Site Collection (page 77)

Leif Havik on site at Vaarhus Kjoelen, Norway
Hessdalen Project member Leif Havik tests observational equipment at Vaarhus Kjoelen, Norway. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway, and have never been explained

Figures of gods found at Tiryns, Greece
Figures of gods made from terracotta, found at Tiryns, Mycenae, Greece

Paris / Hotel Liancourt
Originally the Hotel Dauphin, rebuilt by Roger Du Plessis, sieur de Liancourt, circa 1620s; demolished 1825 and the rue des Beaux Arts (6e) now runs on the site

San Francisco Quake 4
True Grit - a barber paints his sign on a tent set up on the ruined site of his premises, offering business as usual

Le Plongeon / Auguste&alic
AUGUSTE & ALICE LE PLONGEON Archaeologists in Mexico

Palais De L industrie
This exhibition hall was built for the 1855 Exposition : it was demolished in 1897, and the site became the avenue Alexandre III

Titanic Victim
Mrs Henrietta Loring, whose husband drowned in the Titanic sinking, travels to the site and throws flowers into the sea as her last goodbye Date: 1912

Gal-Roman Ceiling / Carnac
A reconstruction of the elaborate ceiling of Gallo- Roman villa at Bossemo, an ancient site 2 miles to the east of Carnac

Stonehenge in 18th Cent
A rather naive view of Stonehenge and visitors to the site

Mosaic Pavement
A section of a marvellous collection of mosaics found at a Roman Villa site at Bignor, W.Sussex. This particular corner motif is a depiction of winter

High Rochester Fort
A view of the site of the outpost fort at High Rochester during early excavations in the mid 19th century. The fort guarded the principal Roman road into Scotland

Roman Burials - Chesters
A view from the site of Roman burials at Chesters fort (Cilurnum) on Hadrians Wall. This was the point where the wall crossed the River North Tyne

Mile-Stone - Chesterholm
A mile stone at Chesterholm, the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda. Recent excavations at Vindolanda have discovered a unique set of wooden Roman writing tablets from c.AD100

Bewcastle Fort
The site of Bewcastle 24km NE of Carlisle. A later castle was built in a corner of the original Roman fort, which protected a major route of attack toward Hadrians Wall

Hadrians Wall - Brunton
A section of Hadrians Wall at Brunton, opposite the fort of Chesters, which is the other side of the North Tyne River. The site has evidence of the Roman bridge abutment

Britannia Music Hall
Famous music hall in Hoxton, London. Opened in 1858, built on the site of the Britannia Saloon, opened 1841. Converted to a cinema in 1923 and destroyed by bombing in 1940

Hissalik Post-Excavation
The site at Hissarlik, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann and identified as ancient Troy. Schliemanns massive slice through the deposits can be clearly seen

Schliemanns Excavations
The so-called Scaean Gate and Palace of Priam, Hissarlik. Schliemanns rather fanciful interpretations of his findings at the site of Troy

Site of Troy / Early C19Th
A view of the site of ancient Troy at Hissarlik in Turkey. The site was excavated by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who found gold items and large city walls

Breton Pilgrimage
Pilgrims make the annual pilgrimage to Sainte-Anne- d Auray, Bretagne, the site of a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1623

Fiat Factory, Torino
FIAT FACTORY, TURIN, ITALY A powerful atmospheric, male figure looms over the industrious factory site and lends a hand with its construction

Mary at LA Salette
The Virgin Mary appears to two children guarding sheep, Melanie Calvat (14) and Maximin Girard (11) : the site in south-east France is now a popular pilgrim destination

BERLIET 1923
The new Berliet 12cv tourer takes a family party to a picnic site on the shore of a lake

Zimbabwe / Great Zimbabwe
The massive conical tower in the amazing Iron Age site of Great Zimbabwe, the greatest expression of the building skills and trading wealth of the Shona empire

The Road to Ruin
If drinking is the road to ruin, then its appropriate that these visitors to an ancient site should celebrate their visit with cocktails

Settlement of Eriksson
The Pre-Columbian settlement of Leif Eriksson (the son of Eric the Red and father of Thorvald) in Vinland (L Anse aux Meadows site) rediscovered in 1960 by Helge Ingstad

Whirlwind in Manchester
On a building site in Manchester, a miniature whirlwind sends building materials and debris spiralling into the sir

Excavations at Pompeii
Excavation work at the site of Pompeii

Betty Hill Explains
At the site where on 19 September 1961 an alien spaceship landed and she and her husband Barney were taken on board, Betty Hill describes the incident to investigators

Ecuador / Ingachugana
Close to the important Ingapirca site near Canar is this site, the Ingachugana, an enclosure of carved rocks with a ceremonial altar

Sunbathing Foundlings
At the Foundling Hospital site in Guildford Street, London, is a sunbathing centre for tiny Londoners, where many babies enjoy sunbathing

Golden Square, Soho, 1853
Golden Square: site of the model lodging house, erected by the General Society for improving the dwellings of the working classes

Workmen on Buildingsite
Architect and client, and workmen, on a building site

The Adelphi in 1771
The newly built Adelphi, built by the brothers Adam on the site of Durham Yard, on the banks of the Thames by the Strand

Ancient Olympic Stadium
The site of the original Olympic games, showing the Hippodrome and Stadium, as well as the Theatre, Temples and other ceremonial sites

Our Lady of Loreto
depicted as the Lady of Loreto, the site in Italy to which her house was miraculously moved from Nazareth

Obelisk / Istanbul
How the obelisk at Constantinople was drawn to its site and erected, to the astonishment of the citizens

Jerusalem / Plan 1C Ad
Plan of the city in biblical times : the City of David upper left, Solomons Temple lower centre, the site of Jesuss crucifixion upper centre

Archaeology / Chester
An archaeological dig on a Roman site at Chester, England

Mosque, Jerusalem
The mosque Koubat-as-Sakra, k.a. the mosque of Omar, is built by the Caliph El Malik, on the site of an Israeli temple on Mount Moria, where Abraham supposedly sacrificed

Audley End House
A summer cricket match in front of Audley End House, near Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Erected 1603 to 1616 on the site of the former Benedictine abbey of Walden

College of Arms
COLLEGE OF ARMS OR HERALDS COLLEGE. This particular site dates from the 1670s the previous building having burnt down in the Great Fire

Camping Couples & Corgi
Two couples sit on deckchairs and have breakfast from dog bowls on a camp site, much to the dismay of a Corgi

Cable Railway on Site
Quarried material is raised by a crane to a cable railway which will carry it away

Excavator at Work
Using an excavator to clear a construction site

Bulding - Using Hoist
Using a rail-mounted hoist to drop metal girders into place on a building site

Gladstone Queensland
Gladstone, Queensland, is so named because it is built on the site of an unsuccessful colony sponsored by the eminent statesman of that name

Regency Theatre 1817
Interior of the Regency theatre, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, London, built on the site of the Kings Concert Rooms. Tonights play is Othello

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