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1. Ancient Pictish carving found during work on Scottish road building project

   Douglas MacQueen's blog A large Pictish stone carving has been uncovered during a road building project in Pertnshire ... Heritage Trust and Culture Perth & Kinross to inspect the stone and the site of its discovery. The stone was identified by Mark Hall, of ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Oct 31 2017 - 6:30pm

2. Wales: Garden ornament turns out to be 13th century effigy of Llantysilio monk

   ... Around the Celtic world there are many cairns, stone circles, standing stones and carvings in rock from times of prehistory. ... meaning to there creators. It was a tradition of carving in stone that continued through the centuries into the middle ages.  Such stones ...

   Mair Williams - Dec 7 2016 - 12:53pm - 0 comments

3. Ballafayle Cairn

   Ballafayle Cairn is a Neolithic (Stone Age) Burial site. The Neolithic Period sometimes referred to as the New Stone Age began around 4000 BC - 3000 BC and ended around 2000 BC - 1500 BC. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 31 2022 - 11:38am

4. Ancient mysteries of Scotland's Kilmartin Glen

   ... most significant archaeological landscapes. Standing stones, stone circles, remarkable carved rock art, cairns, castles and forts, all ... remain a mystery. Around the Celtic world there are many stone monuments and carvings in rock made by people from prehistoric times.  ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Jan 21 2019 - 8:32pm

5. The Remarkable Irish Monastery of Sceilg Mhichíl

   Ireland's Skellig Islands (Irish: Na Scealaga), are two small spectacular ... they did not play a part in the mythology of pre-Christian Ireland. Although there is no record of the islands being inhabited prior to ... sea level the site is reached by a climb of over six hundred stone steps. Each step carved by hand from the solid rock. The determination to ...

   Ciaran De Búrca - Apr 24 2021 - 1:48pm - 0 comments

6. Céide Fields - Achaidh Chéide

   ... site dating to 3000BC and before. It is the most extensive Stone Age monument in the world with dwelling houses, tombs and stone walled ... Baile an Chaisil) on the R314 in the north of County Mayo, Ireland (Irish: Contae Mhaigh Eo, Éire). This is an extremely important ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - May 4 2021 - 4:48pm

7. Cusk yn ta John Dudding

   ... passing has come as an enormous shock to his family and wide circle of friends in the Cornish cultural movement and we take a moment to ...

   Kernow Matters to Us - May 14 2021 - 3:03pm

8. The 50th anniversary of 1968 Derry civil rights march commemorated this weekend

   ... The true nature of the British colony in  the north-east of Ireland was exposed to a worldwide audience. The attacks on the Northern Ireland civil rights movement before and subsequent to the march on 5th ...

   Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 5 2018 - 1:37pm

9. Possible discovery of another Skara Brae like Neolithic settlement in Orkney

   ... a boar tooth, a cattle jawbone and a large decorated stone have also been discovered. A spokesman for the Archaeology Institute at ... at an alarming rate.” The large decorated stone discovered on the new site appears to be marked with a pair of incised ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Feb 12 2021 - 4:58pm

10. Manx Celtic and Norse Cross on Cronk ny Arrey Laa

    ... would have been about 11,000 years ago. Small flint tools of stone or bone were used during this period some of which can be found in ... with settlements from this period of history. There are stone circles, carved Celtic and Norse crosses, buried Viking ships and ...

    Alastair Kneale - Jul 22 2021 - 3:27pm

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