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| Penrith Museum | Museum | England | Cumbria | Visited | 13th Oct 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Penrith Museum: With relatively few trains running between Penrith and Carlisle, and recovering from a broken shoulder, this was of necessity a brief, but reasonably interesting visit. Only a relatively small museum, it has a surprising number of exhibits, although not displayed in any cohesive way... Read More |
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| Moor Divock 3 | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | After visiting the Cop Stone, we walked up to the Cairn Circle (which is clearly visible from the footpath). Whilst ruined, it's atmospheric. The more I sat on the edge of the cairn and looked round, the more there is to see. I'd like to go round with someone who knows this area better than I, so... Read More |
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| St Ninian's Preconquest Monastery (Ninekirks) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Cumbria | Visited | 13th Sep 2022 | 1 | 4 | 3 | St Ninian's Pre-Conquest Monastic Site: See visit report for St Ninian's Church (Ninekirks) for now. More details to follow. | 188 | 2 |
| St Ninian's Church (Ninekirks) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 13th Sep 2022 | 3 | 4 | 3 | St Ninian's Church, Ninekirks: We parked in a very small car park which is at the start of a green lane/permissive footpath, at NY 55815 28944. This was quite tricky to spot as the entrance to the car park is small and hidden by tall grass.
The permissive footpath initially leads us a gentle slo... Read More |
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| Giants Cave Holy Well (Edenhall) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Saw from a distance | 13th Sep 2022 | 1 | 4 | 3 | Giant's Cave Holy Well: Having walked to St. Ninian's Church, Ninekirks, and wandered around the site of St Ninian's preconquest monastery, it was only a short walk northwards across the field towards the location of the Giant's Cave and the River Eamont.
There was no sign of the well on the sout... Read More |
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| Stanger Spa | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Jun 2020 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Stanger Spa Well, Embleton: The well is approached by a narrow causeway which runs through a boggy area, terminating at the well house. At the time of our visit, the land around the well was very wet, and in places there were deep puddles of water around the edges of the well house.
Whilst there... Read More |
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| St Anne's Well (Shap) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Jun 2020 | 4 | 4 | 4 | St Anne's Well, Shap: Stopped off for a break on one of very rare essential car journeys during lockdown, when exercise restrictions had been relaxed slightly. A lovely spot, although difficult to park as the long, thin, layby next to the motorway maintenance compound was full with cars of other wa... Read More |
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| Priest's Well (Catlowdy) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Couldn't find | 30th Aug 2022 | Priest's Well, Catlowdy: Tried to find, but the footpath appears block by recently constructed areas for horses. Not wanting to disturb these beautiful animals, we gave up on our search, and will try and seek permission to enter from another direction at a future date. | 187 | 1 | |||
| Long Meg And Her Daughters | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Aug 2022 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Long Meg and Her Daughters: We walked along the quiet, shady old hollow ways from St Michael's and All Angels, Addingham to Long Meg and her daughters, coming across a well by the side of the track, plus a solitary standing stone in a field just north of Long Meg. The latter was too close to the fi... Read More |
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| Preston Park Museum (Stockton on Tees) | Museum | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Aug 2022 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Preston Park Museum (Kirklevington Stones): I'd tried to arrange a visit here a couple of months before the first pandemic lockdown hit, but the museum closed early, and it's been well over two years until I was able to rearrange the visit.
Some of the Kirklevington Stones are one display (some ... Read More |
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| St Peter's Church (Croft-on-Tees) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Aug 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Peter's Church, Croft on Tees: The church's wedding co-ordinator kindly opened the church for us at very short notice, and acted as our guide for our brief visit. A very lovely church, right next to the River Tees. Sadly, the stone recorded on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture as Croft ... Read More |
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| St Martin's Church (Kirklevington) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Martin's Church, Kirklevington: Visited just before first lockdown was enforced. The church wardens opened the church for us and made us very welcome, but what we didn't know before our visit was that most of the stones are at the Preston Park Museum in Stockton-on-Tees. #
There is obviously... Read More |
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| St Oswald's Church (Dean) | Rock Art | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Jul 2022 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Oswald's Church (Dean): Having left St Michael and All Angels at Isel, we visited the well in Eaglesfield and tried to find the Singing Well just outside Deanscales. The latter we could see over the hedge, but were unable to gain access to the field it sits in from the road. Parking by the lych... Read More |
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| St Michael and All Angels (Isel) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Jul 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Michael and All Angels, Isel/Blindcrake: We had first visited the Grade II listed medieval well in Blindcrake at NY 1486 3482, which has a domed well head very similar to the holy well at Brompton.
This is a very, very pretty location for a church, and the inside did not disappoint. There a... Read More |
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| Mercat Cross (Kirkcudbright) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Jul 2022 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Mercat Cross, Tolbooth, Kirkcudbright: We'd stopped to see the old well at Mclellan's Castle (not named, just a water supply for the castle, so not recorded here), then walked across to the High Street. This is a lovely old market cross, now displayed high on the steps of the Tolbooth. Well worth ... Read More |
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| Stewartry Museum | Museum | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Jul 2022 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Stewartry Museum: We arrived at the museum with 10 minutes to go until closing, having been to St Cuthbert's Church almost next door, only to discover that the 8th century cross arm was not in that church, but now located in the museum.
Our thanks go to Isla who obtained permission for me to uplo... Read More |
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| St Winning's Well (Kirkgunzeon) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Jul 2022 | 2 | 4 | St Winning's Well, Kirkgunzeon: We parked near the telephone kiosk in the village, at about NX 86783 66771, and walked back to the small cross-roads, then north-westwards up the little dead-end lane. A very pretty spot. We had the grid reference of the well, so were looking around, when the owner of... Read More |
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| Rumbling Well (Buittle) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Couldn't find | 19th Jul 2022 | Rumbling Well, Buittle: Unable to get to. Since the Google Earth images and the map on Canmore were produced, an additional lake with platforms for fishing has been introduced at the head of the reservoir.
We parked in the 2-car layby by the footpath sign at NX 80296 61523 and made our way acros... Read More |
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| Roman Bridge Remains (Bitts Park) | Ancient Trackway | England | Cumbria | Visited | 17th Jul 2022 | 2 | 1 | 4 | Roman Bridge Remains, Bitts Park: A lovely park, and a lovely walk. Stones are hidden largely in deep shade between the main avenue running along the northern side of the park and the river. We needed to drop down onto the sandy paths below the avenue, and follow the river along. The four stone 's... Read More |
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| Cross Shaped Stone of Keverigg | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2022 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Cross Shaped Stone of Keverigg: We went looking for the boundary stone inscribed with a cross, as marked on the modern OS map, but were unable to find it (grass too high and lots of lichen and moss on surrounding rocks to be able to make out the carved cross).
My impression of this particular sto... Read More |
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| Cross Stone of Keverigg | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Couldn't find | 9th Jul 2022 | Cross Stone of Keverigg: The location of the stone was clearly marked on the Historic England Map search map, but despite my husband clambering (very carefully) over the dry stone wall and stock fence at the eastern end of the access land, he was unable to find the stone. There was considerable gro... Read More |
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| St Michael's Well (Shawk) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 25th Jun 2020 | 3 | 3 | 3 | St Michael's Well, Shawk: Situated in a very lovely, heavily wooded area, to the east of a stream, Chalk Beck, which has stepping stones over it (these appear to move and be replaced when the stream floods, as there are several sets).
