|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I took this tour on the very first day of my trip and when I returned to my hotel that night, I thought to myself, 'How can the rest of my trip ever measure up to today?
More Testimonials... |
|
|
|
|
STONEHENGE LINKS
PAGE
There are thousands of archaeological web sites in the Net.
We have selected a list which can be useful to
learn more about megalithic sites in Europe and
elsewhere
Want
to
ADD A URL
to our page
- Megalithic/prehistoric
sites:
|
|
|
Stone
Circles, Megaliths, Earth Mysteries,
Labyrinths and other wonders
- Ancient/Classical
History at The Mining
Co
- An ever-expanding site
devoted to all aspects of
ancient history on the
Web.
- Ancient
World
Web
- A compendium of Internet
sites discussing the Ancient
World. Recently revised and
enlarged.
- ArchNet
- Virtual Library for
Archaeology; this website
provides access to
archaeological resources
available on the Internet.
Information is categorized by
geographic region and
subject.
- ArchSearch
Catalogue
- Developed by the Archaeology
Data Service. This catalogue
allows fast searching of
records such as the National
Excavation Index for England
(contributed by RCHME); the
Fife, Shetland, and
Strathclyde sections of the
National Monuments Record of
Scotland (contributed by
RCAHMS); and the Microfilm
Index for England (contributed
by RCHME).
- Archaeology
Links
- Extensive collection of
archeology-related links.
Includes African, British
Isles, Egyptian, list of
publications, reference
sources.
- Archaeology
at The Mining CO
- The Mining Company's archaeology site "takes back
the Net" providing a sane, user-friendly outlet for
archaeologists to communicate with the general public,
and a resource base for the working archaeologist.
- Archaeological
Resource Guide for Europe
(ARGE)
- Clear and extensive guide
for European archaeology
contains the most
comprehensive set of resources
for this region. Links can be
accessed by country, by
subject, by period, or by a
database search.
- Archdata
- Extensive collection of
archaeology links (in
French).
- BIAB
- These web pages contain
everything you ever wanted to
know about bibliographic data
for Britain and Ireland. This
includes information on the
scope, aims, background and
history of the BIAB project,
along with extensive details
of archaeological serial
publications, and contact
details of archaeology
publishers and/or editors. You
can also search a database
which allows you to search for
references to material
published from 1695 to
1991.
- Council for British Archeology, The CBA is the principal UK-wide non-governmental organisation that promotes knowledge, appreciation and care of the historic environment for the benefit of present and future generations.
- BUBL
- An extremely complete
classification of useful
archaeological Internet sites,
by the Strathclyde
University.
- CBA
guide to UK archaeology
online
- A new directory of sources
on British archaeology by the
Council for British
Archaeology.
- Current
Archaeology Directory
of British
Archaeology
- Lists in its yellow pages
over 700 organizations in
British Archaeology. These
include universities,
professional units, local
authority curators, and
archaeological societies, both
national and local.
- EARP
- European Archaeological
Research
Project
- An online database for
excavation opportunities
aiming to contact directly the
universities and the European
institutions, which organise
excavation campaigns. In
English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian and
Dutch.
- Glossary
of archaeological
terms.
- The
www. version of the Internet Resource Guide to Heritage
Conservation, Historic Preservation, and Archaeology
- Irish
Archaeology Home
Page,
with an extensive list of
links.
- The
Megalithic
Map - A very detailed map-based
interface to every stone
circle in England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales.
- Monument
Class
Descriptions
- These data have been
produced over a number of
years by the Monuments
Protection Program (English
Heritage) to support an
evaluation procedure which was
designed as the starting point
for defining national
importance.
- MDA
Archaeological Objects
Thesaurus
- Database of archaeological
objects, by the Museum
Documentation Association.
- The
Prehistoric Web
Index
- Rich and useful database
that takes you straight to
images and info on megalithic
and prehistoric sites in the
Web.
|
- Amazon.com
Books
- The most complete Internet
bookshop: over 2.5 millions of
titles. Exceptional search
engine, interesting discount
prices (20-40%), readers'
reviews and search service for
rare and out of print
books.
