Skye so we kayaked out to see it - a dramatic location.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThis Bronze Age grave near Helsinki is located right next to the street with a beautiful view of the sea, opposite a clinic. A spear chain surrounds the damaged grave. According to the information board, the grave was built around 2000 BC.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeLangdysse Stårup (long barrow) 34 x 7 meters in size. The chamber measures 2.17 x 1.50 meters. It has 5 orthostats and 1 large capstone, with cupmarks.
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Pre-ColumbianThe Callacpuma archaeological site within the city of Cajamarca in Peru, known for its extraordinary rock cave paintings estimated at 4750 ya, indicates the site was occupied from the late pre-ceramic period onward. Recent discoveries indicate the inhabitants also produced megalithic structures among the earliest identified in South America.
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EventsOn the surface, the mine-shafts of Grime's Graves appear to be countless. English Heritage reckons that there are 433 of them surviving as shallow pits over 17 acres of Norfolk heath land (take a look at the aerial photograph linked from our page.) Digging with antler picks and in use for only a couple of hundred years in the late Neolithic, the deepest shafts go down 13m (30 feet) into the hard chalk.
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ResourcesVal Evans writes: I see that Tracey Ramsbottom has uploaded back copies of her Devon earth mysteries magazine, Wisht Maen. I would be pleased to offer up the original version of my book The Celtic Way, which is a walking guide through the prehistoric sites of western Britain.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA round cairn originally c. 60 feet in diameter, however small to medium-sized field clearance stones deposited on the SE and NW arcs have changed it into an oval mound measuring 25m from NW to SE by 16.5m transversely and up to 1.4m in height.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryEmbury Beacon Fort is an Iron Age promontory fort with double defences, the inner work reduced by cliff falls. Pottery found during excavation in the 1970s was mainly late Glastonbury ware dated to the Late Iron Age, The site was excavated because of rapid coastal erosion.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA chambered cairn in the Highlands, some 19m by 16m, it has an oval capstone over a rectangular chamber towards the eastern end of the mound.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeJust off a roundabout at the edge of the village of Marcillé la Ville, Mayenne stand a group of four standing stones/menhirs that were discovered during work on local development. They range from 1mtr in height up to well over 2mtrs.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeOne of the best known and best preserved circles in Cumbria. A ring of 38 stones stands within a spectacular ring of mountains. Looking to the north you see Skiddaw and Blencathra, to the south High Rigg and Helvellyn, to the west the Derwent Fells and to the east through a gap, the Northern Pennines.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeLocated within earshot of the M6, this massive henge consists of a huge bank 110m in diameter composed of grey, water worn stones brought up from a nearby river and a single standing stone. It has one entrance to the east in the direction of King Arthur’s Round Table.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryHeretoka Pa is located on the banks of the Kaipara Harbour, as shown by the arrow, at the north western end of Atiu Creek Regional Park, north of Auckland. See our nearby sites list for more in the area.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA solitary standing stone in the townland of Coomleagh East, Co. Cork. Pentagonal shaped and with markings on one edge.
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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Lydford is a village between Okehampton and Tavistock in Devon. In the 9th century it is documented as one of four important towns or burhs in Devon. The surviving defensive earthworks shown in the photos are at the north east end of the village, but it is likely that the defences once surrounded the whole of the Saxon town.
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Multi-periodTavira is an ancient sea port in a dominant position over the mouth of the river Gilão. The settlement has developed since antiquity, with predecessors dating back to the 8th century BC, passing through the hands of Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Carthaginians, Romans, Moors and the Portuguese crown.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA small wedge-tomb lies in a thicket, a few metres behind its 3-metre long, single roofstone which has been dramatically and unusually embedded at an angle in the ground. A perhaps-unique example of a tomb's roofstone having been lifted off and planted prominently in the ground nearby
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