There is no mention on Pastscape or HE, although the HE map s... Read More |
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| Bampton Grange Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Bampton Grange Cross: A glorious day. We'd previously seen this cross in August 2020, when lockdown restrictions had been briefly lifted for a short time, but I didn't post any photographs. That day had been grey and the cemetery busy with people strimming grass around family graves. Today was gl... Read More |
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| Plague Stone (Penrith) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2022 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Plague Stone/Cross Base, Penrith: We've driven by this site many a time without realising this stone was here. A bit difficult to find somewhere to park, as the stone is near the hospital, community college and fire station, but there is a modern housing estate, so disk parking is available along T... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (Heversham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 21st Jun 2022 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Mary's Well, Heversham: Spotted the blue 'W' on the HE map search when looking up information for St Peter's Church, so decided to have a look. Actually found the well purely by chance, when we drove past looking for a parking spot, then doubled back and parked near the lych gate, walking back t... Read More |
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| Anchorite Well (Kendal) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 21st Jun 2022 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Anchorite Well, Kendal: a short-ish walk from Trinity Church (Kendal Parish Church), through a modern housing estate. The roads have some interesting names: Buttery Well Road (couldn't find the well, though), Mint Cake Cottages and Kirkbarrow.
The well was easily spotted as there is a large gree... Read More |
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| St Peter's Church (Heversham) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 21st Jun 2022 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Peter's Church, Heversham: A lovely little village, but so very full of builders with loud radios, which there was no avoiding.
Inside the church was quiet, but a number of other visitors who came and went. We looked at the cross shaft (and the very old south door) in the south porch, and eas... Read More |
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| The Kendal Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 21st Jun 2022 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Kendal Cross: located on a window sill in the Lady Chapel (east end of south aisle) in the Parish Church of Kendal, Holy Trinity.
The fragment was sited in strong sunlight at the time of our visit, so difficult to photograph.
Such a huge church, apparently the widest in Cumbria, and also t... Read More |
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| Ladye Well (Terregles) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Couldn't find | 6th Jun 2022 | 1 | Ladye Well, Terregles: Armed with the OS map and a description from “Saints in Scottish Place-Names”, we went back (after many, many years) to Terregles. This well is on private ground, so I found myself chatting to a lady who was gardening just opposite the village hall about how we might be a... Read More |
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| Brow Well (Ruthwell) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Jun 2022 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Brow Well (Ruthwell): Having escaped the noisy builders across the road, we decided on the spur of the moment to visit the Brow Well, as it’s only about half an hour’s drive away. We bombed off up the M6, turned off onto the A75 at Gretna, turned off down a side road which turned left at NY 137... Read More |
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| Finglandrigg Spa Well (Chalybeate) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 4th Jun 2022 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Finglandrigg Spa Well: A very pleasant walk through this nature reserve, although the well is not where the published map says it is. In the end, we walked round and round, then tried to find a spot with a phone signal so we could find a rough grid reference, which we acquired from the Old Cumbria ... Read More |
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| Hyssop Holme Well (Carlisle) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 4th Jun 2022 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Hyssop Holme Well (Carlisle): A very pleasant, short walk down slope to this well house, the sound of wood on willow from the nearby Cricket Ground accompanying our steps. Am trying to trace the Antiquarian history books which mention this site, as I'm trying to ascertain if the well predates the 18... Read More |
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| Homeacres Holy Well (Stanwix) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jan 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Homeacres Holy Well, Rickerby Park, Carlisle: We just about had time to stop off and find this well on our way home. Parking by the lawn tennis club just down the road, we walked to see what we thought was the stump of an old cross at approx. NY 40142 56900, but it turned out to be the stump of an ... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Stone and Well (Waverbridge) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Jun 2020 | 2 | 3 | 4 | St Cuthbert's Stone & Well: We were making our first (and only for a long time) essential trip out, and passed within 400m of this well, so screeched to a halt at the entrance to the track (Watergate Lonning) at its junction with the B5302 at NY 21277 49139, and took our daily exercise walking down ... Read More |
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| Fairy Well (Aikton) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Jun 2020 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Fairy Well (Aikton): just after lockdown rules were relaxed marginally, and it was possible to travel short distances for reasons other than work or exercise, we needed to travel very near to Aikton, so took a short detour to try and find this well. There were plenty of walkers and other cars, but,... Read More |
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| Hallrigg Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Saw from a distance | 28th May 2022 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Hallrigg Standing Stone, Plumpton: The nearest we could get was the very back (staff only area) of the Pot Place Car Park, and we asked permission to take this photograph from the member of staff working in this area.
We did try numerous other ways to get closer to the standing stone, but couldn'... Read More |
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| Dumfries Museum | Museum | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th May 2022 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Dumfries Museum: We parked on Whitesands, and walked over the Nith by the Old Bridge, to the NW, then turned left to the Robbie Burns House, then up the hill to the Museum and Camera Obscura.
We lived in Dumfries and Lockerbie between 1992 and 2002, but for some reason had never visited the museu... Read More |
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| Moor Divock Cairn | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th May 2022 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Moor Divock Cairn - Query: We, too, found this feature, just to the right hand side of the main bridleway/footpath leading towards White Raise Cairn. I photographed it, just in case it was documented on what used to be Pastscape, or Historic England. Some 70m to the north west of Moor Divock 3/Ask... Read More |
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| Cop Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th May 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Cop Stone, Askham Fell: Our second visit to this area, which has a wealth of archaeological sites, and reminds me very much of Dartmoor (in places). The weather was gloriously hot, and with many other walkers on the moor, we joined the row of cars parked by the side of the road at around NY 495... Read More |
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| Askham Fell Cairn Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th May 2022 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Askham Fell Cairn and stone row: Using M. Waistell Taylor's Antiquarian paper from 1885, plus Sandy Gerrard's notes from the Stone Rows of Great Britain, we parked at the end of a row of cars at the junction of the single track road and the footpath which runs across it, near the Cop Stone. We set o... Read More |
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| Bloch Well (Langholm) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 26th Aug 2021 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Bloch Well (Langholm): Described as a "dubious holy well" by J.R. Walker in 1883, now completely ruined. Not been able to find out anything much about this well, apart from its' brief Canmore entry, and a mention that the well is sulphurous, although there was no smell of sulphur at the time of our... Read More |
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| Holy Well (Stonehaugh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 15th Aug 2021 | Holy Well (Stonehaugh): We last tried to find this well on 30th June 2014, but failed, despite being directed by a local farmer and his dog, Meg. On this occasion, the steep path down the gorge was very slippery, with wet, knee high grass along the path, and quite dangerous, so we gave up, determin... Read More |
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| Hetherington (Wark) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hetherington (Wark): Homestead, built on top of an Iron Age Settlement. Lovely spot, and well worth exploring. | ||
| Hetherington (Wark) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Aug 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hetherington (Wark): Our second visit to this site, the first being on 25th May 2017, but I forgotten all about it! A lovely site, and pleasant to explore on a sunny afternoon. Didn't realise that this site has been excavated twice, once in 1957, and again in 1972-73, so must try and find the exca... Read More |
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| Crag Well (Bellingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Aug 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Crag Well, Bellingham: Not been able to find out anything much about this well, apart from reading a blog which since seems to have disappeared. Is there a tradition of church services being held next to this well, as the blog said? Will keep researching, but a very pretty spot, well worth visiting... Read More |
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| All Saints (Bradbourne) | Ancient Cross | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | All Saints, Bradbourne: Our last visit of this holiday. We had a very 'interesting' journey to Bradbourne, as the police had closed off the main road and routed all traffic down some very minor, single track roads, in which traffic was trying to move in both directions, and not succeeding, which wa... Read More |
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| Hands Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Hands Well, Tissington: The sixth, and final, well marked on the Tissington village leaflet map, and looked like a large, stone cotton-reel. As we approached it, some people were dipping their hands into the water. There was no flow of water into the basin, although the water appeared fresh and cl... Read More |
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| Children's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Children's Well, Tissington: The fifth well we visited in the village, and easy to spot. Not recorded on HE or HERR. The basin within the well head was slightly muddy and dry, but looking over the dry stone wall, there is a boggy area of ground, which is where the water appears to rise, and a ston... Read More |
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| Coffin Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Coffin Well, Tissington: Finding this well was pretty tricky, as even with the leaflet showing the location of all the wells in Tissington, we walked up and down, and down and up a lane called 'The Foot'. Eventually, I realised that whoever was in the cottage had parked their car right across the f... Read More |
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| Town Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Town Well, Tissington: Our third well out of the six in the village. From Yew Tree Well, we headed east along The Green, past the pond (which had very cute young ducklings being taught to swim by their parents). The well is just to your left hand side at the far side of the green. | 170 | 3 |
| Yew Tree Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 16th Jul 2021 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Yew Tree Well, Tissington: The second well of the day. We walked down The Street from Hall Well (with the cafe to our right hand side and church to our left), turning left into Narlow Street. This well is almost at the entrance to the Candle Workshop, underneath a tall, but relatively young Yew Tree... Read More |
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| Hall Well (Tissington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 15th Jul 2021 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Hall Well, Tissington: We have been to Tissington before, on a Well Dressing weekend, a long, long time ago (about 38 years!), but because of the sheer number of visitors and really only interested in seeing the church, we took a quick look around only. This time, we walked round to see the wells i... Read More |
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| Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Powys | Couldn't find | 15th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | Crossfoot Farm Standing Stone: We tried to find this stone, and even hopped across the gate into the field which the OS map shows it in, but no standing stone was visible.
