Three years of excavations centred on a c.6,000-year-old burial monument in Herefordshire have revealed that its story is much longer and more complex than was previously thought. Carly Hilts visited Keith Ray, Win Scutt, and Julian Thomas on site to learn more.
I would restore the great chambers of Boyne, prepare a sepulchre under the cupmarked stones. Seamus Heaney, ‘Funeral Rites’
The site, known as La Torre- La Janera, covers an area of c.600ha near the Guadiana River in the province of Huelva.
Its alphabet represents a written language ancestral to Scottish Gaelic, modern Irish, and Manx
One of the essentials of building a megalithic chambered burial monument is the choice of materials used to construct it. It is now considered that stone (boulders, stone erratics and fragments, and quarried stone) used in the construction of megaliths was…