- Blackwell's
Bookshop Archaeology
Page
- Internet shopping with
searchable index of hundreds
of books on
Archaeology.
- B
T
Batsford
- Publishers of specialist
books on Archaeology,
currently only have the
English Heritage and Historic
Series.
- Castle
Bookshop
has a huge stock of
Archaeology, Architecture and
History volumes, and a
mail-order
service.
- COPAC
- Online Public Access
Catalogue, based at the
University of Manchester,
COPAC provides searchers to
the online catalogues of some
of the largest university
research libraries in UK and
Ireland. Searching is possible
using title words, author and
organization names, subject
words, date and
language.
- Oxbow
Books
- Specialists in books on
Archaeology and History from
early Man to the Middle Ages,
including Prehistory across
Europe and the Near East. Also
covered is the Archaeology of
the Americas, Africa and
Asia.
- Routledge
- Publisher with many
Archaeology titles and a
searchable catalogue
online.
- SAR
Press
- SAR Press publishes an
excellent series of books
dealing with archaeology of
the American
Southwest.
- The
Stationery Office Virtual
Bookstore
- Suppliers of official
publications, including some
RCHME titles.
- Waterstone's
- Internet site of one of the
most famous bookshops in the
world: online catalogue, chat,
critics guide, best sellers
and a good selection of
Archaeology books.
|
- 3rd
Stone
Magazine
- An interesting quarterly
journal of archaeology,
folklore and
mythology.
- Antiquity
- Web site of the famous archaeological journal.
- Archaeology
- An official publication of
the Archaeological Institute
of America, Archaeology
Magazine Online features its
current issue's TOC, abstracts
and selected articles
partnered with listings of
archaeology events / museum
shows, selected back issues
and staff choices for best
archaeological sites on the
Web.
- Archaeology
Computing
Newsletter
- Under development at Glasgow
University.
- Archaeology
Ireland
- Online taster of the popular
magazine on Irish
Archaeology.
- The
Assemblage
- An e-zine on Archaeology
providing fun and
facts.
- British
Archaeology
- The www. incarnation of the excellent CBA Newsletter.
- Current
Archaeology
- If you have an interest in
anything to do with British
Archaeology, this is the place
to find out about digs,
discoveries, latest news,
societies, events, or just
other people who share your
interests.
- Discover
Archaeology
- A recent bimonthly magazine
covering archaeology around
the globe.
- Environmental
Archaeology
- The journal of human
palaeoecology. By the
Department of Archaeology and
Prehistory of the University
of Sheffield.
- European
Journal of Archaeology
- A new magazine, published
three times a year by SAGE
Publications in association
with the European Association
of Archaeologists.
- Internet
Archaeology
- The
Ley Hunter
Journal
- The journal of geomancy and
earth mysteries, ancient
wisdom, landscapes and sacred
sites.
- On-line
Archaeology
- Experimental journal of
archaeological theory at
Southampton
University.
- Siftings
- A mixture of news,
announcements and documents
from many archaeological
organizations.
|
- The
Ancient
Sites
Directory
- Enjoyable and frequently
updated guide to prehistoric
monuments around Great
Britain. Details of how to
find them and a useful
glossary. By Chris Tweed.
- Ancient
sites in Britain: the "Old
Ghosts"
- About 30 prehistoric and
megalithic sites of the
British Isles with short
descriptions and many
photographic images.
- Ancient
Ways
- Graphically pleasing guide
to the main megalithic areas
of Britain (Avebury,
Callanish, Land's End,
Stonehenge, Uffington, Orkney
and Peak District). Many great
b/w photographs and extensive
descriptions. By Jerry
Wellard.
- Images
of sites in the British
Isles
- Clive Ruggles' on-line image
resource for
archaeoastronomy.
- Megalithia
- Stone
Search
- Very interesting website
with a database of over 1200
megalithic sites. Search them
by name, area. Latitude and
longitude values are also
given for UK sites, for GPS
users and archaeo-astronomers.