The field is next to a building site and it looks as if the field was being used to store both materials and rubble, making t... Read More |
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| St Julian's Well (Ludlow) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Shropshire | Visited | 15th Jul 2021 | 3 | 5 | St Julian's Well, Ludlow: Last stop of the day before collecting our car from the garage and driving back to the holiday cottage, then home tomorrow. The well was deep in dappled shade, it being late afternoon on a hot, sunny day. We parked just south west of the well, at the side of Livesey Road.... Read More |
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| St Milburga's Well (Stoke St Milborough) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Shropshire | Visited | 15th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Milburga's Well, Stoke St Milborough: We visited the church first of all, and whilst some of the church dates from the 13th century, there was little of this in evidence, the fabric having been restored in Victorian times. The church had been left open, so we looked inside, but not much of note,... Read More |
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| St John the Baptist (Hope Bagot) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Shropshire | Visited | 15th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St John The Baptist, Hope Bagot: We parked in the village hall car park, about the only place in the village we could leave the car, as the lanes here were so narrow. The church was very difficult to spot from the road, but thankfully, a sign in the village hall car park pointed us up some steps, ... Read More |
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| Luston Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 14th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Luston Holy Well: This well is not shown on the HE map search, or listed on the HE Research Records or Herefordshire SMR. It is located at the corner of the B4361 and Eye Lane.
We parked on Townsend Park, opposite the well and walked across the road.
There is a plaque on the north eastern cor... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Presteigne) | Ancient Cross | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Andrew's Churchyard Cross, Presteigne: From the Kinnerton Standing Stone, we drove into New Radnor to try and get some lunch, only to find all the shops, pubs and cafe all shut down, which meant driving onto Presteigne. Andrew was keen to see the c1510 AD Flemish tapestry in the church, but as ... Read More |
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| Kinnerton | Standing Stones | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Kinnerton Court Standing Stones: We'd walked up into the village first, to see if we could locate the old village wells, but were unsuccessful, as they seemed to have been incorporated into the modern water supply or dried up and disappeared. We did walk up to the Kinnerton Castle Mound, which is ... Read More |
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| Crossfield Lane Barrow (Kinnerton) | Round Barrow(s) | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Jul 2021 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Crossfield Lane Barrow, near Kinnerton: as this was marked on the OS map, and on our way to Kinnerton, we quickly parked in the field entrance (which was put to pasture) and walked a little way along the edge of the field to take a closer look.
The barrow has been largely lost to ploughing, but a... Read More |
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| Four Stones (Powys) | Stone Circle | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Aug 2021 | 3 | 4 | Four Stones (Powys): Well worth the stop to see this four-poster. We parked at SO 24562 60871, opposite a small, but complicated road junction, where there was plenty of room for tractors and cars to pass, and walked back to the field.
My first reaction was: "Is this the right place?" on walking... Read More |
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| Harpton Round Barrows | Round Barrow(s) | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Aug 2021 | 2 | 4 | Harpton Round Barrows: Not the most exciting of stops, but interesting, never-the-less. Andrew did try and find the nearby Castle Nimble, but the only access seemed to be through private farmland, and as we didn’t want to trespass, gave up and went onto the more exciting four-poster stone circle. | 168 | 2 | |
| Old Radnor Church | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Powys | Visited | 14th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Old Radnor Church: Whilst we went to have a look at the standing stone, we spent ages walking around the church, enjoying the peace and quiet and the carvings.
Whilst I was excited to see the standing stone, I was immediately disappointed by the memorial carving on it. This is very reminiscent... Read More |
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| Higgin's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 13th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Higgins's Well, Little Birch: We parked outside the church (St Mary's) and walked down the lane towards the well. We could hear water running in the distance, so followed our ears.
A very small stream runs downhill behind the well from Athelstan's Wood currently appearing to flow both into the ... Read More |
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| Kilpeck church | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 13th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilpeck Church and Castle: Our second church of the day, and I was delighted to find this open. Again, there was a steady stream of visitors, many of whom had a quick look in the church then walked round the outside to look at the corbels and gargoyles.
I bought a book about the church, largely ... Read More |
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| Arthur's Stone | Chambered Tomb | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 13th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Arthur's Stone: This was a really weird visit. No sooner had we parked in the small layby next to the stone's enclosure, and I'd started to take photographs, than a lady walked along the lane, right into the enclosure, sat down and started to have a picnic, so she was prominent in all the photograp... Read More |
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| Bredwardine Church | Carving | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 13th Jul 2021 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Brewardine Church (St Andrew's): A very pretty church, in a lovely setting, and we were very surprised to not only find it open, but a number of other visitors came and went whilst we were there.
There is parking for a number of car in the small lane that runs up to the church, although most of... Read More |
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| Pen Y Beacon | Stone Circle | Wales | Powys | Visited | 12th Jul 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Blaenau Stone Circle (remains of): At first view, there was only one standing stone here, immediately adjacent to the car park park, where people were picnicking in their cars and rubbish all around. Rather than there being a footpath, it was a short walk across the grass to the standing stone.
... Read More |
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| Twyn-Y-Beddau | Round Barrow(s) | Wales | Powys | Visited | 12th Jul 2021 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Twyn-y-Beddau: This round barrow is right next to the road, although with the twin tyre tracks leading up and over it, it could be mistaken for part of a 4 x 4 obstacle course, which some idiots presumably have been using it for, hence the stones placed on top.
