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The burial mound at Old Fort Park was constructed by the Ais culture. The site would later be used as a military post during the Second Seminole War, the name of which would later be used for the adjacent city of Fort Pierce.

Another nearby rock art panel with damage is Teaspoon Rock (Boughey & Vickerman 104). Seán Dillon writes: This cup marked stone was completely upended and scoured by heavy machinery during brush cutting. Fortunately the damage seen here is to the underside of the stone. Whoever has been up to check the damage from the estate attempted to reposition the completely upended 4 cupper, and has packed some heather into the top and filled the hole in, in a crude attempt to make it look like it had never been moved, unfortunately in the process the cups are now level with the ground and not on top as they should be, plus one cup has been destroyed, either during the works or when they were repositioning it. A stone with four cup marks on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor. Part of Group 2: on the west side of the hill.

Drastic brush cutting with heavy machinery has damaged this lovely rock art panel - the photo shows chipping to the right of the main carving, and scratch marks around the top three cups.. One of the cup marked stones on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor, also known as the Lunar Stone. Part of Group 2: on the west side of the hill. Consisting of several cup-and-rings, as well as a double-ring, it is found amidst a small cluster of equally impressive, albeit very different carved rocks.

The small stele is unique in Switzerland. Discovered during excavation in 2018 with some other artefacts (pictured) and currently being conserved. It measures 42 cm high, 26 cm wide, 12 cm thick, and weighs 17.2 kg. A horizontal, artificially carved groove in the stone separates the head from the torso. Neither a face nor extremities are visible. The object shows an engraved depiction in the lower area.

A relatively well-preserved embanked stone circle located on a boggy plateau on the moorland above Beeley, at the northern end of a cairnfield. The circle consists of ten stones in a ring, approximately 12.5m by 12m in diameter with a further stone, completely buried, to the north-west. If the stones were evenly spaced, there may originally have been as many as twenty in the circle.

A photo from 2024, one of a few rescued from our 'plugole' which is where where failed uploads end up. More mystery photos in our gallery - can you identify any of them?. Situated within dry stone walling between two farmer’s fields. The chamber looks like it would have been about 1.8m (6ft) in height when originally built. The substantial capstone, roughly a trapezoid in shape, looks a bit precariously balanced on the four remaining supporting stones. The capstone measures about 4.5m (15ft) at its longest point and 3.3m (11ft) at its widest.

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Burial Chamber (Dolmen) in Cataluña

Originally there were at least 7 barrows found between Mingoose and Hurlingbarrow, Now only 3 remain. The barrow is believed to be associated with the ancient game of hurling from which the place-name Hurlingbarrow derives. There are no indications of a surrounding ditch. An urn was reported to have been excavated from this barrow by an antiquarian although there are no further details.

John D Hunter writes: When I first came across this pair of stones, many years ago now, my first impression was that they are standing stones, and I am still of that opinion. They are in a position on Little Hograh Moor which gives them a commanding view over an area known as Crown End, a prehistoric settlement area on Westerdale Moor.