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East of the R261 on rough moorland is the larger portal tomb Dg. 70 with two chambers, 9 m apart, and a modern field wall in-between. The north-eastern chamber has a roof stone with a length of 4.2 m which rests on two portal stones, both of 1.8 m height, and a very small pad-stone which in turn rests on the backstone of 1.3 m height.
The Knowlton Circles are a cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments near Knowlton. [1] There are four enclosures, three are of normal henge form, Church Henge, Knowlton North and Knowlton South, and the fourth is a squarish enclosure known as Old Churchyard. [ 1 ]
The mound is 85 metres (279 ft) wide at its widest point [10] and 12 metres (39 ft) high, and covers 4,500 square metres (1.1 acres) of ground. Within the mound is a chambered passage, which may be accessed by an entrance on the southeastern side of the monument.
The Neolithic-era symbol of three conjoined spirals may have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelion. [14] It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in now County Meath, Republic of Ireland . [ 13 ]
The cursus is the oldest and largest ancient monument at Thornborough. [2] It is almost a mile in extent and runs from Thornborough village, under the (later) central henge and terminates close to the River Ure in a broadly east/west alignment, 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of Ripon.
Knocknarea seems to have been a major place of ritual and meeting in the Neolithic era. The entire hilltop on the eastern side is circumscribed by a 1-kilometre (0.6 mi)-long embankment, 2 metres (2 yd) wide and 0.8 metres (3 ft) tall. Hut sites have been found inside this enclosure.
Skara Brae / ˈ s k ær ə ˈ b r eɪ / is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.
The number of tourists who visited the ancient city of Jerash reached 214,000 during 2005. The number of non-Jordanian tourists was 182,000 last year, and the sum of entry charges reached JD900,000. [47] The Jerash Festival of Culture and Arts is an annual celebration of Arabic and international culture during the summer months. Jerash is ...