A lovely evening, with paragliders ... Read More |
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| Neuadd-Glan-Gwy | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Powys | Visited | 12th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Neuadd Glan-Gwy Standing Stone: At first glance, this stone didn't seem very far off the footpath. We couldn't find anyone at the houses at the start of the footpath to ask permission from, so we thought as long as we kept to the very edge of the field of pasture, we would be OK.
The stone is ... Read More |
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| Ffynnon Gynydd | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Wales | Powys | Visited | 12th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ffynnon Gynydd/St Cynidr's Well: On the way to this well, we stopped at an earthwork/enclosure just south west of Llowes, on Bryn yr Hydd Common, at SO 17808 41972, but the vegetation, trees and bracken were so high, it was virtually impossible to make out any structures.
But, at last, a site we ... Read More |
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| St Maelog's Cross | Ancient Cross | Wales | Powys | Saw from a distance | 12th Jul 2021 | St Maelog's Cross: Despite being told the church was open, and going armed with masks and hand sanitiser, the door was very firmly locked. We could see the back of the cross through the windows at the north western corner of the church, but it was impossible to photograph through the tiny, dirty pa... Read More |
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| The Monk's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Wales | Powys | Couldn't find | 12th Jul 2021 | Monk's Well, Clyro: Despite having the grid reference and the Coflein information, we were unable to find this well, which appears to be on private land. | 167 | 2 | |||
| St Michael's Church (Kingsland) | Ancient Cross | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 11th Jul 2021 | 3 | 4 | St Michael's Churchyard Cross plus Motte and Bailey: This is the church my son and DIL should have been married in over a year ago, but thanks to Covid, then urgent roof replacement works, the wedding was moved to Aymestrey. Lovely church (from what we could see of it behind the scaffolding, almost... Read More |
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| Clyro Court | Chambered Tomb | Wales | Powys | Saw from a distance | 12th Jul 2021 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Clyro Court Chambered Tomb: This tomb, marked on the OS map, lies on private ground behind a cottage. There was no one at home in the cottage, and the gates into the field had been padlocked with the largest padlocks and chains I've seen in a long time! We had to content ourselves with finding a v... Read More |
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| St John the Baptist and St Alkmund (Aymestrey) | Ancient Cross | England | Herefordshire | Visited | 9th Jul 2021 | 4 | 4 | Churchyard Cross (Aymestrey): We were here for my son and DIL's wedding rehearsal, but I was also very keen to get out into the churchyard to photograph this cross before dusk fell. Whilst the cross is medieval, Beaker burials have been found nearby, and I'm doing further research on the church to f... Read More |
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| Crunzierton Wood Scooped Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th Jun 2021 | 2 | 4 | Crunzierton Wood Scooped Settlement: I found the 'scramble' up the steep, leaf covered slope to reach the settlement a little bit of a challenge, and rather than slide back down, we came back down on what had been a forestry track (now ruined by recent harvesting) on the north eastern side of the se... Read More |
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| Moffat Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th Jun 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Moffat Sulphur Well: I've described this location as 'good' because, as the well house itself is neglected and run down, the scenery around it is very pretty, and we enjoyed our visit.
Approaching the well from the small car park (having tripped over the low lying fence wire suspended 2 inches ... Read More |
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| Skip Knowe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th Jun 2021 | 3 | 4 | Skip Knowe Standing Stone, Gateside: Our fourth stop of the day, after having investigated Hodge Wells and Springs at NY 10960 95700 [not recorded here, as this is neither a holy well or sacred springs]. I've said this is Access: 4, when you can actually park on the grass verge right by the stone, ... Read More |
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| Chapman's Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th Jun 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Chapman's Stone: Again, our second stop of the day, and I'd remembered wrongly there was a stile which allowed access to the field with this stone in. Rather, the stone acts as a stile, although the height of the fence and the barbed wire at the top stopped us from hopping over; neither could we fi... Read More |
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| Poldean menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 25th Jun 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Poldean menhir: Re-visited this stone whilst in the Moffat area. Not much has changed, except the weeds have been allowed to grow high around the stone. The area around its base has been heavily trampled, and was difficult to walk across. Two VERY large, very handsome bulls in the field of pastur... Read More |
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| Eddybroth Well (Whittle Dene) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jun 2021 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Eddybroth Well and Dean Head Well, Whittle Dene: A lovely walk along St Andrew's Lane from Ovington, then down (and across) Whittle Burn, and along leafy, shady paths which follow the side of the Burn. A lovely managed woodland, complete with small wooden chalets that were being well used in this w... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Well (Ovington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jun 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 | St Andrew's Well, Ovington: Parking in Ovington village by the old red phone box (now the Village Information Centre), it was a very pleasant walk along St Andrew's Lane to find this well, now no longer shown on the OS maps, but still very much there.
We carried on towards Whittle Dene, another g... Read More |
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| Entry Well (Ovington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th Jun 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Entry Well, Ovington: A pleasant walk on a warm, sunny Sunday evening, trying to destress before the builders arrive next door tomorrow. Not expecting to find anything at this site, we were surprised by the remaining, and still visible structure here. Not been able to find out anything much about ... Read More |
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| Ings Well (Mickley) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ings Well & Spring, Mickley (North Yorkshire): Our last stop of the day, and what a pretty site, with an easy walk down the Ripon Rowel Way from Mickley village. Note: there was a very rickety stile to cross as you entered the field at SE 25833 77052 (the top step was like a see-saw, although climb... Read More |
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| Billey Keld | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Billey Keld Well, Grewelthorpe: With some very lively bullocks in the field, we decided not to venture into the field through the gate to look at well. However, we managed to see some of the structure from the roadside.
A local lady walking her dog stopped to talk to us and say she remembers vis... Read More |
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| Skew Skell Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 2 | 4 | Skew Skell Well, Ilton: We parked at SE 18823 78010, and walked NW down the slope with GPS in hand to find this well. It is in a small, rectangular area (to our right hand side) defined by a the stone walls forming an enclosure open at its south-western side, presumably to accommodate, and allow ac... Read More |
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| Berry Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | Berry Well, Swinton Park Hotel: After St Michael's Well in Well, we stopped off in Masham for refreshments, stopping to photograph the water troughs/Renton Well in Masham before setting off to find Berry Well.
We parked at SE 21443 79735, just to the south of the hotel lodge gates. As I stepped ... Read More |
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| St Michael's Church (Well) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross Base, St Michael's Church, Well: Our second stop of the day, arriving in glorious sunshine. Parking is available immediately outside the lych gate, and along Church Street. The HE record led me expect a 3m tall cross shaft, but this had been broken off, with no sign of it lying anywhere clos... Read More |
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| St Michael's Well (Well) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Michael's Well, Well: Our third stop of the day, driving west out of Well village, up a shady, pretty single track road with trees on either side. With little/no traffic on this road, we pulled into the passing place/small layby immediately opposite the well. At first, I didn't think anything w... Read More |
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| Lady Well (Kirklington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 31st May 2021 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Lady Well (Kirklington): our first site, in our first day out for 15 months. What a delightful location, although a shame the well house itself is crumbling and full of rubbish.
