Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Neolithic portal dolmen, one of Western Europe’s oldest ritual burial chambered monuments, in an isolated field in Wales.
It is thought the tomb was built from giant boulders about 5,500 years ago. Its capstone bears a seemingly random pattern of dozens of circular holes gouged into its surface – symbols of Neolithic or Bronze Age ritual burial activity.
Postcard issued by the Societe Jersaise Museum in 1974 on the jubilee of the tomb opening 1924
Details for this years Rock Art Meeting
Old Bewick Northumberland
rockartuk.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/rock-art-meeting-20121.pdf
Real photograph postcard of the Langdale Pikes with the Copt Howe boulders in the foreground.
Photographer, printer and date unknown
A real bromide photograph.
Postcard published by CG Billett, Stonehenge Cafe, near Amesbury Wilts
Postcard No.4 in the series Prehistoric Derbyshire published by the Bakewell Bookshop.
Real Photograph postcard by R. Smith of Stornoway. Undated.
Thanks to Stu.
Undated postcard
Valentine’s Bromotype Series
Thanks to Stu
A larger version of this card is available here
flickr.com/photos/11250581@N05/3170544458/in/pool-1291280@N23
A collection of French postcards of prehistoric monuments. Where cards posted here and many others can be copied in a higher resolution
Silbury Hill is as ancient and enigmatic as Stonehenge. David Attenborough tells Jonathan Jones why he set out to crack it
guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/25/david-attenborough-silbury-hill-bbc
Illustration from the Gentleman’s Magazine July 1752
Looking west from the stone over the valley of the South Esk to Glen Clova and Glen Prosen.
The Black Howes and the summit of Freebrough Hill as seen from Hob on the Hill
Taken from the Flickr collection
flickr.com/photos/11250581@N05/sets/72157612193021066/
A trio of items picked up on Fylingdales Moor after the fire of 2003.
A worked flint found on Brow Moor, a shard of Scarborough ware pottery found in one of the round barrows known as Robin Hood’s Butts and an amber pebble found in a previously unrecorded ring cairn.
