archaeology
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Maen Llia Standing Stone
Situated in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park in Powys, Wales is this 3.7m tall stone named Maen Llia. It sits on a stone and earth mound and is thought to have been erected in the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. There is a legend that the stone will sometimes go down to…
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Drizzlecombe Bronze Age remains
Drizzlecombe is a complex of Bronze Age monuments located on the western side of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of an extensive group of stone rows, standing stones (menhirs), cairns, as well as enclosed settlement sites which mainly spread across the slopes of Hartor Hill near the River Plym. The most striking features of…
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Hingston Hill/Down Tor Stone Circle
A 1145ft long stone row leading to a 36ft cairn circle in Dartmoor, England. There are 157 stones in the row, but may have originally been 174. Some of the stones had fallen and in 1894 were re-erected in their original sockets. This has been described as one of the most magnificent of all the…
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Chun Quoit
Neolithic monument in Cornwall. Just above Chun Quoit is Chun Castle, an Iron Age fortification. The name ‘Chun’, or more correctly in Cornish, ‘Chûn’ or ‘Chuûn’ and pronounced ‘Choone’ comes from ‘Chy-an-Woone’ or ‘Chywoone’ meaning ‘the House on the Downs’. In 1872 William Copeland Borlase records Chun Quoit in his book, ‘Naenia Cornubiae’, but gets…
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Zennor Quoit
Other names – Senor, Senar Quoit Zennor Quoit is an impressive neolithic monument in the village of Zennor (or Pluw Senar), in Cornwall. Unfortunately the massive cap-stone has fallen, which happened sometime between 1770 and 1765. Legend claims that any stone removed from the Quoit will find its way back overnight. This was put to…
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Dolmen dit la Pierre de Rabelais
The slabs that make up this pseudo-dolmen were once part of a Neolithic Allée couverte, or ‘covered driveway’ type of dolmen commonly found in Brittany, Île-de-France and Aquitaine. John Peek writes in his ‘Inventaire des mégalithes de France’ (1975) that the original monument was discovered in 1845 during work for the great avenue of the…
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Dyffryn Ardudwy Neolithic Monument
On this page we provide historical records and images of the site, as well as archaeological information and excavation details.Grid Reference: SH58862284 Situated in the village of Dyffryn Ardudwy in Gwynedd, Wales are a pair of dolmens, (or cromlechs as they are often called in Wales), estimated to date to around 3500BC. Excavations in the…
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West Kennet Long Barrow
Located in Wiltshire, England. West Kennet is the largest chambered long barrow in Britain. The monument as we see it today is the result of reconstruction work after excavations took place in the 1950’s. Radio carbon dates from remains found during excavations in the 1950’s go back as far as 3600BCE to 3700BCE. Experts believe…
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All Saints Church Sarsen Stones
In the village of Alton Priors in Wiltshire, England is All Saints Church. The church dates to the 12th century but has undergone major refurbishments since. Within the church are two sandstone Sarsen stones concealed beneath trapdoors. Some believe these stones were part of a prehistoric stone circle upon which the medieval church was built.…
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Bedd Morris – Grave of Morris
Prehistoric Standing stone in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The 6ft tall stone has inscriptions indicating that it was used in recent centuries as a boundary marker between the parishes of Newport and Llanychlwyddog. It is believed by experts to have been erected in the Bronze Age, but Coflein states that its antiquity is in doubt, due to…
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