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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4h

Society and Pastscape remain unconvinced either way - is it a ruined Long Barrow or are they old quarry workings? What do you think? 📷 123456789jeagles117 More: www.megalithi...

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Crackstone Long Barrow

Long Barrow in Gloucestershire, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4h

Crackstone Long Barrow: Possible Long Barrow in Gloucestershire. This is a site which has caused much conflicting discussion over the years, all of which remains unresolved even today - both the Bris. & Glos. Arch.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4h

indicating a trading network extending as far as the Aegean. If anyone can help with photographs of the copper and other artefacts found in this cave, please do submit them to our page - thanks. 📷 Anne T More: www.megalithi...

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Zlot's Cave (Lazareva Pećina)

Cave in Serbia

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4h

Excavations recovered about 50 copper objects of late Eneolithic (Copper Age) and Early Bronze Age date, including chisels, awls, needles, flat axes and ornaments, found alongside Vinča-related pottery and a complete Bronze Age belt of eight linked bronze spirals,

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4h

Zlot's Cave (Lazareva Pećina): The longest known cave in Serbia, with 9.4 km of explored passages, and one of the most important prehistoric copper-working sites in the central Balkans.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 5h

Please could we add your lovely photos to our page, with credit? Do you have a login with us?

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 5h

Audleystown Court Tomb, nr Strangford. Beautiful "remote" spot with views over Strangford Lough and towards Killyleagh. See also, www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?... @megalithic.bsky.social #Lecale #LeathCathail #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Want to see behind the scenes at the museum store? Sign up for an expert led guided tours. See collection highlights and handle some objects. Wed 28 October, 2pm and Wed 25 November, 11am Book via our website #FridayFinds

two people in Reading Museum store looking at a modern sculpture with other objects on shelving behind

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

who has declared it his own micronation "The Kingdom of North Dumpling" and added this rather skinny "Stonehenge" (if we can call it that). 📷 Creative Commons More: www.megalithi...

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North Dumpling Henge Modern Stone Circle

Modern Stone Circle in New York, United States

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

North Dumpling Henge: In Long Island Sound between Fishers Island and the Connecticut shore (New York State), an island belonging to inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen,

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lots more 'Clonehenges' are appearing on our pages as we investigate Nancy Wisser's incomparable archive for odd and interesting Stonehenge influenced sites. 📷 Aluta More: www.megalithi...

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Kearton Cottages "Stonehenge" Modern Stone Circle

Modern Stone Circle in County Durham, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This construction has three trilithons and a scatter of single uprights, a wagon wheel set incongruously on its side as a bench in the middle of the ring, and Shetland ponies who graze right up to the stones.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kearton Cottages "Stonehenge": Yes, you too, can stay in a holiday cottage with it's very own Stonehenge, at Kearton Cottage in the hamlet of Boldron, two miles from Barnard Castle.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are some of the discoveries from the most recent dig at this fortress of Ramesses II in the western Nile Delta, helping to illuminate the daily lives of the soldiers who held ancient Egypt's frontier against the Libyans. 📷 Dodomad More: www.megalithi...

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Tell el-Abqain Ancient Settlement

Ancient Settlement in Lower Egypt (North), Egypt

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tell el-Abqain: A horse buried with care inside a garrison, a stela of Merneptah written in hieratic (cursive Egyptian), scarabs and other amulets (pictured), beads, all found within two streets of mudbrick living quarters and grain stores.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In order to discourage artifact hunters from digging in the ground beneath over-hang, the Forest Service has constructed a wooden viewing platform. 📷 LongWayHome More: www.megalithi...

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Medicine Creek Rock Shelter Cave

Cave in Oregon, United States

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Medicine Creek Rock Shelter: LongWayHome writes: Located in the Umpqua National Forest and decorated with red and very rare and beautiful green pictograms, photos of these on our page. The staff archeologist informed me they date from 300 to potentially 9000 years ago.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also on our page are photos of the arrowheads and other finds by kind agreement of Amgueddfa Cymru and details of the other five barrows which date from around 1950 to 1750 BCE, all on farmland in the Vale of Glamorgan. 📷 Creative Commons More: www.megalithi...

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Breach Farm Barrows

Round Barrow in South Glamorgan, Wales

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Breach Farm Barrows: The 1937 excavators of this Early Bronze Age round barrow, which produced one of the richest cremation burials known in south Wales.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Join me at Fishbourne Roman Villa this Saturday for more Old Stones and silly faces. Last few tickets! Search Sussex Past then it’s What’s On: tickets.sussexpast.c...

Andy B making a silly face at Kit’s Coty

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great- we have a lively forum if you want to discuss that with like-minded people www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?...

