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Dolmen de Boun Marcou
When I first started exploring this whole area around Mailhac, and learnt that an oppidum was not a Roman fort but a Chalcolithic hill settlement, and that there was not just one but three necropoli, … more →
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The Pohjola Wedding 8/22/2009
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mikepohjola wrote 3 months ago: I got married this Saturday to my bride Elina Lindroos, and made her my wife Elina Pohjola. In a cou … more →
2nd December - Trip to the Bull Ring and Mam Tor
Pete T wrote 11 months ago: On Tuesday the 2nd of December the four of us visited first the Bull Ring at Dove Holes and then Mam … more →
Dolmen de Boun Marcou
richard wrote 1 year ago: When I first started exploring this whole area around Mailhac, and learnt that an oppidum was not a … more →
Lou Cayla, Mailhac : one of The High Places
richard wrote 1 year ago: Les hauts lieux. French is an impoverished language. Its dictionaries are a third smaller than ours, … more →
Garrywhin Fort, Ulbster, Caithness
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS Grid Reference – ND 312 414 Getting Here Going up the A99, just as your approach … more →
Dun Mac Sniachan, Benderloch, Argyll
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS Grid Reference – NM 903 382 Also Known as: Dun mac Uisneachan Dun Uisnach Berego … more →
Dun Gallain, Colonsay, Argyll
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS Grid Reference – NR 348 931 Getting Here Bittova trek this one. Once on Colonsa … more →
Dun Chonallaich, Ford, Argyll
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS Grid Reference – NM 854 036 Getting Here There’s two real ways to get up h … more →
Creag a' Chapuill, Ford, Kilmartin, Argyll
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS grid reference – NM 855 024 Getting Here Dead easy! From Kilmartin go north tow … more →
Castleberg, Nesfield, North Yorkshire
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Hillfort: OS Grid Reference – SE 093 495 Getting Here Two main ways to get here. Hmmmm … more →
Ringstone Hill, Brierley, South Yorkshire
megalithix wrote 1 year ago: Stone Circle: OS Grid Reference – SE 426 099 Archaeology & History On the southern outski … more →
Semi-detached oppidum at le Carla, Durban Corbieres
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richard wrote 1 year ago: Quid.fr is France’s Encyclopedia Britannica – and has this to say about the canton of Du … more →
Hillfort, Ringfort - or Oppidum?
richard wrote 1 year ago: Getting the names right for things is sometimes difficult enough in your own language, let alone a f … more →
The oppidum in Languedoc
richard wrote 1 year ago: The word is derived from the early Latin ob-pedum: ‘enclosed space’, and possibly from t … more →
The Real Gallo-Roman Hillfort
richard wrote 1 year ago: The information given on Quid for the Oppidum du Pic St-Martin is accurate – while the new IGN … more →
Standing Stones, and lying maps
richard wrote 1 year ago: Quid is France’s Encyclopedia Britannica, on paper since 1967 and online since 1997. IGN is th … more →
Cros hillfort
richard wrote 1 year ago: Commanding the valley-plain of the Aude, at the edge of a plateau, the Cros hill-fort was built at t … more →
