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Prehistoric Portugal<p>For <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> here's a "visit" to a shattered Portuguese dolmen. The history of the Anta da Pedra dos Mouros may not be a happy one, but there is much to learn from its story!<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megalith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalith</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5EwDtnr11M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=D5EwDtnr11M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Pete Crane<p>Cairnapple, said to be, ‘the most important mainland archaeological site in Scotland’ HES … 5,000 years of history and a great view. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a>. Many more pics, inc inside the cairn, on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://archaeo.social/@megalithic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>megalithic</span></a></span> here <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6717" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s</span><span class="invisible">id=6717</span></a></p>
Kevin Wilbraham<p>The Copt Hill Barrow - a Neolithic burial mound at Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland. The barrow is also known as the Seven Sisters due to the seven trees that stood atop it. 📸 My own. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neolithic</span></a></p>
Forest:ArchaicCollective<p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> with Carreg Coetan in Pembrokeshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿<br> its wild that even with the humongous capstone - one of the uprights at the back isn't even touching 😳</p>
pacoulmag<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a><br>Jane Bright tombstone, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MementoMori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MementoMori</span></a><br>All Saints, North Molton, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a></p>
Kevin Wilbraham<p>Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic Clyde-type chambered tombs overlooking Wigton Bay in Galloway. 📸 My own. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Galloway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Galloway</span></a></p>
Megalithic Portal (Andy B)<p>A pleasant dolmen towering high in a field. The capstone is sitting on three support stones (orthostats). There must have been some sort of passage that has gone missing. In a field of crops about 200 metres from the road, but with a signpost. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> More...<br>1/2</p>
Forest:ArchaicCollective<p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> with the Gwernvale Chambered tomb, just outside Crickhowel 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 this weekend</p>
Megalithic Portal (Andy B)<p>A little dolmen on a mound in Skåne, <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a>. Mound size 6 x 4 x 0.5 meters. Chamber 2 x 1 meters. 3 orthostats and one capstone. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> More...<br>1/2</p>
Pete Crane<p>Newton of Petty, a Clava Cairn east of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Inverness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inverness</span></a>, was excavated in 75 &amp; 76 and; ‘large quantities of crushed cremated bone were found in a matrix of sooty soil in the central area of the cairn’ <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a><br>Location shared on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://archaeo.social/@megalithic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>megalithic</span></a></span> here <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1181" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s</span><span class="invisible">id=1181</span></a></p>
Forest:ArchaicCollective<p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> &amp; a rainy day at Lanhill Long barrow over the weekend</p>
Ulla Rajala<p>Most of Finlands Bronze Age cairns were placed in relation to the sea, either along coast, on top of hills with a view or on headlands. This cairn is in Meilahti, in Helsinki. It was excavated and some burnt human bones were found. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a></p>
Allyson Shaw<p>A proper <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MomentoMori" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MomentoMori</span></a> from <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Peterhead" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peterhead</span></a> in <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Aberdeenshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aberdeenshire</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scotland</span></a> for <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/hauntology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hauntology</span></a> When I first moved to London twenty years ago, people told me the skull and crossbones on pirate ships were ‘from’ the skull &amp; cross bones near Christopher Marlowe’s unmarked grave in Deptford. Scotland’s kirkyards are chock full of these beautiful skulls &amp; crossbones. Maybe that’s the origin? 🏴‍☠️</p>
Megalithic Portal (Andy B)<p>An unusual bronze age funerary arrangement near Skelderskew Moor, N. Yorkshire - a small standing stone between a round cairn and a D shaped enclosure - the yellow dotted line showing its circular shape. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> More...<br>1/2</p>
Pete Crane<p>“Only a heap of boulders and a single standing stone remain of what was probably a Clava cairn” HES….but Culloden cairn is a great location overlooking the Moray Firth <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a><br>More pics on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://archaeo.social/@megalithic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>megalithic</span></a></span> here <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15723" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">megalithic.co.uk/article.php?s</span><span class="invisible">id=15723</span></a></p>
Megalithic Portal (Andy B)<p>Some beautiful winter sun at Pentre Ifan. Read about Horatio's recent experiences there on our page... <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wales</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Pembrokeshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pembrokeshire</span></a><br>1/2</p>
Kevin Wilbraham<p>Cup-marked kerb stone of the north-east burial cairn at the Clava Cairns - a wonderful Bronze Age cemetery near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. 📸 My own. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Highlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Highlands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a></p>
Allyson Shaw<p>A <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>celtic</span></a> cenotaph on <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Skye" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Skye</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scotland</span></a> for <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/graveyard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>graveyard</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/taphophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>taphophile</span></a></p>
Prehistoric Portugal<p>There's a neolithic dolmen in the outskirts of Lisbon. The Anta da Estria is surrounded by modernity: motorways have been built all around it, leaving it on an "island" between high speed roads!</p><p>read more here: <a href="https://prehistoricportugal.com/2025/02/anta-da-estria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prehistoricportugal.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">2/anta-da-estria/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dolmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dolmen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megalith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalith</span></a></p>
Forest:ArchaicCollective<p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/TombTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TombTuesday</span></a> &amp; a rainy day at Lugbury Longbarrow</p>
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