#TombTuesday & you've got to feel sorry for the Hell Stone
Pretty much the only Dolmen of its kind in Dorset, branded as the most evil place possible😈🔥
...and as best we can determine, reassembled incorrectly by antiquarians
but we still love it
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A substantial Chambered Cairn, one of North Uist's best examples, getting to it is a long way across unforgiving ground! #TombTuesday More 1/
Stunning banked cairn on Caradon Hill #tombtuesday . Aka 'petal' or 'peony' due to the elegant stones creating the central part of the cairn. Need to think of nicknames for all the other ones up there.
Part of a beautiful group of six round barrows in Denmark. Originally there were seven mounds, but one is ploughed out. #TombTuesday More 1/
This card shows the entrances to the two transepted passage graves set in a single cairn at Les Mousseaux in Pornic (Loire-Atlantique). First discovered and excavated in 1840, it was re-excavated and restored in the 1970s. Card by Chapeau, Nantes c. 1910 or earlier. #TombTuesday .
#TombTuesday Arriving at the magnificent Arthur's Stone or Maen Ceti on Cefn Bryn, Gower, back in April for the first time in years..
The great erratic was hollowed out underneath to form two #Neolithic chambers, with a massive cairn - now robbed - then backfilling the hollow
This morning's walk to Ri Cruin BA cairn saw Wee Jessie getting up close & personal with yet another cist. It was great to see the axehead markings. #TombTuesday #prehistoricdog
📸 14th May 2024
My first visit to Holy Cross Abbey in Thurles, Tipperary was a great experience.
#tombtuesday #architecture #HistoryBuff s #HistoryBuff #ireland #churches
For #TombTuesday , a Roman funerary monument used in the medieval reinforcement of the Roman defensive walls of Barcino, now Barcelona.
#roman #archaeology
#TombTuesday - Altar Wedge Tomb, County Cork, at Toormore Bay near the Wild Atlantic Way. The tomb was built ca. 3000 to 2000 BC. It was a sacred place for many centuries; found with cremated burials dated to c. 2000BC. It measures 3.4 m by 2 m and is capped with two roofstones.
#TombTuesday high above Pontsticill on Cefn yr Ystrad. Views from Carn y Bugail and Carn Felen prehistoric Cairns. With great views of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park 📸 My own.
#Archaeology #History #Wales
The megalithic necropolis of Pointe du Souc'h in Brittany. #TombTuesday a visit here today has ensured I have quite a few weeks worth of these types of pictures!
