Stone Age

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Stone Pages
www.stonepages.com
An 'amateur' website, although the sheer scale and quality of its production demands a grander description, Stone Pages is the work of two megalith enthusiasts, Paolo Arosio and Diego Meozzi. It contains photographs and information about more than 500 European megaliths and other prehistoric sites they have visited over the past two decades. The whole Stone Pages site is a labour of love, updated regularly, with high-definition pictures, informative text, news from the world of archaeology and enough links to related websites to keep even the most avid web-surfer active from now until the stones erode away. Arosio and Meozzi allow free use of all their material, including the photographs, for educational or non-profit purposes. The duo also produce a Stonepages computer CD containing the whole website and run a small online shop, which helps fund their efforts. For fans of ancient stone monuments, there is no better site anywhere on the web.

The Megalithic Portal and Map
www.megalithic.co.uk
A resource for locating and finding information about any megalithic monument in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Virtual Avebury and Stonehenge
www.users.myisp.co.uk/~gtour/index.html
This website, run by Pete and Alison Glastonbury, contains some stunning panoramic VR clips of Avebury, Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, Stanton Drew, the Rollright Stones and other Stone-Age monuments. Look out also for the animated sequence of the winter solstice moonrise over Stonehenge in December 2002. The site also has a forum; free screensavers for PCs; panoramic VR clips showing the progress of excavations at Avebury in 2002; and a link to a downloadable version of William Stukeley's Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the English Druids (available at www.kobek.com/orphans.html).

Ancient Scotland
www.ancient-scotland.co.uk
A personal photographic view of many of the ancient sites of Scotland by Martin McCarthy.

Orkneyjar: The heritage of the Orkney islands
www.orkneyjar.com
This site, run by local enthusiast Sigurd Towrie, contains a wealth of information on Orkney, which probably has the highest concentration of well-preserved prehistoric monuments in Britain. There are sections on the brochs of Orkney and other prehistoric monuments in the region, including the Standing Stones of Stenness and Brodgar's Ditch and Bank. Indeed, there's not much about the Orkneys' prehistory that can't be found here. This is archaeology on the web as it should be: clear, informative, attractively presented and exciting enough to interest even those without a particular interest in the prehistoric era. The site name 'Orkneyjar' is derived from the Old Norse word, which means 'Seal Islands', eventually shortened by Scots speakers to Orkney.

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