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Stanton Drew and the pillar of fire
An article about Stanton Drew megalithic complex and unusual phenomena experienced there in the 1940s. […]
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Navigating Navan Fort – the ancient ‘capital’ of Ulster
An article about Navan Fort, ‘one of Europe’s most iconic monumental complexes’. […]
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Satanic geology – the Devil’s places of Britain
An article featuring some of the many topographical features and rock formations named after the Devil.
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Sunken realms – the lost lands of Wales
An article featuring evidence of sunken lands off the coast of Wales, and the stories about their inundation. […]
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All about Orkney – Britain’s Neolithic heartland
An article about the ancient sites of Orkney, a major prehistoric cultural landscape dating back some 5000 years. […]
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Wiped out? The Wihtwara people of the Isle of Wight
By Jan Harper Whale. Editor’s introduction: Jan Harper Whale has extensively researched the history of the Wihtwara people of the Isle of Wight, which lies off the south coast of England. The first of her […]
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(The shadow of) Atlantis in Ireland?
There are theories about the legendary Atlantis being located in all sorts of locations around the world, some underwater, some above the waves. Here we take a look at the idea that Plato’s Atlantis may […]
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imedia: Merlin’s Mound and Silbury Hill
The county of Wiltshire in southern England hosts the two tallest prehistoric mounds in Europe. Both the Marlborough Mound (once dubbed Merlin’s Mount or burial place) and Silbury Hill are man-made earth mounds. They date […]
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Do you Wantsum? The remarkable history & archaeology of Thanet
The Isle of Thanet is said to have had more Bronze Age burial mounds than anywhere else in Britain. It is also the traditional location for three significant arrivals in Britain, including Julius Caesar and […]
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Sarn Helen – the mysterious way through Wales
The Ordnance Survey maps of West Wales show a dashed line running from south to north, sometimes on the course of modern roads, sometimes over hills and moorland, sometimes raised on a causeway, sometimes disappearing […]