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Barking Abbey
Barking Abbey (St Mary and St Ethelburga's) was England's first nunnery, founded c.666 by Erkenwald, refounded c.965 after Danish destruction, the leading Benedictine nunnery until its 1539 dissolution; ruins survive at Barking, London.
Bewcastle Castle
Bewcastle Castle (Bueth's Castle, Belcastell) is a ruined medieval shell keep castle in the north-east corner of Bewcastle Roman fort, Cumbria, near the Scottish border; built 13th-14th century, abandoned after 1565, dismantled 1641.
Circular Shaped Mound and the Remains of A Stupa
Circular shaped mound and the remains of a stupa, at Chhetiaon, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, is an ASI centrally protected Buddhist site with excavated 2nd-3rd century CE stupa chaitya, votive stupa, monastery cells, and a seated Buddha sculpture.
Fishpond
Fishpond is a scheduled medieval pond monument in Lillington, Dorset, England (NHLE 1005578, scheduled 15 September 1975); an artificially created pool for cultivating, breeding, and storing fish, a monument class that peaked in 12th-century England.
Hideglelőskereszt
Hideglelőskereszt (Hideglelős-kereszt), a cross above the Danube at Esztergom, Hungary, first raised in wood in 1784, and the surrounding archaeological site with a late Roman triangular fort, Iron Age settlement traces, and an Árpád-era castle.
Khukhundu Mound
Khukhundu Mound: ASI-protected archaeological mound at Khukhundu village, Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with the ancient Jain tirth Kakandi, birthplace of Tirthankara Pushpdanta, with about 30 hillocks of ruins.
Lucio Vero
Lucio Vero (Lucius Aurelius Verus), co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius 161-169 AD; his famous Villa di Lucio Vero on the via Clodia at Acquatraversa, Rome, with glass opus sectile, mosaics, and imperial busts.
Mahaban Mound
Mahaban Mound, officially "Mound marking the Old Fort", is a centrally protected ASI monument in Mahaban town, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, identified with King Kulachandra's fort against Mahmud of Ghazni in 1017 CE, over earlier Buddhist remains.
Native settlement
Native settlement, scheduled monument reference 1003146, a Historic England-designated Romano-British native rural settlement, recorded in Planning Data at coordinates -2.371509, 54.112522.
Niani
Niani is a village and archaeological site in northeastern Guinea, on the Sankarani River, traditionally the capital and birthplace of Sundiata of the Mali Empire, though archaeology has challenged this.
Rocca Calascio
Rocca Calascio, mountaintop fortress in Calascio, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy; highest castle in the Apennines at about 1,460 m; 1380 first record, Piccolomini rebuilding, 1703 earthquake ruin, film set for Ladyhawke and The Name of the Rose.
Rocca San Silvestro, Campiglia Marittima
Rocca San Silvestro, also known in the Middle Ages as Rocca a Palmento, is a deserted fortified medieval mining village near Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany, founded by the Della Gherardesca in the 10th-11th century for copper, lead and silver mining, excavated from 1984 by Riccardo Francovich and now the core of the San Silvestro Archaeological Mines Park.