Ancient Stones brings together hundreds of ancient stones such as stone circles, standing stones, boundary stones, named stones, sacred places, natural features and other unusual or interesting stones and locations found throughout the South of Scotland. The site mainly covers The Lothian regions around Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders but is also now beginning to document stones in the Kingdom of Fife to the north and Dumfries & Galloway in the south west. Each entry contains a detailed description of the stone or stones found at each location, along with information on folklore associated with the site and surrounding area. Fieldnotes are also included and reveal some of the more unusual activities and reports associated with these ancient stones.
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Designed to provide students and others interested in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and ancient civilizations a resource for homework help, lesson plans, or other research projects.
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The fully-searchable database of the positions of more than 115,000 UK Archaeological sites. Most of the sites in the database are linked to an aerial photograph of the site plus a local road map and many are also linked to Victorian Ordnance Survey maps.
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The Society was formed in 1961 - it grew out of the West Cornwall Field Club, itself founded in 1935 by a group of enthusiasts who were studying the archaeology of West Cornwall. Currently the society has nearly 600 members and organises activities covering all aspects of the discipline.
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IJNA is the journal of the Nautical Archaeology Society. NAS is dedicated to advancing education in nautical archaeology at all levels; to improving techniques in excavating, conservation and reporting; and to encouraging the participation of members of the public at all stages.
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An alphabetical county-by-county gazetteer of Irish megaliths taken from the book "EARLY IRELAND - A FIELD GUIDE" by Anthony Weir.
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A popular site. Has some very personal views, but also some factual information.
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Extensive site with strong community contribution and mapping and cataloguing. Andy Burnham, author of this and several other websites on megaliths and prehistory writes "I am an amateur in hopefully the best sense of the word. Where I don't know something I take the advice of the more knowledgable. Over the years, this project has become a major team effort with input from scores of photographers, archaeologists, locals and visitors so individual comments are the views of individual contributors."
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Idiosynchratic site, but has some interesting graphical depictions of how alignments work
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The Modern Antiquarian website, based on Julian Cope's guidebook and his exploration of Europe, The Megalithic European. Since launching in March 2000, the site has grown to be a massive resource for news, information, images, folklore & weblinks on the ancient sites across the UK, Ireland and Europe, thanks to efforts of all who contribute.
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Largely based on personal travels of Joanne Mackenzie-Winters, this online guide contains details on transport, sightseeing, outdoor activities and accommodation throughout Scotland with particular emphasis on the Highlands and Islands (including the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles). Launched in May 1996.
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This volume contains the papers givenThis volume contains the papers given at a conference on Neolithic and Bronze Age Stone Implements which was held at the University of Nottingham in January 1977 and organized by the Implement Petrology Committee of the Council for British Archaeology. at a conference on
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"Over the last 19 years we have personally visited and photographed all 529 archæological sites you will find in these pages (117 in the six national sections and 412 in our Tours section), creating the first Web guide to European megaliths and other prehistoric sites, online since February 1996."
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