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The final door opens to a view of Silbury from Waden Hill.
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Bryn Cader Faner, above Talsarnau, North Wales, a Bronze Age cairn with the most amazing kerb of upright stones.
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West Kennett Avenue, a double stone processional row leading to/from Avebury.
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Last light on Leckhampton hillfort for this midwinter #HillfortsWednesday.
Bright blessings, lovely folks of Mastadon.
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Belas Knap, a Neolithic chambered long barrow in the Cotswolds above Winchcombe. Looking like a giant Christmas cake on this visit.
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Emma's Grove Bronze Age round barrow. One of the largest surviving round barrows in Gloucestershire, there is a second, smaller barrow next to it.
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Stones of the Great Circle, #Avebury
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Cairn on Fan Foel, Y Mynydd Ddu (the Carmarthen Fans). All that now remains of the cairn is a circular kerb and a central cist. When excavated, the cairn contained cremated bone, a pottery urn, a bone pin and flint tools.
The remains included that of a child, and microscopic pollen grains showing the burial was accompanied by a floral tribute of meadowsweet. It was radiocarbon-dated to c. 2000 BCE.
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The Camp, a Neolithic chambered long barrow in the Cotswolds, near Painswick. The tomb has been quite badly trashed, leaving just a mound and a few upright stones of the burial chamber.
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An Sithean chambered tomb, Isle of Skye. A late Neolithic or early Bronze Age tomb, the monument itself is quite trashed but the setting is exquisite, with a backdrop of the Red Cuillin mountains; Beinn Dearg Bheag, Beinn Dearg Mhor and Beinn na Caillich form the backdrop, the latter also topped with a substantial Bronze Age cairn.
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The rampart of Beckbury hillfort, on the edge of the Cotswolds above Hailes Abbey. The single rampart encloses a large area, with the Cotswolds escarpment forming some of the natural defences.
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Approaching West Kennett Neolithic long barrow.
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The 'square' barrow, Leckhampton Hill, Gloucestershire.
Located just outside the hillfort rampart, a circular mound enclosed inside a square earthwork bank. Considered to be a possible rare example of an Iron Age Barrow. Low sun on snow helps pick out the shape.
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Adam and Eve, two huge sarsen stones. Adam (right) formed part of a Cove, Eve (left) is the last remaining stone of the destroyed Beckhampton Avenue.
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The Bronze Age cairn on Twr y Fan Foel, the highest mountain in Y Mynydd Ddu (the Carmarthen Fans), South Wales. Looking over to the neighbouring cairn on Fan Foel.
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Bronze Age cairn on the summit of The Blorenge, Monmouthshire, South Wales.
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The ramparts of Crug Hywel Camp, above Crickhowell, South Wales. Looking towards Mynydd Pen-y-Fal (The Sugarloaf).
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One of three relocated chambers of a Neolithic long barrow, Avening, Gloucestershire.
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One of a pair of Bronze Age cairns next to Nant Mawr, in the depths of Fforest Fawr above Ystradfellte reservoir.
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