Just a mile down the road from Lanyon Quoit is this little structure looking for all the world like a neolithic mini-me burial just by the roadside. However, it is a modern sculpture – but I have no idea when it was erected nor by whom. Any ideas anyone?
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It is hard to convey to people the true extent and colossal nature of the work that is the Carnac stone rows in Brittany. Somehow, photography alone just cannot do it. The eye can only see so far and it is hard to appreciate just how many of these stones there are from ’street level’. [...]
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Mike Dando, Head Warden: “The walk starts at the largest henge monument in the country and takes you past ancient monuments such as Round Barrows and the ‘Cuckoo Stone’ where it is easy to imagine the landscape as it was [...]
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English Heritage, working in conjunction with The National Trust, are fighting ‘tooth and nail’ to preserve the newly discovered ancient Henge found in Wiltshire, England.
Also located in Wiltshire is Stonehenge thought to have been erected in around 3000BC. Coincidently, Concrete Post Henge is only, a remarkable, fifty feet away from the former, just [...]
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A BUILDER was forced to design a luxury estate around a rock – because locals said fairies lived under it.
Work on the multi-million pound development ground to a halt when villagers complained that the fairies would be “upset”.
Marcus Salter, of Genesis Properties, estimates the colony of fairies believed to be under the [...]
Now this is something you don’t see everyday. The bald guy is me (no I’m not really bald – I just couldn’t be bothered to change my avatar) attending some kind of ritual inside the bluestone circle at Stonehenge – circa 1200 B.C..
No, really.
This is the Heritage Key 3D virtual Stonehenge web experience.
I had to [...]
Standing Stones in the northern desert of Saudi Arabia, Al-Rajajil is a barren plain with groups of standing stones of 4000 or 5000 years old. The tall thin stones, up to 3 meters high, have Thamudic inscriptions and are aligned to sunrise and sunset.
Called al-rajajil (”the men”) today, the pillars appear to the casual observer [...]
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‘The Black Knight’ (1954) must be the best movie ever! Mediaeval knights, Vikings, Saracens, Druids and Greek Temple Dancers all congregate at Stonehenge in the climax to this Alan Ladd movie. It truly has to be seen to be believed. If nothing else, it’s a convincing explanation of how the stones [...]
Recently, there have been quite a few archaeological revelations coming to light from the result of a wildfire that swept the moors of Fylingdales, N. Yorkshire. One of the items discovered is a “unique” carved stone, thought to be 4,000 years old. An article about the stone (from CULTURE 24) is below but before reading that, [...]
Rupert and I were wary of including mention of the Druids in ‘Standing with Stones’. Their mythical association with Stonehenge and megalithic sites in general is well ingrained and enduring despite the yawning millennia between the construction of these sites and the first mention of the Druids in history. William Stukely’s idea that the stone [...]
This might be slightly Off-Topic for this blog, seeing as the site talked about is mostly Roman, but the huge stones must be worth a mention!
Original article here.
If you are fascinated by the massive stone structures of Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, the temple ruins of Baalbeck will put you at your wits’ [...]
During the making of “Standing with Stones” Rupert and I found ourselves on July 5th 2006 standing on busy Cannon Street in the middle of the City of London. How come? Well, that question is answered in the clip below. Even so, it was pretty surreal to mind ourselves filming an ancient prehistoric monument inside [...]
The following is the abstract of a paper presented to the Valcamonica Symposium by Dukso Aleksovski in 2007.
“Cocev Kamen is one of the most imposing and significant cultural monument (with geographic coordinates N. 42o.05’. 024’’ and E. 021o. 59’ and 227’’ and an elevation of 481m). On the left hand side of the rock, near [...]
A little reminder to us all.
This image found at The Earth Room at the bottom of a page dedicated to personal photos of ancient monuments and places of peace. Apparently this sign is at the Findhorn Foundation – the spiritual and holistic community on the North East of Scotland.
“There are many special places on the [...]
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