Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe name means Margot's Chair - referring to fairies in Breton folklore. A smallish menhir 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 page for more.
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Multi-periodFirst inhabited in the Bronze Age, the defensive works are from the Iron Age, whilst the Romans built a temple in the middle and the Saxons used it as a fort. Throughout the ages it has been used as a beacon and had become a tourist attraction by the early 19th century. The ring has also been associated with hauntings, fairies and UFOs. The trees were planted in the earthworks by the Goring family from Wiston House below in around 1760 though most of those were lost in the hurricane of 1987. However, a descendent of Charles Goring replanted the crown with beech trees soon after.
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Date UncertainThe Castles, near Hamsterley, County Durham, is an archaeological conundrum. A massive rectangular dry-stone enclosure, some 75 metres by 90 metres, it has been described variously as an Iron-Age fort, a Roman penal colony, a native sub-Roman or Anglo-Saxon encampment, and a Romano-British farmstead.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeLocated 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 / chambered cairn?) when he opened it in 1863.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe 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 of the Randow River, containing human bones from multiple burials.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryA 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.
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MuseumsMuseum in Ukraine with a permanent collection consisting of 283 thousand objects from ancient Palaeolithic implements to World War II. The museum has a large collection of stone baba figures, the Kurgan stelae, Kernosovskiy idol, a particularly rich collection of objects from the Cossack period, and a sizable ethnographic and numismatic collection.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryAn Iron Age hillfort in Devon which originally had 3 rings of ditches and ramparts. Its earthworks enclose an area of 4 ha.
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Iron Age and Later PrehistoryA 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 ditches on the northern side, controlling the only easy line of approach, and by single ramparts on the east and west sides.
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Pre-ColumbianHigh 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 mapping and the documentation of 40 carved stone "monuments" (petroglyphs and boulders moved into place) reveals that the summit was a ritual locus devoted primarily to water and mountain deities, calendrical observances, and regional pilgrimage.
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Roman, Greek and ClassicalArchaeologists 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 examples of large-scale Roman public architecture outside of temples and city walls, demonstrating how Roman architects were influenced by the Greeks.
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Rock ArtThis 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 the stone during field work in 1983. The stone was placed in Ejby Town Square 35 years ago.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSituated in Tolne, south of the church and just west of Kirkevej between Steendyssevej and Dybdalsvey. Easily visible on aerial photographs.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeNeolithic (and Roman) Long Barrow which comprises a 44m long 15m wide, 2.5 m high earthen and turf covered chalk structure. A flint axe head dating to circa 2000BCE was found in the core. A ditch extends along eastern and western side side and southern end. In the upper layer of the ditch 4 Romano British burials were found.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeThe RSPB commissioned an archaeological survey of Abernethy Estate in 1995. This identified three neolithic burial cairns in the Rynettin area. The most intact described here is located some 150m west of Rynettin House on the edge of woodland next to a gazing field. It can be seen from the track leading to the house. It is an oval mound of rubble rising to 1.5m measured to be 15.9m by 10.4m.
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Rock ArtRock art on the island of Bornholm which includes a human-like figure, round and elongated cup marks and some with connecting lines. In 1931, the landowner wanted the stone removed from his field because it interfered with his work. In order to preserve the petroglyphs, a 1.7 m long, 1.1 m wide and 0.35 m high piece was cut out of the larger (3.4 x 2 x 1.3 m) stone. The cut piece of stone was then brought to Rønne, where it lay in the museum garden until recently. Now it has been relocated once again, to the outer section of the Archaeological Centre just outside the city.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeBurial Chamber excavated as part of the University of Durham's "Island of the dead?" project - The buried Neolithic landscape of Herm.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeEarthworks on Sutton Common near Warminster. 0.2 hectares in area, defined by a bank circa 10 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with an internal ditch circa 10 metres wide and 1 metre deep.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeA recumbent stone circle on the hill above Rothiemay Station near Huntly in Aberdeenshire. One of the stones is known as the "Ringing Stane". Local folklore says that when struck, the stone can be heard ringing through the rocks at the fishing village of Portsoy, about 11km (7 miles) away as the crow flies. Whether true or not, when struck with another stone it certainly does ring.
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeMegalithic tomb in Sardinia (Sardegna). The megalithic tomb of Su Truppu, either a Neolithic allée couverte or Bronze Age Nuragic tomba di giganti, is located few hundred metres NW of the nuraghe of the same name, in the Cossoine commune. The outline of the burial chamber is well-preserved, one of the capstones and a large upright ending stone are still in place.
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