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Cairnerzean Farm Cairns on Canmore

Lingdowey Burn S Cairn on Canmore

Lingdowey Burn N Cairn on Canmore

Cairnerzean Fell S Cairn on Canmore

Cairnerzean Fell Central Cairn on Canmore

Cairnerzean Fell N Cairn on Canmore

Cairnerzean Fell Summit Cairn on Canmore

Caithness Brochs Project have recently updated their website with details and images relating to their intent to build a ‘modern’ broch.

Probable henge.
Excavation details at –
archaeologicalresearchservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WHIR18_Final_Report_Compressed.pdf

Seven minute long piece – not bad if you can move beyond the Stonehenge references.

DNA analysis of bodies in Hazleton North long cairn finds five generations of an extended family...

Machermore S Cairn on Canmore.

Machermore E Cairn on Canmore

Machermore W Cairn on Canmore

New Publication:
Before people in Ireland started writing in manuscripts made of vellum they wrote on other materials, primarily stone, in a writing system called ogham. Our earliest ogham inscriptions on stone are dated on linguistic grounds to between the 4th and the 7th century AD. Over 400 known examples of ogham stones and fragments of various shapes and sizes have survived, each with their own unique biography or story. The publication explores the writing form; where it can be found; and how we can #PassItOn to future generations.

Site description on wikipedia

St Medana’s Well on Canmore

The discovery of a dismantled stone circle—close to Stonehenge’s bluestone quarries in west Wales—raises the possibility that a 900-year-old legend about Stonehenge being built from an earlier stone circle contains a grain of truth. Radiocarbon and OSL dating of Waun Mawn indicate construction c. 3000 BC, shortly before the initial construction of Stonehenge. The identical diameters of Waun Mawn and the enclosing ditch of Stonehenge, and their orientations on the midsummer solstice sunrise, suggest that at least part of the Waun Mawn circle was brought from west Wales to Salisbury Plain. This interpretation complements recent isotope work that supports a hypothesis of migration of both people and animals from Wales to Stonehenge.

Put up for directions, rediscovered by the Jura Chronicle people.

A nice wee video explaining the site discovered during forestry operations. Nicely filmed.

Facebook page with news about developments at Brennanstown.

Some lovely aerial or drone photography.