The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones

Kilmogue portal tomb Portal Tomb in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland (Republic of)

The dramatically-tilted capstone projects beyond the portal and reaches a height of 4.5 metres. Its lower end rests on a smaller, horizontal stone which partly covers the chamber. Traces of cairn survive round about. 📷 Megalithisme More: http://www.megalithi...

Kilmogue portal tomb: Up a farm lane and across a field to the north. this fine dolmen is hidden in a hollow and surrounded by bushes. Its portal-stones are 3.6 metres high, framing a fine door-stone 2.7 metres high.

Zagora Hillfort in Greece

The inhabitants left around 700 BCE and the site was never resettled, leaving behind a rare intact record of early Greek urban life. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...

Dating primarily to the 9th–8th centuries BCE (Geometric period), with possible initial occupation from the late 10th century, Zagora is almost unique among central Aegean Iron Age sites in that the entire 6.7ha settlement survives undisturbed by later building.

Zagora: A complete Early Iron Age settlement preserved on a steep coastal promontory on the southwest coast of Andros in the Cyclades.

Bronkham Hill Barrow Cemetery in Dorset, England

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The barrows are scattered along the length of the ridge, with an incredible density. It must have been quite a sight when they were gleaming white chalk mounds. They're still quite impressive in this state of decay, covered in grass and blending in with their surroundings. 📷 TimPrevett More:

Bronkham Hill: The largest barrow on Bronkham hill, it's worth spending time appreciating its size, surrounding ditch, and the barbarity of the opening across its summit. A multitude of round barrows on Bronkham Hill in Dorset, part of the Dorset Ridgeway.

Sounion Temple of Poseidon Ancient Temple in Central Greece, Greece

Some restoration was undertaken in the 19th century. The temple is surrounded by the remains of fortifications which protected the sanctuary during the 5th century BCE Peloponnesian War.




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Sounion Temple of Poseidon: A spectacular 5th century BCE Poros limestone Doric temple on a cliff on the southernmost point of Attica, surrounded by the Aegean Sea on three sides. The temple replaced an earlier 6th century temple destroyed during the Persian invasion.

Four Hole Cross Ancient Cross in Cornwall, England

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Four Hole Cross: Located on the grassy bank on the S side of the A30 between Launceston and Bodmin. 1.7 miles SW along the A30 from the Jamaica Inn junction and c. 0.4 mile NE of the Colliford Lake junction. Millions of people pass this site every year but very few people will have visited it.

Great Cursus, Stonehenge Cursus in Wiltshire, England

Now much reduced by ploughing, the Cursus can be visited on a walk from the Visitor Centre, it's to the left of the main path to Stonehenge. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Great Cursus, Stonehenge: A LiDAR image of The Great Cursus (Western side). This huge earthwork, 2.8km long and 90m wide, lies approximately 800m to the north of Stonehenge and consists of a small bank and external ditch.

Another with Devil’s Arrows style weathering. Beautiful!

Middleton Standing stone near Shaftoe Crags in #Northumberland @megalithic.bsky.social #Standingstonesunday

Torbreck; a circle, SW of Inverness, with nine almost evenly spaced monoliths with the largest at 1.2m #StandingStoneSunday .... The southern R Ness catchment has the remains of five #ClavaCairns & this one circle.

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Stèle de Park Menhir: A Stèle in a private garden in Névez, Finistère. #StandingStoneSunday East of Kersidan road, between Hent ("road") Trehuber and Hent Coz ("old road"). 📷 peulven More: http://www.megalithi...

Tetney Log Coffin Burial: Early Bronze Age round barrow discovered when a mechanical excavator accidentally flattened an unscheduled burial mound, exposing a log coffin, now on display at the newly reopened Lincoln Museum. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...

Baggy Point erratic Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Devon, England

This removes key evidence that high-level Irish Sea ice reached elevations comparable to those needed for bluestone transport to Salisbury Plain, putting another big dent in the glacial transport hypothesis. 📷 D More: http://www.megalithi...

New petrographic analysis of the original thin section shows the rock is fully compatible with Cornubian greenstones from the Dartmoor metamorphic aureole, and lacks any diagnostic Scottish or Welsh minerals.

Baggy Point erratic: Stonehenge glacial transport (or not) update. A large 700 kg altered epidiorite/greenstone block presently sited at 80 m above sea level on Baggy Point, north Devon coast. It is claimed to be a glacial erratic and cited as evidence for high-level ice flow.

Athens Acropolis Hillfort in Central Greece, Greece

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The site has been occupied since the Neolithic - small caves on the south side between the Theatre of Dyonisus and the Odeon of Agrippa were once in inhabited and the top of the Acropolis has one of the only two Attican Neolithic Graves, though these are normally accessible to tourists.

Athens Acropolis: The Acropolis is the big rock on which all the temples sit. The one on top of the fortifications is of course the Parthenon.

Menhir de Keroulic Standing Stone (Menhir) in Bretagne:Finistère (29), France

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Menhir de Keroulic: This three meter tall lonely stone stands at the entrance to a field near Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère. About 200m further up the road, near the bend is another much smaller stone, also pictured on our page. It is south of the road, about 100 m into the vegetation.

Offa's Dyke at Plas Power Wood Misc. Earthwork in Wrexham, Wales

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A heritage interpretation panel installed in 2008 stands in the wood, describing the dyke's construction during the reign of Offa (757-796 AD), though dating is speculative. Prof. Howard M.R. Williams has blogged about this and other Offa's Dyke locations around Wrexham and beyond.

Offa's Dyke at Plas Power Wood: Two recorded stretches of Offa's Dyke survive in Plas Power Wood, near Coedpoeth west of Wrexham.