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Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more. Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨ Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk 'Endless Fun' - The Telegraph More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · Jun 22

Mention us ( @megalithic.bsky.social ) in your ancient site photo posts for a retweet/post if we like them - and we mostly do! #StandingStoneSunday (and non standing stone things too - anything older than about 1000AD/CE, or 'pre-contact' in the Americas)

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 6h

Love a Clonehenge! @clonehenge.bsky.social

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7h

I take your point but Cornwall has dozens of impressive stone circles already that are analogous to Stonehenge - actual henge or not. <Somewhere>’s Stonehenge is just such a cringeworthy cliche, we see it everywhere and drives me nuts.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7h

But are the archaeologists baffled yet?

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7h

Hello, I knew it couldn’t have been, I’m pointing the finger at a daft subeditor or Stephen Morris himself. Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy. Such a good project, looking forward to hearing more in due course.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 8h

Such a good project but I despair of the reporting. Who is the guilty party, a subeditor or Stephen Morris himself? Someone please bring back dear Maev Kennedy.#StandingStoneSunday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘It would be wonderful’: the team hoping to unearth ‘Cornwall’s Stonehenge’

Experts and volunteers working at Castilly Henge have been trying determine if it is the county’s lost great stone circle

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 8h

“Cornwall's Stonehenge?” in the Guardian. Seriously?
Altogether now: AAAAARRRGGH!!!
It’s in quotes but surely this didn’t come from the archaeologists? @olafbayer.bsky.social @cornwallarch.bsky.social /1

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 12h

Link to our Art Gallery for lots more: www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?...

Art Gallery : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 19h

Burl wrote that the direction the stones face in the circle is wrong and that some of them rock under little pressure. They make a fine spectacle standing on the skyline of the hill and it is easy to see why the place was chosen. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Duddo Five Stones

Stone Circle in Northumberland, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 19h

Duddo Five Stones: Art by Bladup, lots more in our Art section #StandingStoneSunday. This circle in Northumberland lies atop a hill surrounded by farmland. One of the stones was re-erected in the 1920s and Burl believes that it is probable that they have all been re-erected at some point. More 1/

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

2 metres wide lined with alternating orthostats and dry stone walling set within a near circular cairn 12 metres in diameter at construction but later reduced to 7 metres north east by 9 metres east west. 📷 Catrinm More: http://www.megalithi...

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 1d

Broadsands Chambered Tomb: A Neolithic chambered tomb or passage grave located on the southern slope overlooking the Torbay coast at Broadsands. This megalithic chamber has a single parallel-sided entrance passage 3.8 metres long and 1.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

I could also find at least 6 "sun circles" and spiral figures, at least 50 cup marks and pairs of soles. A pair of footsole carvings on top of the panel is unusually deeply carved. 📷 kenntha88 More: http://www.megalithi...

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 2d

Skjelin-Østre: This rock art site is one of the largest and most interesting in Østfold discovered the last 10 years. When I visited I could find at least 5 ship figures of the typical bronze age type with high front and back ends and vertical lines thought to resemble crew.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

Unlike the substantial settlement opposite (see Nearby Sites list on our page), there are no large enclosures, and only the remains of a dozen or so single huts or enclosures are to be found, none in very good condition. 📷 Bladup More: http://www.megalithi...

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement

Ancient Village or Settlement in Devon, England

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

Trowlesworthy Tor north settlement: On the north eastern slopes of Trowlesworthy Tor, on the southern banks of the River Plym below Spanish Lake, Dartmoor are the much ruined remains of a settlement. They show up very will on the LiDAR here.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

The paper is: Pre-Hispanic ritual use of psychoactive plants at Chavín de Huántar. Open Access download available - click on 'Download PDF' at the bottom of the page here: www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

An archaeological site in Peru containing ruins and artefacts constructed beginning about 850 BCE and occupied until about 300 BCE by the Chavín, a major pre-Inca culture. 📷 sophs74 More: http://www.megalithi...

Chavín de Huantar

Ancient Village or Settlement in Peru

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

Direct evidence of this psychoactive plant use has recently been published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, details below.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 3d

Chavín de Huantar: Recently excavated deposits sealed in an underground gallery at Chavín contained twenty-three bone tubes that are associated with consumption of psychoactive plants elsewhere in the region.

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

Castell Bryn-Gwyn: The hillfort is defended by a bank and ditch and accessed by a causeway. #HillfortsWednesday Excavations have revealed that it has a long history dating back to the Neolithic period when it was created as a henge. 📷 Horatio More: http://www.megalithi...

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

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

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Bø-Elveterrassen

Barrow Cemetery in Buskerud, Norway

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

The terrace and most of the barrows have pine trees growing in and around them however the barrows are easily visible and well marked in the terrain. To the west of the cemetery is a flat grain field. The cemetery is close to the edge where the terrain slopes down to the river. 📷 kenntha88 More:

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

Bø-Elveterrassen: This very pretty and well-preserved barrow cemetery #TombTuesday is located about 100km SW of Oslo on a flat natural terrace overlooking the Lågen river to the east.

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Pete Crane @petecrane.bsky.social · 5d

Aldourie close to #LochNess ; moved and rebuilt and thought to possibly come from a dismembered Clava-type tomb …. #TombTuesday

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Five large boulder stones forming part of a circle under a beach tree with autumn leaves on the ground

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