Complete details of grid
reference and some description
and images of the main British
megalithic sites.
- Megalithic
Mysteries
-
From Orkney to Cornwall, over
100 photographs and
descriptions of the most
interesting and picturesque
British standing stones, stone
circles and stone rows. By
Andy Burnham.
- Megalithic
Sites of
Britain
- Interesting pages on
megalithic sites in Great
Britain. By Chris
Whitcombe.
- Megaliths
in Western
Europe
- Some of the best megalithic
sites from Brittany to Greece,
including Barnenez, Skara
Brae, Tyrins, Malta and the
Nuraghi in Sardinia.
- Prehistoric
standing
stones
- A site including some good
photos of the Callanish sites
(Scotland) and also stones,
rows and circles in the
northern part of Ireland.
- Richard's
Ancient Site & Curiosities
Page
- Pictures and info about an
assorted collection of ancient
sites in England, Scotland and
Wales. Many pages still under
construction.
- Alastair's
stone circle
pages
- An informal guide to circles
in northern England and Wales,
concentrating on high quality
pictures and text detailed
enough for the enthusiast.
Derbyshire in particular is
covered thoroughly.
- Alastair's
other stone circle
pages
- These pages cover a
selection of about 35
megalithic sites across
England, Scotland and Wales.
The emphasis is to bring to
the web images and texts about
the more obscure circles and
standing stones which few
people have heard of.
- Stone
Circles of
Britain
- Observations on British
stone circles, with good
descriptions and a selection
of photographic images.
|
- Billown
Neolithic Landscape
Project
- This project began in 1995
following the discovery of
pits, postholes and gulleys
containing early and middle
Neolithic pottery and
flintwork within an area of
land identified for stone
quarrying. The rationale of
the project involves a rescue
excavation of an extensive
site prior to its destruction
by quarrying and a research
into the evolution of a tract
of land during the later
Mesolithic through to the
later Bronze Age.
- British
Stone
Circles
- B/w images of stone circles
in Cornwall, Cumbria,
Derbyshire, Devon, Lancashire
and Wiltshire. By Stephen
Dean.
- A
Bronze Age Burnt mound at
Watermead Country
Park
- Complete description of the
excavations undertaken in 1996
at Birstall (England).
- Cerne
Abbas
Giant
- Read the full story and the
last theories about this
chalk-cut figure. By Rodney
Legg.
- Cissbury
Ring
Hillfort - The historic village of
Findon, West Sussex. What to
see, including the Cissbury
Ring hillfort. Where to stay.
Local pubs. Local shops &
businesses.
- The
Cotswolds
- Neolithic, Bronze and Iron
Age sites with descriptions
and some photographs.
- Cranborne
Chase - A summary of sites
discovered via aerial
photography in North Dorset:
Whitey Top Farm, Pentridge
(geophysical survey over a
probable Neolithic mortuary
enclosure and long barrow),
the Handley Down enclosure,
Sixpenny Handley (geophysical,
contour surveys and excavation
over a probable early
Neolithic enclosure),
Goldfields Farm, Sixpenny
Handley (geophysical survey
over a Bronze Age to
Romano-British settlement) and
Down Farm, Gussage St Michael
(geophysical survey over an
enclosure noted on aerial
photographs of 1955).
- Cumbria
History - Info and photographs of some
well-known megalithic sites of
Cumbria, including Mayburgh
henge, Castlerigg and Long Meg
stone circles.
- Dorset
Aerial
Pictures
- Aerial pictures including
the Cerne Abbas Giant, Maiden
Castle, Badbury Rings (ancient
hillfort), Chalbury Hillfort
(local history from
prehistoric period), Eggardon
Hill (Iron Age hillfort near
Bridport) and Poundbury
Hillfort (Iron Age
monument).
