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The World Heritage Committee has approved the Stone Circles of the Senegambia to the World Heritage List.
Consisting of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary concentration of over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide along some 350 km of the River Gambia. The four g...
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Thornborough Henges
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Three months after quarry firm Tarmac was refused planning permission to expand its operations near Thornborough Henges, north of Ripon (North Yorkshire, England), the company has formally lodged an appeal against the decision. The move comes as no big surprise, as Tarmac had indicated...
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Rochdale Stone circle
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Archaeologists have unearthed a "mini-Stonehenge"... on the moors of Rochdale. The two nearby sites - an oval made up of collapsed slabs, and a 30-metre circle of rounded stones - are believed to be ancient burial sites dating back as far as 5,000 years. They were spotted by archaeologis...
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Menhirs in Brittany
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A spectacular discovery of Stone Age menhirs in Brittany could unlock the code to one of the most puzzling chapters of human development, and transform our knowledge of mankind's early history
Some months ago builders were clearing a piece of wasteland in southern Brittany when they struck an...
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Avebury
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The real economic impact of an archaeological research project, co-directed by a Bristol academic, has been illustrated in a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Longstones Project, undertaken by Dr Joshua Pollard of the Departm...
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Winterbourne Bassett stone circle
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The lost stone circle at Winterbourne Bassett A lunchtime talk will be held at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum on Wednesday, 12 September, 2007. The illustrated talk by Jim Gunter, Trustee and Chair of the Society's Archaeology Field Group, is about the 'lost' stone circle at Winterbourne Bassett....
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Loanhead of Daviot
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The 10 stones and recumbent are set in a circle 19.5 m in diameter: the area had been levelled before the stones were erected. Around each standing stone are small stone settings, some of which contained cremation burials and fragments of deliberately smashed pottery. [url=http://www.aberdeens...
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High Head stone circle
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Mists shroud the ancient stones linking a distant, mysterious past with modern-day Cumbria. Yet, the 13 stones that make up the High Head stone circle at Ivegill have only recently been installed by Penrith sculptor Brian Cowper.
The circle has been aligned with the winter and summer solstice an...
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Foula stone ring
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A team of archaeologists from Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (Bacas) has helped uncover an ancient stone circle in one of Britain's most remote locations. Members of the have taken part in a two-week excavation on Foula, part of the Shetland Islands (Scotland). The team was previously i...
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Como stonecircle
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Excavations at the new St Anna hospital in San Fermo della Battaglia, near Como (Italy), in July 2007 revealed a double concentric ancient stone circle. The site is thought to date back to 3000 BCE. "[It is a ] highly articulated prehistoric structure that could be either an ancient astronomic...
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