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Sacred Sites and Megalithic Mysteries Discussion | Megalithic Portal

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've made a note and will hopefully remember to give you a heads up.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes probably, keep an eye on our social media for announcement for the online version...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know! All the Amorican style puns in Asterix were and are so good and I only later understood the actual reference...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The original location is a roughly D-shaped enclosure of about 1.5 hectares, bounded by a single ditch with an elaborate antenna-style entrance on the east, standing on a low chalk ridge in Britford parish south of Salisbury. 📷 Anne T More: www.megalithi...

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Little Woodbury Ancient Settlement

Ancient Settlement in Wiltshire, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Little Woodbury: One of the most important Iron Age settlements ever dug in Britain, the site that gave its name to the "Little Woodbury" type of enclosed farmstead. This reconstructed roundhouse in the style is at Butser Ancient Farm. More 1/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Indeed. Where are you? I'll be doing an online one once the current bunch of dates is over.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

...and was probably the principal centre of the Aulerci Diablintes, the Gaulish people who lived in much of what is now northern Mayenne. 📷 Lemmy More: www.megalithi...

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Oppidum de Moulay Ancient Settlement

Ancient Settlement in Pays de la Loire:Mayenne (53), France

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oppidum de Moulay: Located on a naturally defended granite promontory at the confluence of the Mayenne and Aron rivers. #HillfortsWednesday With its exceptional size and planned internal layout, Moulay is the largest known oppidum in the Armorican Massif... More 1/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The name means the Goblin Stone - the story goes that a seventeenth-century traveller who bedded down beside it was pinched, prodded and shrieked at by a crowd of goblins until first light. More on this intriguing site in the comments on our page. 📷 Penbron More:

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Carreg Y Bwci: This is a weird one. About seven kilometres from Lampeter, on a saddle in the hills and right by the road sits this giant sunken doughnut of a mound with a massive slab, four or five metres long, lying across its south-west side with a cluster of smaller boulders beside it.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

with a well-defined kerb, 27m (89 ft) east-north-east of the larger cairn on the summit, the Soldier's Grave, which contains a cist. See the Nearby Sites list on our page for links to these. During the summer months, in the heatwave of 2026, they sat very clearly in the landscape.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Carreg y Milwr Stone Ring: Just along the ridge from the Soldiers Grave, Carreg Y Milwr, and near to the Carreg Y Bwci site and Roman road of Sarn Helen, is this low ring of stones. It is the kerb of a Bronze Age burial cairn, the north-eastern of the two Esgair Ffraith Round Cairns.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Martin's Haven fort: Fortified headland at Martin`s Haven, overlooking Skomer Island and on National Trust land. An interpretive board in the National Trust hut shows the hillfort encompassing this rocky outcrop. An entrance is clearly visible with grassed over walls 3 feet high.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Enrico Calzolari has conducted various studies on its orientation (linked to the sun as well as Monte Altissimo and other nearby peaks), and researchers Paolo Debertolis, Natalia Tarabella, and Lorenzo Marcuccetti have carried out archaeoacoustic studies. 📷 ciatology More:

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dolmen del Monte Freddone (Alpi Apuane): The most strikingly situated dolmen I have ever seen writes Ciatology. It lies in the magnificent Apuan Alps, on the ridge between Monte Paglino and Monte Freddone - though actually closer to Paglino.

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Pete Crane @petecrane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Balnuaran of Clava Centre, the ‘middle’ #ClavaCairn of three #ClavaCairns at this iconic location south of Inverness, and the one without a passage. #TombTuesday More pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...

Large boulders flank a huge circular cairn of smaller rocks. Standing stones flank the cairn and a second cairn is in the background to the left of the main cairn.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Old Stones Talk Sat 10th October as part of Fishbourne Art & Literature Festival: Andy's next talk date is the amazing Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester, West Sussex this Saturday afternoon. Early bird tickets are available until 21st September.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The mural is a panel some 30m (100 ft) long in a rock shelter above the Pecos River, a few miles from where it meets the Rio Grande and within sight of the highway bridge. 📷 Dodomad More: www.megalithi...

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White Shaman Rock Art

Rock Art in Texas, United States

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At sunset on the lunar standstill the light climbs the wall and stops at the neck of the headless white figure, so that the sun appears to decapitate her.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

White Shaman: Blasting from the construction of Trump's border wall looks to threaten many rock art sites, some up to 4000 years old . The painting faces west.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The two giant menhirs of Kergadiou are a fine place to visit, and fairly easily found in a field a couple of kilometres north of the Aber Ildut estuary in furthest western Brittany. Kergadiou menhir 1 (pictured) is a really magnificent monster menhir,

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