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Megalithia
http://www.anima.demon.co.uk/index.html
Richard Mudhar's lively guide to megalithic sites in the UK and Eire. Introduction, typology, bibliography. Distribution map, searchable database of names and grid references, photographs of selected sites.
Stonecentric
http://www.stonecentric.connectfree.co.uk/
Frank Wayman's photo gallery of ancient monuments, with comments. Mostly W and SW Scotland, but also featuring the Stones mailing list trip to Avebury.
Avebury Management Plan
http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/archcom/projects/summarys/html98_9/2257aveb.htm
English Heritage's plan for the World Heritage Site. Includes location plans and photographs of Avebury and related sites.
Megalithica
http://www.jharding.demon.co.uk/
Photographs by John Harding of some ancient sites in the UK, including standing stones, dolmens and stone circles, mainly in South Wales.
Ancient Britain
http://www.britainexpress.com/articles/Ancient_Britain/index.htm
Britain Express provides a guide to prehistoric stone circles, mounds, and other megalithic sites in England and Wales, including an A-Z gazetteer of sites, feature articles and visitor information.
Stone Pages
Descriptions, professional photographs with some Quick Time interactive panoramas of the ancient monuments of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy by Italian journalists Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi.
Stones of Wales
http://freespace.virgin.net/stones.ukp
Photographs and details of stone circles, burial chambers and standing stones in Wales.
The Standing Stones of Stenness
http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/standingstones/index.html
Lively, illustrated feature in journalist Sigurd Towrie's 'Orkneyjar' on the henge of tall stones and the discoveries there in 1972.
Recumbent Stone Circles in North East Scotland
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib266/stones/main.htm
Description and illustrated gazetteer of this distinctive type of stone circle, provided by Anna Edelsten, University of Aberdeen.
Yorkshire Rock Art
Graeme C. presents location maps, photographs and descriptions of Yorkshire's Neolithic and Bronze Age cup and ring rock carvings.
Mine Howe
A unique prehistoric monument in Orkney. Illustrated summary of what the excavation in 2000 found and theories about the structure. Location map, visitor information.
Boxgrove Archaeological Excavations
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/boxgrove/
Boxgrove, near Chichester, West Sussex, contains the largest area of preserved paeolithic landsurface in Europe. Investigations directed by Mark Roberts of University College London.
Beaker Pits at Crescent Copse, Wiltshire
http://www.archaeology.demon.co.uk/3036.htm
Scholarly report without illustrations by Dr Rosamund Cleal and Michael Heaton on an excavation in 1997 near Shrewton and the effects of arboreal fungi on archaeological remains.
Creswell Crags - Home of the Ice Age Hunter
http://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/
Creswell Heritage Trust provides an illustrated guide to this limestone gorge honeycombed with caves which have yielded evidence of life during the last Ice Age. Visitor information.
Braucewell Limestone Quarry, Lincolnshire
http://www.postex.demon.co.uk/dar/1/frames.htm
Scholarly, illustrated report by Lindsey Archaeological Services on their discovery of a large, post-built animal enclosure and other structures near a prehistoric triple linear ditch complex.
Buckland Rings, Lymington, Hampshire
http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/reports/buckland/
Report for English Heritage on a geophysical survey, April 1993 of this later Iron Age hill-fort in the New Forest.

