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Spruce Bluff Mound: Roughly 80 feet (24m) wide and 20 feet (6m) tall, the Spruce Bluff Mound is a remnant of the Pre-Columbian Ais Culture, who lived along the Indian River Lagoon between Cape Canaveral and the St. Lucie Inlet. The mound has been to dated to around 300–100 BC and is perhaps the largest surviving example of an Ais mound left standing today. 📷 IanMu4966 More:

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Szegvár-Tűzköves Neolithic Settlement: A Late Neolithic tell settlement of the Tisza culture, dating to approximately 5000-4500 BCE - counted as one of the most important centres of the Late Neolithic Tisza culture. Excavations produced the famous 'Szegvar idol' (also called the 'God of Szegvar' - pictured) - a seated clay figure holding a sickle, interpreted as a harvest deity or ancestral figure, now in the Mora Ferenc Museum in Szeged. 📷 Anne T More:

All this comparative evidence makes this Wessex study more interesting in retrospect than it could have seemed in isolation. 📷 Andy B More: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146416493

Book Review: Terence Meaden - The Sixty Long Barrows of North and Mid-Wessex: This book was Terence's Oxford MSc thesis in 2009 and has now in 2026 been published Open Access by the University of Buckingham Press. The sixteen years between those dates matter: they're the period in which Meaden developed the stone circle work that followed, applying the same methodology to Cork and Kerry, to northeast Scotland, and to Stonehenge.

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Discover Bucks Museum: Visit the new SAXONS exhibition - discover the stories behind three remarkable burial sites, running until the 1st November. Also Curator Tours and lots more on Saturday 18 July, details on our page. Museum in Buckinghamshire - "A space to explore, learn and wonder about Bucks and to find out about the stories of people and places in this area and beyond." 📷 Dodomad More:

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Pecos National Historical Park: A US National Historical Park in San Miguel County, New Mexico which preserves the ruins of Pecos Pueblo, known historically as Cicuye, the "village of 500 warriors". The park encompasses thousands of acres of landscape infused with historical elements from prehistoric archaeological ruins to 17th and 18th century Spanish Mission churches. 📷 stonetracker More:

The photo was supplied to the police by Isaac's family. More details here: https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/derbyshire/news/news/north/2026/june/murder-investigation-continues-after-death-of-man-at-summer-solstice-event/

This is a photo of Isaac Clare-Watts who was tragically discovered dead at the Nine Ladies Stone Circle Stanton Moor, Derbyshire last Monday afternoon. Police are appealing for witnesses and video/dashcam footage which may help catch his killer. More 1/

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On a low hilltop overlooking modern Bulford, about 5km east of Stonehenge, archaeologists found a scatter of nearly fifty pits that may hold the earliest deliberately built alignment to the solstice anywhere in the Stonehenge landscape, raised perhaps five hundred years before the famous stones. The site was a place of feasting and gathering at the very dawn of the Late Neolithic, when the first earthworks at Stonehenge were new. 📷 Creative Commons More:

Bulford Neolithic Pits and Alignment: Nearly fifty Neolithic pits on a Bulford hilltop may hold the earliest deliberately built solstice alignment in the Stonehenge landscape, 500 years before the one at Stonehenge - I had a go at finding the proposed alignment on the currently published plan....

None of which makes it wrong of course - the setting is real, the date is real, the solstice bearing checks out. It's plausible and a comfortable fit with what's known - it's just running ahead of the published evidence presumably for the sake of that solstice announcement. 10/

Much was already in that paper: 48 pits on the hilltop dated ~2950 BCE, feasting debris and scatter leaning east towards Sidbury Hill. The solar interest was already on record. Even the star find. The "rare disc-shaped knife" now presented as a possible image of the sun's disc 4/

...an alignment of two timber posts at Bulford, 120m apart, pointed to midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset ~2950 BCE - a "prototype" solstice marker 500 years before the Stonehenge one. In the absence of the full publication I had a look at what's out there on the record. 2/

...here's the very interesting 2021 paper our pages were all based on, from Matt Leivers, which also discusses potential alignments on the Stonehenge cursus: Stonehenge and the Emergence of the Sacred Landscape of Wessex Internet Archaeology 56. https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/2/index.html 15/

There's more in my forum post on the current gaps in the interpretation: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=10434&forum=4 14/