With the site of the deserted medieval village of Yarnwick in the same field, and to the north of, the well, it was a ... Read More |
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| Easington Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 19th Mar 2020 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Easington Hogbacks and A-S stone fragments: We had already seen the cross base in the churchyard, but arranged with the Reverend Danny Walker to revisit when the church was open. He was there with a very knowledgeable churchwarden (with his two wonderful dogs) to move some furniture around so they ... Read More |
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| St Oswald's Church (Lythe) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 3 | 5 | 4 | St Oswald's Church, Lythe: Our first stop of the day, and one I was very much looking forward to. Parking is available in the small lane to the west of the church (just off the A174 Lythe Lane). A notice put up by the farmer asked cars to park on one side of the lane only, so they had continuous acc... Read More |
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| Three Crosses Well (Boulby) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Three Crosses Well, Boulby: Parked outside the holiday cottages (there was a large layby just down the road). Originally followed the footpath sign, which took us down a steep bank, but Andrew found a farm track a little further along the south side of the A174, laid through a new area planted with ... Read More |
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| Easington Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Easington Cross Base: The cross base is recorded as HE 1011970 and as Pastscape 1583425. Pastscape 29031 tells us there are "nine Saxon stone fragments [in the basement] at (the) Church of All Saints", although my attempts to contact the vicar by telephone and email have not been successful. I did... Read More |
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| Hinderwell Cross Head | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Hinderwell Cross Head, St Hilda's Church: Whilst the church itself is well kept and nicely presented, this cross head is tucked away in the foyer of the church, at the bottom of the stairwell leading to the gallery/organ.
After photographing the well, we wandered up to the church, finding it... Read More |
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| St Hilda's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Hilda's Well, Hinderwell: We parked just past the church in a small layby next to the A174 Hinderwell Lane, at NZ 79018 17137, as the road running past the church was very narrow. Having driven past the church to find somewhere to park, we came across a gated access with a plaque saying ‘St Hi... Read More |
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| Wades Stone (South) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Saw from a distance | 4th Mar 2020 | Wades Stone (South): As per our last visit, we were unable to find anyone to ask at the now Council Depot (not the Outdoor Centre as marked on the map), and couldn't see any field access into the field containing the stone, either from the corner of East Barnby Lane and the A171 (at NZ 82845 13203),... Read More |
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| Wades Stone (North) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 4th Mar 2020 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Wade's Standing Stone (North), Brockrigg: We must have completely forgotten we'd visited this stone before, as neither of us recognised either the road or the lane leading up to the stone. However, we walked up the lane towards the farm, and followed the tractor tyre tracks up to the stone to avoid... Read More |
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| Caulks Well (Selkirk) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Caulks Well, Selkirk Hill: No mention on Canmore.
We parked in a small layby at NT 47734 27869, which had been largely used for dumping road repair materials, then crossed to the northern side of the A699 and walked up (North East) to the Borders Abbey Way, and followed the track some 150 metres ... Read More |
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| Tamlane's Well (Carterhaugh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Tamlane's Well, Carterhaugh: A delightful spot, next to the single track B7039, parts of which aren’t terribly well defined (and we ended up in a very large farmyard, having taken a wrong turn!). The well is located right by the road, in a small grassy area just to the south of a large set of the ... Read More |
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| Crystal Well (Benrig) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Crystal Well and Mule Gang, Benrig: We retraced our steps along the road from Hier Well almost to the wooden bridge, then turned north and followed a track through the woodland between a bank on our left hand side and the River Tweed on our right.
What looked like lime kilns came into view, altho... Read More |
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| Hier Well (Benrig) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Feb 2020 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Hier Well, Benrigg/Maxton: We first tried to get here by following St Cuthbert’s Way from the cemetery/old chapel ruins at Benrig, but there was a steep drop down to the river below on one side, and the path was muddy and slippery. Andrew said a set of steps down to the Crystal Well were too stee... Read More |
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| Edinburgh Runestone | Carving | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 18th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | Edinburgh Runestone, George's Square: A friend very kindly told me this stone has now been relocated, although it is still in the process of being bedded into its new spot, with the concrete shuttering still around its base.
The red cross on the eastern narrow side of the stone has now been picke... Read More |
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| St Mary Magdalene (Hart) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | County Durham | Visited | 5th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Mary Magdalene, Hart: From the exterior of the building, I did not expect to 'walk back in time' into this splendid parish church. Such a sense of history, and what fragments of sculptured stones - a real treat. The church was only open for an hour on Wednesdays, between 3pm and 4pm at this time... Read More |
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| St Hilda's Wayside Cross (Hartlepool) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 5th Feb 2020 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Wayside Cross base outside St Hilda's Church: I spotted this more by accident than design, and photographed it, before we rushed off to the old Gray Art Gallery and Museum site to try and track down its old site. We couldn't find it where the grid reference placed it. A worker from the now office ... Read More |
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| St Hilda's Church (Hartlepool) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | County Durham | Visited | 5th Feb 2020 | 4 | 4 | 4 | St Hilda's, the Headland, Hartlepool: What a magnificent building, with its collection of huge flying buttresses supporting the external walls of the tower. Inside, it is more like a mini-cathedral than a parish church.
We had the pleasure of being greeted by Mr. John Hogg, parishioner with res... Read More |
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| Pocklington's Druid Stone | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Jan 2020 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Pockington's Druid Stone at the Bowder Stone: A short distance from the Bowder Stone, almost hidden from sight by a small cottage, this 'modern' monolith stands on top of a rocky outcrop high above the road below. At first, I thought it might be a memorial, as there appeared to be writing on the sto... Read More |
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| Bowder Stone | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Jan 2020 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Bowder Stone, Borrowdale: We parked in the car park (there is a small charge) and walked the quarter of a mile to this enormous boulder. The last time we came here, some time ago, we walked through the quarry and I remember photographing all the old tree roots emerging from the rock and forming... Read More |
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| Borrowdale Stone Monument | Standing Stones | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Jan 2020 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Borrowdale Yews and the possible stone monument: Our first trip out for several months, and a way of escaping the windy and wet weather here in Northumberland. However, we arrived in a Cumbria that had experienced very heavy rain over recent days, and the small stream were swollen and many of the ro... Read More |
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| St Nicholas's Cathedral (Newcastle) | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 16th Oct 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 | St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle: I'd arranged with one of the vergers, James, to meet him at noon on 16th October to be allowed down into the vault below the south transept to see the cross slabs now stored down there.
The space is now used as a chair store, with a scissor lift at its souther... Read More |
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| St Nicholas's Cathedral (Newcastle) | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 6th Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Nicholas's Cathedral, Newcastle: We went to photograph the four cross slabs recorded by Ryder in St Margaret's Chapel, plus two others - one in the western of the three tomb recesses in the south wall of the south aisle; the other in the south wall of the south transept, at its eastern end.
I'... Read More |
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| Girth Cross (Canongate) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 1st Oct 2019 | -1 | 3 | 5 | Site of the Girth Cross, Canongate: Again, we picked this location up from the Treasure Trail, after Clue 15, there is a ‘Did you know?’ box which reads: “Where Canongate meets Abbeyhill look out for the circle of cobbles. This is the site of the ‘Old Girth Cross’ where proclamations and e... Read More |
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| Canongate Mercat Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 1st Oct 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Canongate Mercat Cross: Again, we found this cross by chance by following the clues on the "Old Edinburgh Town" Treasure Trail, whilst looking for the answers to two clues within the churchyard. I am sure I annoyed my friend by stopping to photograph all the sites of ancient crosses and wells that w... Read More |
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| Thimbleby Nine Stones | Standing Stones | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Jun 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Nine Stones Stone Row, near Osmotherley, North Yorkshire: Having added a few of the Stone Rows of Great Britain sites on the Portal, and needing to go down to Thirsk it was too much of a temptation to resist visiting one or two of the North Yorkshire sites. With only a 3 hour window before having t... Read More |
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| West Wykes Farm Tau and Latin Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | West Wyke Tau and Latin Crosses: The lane to West Wyke farm and the houses here is marked private, so we parked at the viewpoint at SX 65298 93020 and walked the 600m or so up the lane - a very pleasant walk in the evening sunshine.
