Megalithic

For quite a few years now I've used a site called Megalithic.co.uk. It is a website that crowdsources (although it was around before the term was coined in 2005) information about ancient sites around the world. The aim of the site is to document these sites in the hope that this will provide publicity and protection from development and agriculture, especially for little known sites.

I really liked the stamp Andy (Founder and Editor-in-Chief) had put on the envelope:
Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, 400BC

The site types range from ancient crosses and artificial mounds to burial chambers and hill figures to marker stones and stone circles.

While I've been using the site for years to find sites and learn about them, I didn't start contributing my images and adding sites to the website until June this year. That's when I decided to become a member.

For my £10 a year I get:

• full length Satnav / GPS downloads for the sites, 
• 20% discount at their online shop, 
• full voting rights as a member of the society, import/export of logs, 
• removal of ads (I have to admit, I never knew there were ads on the site due to Adblock) 
• access to a members' only discussion forum
• a free download on the iPhone / Android app. I tried this on Android and it's pretty pants and crashes a lot. (No development has been done to the Android app for nearly a year at this point and, sadly, the developer didn't seem interested when I emailed him.)
• a very cool pack of Megalith Playing Cards. Which I think are really interesting and a great addition to the membership pack.

I really enjoy reading the entries on the site and checking out all parts of the forum. You don't need to become a paying member to use the site - or even need to create a free account. There's also a free newsletter that you can sign up to.

It's certainly a site I use when looking for day trip material and has introduced me to a whole host of new places that I never knew existed.

You may have seen a few posts that I've published to this blog, which are versions of the pages I've uploaded to the Megalithic site, these are tagged with the 'Megalithic' label, if you wanted to check them out. It's worth checking out this site as there are bound to be entries in your country - and if not, please start adding them!