Ancient Britain

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Regional guides
Alastair's Derbyshire Stone Circle Pages - An informal guide to circles in Derbyshire, concentrating on high quality pictures and text detailed enough for the enthusiast.

Archaeolink Prehistory Park - Archaeolink prehistory park at Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. A fascinating new visitor experience in the heart of ancient Aberdeenshire.

Maeshowe and Neolithic Orkney - Events and photographs relating to Maes Howe and Orkney archaeology by Charles Tait, the Orkney based photographer.

Megalithic Research Wales - A database of megalithic and monolithic sites in Wales. Contains photographs, directions and some other interesting information

Neolithic and Bronze Age Monuments in Wales - Part of the survey of the country's prehistoric monuments made by Herbert Roese as a Ph.D. dissertation, with references to his and other publications.

Neolithic, Bronze Age and Pictish Sites of North East Scotland - Photographs and locations of stone circles and carved stones in Aberdeenshire by George Soja.

Orkney's Standing Stones - Images, descriptions and discussion of the Neolithic stone monuments of these Scottish islands from journalist Sigurd Towrie's Orkneyjar, with an introduction.

Petroglyph: Exploring Yorkshire's Prehistoric Rock Carvings - Graeme C. presents location maps, photographs and descriptions of the Neolithic and Bronze Age rock carvings of Great Britain, which are of the cup and ring type.

Prehistoric circles and rows - Photographs of prehistoric stones, and ancient sites together with diagrams and descriptions from a dowsers perspective. Covers Dartmoor, Bodmin, Cornwall.

Recumbent Stone Circles in North East Scotland - Description and illustrated gazetteer of this distinctive type of stone circle, provided by Anna Edelsten, University of Aberdeen.

Sites and Ceremonies of Ancient Mercia - Descriptions of the ancients sites, folklore and folk ceremonies and customs of Mercia, England, with original photographs.

The Standing Stones of Stenness - Lively, illustrated feature in journalist Sigurd Towrie's 'Orkneyjar' on the henge of tall stones and the discoveries there in 1972.

Standing Stones in Sussex - A description of the stones with attached folklore in Sussex, with general background and bibliography, by enthusiast David Staveley.

Stonecentric - Frank Wayman's photo gallery of ancient monuments, with comments. Mostly W and SW Scotland, but also featuring the Stones mailing list trip to Avebury.

Stone Circles in Angus and Perthshire - Nick Brand presents his own photographs of some of the stone circles, standing stones and other ancient sites in Angus and Perthshire, with information from authoritative sources.

Stones of Wales - Photographs and details of stone circles, burial chambers and standing stones in Wales.

The Wicker Screen - Phil Dunn's review of some of the ancient sites of Wessex, covering both those well known and obscure.

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