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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Not quite #StandingStoneSunday but it’s a broad church, so here are a couple of photographs of the tumulus de Colombiers-sur-Seulles, the oldest surviving stone monument in the Calvados region of Normandy. It dates from about 4,000 BCE. The whole site has a very tranquil setting.
The first image shows the entrance into the funerary chamber which is about 2.5 metres wide and has 6 remaining orthostats or upright stones. Charred and broken bones were found in this chamber on excavation.
The second image is a wider shot showing the whole of the long barrow itself, which is impressive at about 60 metres in length, and about 18 metres wide at the eastern end and about 9 metres wide at the western end, nearest the foreground of the photograph. At this western end, there are two "blocking" stones which might suggest another chamber here, with its entrance here.
(📷 by me on 23 August 2026)
#Tumulus #LongBarrow #StandingStones #Megalithic #ColombiersSurSeulles #Calvados #Normandy #Normandie
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Stonehenge - modelling the sarsen stone transport route [pdf 13pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tim-Daw/publication/413532460_Modelling_the_sarsen_transport_route_West_Woods_to_Stonehenge_A_blind_least-cost_analysis_over_layered_open_data/links/6a89ff944c551d12697f3230/Modelling-the-sarsen-transport-route-West-Woods-to-Stonehenge-A-blind-least-cost-analysis-over-layered-open-data.pdf
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Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe [pdf 9pp] #megalithic #neolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-book-chronicle-megaliths-and-neolithic-societies-in-northern-and-western-europe/2DC6ABDE8D9B3C3CB869DAC5D8033737
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Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe [pdf 9pp] #megalithic #neolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-book-chronicle-megaliths-and-neolithic-societies-in-northern-and-western-europe/2DC6ABDE8D9B3C3CB869DAC5D8033737
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Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe [pdf 9pp] #megalithic #neolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-book-chronicle-megaliths-and-neolithic-societies-in-northern-and-western-europe/2DC6ABDE8D9B3C3CB869DAC5D8033737
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Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe [pdf 9pp] #megalithic #neolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-book-chronicle-megaliths-and-neolithic-societies-in-northern-and-western-europe/2DC6ABDE8D9B3C3CB869DAC5D8033737
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Megaliths and Neolithic societies in northern and western Europe [pdf 9pp] #megalithic #neolithic https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/new-book-chronicle-megaliths-and-neolithic-societies-in-northern-and-western-europe/2DC6ABDE8D9B3C3CB869DAC5D8033737
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Hawley's Stonehenge Reports Reappraised #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic @timdaw https://www.academia.edu/171340889/Hawleys_Stonehenge_Reports_Reappraised
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Atypical Long Barrows in the Cöeby Neolithic Cemetery of Trédion, Morbihan [html, pdf 12pp] #neolithic #megalithic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.70060
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Atypical Long Barrows in the Cöeby Neolithic Cemetery of Trédion, Morbihan [html, pdf 12pp] #neolithic #megalithic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.70060
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Atypical Long Barrows in the Cöeby Neolithic Cemetery of Trédion, Morbihan [html, pdf 12pp] #neolithic #megalithic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.70060
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Atypical Long Barrows in the Cöeby Neolithic Cemetery of Trédion, Morbihan [html, pdf 12pp] #neolithic #megalithic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.70060
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Atypical Long Barrows in the Cöeby Neolithic Cemetery of Trédion, Morbihan [html, pdf 12pp] #neolithic #megalithic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/arp.70060
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The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: A Fresh Appraisal of the Landscape Settings, Orientations and Monumental Relationships, leading to a Reconstruction of a Neolithic Calendar - Terence Meaden [pdf 119pp] #neolithic #megalithic
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The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: A Fresh Appraisal of the Landscape Settings, Orientations and Monumental Relationships, leading to a Reconstruction of a Neolithic Calendar - Terence Meaden [pdf 119pp] #neolithic #megalithic
https://ubpopenbooks.com/index.php/ubp/catalog/book/16 -
The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: A Fresh Appraisal of the Landscape Settings, Orientations and Monumental Relationships, leading to a Reconstruction of a Neolithic Calendar - Terence Meaden [pdf 119pp] #neolithic #megalithic
https://ubpopenbooks.com/index.php/ubp/catalog/book/16 -
