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Verified places tagged “chalk”

2 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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Verified2 Widely accepted0 Contested2 Hypothetical0 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology0

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Geoglyphs3 Archaeological wonders2 Earthworks2 Kurgans1 Tumuli1

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🇬🇧United Kingdom3 🇰🇿Kazakhstan1

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Partially excavated3 Excavated1

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chalk4 hill figure3 bronze age1 cerne abbas1 dorset1 fertility1 giant1 karaoba

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west kazakhstan1

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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan

Karaoba Extended Kurgan Field (Karaoba Ridge West Chain)

Middle to Late Sarmatian · Late Sarmatian

Karaoba west: 7 chalk-marl kurgans extending field N-S 1.8 km toward Caspian lowland.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph

Uffington White Horse

Late Bronze Age 1380–550 BCE (OSL Brill 1995) · Late Bronze Age Britons, ritual landscape around Uffington Castle hillfort

110-m Bronze Age galloping horse on Downs - Britain's oldest hill figure 3000 years.