Woodhenge, Cahokia, IL, USA

Road trip and Lyons Kansas 20 May to 31 May 2015

Woodhenge, Cahokia, IL, USA

Woodhenge, Cahokia, IL, USA

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Panorama of the reconstructed wooden circle at Cahokia, the amazing 4,000 acre native American site. Stitched panorama.
Drone at Cahokia

Drone at Cahokia

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A Phantom 2 drone with a Go-Pro 4 camera surveying part of the site at Cahokia, Missouri. The bigger mound in the background is Monk's Mound, just a small part of this 4000 acre site.
Unusual advert

Unusual advert

23 May 2015 2 509
Snapped from the window of the car on I 70 on the way to Lyons, Kansas. The festival is in Olean, Missouri. The website says "Come sample fried turkey testicles at the Olean Jaycees annual festival." Sadly I am back in the UK now...
Windmills

Windmills

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Seen just off I70 and snapped from the car window as we were driving to Lyons, Kansas.
Rocket at the Cosmosphere

Rocket at the Cosmosphere

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A Titan II rocket at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Gallery. This was an unexpected find in Hutchison, Kansas, but an excellent museum all round.
Ostrich

Ostrich

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Not quite what I was expecting to see in Kansas!
Sunset

Sunset

25 May 2015 1 433
Just north of Lyons, Kansas.
It was a dark and stormy night...

It was a dark and stormy night...

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Lyons, Kansas, 2015.
NPS Workshop 2015

NPS Workshop 2015

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Participants at the 2015 NPS workshop on Geophysics in Archaeology held in Lyons, Kansas, 25th-29th May.
Square Lyons

Square Lyons

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Trying something different in Lyons, Kansas.
Square Lyons (BW version)

Square Lyons (BW version)

02 Jun 2015 1 483
Someone suggested a BW version of this image. I think I prefer the colour one. Lyons, Kanses, Pentax K-3, Sigma 17-70mm lens.
Doing the resistance tango

Doing the resistance tango

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Using a twin probe array and a square array in the same grid square can be problematic! Chris Gaffney and myself are operating the machines. Tobias site near Lyons, Kansas, NPS course 2015.
Down hole magnetic susceptibility survey

Down hole magnetic susceptibility survey

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Rinita Dalan and Rebecca Wallace of Minnesota State University Moorhead undertake a down-hole magnetic susceptibility survey at the Tobias site, Rice County, Kansas.
The world's largest wind chime

The world's largest wind chime

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In Casey, IL. We spotted the signs for this on I70 on our way from Lyons KS to Columbus, OH. It succeeded in its main aim, getting us off the highway and into Casey! Taken with my K28/3.5 shift lens on a Pentax K-3.
Coming soon, the world's largest rocking chair

Coming soon, the world's largest rocking chair

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Coming attractions in Casey, IL.
The world's largest golf tee

The world's largest golf tee

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I'm not certain you'd be able to hit a ball from this. One of the attractions in Casey, IL.
Big old tree

Big old tree

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Jarrod Burks (Ohio Valley Archaeology Inc.) demonstrates the size of a tree stump which is inside one of the circular earthworks at Newark, Ohio.
Newark circular green

Newark circular green

31 May 2015 1 440
This green is located inside a circular native American earthwork, part of the Newark earthworks in Ohio, USA. It lies just outside the Octagon earthwork in and around which is a gold course. This is a stitched panorama of 12 images.
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