The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: A Fresh Appraisal of the Landscape Settings, Orientations and Monumental Relationships, leading to a Reconstruction of a Neolithic Calendar - Terence Meaden [pdf 119pp] #neolithic #megalithic
https://ubpopenbooks.com/index.php/ubp/catalog/book/16 -
The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: A Fresh Appraisal of the Landscape Settings, Orientations and Monumental Relationships, leading to a Reconstruction of a Neolithic Calendar - Terence Meaden [pdf 119pp] #neolithic #megalithic
https://ubpopenbooks.com/index.php/ubp/catalog/book/16 -
The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Screening the Orcadian Basin [pdf 21pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10365.12008
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The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Screening the Orcadian Basin [pdf 21pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10365.12008
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The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Screening the Orcadian Basin [pdf 21pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10365.12008
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The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Screening the Orcadian Basin [pdf 21pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10365.12008
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The Stonehenge Altar Stone: Screening the Orcadian Basin [pdf 21pp] #Stonehenge #megalithic #neolithic https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.10365.12008
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5,600-year-old megalith builders in Poland farmed without widespread forest destruction
Neolithic farmers who built some of Europe’s largest burial monuments did not wipe out the forests around them,…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #LIDAR #Megalithic #Neolithic #RemoteSensing
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New study reveals how Stonehenge’s Altar Stone crossed ancient Britain
A massive sandstone block at the heart of Stonehenge has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Known as the Altar Stone, the six-ton megalith stands apart from the monument’s other stones because of its unusual origin. Researchers now believe the stone came from northeast Scotland, around 700 kilometers from Stonehenge..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/study-reveals-how-stonehenges-altar-stone-crossed-britain/
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New study reveals how Stonehenge’s Altar Stone crossed ancient Britain
A massive sandstone block at the heart of Stonehenge has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Known as the Altar Stone, the six-ton megalith stands apart from the monument’s other stones because of its unusual origin. Researchers now believe the stone came from northeast Scotland, around 700 kilometers from Stonehenge..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/study-reveals-how-stonehenges-altar-stone-crossed-britain/
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New study reveals how Stonehenge’s Altar Stone crossed ancient Britain
A massive sandstone block at the heart of Stonehenge has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Known as the Altar Stone, the six-ton megalith stands apart from the monument’s other stones because of its unusual origin. Researchers now believe the stone came from northeast Scotland, around 700 kilometers from Stonehenge..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/study-reveals-how-stonehenges-altar-stone-crossed-britain/
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New study reveals how Stonehenge’s Altar Stone crossed ancient Britain
A massive sandstone block at the heart of Stonehenge has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Known as the Altar Stone, the six-ton megalith stands apart from the monument’s other stones because of its unusual origin. Researchers now believe the stone came from northeast Scotland, around 700 kilometers from Stonehenge..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/study-reveals-how-stonehenges-altar-stone-crossed-britain/
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New study reveals how Stonehenge’s Altar Stone crossed ancient Britain
A massive sandstone block at the heart of Stonehenge has puzzled archaeologists for decades. Known as the Altar Stone, the six-ton megalith stands apart from the monument’s other stones because of its unusual origin. Researchers now believe the stone came from northeast Scotland, around 700 kilometers from Stonehenge..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/study-reveals-how-stonehenges-altar-stone-crossed-britain/
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Megaliths: Myths vs Science Explained #megaliths #megalithic
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Megaliths: Myths vs Science Explained #megaliths #megalithic
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The Stonehenge Experiment [video 10m27s] - 60 people move a 3.5-tonne stone - Butser Ancient Farm #Stonehenge #megalithic https://youtu.be/4xd42UiPRjU
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The Stonehenge Experiment [video 10m27s] - 60 people move a 3.5-tonne stone - Butser Ancient Farm #Stonehenge #megalithic https://youtu.be/4xd42UiPRjU
