The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones

Skipwith Church: Mostly Anglo-Saxon, but with history going back much further. There are a number of interesting items here including The Ragnarök Stone, The Bear Stone, also an ancient door and ancient cross - photos on our page. 📷 histon More: http://www.megalithi...

Blood incantation The most (in)famous example of heavy metal and prehistory harmonising is surely the undersized Stone’enge that is slowly lowered into the midst of guitars and spandex in the 1984 mock-rock-do…

First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation.
'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere'
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Alcalar Monument 7: Neolithic chambered tomb in the Algarve which was reconstructed in the late 1990s. More photos and information on our page, have you visited? 📷 Maatje More: http://www.megalithi...

Video by Andy B from Stone Club at the Social, October 2025. Peter is author of Upon A White Horse and several other highly rated books on experiencing the British and Irish landscape: www.amazon.co.uk/exe... Stone Club will return in 2026...

Peter is author of Upon A White Horse and several other highly rated books on experiencing the British and Irish landscape: https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1035414066/megalithicmyst0a Video by Andy B. Recorded at Stone Club at the Social, 20th October 2025 https://stoneclub.rocks/events/ Peter Ross - Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland book talk from Stone Club

New Video: Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social - Upon A White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland book - current Radio 4 book of the week! Watch Peter’s full talk here: youtu.be/3UDRtYjLOFo 1/

Huge Neolithic structure found in Stonehenge landscape A study has confirmed 16 pits were dug close to the Stonehenge more than 4,000 years ago.

BBC News Report: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025) In 2020, a series of large features were identified, set within two arc-like structures, to the north and south of Durrington Walls henge (Gaffney et al. 2020). Based on geophysical survey and borehol...

Link to the Open Access paper: The Perils of Pits: further research at Durrington Walls henge (2021–2025)
Vincent Gaffney et al, Internet Archaeology: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu... - Megalithic Portal - always last with the news :-)

Durrington Walls Henge in Wiltshire, England

Best preserved on the NE side, Durrington Walls henge not far from Stonehenge measures 520m from north to south and 450m from east to west (the diameter of Avebury is 427m). The bank was originally 27m wide. The ditch was up to 42m wide and was 6m deep. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Further work has identified the majority of these features as human made pits, making this potentially the biggest prehistoric monument in Europe. There seems to be evidence of mathematics being used to lay out the site, and a summer solstice alignment. /2

A series of pits and geophysical anomalies in a circle 2km in diameter and centred on the Durrington Walls henge monument were located during a survey undertaken by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project in 2020. More 1/

Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site Rock Art in The Northwest Mountains, United States

Excavations starting in the 1970s have found twelve levels of habitation in 10.5 feet of stratum, ranging from historic times to 8300 years before the present. 📷 AKFisher More: http://www.megalithi...

Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site: A Wyoming state park that interprets the Medicine Lodge Creek Site, a prehistoric Native American archeological site near Hyattville. The site includes petroglyphs and pictographs on the rock face.

Temehea Tohua Ancient Village or Settlement in Pacific Islands

The site now contains a number of carved stones brought from around the Pacific for the First Marquesan International Art Festival. 📷 DrewParsons More: http://www.megalithi...

Temehea Tohua: Ancient ceremonial and meeting site in Taiohae, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Pacific Islands. The ancestral home of Queen Vaekehu who was considered to be the last queen or chieftainess of the Taiohae. She married another chief so reuniting the two halves of the once divided tribe.

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Northern Earth 182, Winter 2025, is out now! In this issue: Fairport Convention and liminal topo of the Winchester Downs, New Troy and the Sandridge Geoglyph, Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social (Upon a White Horse) interview, Bleasdale–Round Loaf alignment, lots more. Sub:

Pierre á Bassins de Cernunnos Rock Art in Alsace-Lorraine:Bas-Rhin (67), France

📷 KaiHofmann More: http://www.megalithi...

Pierre á Bassins de Cernunnos: Some rocks in Bas-Rhin département with three large natural bowls on the top which hold water. The bowls were probably expanded by ancient people and it is thought the site was a Celtic sanctuary. A large info board is nearby (pic on our page) which gives details.

Winchburgh Enclosure Misc. Earthwork in West Lothian, Scotland

Artefactual and ecofactual assemblages were limited, with the most significant finds being evidence of shale working. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Winchburgh Enclosure: A sub-circular double-ditched enclosure, visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, was excavated at Winchburgh, West Lothian in 2013 as shown in this kite aerial photo by Jim Knowles and John Wells.

Thanks for the benefit of your experience Mel, maybe one day someone will investigate…

Found this photo of us at Brodgar about 2005.
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Good point.

OS map of the area: www.megalithic.co.uk/le_megalith_... (yes?)

Goonhilly Downs Kerb Cairn: A round barrow 1.2m high and 24m in diameter which has a stone kerb. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Kolikho dolmen Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Russia

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Kolikho dolmen: This dolmen was rescued after a flood on the Black Sea coast in 2008. It was buried beneath 3m thick river deposits, untouched since the Bronze Age. It was full of 500 years of deposits of disarticulated human bone. Now in a museum. 📷 AlexAssa More:

True!

Hutton Conyers Henge?

Hutton Conyers Henge: HE say this could be deserted Medieval village. We think it could be a remodelled henge. What do you think? Nobody knows currently. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

I have on a number of occasions. Here is one.
www.annadillon.com/our_hill.html

Beautiful!