Despite taking the HE and Pastcape printouts with us, I didn't... Read More |
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| West Wyke Farm Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | West Wyke Farm Cross: This cross is not recorded on Pastscape or Historic England, so we didn't expect to see it here. It looks relatively modern, like a small rounded-headed grave marker such as we saw in St Mary's in Belstone. It sits quietly by the entrance to the farm buildings, north of the t... Read More |
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| St John's Cross (Canongate) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 1st Oct 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | St John's Cross, Edinburgh (site of): The site of this cross was one of the clues (no. 6) on the 'Treasure Trail' map for the Old Town Trail. The markings for this cross were very faint indeed. I only recognised the spot by the circle of bricks in the road, as I’d seen similar features before. Th... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Bywell) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 10th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Andrew's Church, Bywell: Living only a few miles from here and having visited, and taken friends there, many times over the years, it seemed remiss not to go down and photograph the wonderful collection of medieval cross slabs built into the fabric of this ancient church. Armed with Peter Ryder's... Read More |
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| St Peter's (Bywell) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Peter's, Bywell: Having photographed the cross slabs at St. Andrew's on 10th September 2019, we walked down to St Peter's to try and photograph the slabs Peter Ryder has recorded here. Unfortunately, the church was locked, so we photographed the few slabs on the outside of the building, returnin... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Corbridge) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St. Andrew's Church, Corbridge: We returned to this beautiful church, right in the heart of Corbridge, with Peter Ryder's list of medieval grave slabs. Not to be confused with St. Andrew's, Bywell, about 6 miles away.
Always a draw for visitors, this is a peaceful and thought provoking church. ... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Corbridge) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 16th Mar 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Andrew's Church, Corbridge: My first proper visit to this church to find, and photograph, the Anglo Saxon cross fragments and grave markers in the south transept. What a beautiful church. | ||
| Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens | Museum | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 20th Sep 2019 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Sunderland Museum: Despite having been here for many meetings and conferences over the years, I've never wandered around this museum - a series of permanent and special displays in themed rooms off the main corridor leading from the main entrance/gift shop to the cafeteria.
Having spent longer th... Read More |
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| St Peter's Church (Monkwearmouth) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 20th Sep 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | St Peter's Church (Monkwearmouth): This trip was made largely thanks to coming across Guy Points' "Gazetteer of Anglo Saxon and Viking Sites: County Durham and Northumberland" (2012), as we hadn't really appreciated what was here. Our intention was to visit St Peter's, go to Sunderland Minster, the... Read More |
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| Old Viney Museum (Corbridge) | Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Old Viney Museum, Corbridge: [Photographed the Prince's Street Pant at the corner of the road prior to walking up Appletree Lane.] We had long sought out the location of this museum, where we knew some of the stones recorded on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture were built into its walls.... Read More |
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| Bywell Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 10th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Bywell Cross: Considering we live less than a couple of miles from here, and we regularly pop down to walk around here, I've never really stopped to photograph the cross here. Having decided to photograph the medieval cross slabs in St Andrew's church, I got the camera out, only to find another vis... Read More |
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| Corbridge Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Corbridge Market Crosses: This is our local village, with some excellent shops, but apart from the church, I've never actually stopped to photograph any of the crosses or the Vicar's Pele. We decided to remedy that today, although with it being a Sunday, I tried to get a photograph of the new marke... Read More |
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| St Mary the Virgin (Blanchland) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Churchyard Cross, Blanchland: The grid reference given by Pastscape is incorrect; theirs places it on moorland to the north west of the village. The cross is at NY 96598 50408.
Blanchland is a relatively remote, but really lovely medieval village, near the border with County Durham. The site of... Read More |
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| Old Prior Manor House Well (Corbridge) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Sep 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | We have driven past this well so many times and said “we need to stop and photograph this” and today we did. I thought it was just a hollow in the wall, with a dry pipe coming through the wall, but no, it is a real well, with water, although no water flowed through the pipe and the water was st... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Corsenside) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross base at St Cuthbert's, Corsenside: This church is a little gem. After having let ourselves in through 2 gates (one by the A68, the other near the church), the views around the church are lovely. The church was open, and we were surprised to find out how old the chancel and sanctuary are. Ther... Read More |
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| Cale Cross (Newcastle) | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 7th Sep 2019 | -1 | 3 | 5 | Site of Cale Cross (Newcastle): The plaque commemorating this cross is attached the eastern wall of what I think is 3, Akenside Hill (or possibly Akenside House), on the Quayside, just to the west of the A167 where it is about to go south over the Tyne Bridge, and just north-north-east of the Swing ... Read More |
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| White Cross (Newcastle) | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 7th Sep 2019 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Site of the White Cross (Newcastle): Having typed 'Cross' and 'Newcastle' into Pastscape, I was surprised to find two crosses come up. So, armed with my GPS I set off to try and find these sites.
This cross used to be located at the corner of Newgate Street and Low Friar Street, north west of th... Read More |
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| Seal Well (Hexham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Seal/Sele Well, Hexham: Walking into a part of Hexham we’d never been to before, we came across the Cock Shaw Burn which runs SW-NE along the western side of the Sele. We passed a gloriously ornate drinking fountain (now dry) next to the southern side of the school, right next to the footpath.... Read More |
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| Eastern Sanctuary Cross (Hexham) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2019 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Eastern Sanctuary Cross of Hexham Priory (or just the top of a gate post??): We stopped to photograph the scheduled Glover's Pant before making our way to the eastern side of Hexham. We were incredibly surprised to find this cross base, which we’ve looked for before, but at the old grid reference.... Read More |
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| Crag House Cross Base | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Crag House Cross Base, north of Acomb: There have been many times I’ve done a search for sites to visit in this area, but found nothing. Now, having recently done a search for holy wells near Hexham, this cross base appeared on the list. Not only was it on Pastscape, but it was also scheduled on H... Read More |
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| Sanctuary Stone (Greystoke) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Greystoke Sanctuary Stone: We didn't know this stone was here until I read the church guide book as we walked around the church. There is also a plaque stone somewhere, but we'd almost run out of time today. This stone was disappointing, as it wasn't visible underneath a dense covering of nettles a... Read More |
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| Greystoke Village Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Greystoke Village Cross: We've been to this area before, on the hunt for the possible Newbeggin Stone Rows, but never driven into this very pretty little village. We left this until the last stop of the day (just before the rain started to hurl down), after having seen the Eyekeld Well, the village ... Read More |
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| Hunterian Museum | Museum | Scotland | North Lanarkshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2019 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Hunterian Museum: A (very) rainy day in Glasgow stopped us from going out on my 'well hunt', so we found our way to the Hunterian Museum, which I've always wanted to visit. The displays were nicely done, although the museum as a whole was a lot smaller than I anticipated.
I found the display on... Read More |
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| Eye Keld Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Eyekeld Well, Greystoke: On the eastern side of the B5288 Icold Road which runs south from the village centre. The spring is only visible by peering over the dry stone wall, and the channel is covered with weeds and bracken, although there is a plentiful supply of water running from it, judging by t... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Well (Clifton) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St Cuthbert's Well (or Kelter Well), Clifton: The enclosure for this well is to the western side of the A6, towards the southern end of Clifton village. In some ways, this well is very disappointing, as the grid over it does not allow you to see very much, apart from some stone steps leading down t... Read More |
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| Wetheral Village Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Wetheral Village Cross: a very pretty village. The steps and shaft of this cross are relatively modern, erected sometime between 1838 to 1844. The head of the cross is much weathered and appears older than the rest of the cross, although neither Pastscape nor Historic England mention this.