- Gardom's
Edge Archaeology
Project - The site is based around a
long term landscape and
excavation project at Gardom's
Edge, near Baslow in the Peak
District. So far the website
contains background info,
previous year's research, an
upto date site diary from this
year's excavations, and some
Quicktime VR panoramas of the
landcsape and excavations.
- Hill
figure
site - Scattered throughout
southern England are currently
some 38 hill figures cut into
the abundant chalk downlands,
the most famous of these is
the White Horse of Uffington
on the Berkshire downs. On
this website you can find good
images and extensive info on
all these sites.
- Historical
Wiltshire - Info on the many beauties of
Wiltshire, including
Stonehenge, Avebury and a
thoroughful description of
White horses and barrows.
- Research
at the Knowlton
Henge
complex
- Over the past three years
Bournemouth University has
carried out a program of field
survey and excavation at
Knowlton Circles in North
Dorset. The purpose of this
web page is to provide an
introduction to the monument
complex at Knowlton, and to
provide an outline of the
results so far obtained.
- A
walk to Maiden
Castle.
- Petroglyph
- Exploring Yorkshire's Bronze
Age Rock
Carvings - A website exploring
Neolithic and Bronze Age rock
carvings (often referred to as
cup-and-ring marks) in
Yorkshire (England). These
pages have been created to
highlight some 13 sites in the
North Yorkshire moors
region.
- The
Friends of the Rollright
Stones
- Fact, fable and fantasy
about the only stone circle in
the Cotswolds.
- Shinewater
Bronze Age
site - The large Bronze Age site at
the Eastbourne Park on
Shinewater Marsh was
discovered in 1995. The site
is over 2500 years old and
dates to the late Bronze Age.
The waterlogged ground has
preserved wooden remains that
would normally have rotted
away. This allows
archaeologists more
opportunity to find out about
the past. Info and images on
objects found and the dig.
- Stanton
Drew Primary
School - This is Stanton Drew Primary
School's website which
provides information about the
village and the stone circles.
It is written by the staff and
children.
- Stone
circles of
England - Written by M. Turford and an
exclusive to Mystical World
Wide Web. Detailing all the
stone circle sites in England
with basic info.
- Stonehenge
VR-
Virtual Reality model
(PC/Windows only) of
Stonehenge and its environment
to illustrate English Heritage
plans to create the greatest
prehistoric monumental park in
the world.
- The
Complete
Stonehenge - While not a very extensive
site compared to some, this
site has proved helpful to a
growing number of people, and
does offer some nice graphics
and links. Unusual features:
the 'Why I'm obsessed' page,
as well as the page of poetry
about Stonehenge.
- Trackways - Two trackways located on the
Humber foreshore south of
Melton in East Yorkshire
(England) are now on line as
part of the Humber Wetlands
Project. The site includes
information about the
discovery, the recent
excavations and the
interpretations of the two
trackways and contains a
number of photographs of them
under excavation.
- Wolstonbury
Neolithic
Enclosures - Bournemouth University has
conducted a program of
research and fieldwork
reassessing the Neolithic and
Bronze Age of the Sussex
chalklands. The purpose of
this web page is to introduce
the second of the field
research projects at
Wolstonbury Hill in West
Sussex, and to provide a brief
summary of the results
obtained so far.
|
- Ancient
Scotland
- Lots of details and many
photographs of sites in
Orkney, Kilmartin and the
Hebrides. By Martin
McCarthy.
- Ardnacross
at
Gallifrey
- Photos and words describing
an archaeological excavation
of fallen stones in a double
row of stones at Ardnacross
(Isle of Mull, Scotland).
- Bannockburn
Neolithic
enclosures
- Excavations in 1984-85 at
Bannockburn, Stirlingshire
(Scotland), revealed some
post-defined enclosures dated
to the mid fourth to early
third millennium BC. On these
web pages there is a complete
discussion of the excavations
and some images.
- Brodgar
and Stenness on the
Web
- Some pictures and discussion
of two famous stone circles on
the Orkney Islands.
