Torbreck stone circle near Inverness, a lovely little ring of shapely stones, graded in size. Visited after a heavy snowfall the day before, with sleet for company.
The megalithic gem of Moel Tŷ Uchaf ('Bare Hill of the Highest House') for today's #StandingStoneSunday
A Bronze Age cairn circle in a fantastic location in the foothills of Y Berwynau mountains overlooking the Dee valley. On a clear day there are wonderful views of Eryri/Snowdonia, but on this visit views were reduced to a hundred metres or so by cold hill fog.
"Analysis of two iron objects in the Treasure of Villena, the Bronze Age gold hoard discovered in southeastern Spain in 1963, have identified the metal as meteorite iron. "
Ormaig rock carvings near Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland, ca. 5000 years old.
Kilmartin Glen is described as #Scotland’s richest prehistoric landscape. There is an incredible concentration of #Neolithic and #BronzeAge rock carvings in and around Kilmartin Glen. The most common motifs are cups, surrounded by up to seven rings, but there are also zig-zags, lines and an unusual horned spiral. #archaeology
One of the most well-known megaliths in South Wales for #StandingStoneSunday - the wonderful Maen Llia, in the heart of Fforest Fawr between Fan Nedd and Fan Llia. Portrait, needs a click.
This visit on a traverse of the range from Storey Arms to Glyn Tawe, February 2011.
for #HillfortsWednesday a more humble - but very important site - the Martin down enclosure, a small #Bronzeage enclosed settlement with later Roman use
Drone photograph of Bronze Age rock art from the Bohuslän Rock Art Documentation Foundation. Most of the motifs are ships and wheels: it's about travel!
The comb-like features on the ships are the crew, which are usually just lines but are occasionally drawn in more detail.
3/ getting out into the Cyclades & Santorini was itself a massive thrill, but seeing the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri & its frescoes was a major bucket list tick
In Corinth, remains of port activity date back to 1200 BC
An international team of archaeologists working on the origins of the ancient port – dated to the seventh century BC – has discovered that it was in operation half a millennium before that time, in the Bronze Age.
Most people, in the US anyway, never learn about the Bronze Age collapse. At least when I was in school Western History was taught sort of like a linear progression except for those big bad Dark Ages after the Roman Empire collapsed. The scholarly understanding of the topic has grown dramatically over the 20th and early 21st century too as new analysis tools and data have come to light. What was at one time blamed on the nefarious "sea peoples" is very a very complex fall of the all the advanced empires that ruled in the Middle East and Mediteranean. This +1 hour video goes into the history of our understanding of the problem, and its oversimplifications, and the analyses of the intertwined factors as scholars understand them today. The interplay of the forces is fascinating. Undoing the retconning/mythologizing of the contemporary sources with genetic analysis, pollen analysis, etc. is fascinating in its own right. #history#AncientHistory#BronzeAge#BronzeAgeCollapse WTF Happened in the Bronze Age Collapse? (This Video Broke Me) DOCUMENTARY
#TombTuesday with the Winterbourne Poor Lot Barrow cemetery, just west of Dorchester,
goodness knows how many times we've driven past it on the way to Devon but this was the first opportunity to actually get some good shots of it
Built into a Cornish hedge* in the lane leading to Ding Dong mine and Nine Maidens stone circle, this lovely tapering monolith is not recorded as prehistoric, but given the plethora of Bronze Age sites close by, it looks a good bet to me.
This visit after sunset, November 2010.
*formed of two parallel dry stone walls with an earth infill between them, out of which vegetation grows.
One of the holed stones on Kenidjack Common, West Penwith for today's #StandingStoneSunday offering.
There are five holed stones here (with possible remains of a sixth), upright slabs of hard Cornish granite with a hole bored through by hand tools in the Bronze Age. They stand on the Moor near Tregeseal stone circle.