The ... Read More |
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| Gilsland Spa Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Gilsland Spa Well: From the hotel car park, we followed the signs for the Sulphur Spa, leading on a path with a steep drop to our right hand side down to the River Irthing below. The path winds round to the left, then splits just above the southern side of the footbridge across the river. Take the ... Read More |
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| St Anne's Well (Cotehill) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 27th Aug 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Anne's Well, Cotehill: We squeezed on the odd little road junction that led to a small, new housing development, under the footpath sign.
We followed the footpath sign, which led straight through someone’s garden. We got a bit lost at this point, as several tracks through the grass had been... Read More |
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| Gilsland Spa Sulphur Spring | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Couldn't find | 27th Aug 2019 | Gilsland Spa Sulphur Spring: We tried to find this well from both sides of the river. Continuing west along the river walk for about 20m, we found the path had been washed away, and not even husband-cum-mountain-goat Andrew felt comfortable walking this section of the river (he said it would have be... Read More |
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| Askrigg Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Askrigg Market Cross and Water Pump: It was dusk by the time we arrived back in Askrigg, and just as I started to take photographs, a large Tesco ‘click and collect’ van pulled up right next to the cross. Typical. With all the cars parked around what must have been the old village green, it wasn... Read More |
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| Casterton | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Casterton Stone Circle and Settlement: I found this walk VERY difficult once we were in the field containing the stone circle, largely due to the steepness of the slope, but mainly due to all the stones and boulders hidden under the turf. I did not enjoy this visit at all, despite having really wan... Read More |
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| Keld Bank Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Keld Bank Settlement: Sitting down in the sunshine, recording the photographs I’d taken for the Keld Bank Propped Stone, I picked up the OS map and realised there was a settlement here. In fact, where I’d chosen to sit, on the edge of a scar, was right on the eastern edge of it.
This settleme... Read More |
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| Keld Bank (Ingleborough) | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Keld Bank Propped Stone: We parked in the small car park for Great Douk Caves on the northern side of the B6255, Low Sleights Road, and began by following the footpath up to the caves, passing the lime kiln on the way. We then largely followed a quad bike track SSE up the slope to the first limeston... Read More |
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| Sleights Pasture Propped Stone | Rock Outcrop | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Sleights Pasture Propped Stone: We parked at SD 75081 78117, just beyond the cattle grid on this single-tracked public road (there is room for a couple of cars between the road and the stone wall) then along the very busy, and fast, B6255 Low Sleights Road, walking NE towards the Ribblehead Viaduct,... Read More |
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| Carperby Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Aug 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Carperby Cross: Not on our original schedule, we drove past this market cross and just had to turn back to take a closer look. Located on the village green in Carperby, which is a long, narrow, triangular strip of grass orientated SW-NE, the base or steps of the cross looked ancient, whereas the sh... Read More |
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| Coley's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 13th Jun 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Coley's Well, Colwell: There is a brick well house close to the houses/farm buildings to the west, although there is also a dry drinking trough/well basin which looked as if this was the original spot where the waters emerged. For a well that used to be called 'Bridal of Colwell' it is now very sadl... Read More |
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| Pricky's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 13th Jun 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Pricky's Well, Colwell: One of three wells in close proximity in Colwell village. This one sits right by the burn, but is now just a modern brick well house with a wooden door, used to storage some buckets and animal feed inside. | ||
| Hadrian's Wall (Coria) | Stone Fort or Dun | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Corbridge Roman Site: Having lived near here for over 10 years, we'd never visited. We came primarily to see the Corbridge Rock Art panel, but were equally as interested in the well preserved remains of this small fort/town, with great views over to modern-day Corbridge and the Tyne Valley. | ||
| Drizzlecombe row 3 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3: The last of the stone rows we visited today (although there was to be a minor, minor surprise at Yellowmead to end the afternoon). This surprising row, the same length as Row 1, and bends in the middle (it’s not straight).
We split the visit to this row into two; th... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe menhir 3 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Menhir 3: Again, I took this to be an integral part of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3, so I've swapped some of my photos to this site page. I've duplicated the trip/order number with row 3 to match my walk/photo journal. | 134 | 10 |
| Drizzlecombe menhir 1 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Menhir 1: I counted this pillar stone as part of the stone row, although Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks and Pastscape record it separately. I have switched some of my photographs over to this site page. Beautiful stone, and lovely location. | 134 | 5 |
| Drizzlecombe menhir 2 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Menhir 2: I took this to be an integral part of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 2, so have moved a couple of my photos over to this site page. | 134 | 7 |
| Drizzlecombe row 1 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe 1 Stone Row: Having been able to glimpse these stones rows as we walked across the moorland from Whittenknowles Rocks settlement, I couldn’t wait to see these rows at last. But, my goodness, what a richness and complexity of sites all in one small-ish area. I made careful notes thro... Read More |
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| High Moorland Visitor Centre | Museum | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Thornworthy Cist and Ter Hill Cross, Princetown National Park Visitor Centre: We had about 15 minutes before the centre closed on the Thursday, so we flew in with Dave Parks for me to see and photograph the Thornworthy Cist and the Ter Hill Cross. There was scaffolding around the back of the buildi... Read More |
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| Shovel Down row 2 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 2 with fallen standing stones: We enjoyed a much welcome lunch break at the two pillar stones at the head (southern end) of row 2. Angie got some photographs of Andy B sitting on the larger of the two pillars, and later I wished I’d have stood over her shoulder to get similar shots... Read More |
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| Three Boys | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 2 | 3 | Three Boys: This was our last stop of the three days, and a lot of a let-down as someone had very recently used this stone as a toilet and left a great deal of white toilet paper around it. Yeuk! I think Gordon and/or Dave may have reported this to the authorities to clear up.
After this, we wa... Read More |
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| Shovel Down row 6 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 6: Nothing is visible of this row now, although we walked down the line of the row to get to the Three Boys. | 135 | 15 |
| The Longstone (Shovel Down) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | The Longstone: A welcoming standing stone, very prominent in the landscape, sitting between rows 5 and 6. I had fun posing the group for photographs around the stone. | 135 | 14 |
| Shovel Down row 5 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 5: Having been a little mystified by trying to find Rows 3 and 1, and having to rely on Sandy G to point out a few of the ground-level small stones, to find this stone row, running towards the Longstone, was really good. Glorious views over to Kes Tor, although it was still a little... Read More |
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| Shovel Down row 1 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 1: My goodness, this row was difficult to spot! Thank goodness for Sandy’s patience, his wellington boots and his pole in pointing out a few of the stones! | 135 | 12 |
| Shovel Down stone circle | Stone Circle | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Shovel Down Stone Circle: Before we visited this site, I thought there would be nothing to see, but I was wrong. Whilst there are just three stones remaining, they appear to the eye to sit along the arc of a circle. However, the authenticity of this stone circle is queried by Pastscape.
The s... Read More |
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| Shovel Down row 3 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 3: To the west of stone row 2, and to the north of row 4, there was not much left to see of this row, which I tried to trace (without much success due to the high, tussocky grass on this part of the moor) as we walked down towards the stone circle.
