Contents: 1) Antiquarians at the megaliths: Introductory thoughts (Magdalena S. Midgley); 2) Chronicle of megalith research in the Netherlands, 1547-1900 (Jan Albert Bakker); 3) Jean-Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie (1786-1856). The journey of an archeologist among the antiquaries in Brittany in the second half of the XIXth century (Serge Cassen and Cyrille Chaigneau); 4) The Videdys long dolmen 1643-2006 (Torben Dehn); 5) Research history of the Altmark megalithic tombs (Barbara Fritsch); 6) Nineteenth-century Portuguese at the megaliths (Ana Cristina Martins); 7) William Greenwell and the diversity of antiquarianism (Jeff Sanders); 8) The Lukis family of Guernsey and the study of megaliths in the 19th century (Heather Sebire); 9) Antiquarians at Swedish megaliths (Karl-Goran Sjogren).