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February 26, 2026
Timed selfie – to show scale (definitely not for ego…)
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Via The Prehistory Guys Prehistoric Archaelogy News YouTube podcast of February ‘26… it has been announced in the latest issue of Antiquity magazine that archaeologists have discovered that this site contains the largest prehistoric nucleated settlement in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. Over 600 Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age hut platforms have been identified. The site also includes the adjoining Neolithic site of Spinners Hill within its outer rampart. It becomes the earliest known prehistoric urban settlement, pushing back that boundary by 500 years. What is believed to be a Bronze Age water cistern has also been discovered, the first of its kind in Ireland.
February 25, 2026
700 or so years before the henge, this site was the location of an early neolithic house. Located using geofizz and then excavated in 2015.
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February 23, 2026
Pen-y- Castell, Cwmafan, near Port Talbot....
A rather windy Christmas Eve upon Pen-y-Castell. Please make sure you stop off and ask at Pen-y-Castell Farm first, regardless of what the locals... many, many years of experience... or Google might say!!!
February 22, 2026
Demolition work will start in April at the site of a neolithic monument where – legend has it – the bones of King Arthur’s magician Merlin are buried.
Great view over the Moor on a breezy winter’s afternoon, the panoramic can not be understated.
February 21, 2026
Northern rampart
Maen Gweddiau
Maen Gweddiau on the boundary of the forest with Thousand Acres
February 18, 2026
According to Folklore the Head of Brân the Blessed was buried here. This is a character from the Welsh Mythology that makes up the Mabinogion.
February 16, 2026
Hampton Down looking unglamorous next to the muddy track
Image credit: ruskus
The view over Hampton Down s.c. towards Portland & Chesil beach
Image credit: ruskus
