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Menhir Fourchu: A nice menhir stood at the side of the road just to the east of Lezonnais. It is about 3.5 metres tall, 1.5 metres wide and only 0.3 metres thick, and has an unusual forked shape at the top, hence its name, and a sort of nose on one side. 📷 TheCaptain More:
With many thanks to Prof Howard M.R. Williams for the information and photos. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...
The bath house was associated with a Roman station or fort sited further north, and dates to approximately AD 120-150, with occupation extending into the 4th century. The military presence in the area began around AD 70, potentially connected to lead mining operations in the nearby hills.
The foundation walls survive to several courses and are displayed in an accessible open-air setting with two lawned terraces, trees and garden plantings rising to the north.
Prestatyn Roman Bath House: A Roman civilian bath house laid out in a sunken walled garden on Melyd Avenue, Prestatyn, Denbighshire.
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Accessed via a short trail through a grove of kiawe trees from Holoholokai Beach Park. A boardwalk viewing area allows visitors to see the main concentration of carvings without walking on the lava surface. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...
The petroglyphs include human figures, paddlers, family groups, circles, and piko holes (cupules for umbilical cord placement). The carvings span several centuries of Hawaiian habitation and represent different periods and styles, from simple abstract marks to elaborate multi-figure scenes.
Puakō Petroglyph Archaeological Preserve: One of the largest collections of petroglyphs on the Big Island of Hawaii, with over 3,000 individual carvings spread across a pahoehoe lava field on the Kohala Coast near the resort area of Mauna Lani.
Menhirs de Lézonnais: Three stones at Chef De Ville, very close to menhir "Le Fourchu" (see previous post). These are next to an old farm building, two of the stones face each other on each side of the little road. At Lézonnais, West of St Guyomard, Morbihan, Betagne. 📷 peulven More:
It is the first documented Bronze Age settled occupation in the Maghreb, and arguably anywhere in Mediterranean Africa west of Egypt. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...
Kach Kouch Settlement: A Bronze Age hilltop settlement overlooking the lower Oued Laou Valley in the Western Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, near the Strait of Gibraltar.
Hampshire HER think it is likely that this fort was never completed.
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Dunwood Camp: We currently have no photos of this hillfort in Hampshire, but here it is on the LiDAR, thanks to Bladup for uploading these. On private land, but a footpath passes close by. A small Iron Age fort on a sandy hill with a single rampart but no ditch.
Balmoral Mounds: Mound A, approximately 3.5m (11 feet) high. Was built in a single construction stage, as was Mound C across the street. In Tensas Parish, Louisiana. 📷 stonetracker More: http://www.megalithi...
Hello, can you find it on our interactive map here: www.megalithic.co.uk/le_megalith_...
A silver cross on the nose guard, surrounded by 29 silver studs in a zigzag pattern, combines pagan (boar) and Christian symbolism - placing the burial at a transitional moment during the conversion of the Kingdom of Mercia, c. 600CE. It is one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets known.
Photo credit: Prof. Howard MR Williams. The Benty Grange helmet is an iron framework of seven strips, originally covered with cattle horn plates, crested with a cast iron boar with bronze and garnet-inset eyes.
Benty Grange Barrow: Anglo-Saxon burial mound (hlaew) on the Derbyshire limestone plateau, opened on 3rd May 1848 by Thomas Bateman, who found a 7th-century inhumation burial containing the first Anglo-Saxon helmet ever discovered - 91 years before the more famous Sutton Hoo find.
Panama's Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) recently announced the completed excavation of Tomb 3, described as one of the most significant contributions to the study of pre-Hispanic societies in the Central American isthmus in recent decades. 📷 Dodomad More:
The park contains the remains of stone columns, elite burial tombs rich in gold funerary objects, and a small on-site museum.
El Cano Archaeological Park: One of Panama's most important pre-contact sites, which functioned as a major ceremonial cemetery for the elite of the Gran Cocle culture from approximately 700 to 900 CE, a period representing the height of this chiefdom society's sociopolitical development.
There are gaps around the circle, suggesting that originally there were originally some forty stones. None of the stones are very large, the tallest being about 0.9m (3 feet). There is considerable upheaval in the centre of the circle, evidence of a robbed cairn and destroyed cist.
Nine Stones (Belstone): A nice neat little stone circle on the moors below Belstone Tor on the common to the south of the village of Belstone, Devon. This circle is almost certainly the remains of a round burial cairn, and traces of the burial chamber can be seen within the circle.
Vatten: One of a group of chambered cairns similar to the Long cairns at Cnoc Freiceadain. All that remain are the collapsed mounds and a scattering of rocks which would of been the original building material. 📷 Megalithisme More: http://www.megalithi...