- The
Buchan stone
circles
- The Buchan recumbent stone
circles are set apart from the
rest of the corpus of similar
relics by the occurrence of a
bank of small stones forming a
circle in which the uprights
are set. This feature can be
observed in all the seven
sites listed on these
pages.
- Callanish
(Calanais) Visitor
Centre
- One of the best prehistoric
Scottish sites, on the Isle of
Lewis (Outer Hebrides).
- Crantit
Dig
- Since its discovery in May
1998, when a tractor broke
through the roof of a stone
built chamber under a field at
Crantit Farm in Orkney, this
apparently undisturbed
neolithic tomb has promised
the answers to many questions
about Neolithic times. The
excavation of this amazing
discovery is being undertaken
by Glasgow University for
Historic Scotland and you will
be able to follow the progress
on these pages as it
occurs.
- Dark
Isle - Stone Circles &
Cairns
- This website contains
information and pictures on
about a dozen of stone
circles, cairns and henges in
Scotland.
- Garioch
Home
Page
- Info and images on Scottish
and Orcadian megalithic sites,
including Skara Brae, the best
preserved Neolithic settlement
in Western Europe. By Andy
Nicol.
- Gerald
Ponting, Tour Guide, Lecturer,
Writer,
Photographer
- Several pages relating to
researches carried out at
Callanish, Isle of Lewis
(Scotland), including a full
description and history of the
site.
- The
Grotto's Photo
Gallery
- This website currently
contains a few photographs of
Scottish megalithic sites,
including Gurness, Stenness,
Brodgar and Skara Brae.
- Kilmartin
House
Trust
- Kilmartin House Trust is
establishing a pioneering
centre for Archaeology: to
inform visitors of all there
is to see and enjoy; to look
at links between people and
their environment; to help
interpret the landscape; to
search for clues to the
beginnings of Scottish
culture. Map guide and
pictures of many megalithic
sites in the Kilmartin
Valley.
- Megalithic
cam-page at Maes Howe
- A camera positioned at Maes
Howe tomb (Orkney, Scotland)
that will broadcast winter
solstice sunset. By Victor
Reijs.
- Megaliths
- The aim of the Arcane
Technologies megaliths website
is to document all the
Scottish megalithic sites.
Good photographs and useful
info. By Alligator
Descartes.
- Neolithic
and Pictish Sites of North
East of
Scotland
- Pictures and descriptions of
19 stone circles, 10 standing
stones and some Pictish carved
stones of the North East of
Scotland.
- A
pile of old
stones
- An amateur guide to a few of
the recumbent stone circles
and Pictish symbols stones in
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Includes photos and realistic
directions on reaching the six
sites described here. Funny
& useful remarks under the
'Lindsey's tip' section.
- The
Recumbent Stone Circles of
North East
Scotland
- This site is dedicated to
listing, describing and
locating the recumbent stone
circles of North East
Scotland. Included is a
description of 9 sites with
pictures and info on how to
get there.
- Scottish
stones
- Gallery of five megaliths of
Scotland: Drumtroddan,
CairnHoly I and II,
Torhousekie I and II. By Pat
O'Halloran.
- Standing
stones and ancient monuments
in
Scotland
- In-depth info on standing
stones and other ancient
monuments in the Scottish
Highlands and Islands with
excellent links and photos,
some of which can be sent as
free electronic postcards via
the Web. By Joanne
Mackenzie-Winters.
- Stones
of Wonder
-
Extremely detailed and
comprehensive Web guidebook to
megalithic sites in Scotland
that have astronomical
orientations. By Robert
Pollack. There is a listing of
the monuments which can be
visited, and the best time of
year to see them and observe
for yourself sunrises,
sunsets, moon rises and moon
sets. His work is based on
original surveys.
- Charles
Tait's
Website
- Charles Tait is an Orkney
based photographer who
specialises in landscapes,
seascapes, archaeology,
nature, wildlife and who runs
an extensive photo library
which covers some of the most
beautiful megalithic sites of
Scotland.
- Virtual
Barnhouse
- Reconstruction of a
| | | |
