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A search is under way to trace the stories of more than 30 fragments of the Stone of Destiny which separated from the ancient artefact after its famous theft from Westminster Abbey and secret repair.
Bamahenge is a full-scale replica of Stonehenge, measuring 21 feet (6.4 m) tall and 104 feet (32 m) across. [3] Like Stonehenge, the installation is oriented so that the sun rises over the center of three lintels on the outer markers on the summer solstice. [1]
Swinside, which is also known as Sunkenkirk and Swineshead, [1] is a stone circle lying beside Swinside Fell, part of Black Combe in southern Cumbria, North West England.One of around 1,300 recorded stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that lasted from 3,300 to 900 BC, during what archaeologists categorise as the Late Neolithic ...
The Massachusetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry is a prehistoric archaeological site [2] in Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts. It consists of a series of pits and trenches used from 5,000 B.C. until the early 17th century as a source of slate and hornfels used for chipped and ground tools.
The Clarendon Stone Store, also known as the Old Stone Store or the Copeland Store, is an historic commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Located in the hamlet of Clarendon, in the town of Clarendon, New York , the building sits at the corner of New York State Route 31A (East Lee Road) and New York State ...
The Saint-Bélec slab is a stone artefact from western Brittany thought to be a map of an early Bronze Age principality. [1] It was discovered by Paul du Châtellier in a prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, where it formed part of an early Bronze Age cist structure.
One of many old stone walls found around the southern and eastern San Francisco Bay in California, this one near San Jose. The East Bay Walls, also known as the Berkeley Mystery Walls, are a misnomer, as many such walls can be found throughout the hills surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area, and extend as far as Chico, Red Bluff and Montague.
The quarry is very difficult to get to and its exact location is a heavily guarded secret by those who are able to point it out on a map. Argillite is an important commodity for the Haida people and presently only the Haida have the right to use the variety found at Slatechuck Creek, which occurs nowhere else in the world. One of the first ...