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Waun Mawn Row / Circle
Standing Stones
The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales

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.

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Haithabu
The Viking Museum Haithabu

The Viking Museum Haithabu is one of the most important archaeological museums in Germany. The UNESCO has nominated the Viking Age trading venue and the Danewerk border building as world cultural heritage in 2018. Both the museum and the seven reconstructed houses located on the grounds show impressively how people live there during the Early Middle Ages.

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Calden II
Allee-Couverte
Das Galeriegrab Calden II @ Journal of Neolithic Archaeology

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Completely excavated between 1990 and 1992, the Calden II gallery grave offers, despite being largely damaged, detailed information on its construction principles. Foundation trenches for the sidestones and the grave floor had been dug into the limestone close to the surface. Architecture and ritual correspond to grave I 1 km distant, but finds and radiocarbon dating suggest a close connection with the re-use (phase B) of the nearby enclosure (c. 3200 – 3000 BC). Traces of cremations between the bones of the regular burials indicate the existence of different funeral rites. The “de-construction” of the grave in the course of ritual activities is well illustrated by the removal of a sidestone and the deposition of a sheep in the Middle Bronze Age.

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Calden
Eco Pfad Archäologie Calden

The Eco Path Archeology Calden enables a journey through time of almost 5500 years – from the Neolithic to the 18th century. To dive so compactly into the regional history succeeds only in a few places in northern Hesse (in German only)