Archaeology and geology

Totem

We visited the British Museum to go to the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition and had an hour or so after to look around and suddenly, wow, there were a couple of totem poles pointing skywards. I had never seen a real one before and didn’t realise how enormous they are. They originate from the Pacific […]

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The Slaughter Stone

On the south side of Stonehenge, lying on its side is one of the huge stones which make the monument. You can see it at the front of the photo.  It is called the Slaughter Stone, which is a bit misleading, because it makes it sound as if it was used for some sort of […]

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