Now writing up my photojournal, ... Read More |
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| Shovel Down Fourfold Circle | Stone Circle | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Shovel Down Fourfold Stone Circle: Again, so many monuments in such a short walk – but by now, I should have stopped being surprised! At Kes Tor, Sandy G had spotted AngieLake, who had arrived a little later than us at the car park, and who had wandered about looking for us. By this time, it was l... Read More |
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| Shovel Down row 4 | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 4: From Shovel Down Cairn Row 4, this row started just to the north west, the stones ‘marching’ steadily downhill. These stones were similar in size to the Drizzlecombe Stone Rows 1 & 2, but largely hidden in tall grass.
Whilst everyone else walked down to the Fourfold Stone C... Read More |
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| Shovel Down Cairn Row 4 | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Shovel Down Row 4 Cairn: Walking from Kes Tor across the moorland trackway, we came across this 'stony lump' at the top of a slope. Looking to my right (north), there was a double stone row running downslope at 90 degrees to the track. Only a small cairn, but interesting, particularly given its con... Read More |
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| St Ninian's Well (Brisco) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 17th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Ninian's Well, Brisco, Cumbria: From Carlatton Demesne Standing Stone, heading back onto the A69, we took the M6 to junction 42, then the third exit towards Durdar. Brisco (Briscoe according to Pastscape) is the first turn to the right. The village is a line of houses on both sides of the road.... Read More |
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| Kes Tor Cairn | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Kes Tor Cairn: As the group gathered around the western side of the tor, we saw what I initially thought was a tumble of smaller rocks from the side of the Tor, but as I walked around photographing it, thought it resembled a cairn. Walking back to join the group, Sandy and Dave were in conversation... Read More |
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| Kes Tor Rock Basin | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Kes Tor Outcrop: My fear of falling stopped me from going to the top of this amazing outcrop to see the rock basin (I saw another walker trip over and narrowly miss going over the edge whilst I was there), but I admired the outcrop from down below. I hope I can still tick this site off my Dartmoor l... Read More |
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| Kestor Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kestor Settlement (of which Round Pound is part of): Only across the road from the Round Pound, which I learned later was part of this settlement and not separate from it, as we walked up the slope to the east of Round Pound, I couldn’t believe the amount, and quality, of the structures that remai... Read More |
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| Modern Stone Circle near Kestor Rock | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Devon | Visited | 16th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Modern Stone Circle near Kestor Rock: As confirmed by the Dartefacts website, This stone circle is on land that used to the belong to Aid Edmundson and Jennifer Saunders. It is not recorded on Pastscape or Historic England.
The stone circle is on private land, but can be viewed over the fences t... Read More |
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| The Round Pound | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Round Pound Enclosure (part of the Kes Tor Settlement): For our first stop of the day, this was only a very short walk north-eastwards from the car park, and so visible from the single track road, I was left with open-mouthed and couldn’t wait to get over to this monument to take a closer look.
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| Yellowmead cairn | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Yellowmead Cairn: Whilst we started walking back to the car park, trying a different path mown through the grass, first running uphill then eastwards then south, we passed this cairn and stopped to take a closer look.
Whilst we were doing this, someone mentioned that the photo of the stone row on... Read More |
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| Yellowmead row | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Yellomead Stone Row: Without Sandy G and Dave P I would not have known this stone row was here at all. Dave and Gordon F disappeared into the long grass towards the south/south west of the circle to see if they could find any more stones. I focussed on trying to understand what I was seeing nearer... Read More |
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| Merrivale row 4 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale 4 stone row: Without Sandy G and Dave P’s guidance on this, I would probably have looked at these stones and not thought much about them, but in association with the other two short rows (5 and 6), the tall, impressive menhirs and the fallen stone and cairn nearby, it was a jumble to unp... Read More |
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| Merrivale 5 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale 5 stone row: I was getting really 'dazed and confused' about the different stone rows here and what I was photographing, so I asked Sandy, Dave and Andrew to each place a foot on or near each stone of this row! | 133 | 9 |
| Hadrian's Wall (Heddon on the Wall) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Section of Hadrian's Wall at Heddon-on-the-Wall: This well preserved section of the 'wide' wall can be found a few hundred metres to the east of the church, and comes as quite a surprise as I turned the corner from The Towne Gate, heading east.
There are some structures built into the body of the... Read More |
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| Merrivale Menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale Menhir: This tall stone made up for the small size of the stones of the stone circle, and I enjoyed visiting here. My goodness, with the three stone rows, the fallen menhirs, the cairn and the pits, it was certainly interesting here. I'd taken my notes for this site with me, but the wind... Read More |
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| Merrivale 6 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale 6 stone row: Only one stone was visible of this row, and thankfully we had Sandy G to point out the location of the row and the only stone of this very short row visible - the western most stone. So many features around the Merrivale Menhir. I'm really glad we had our guide for the day, an... Read More |
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| Merrivale Second Menhir and Cairn | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale Second Menhir, pit and cairn: All these monuments were so close together, it was a bit mind-boggling. I made sure I wrote down the monuments and the photo numbers so I didn't mix them up when I processed the photos later (the wind was still gusting strongly so we didn't get my folder with... Read More |
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| Black Tor (Meavy) | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Stanlake Stone Row (aka Black Tor): Our second stop of the afternoon, and our hope was that as we crossed the road and descended from the slopes that we'd be more sheltered from the wind. Not a chance! However, this did not spoil my enjoyment of the next few sites.
From the Leeden Tor stone row,... Read More |
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| Black Tor Stone Row Cairns (Stanlake) | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Black Tor, cairns at south-western end of the stone row: These cairns lie just to the south western end of the stone row, to the south of the field boundary containing the northern side of the stone row and just to the west of another field boundary which runs NNW-SSE. Whilst I vaguely recognised th... Read More |
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| Stanlake Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Stanlake Prehistoric Settlement: Walking down slope from the western end of the stone row, we soon came upon a very interesting, complex and intriguing mix of hut circles, dry stone walls and other features. I lagged behind the group a little, trying to determine what I was seeing as I saw it, but ... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe Brook | Marker Stone | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Brook 'Standing Stone': This stone was between the settlement an the tin works that Sandy showed us and I was hopeful of having spotted another monument on the moors not on today's list of sites to visit.
Not having a grid reference from the camera, we’ve tracked it down to one of ... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe Giant's Basin | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Giant's Basin and associated smaller cairns: Before we arrived at the stone rows, despite having printed off the Pastscape and Historic England entries for these sites, I hadn’t really got the full picture of how complex and interesting this area of Drizzlecombe was.
The Giant’s Basin, to the... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe Cist 6 | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Giant's Basin Cist (Drizzlecombe Cist 6): This cist was pointed out to me by Dave Parks and Sandy G, but I only seem to have one photograph of it, although I remember standing over it and taking photos from different angles. Perhaps I've got muddled up with all the other wonderful stone settings and... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe row 2 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe 2: Having three stone rows, their cairns, cists and longstones all in a very close proximity was quite stunning. As we walked up and down this row with Sandy G and the rest of the Intrepid Dartmoor Expedition Group, I was barely able to take it all in - so much to see and understand.
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| Drizzlecombe cairn 2 | Ring Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cairn 2: After a most satisfactory and pleasant morning, we sat at the edges of the cairns heading up rows 2 and 3 and had a quick lunch break. It really is an amazing spot, and so pleased to have visited, although correctly cataloguing my photos to the right site proved a little challe... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe cairn 3 | Ring Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cairn 3: cairn at the head of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3. The stone row is just offset from the centre of the cairn. Butler, in his "Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, page 138, says: "the third row descends from cairn 3 surrounded by an outer ring of slabs 8.6m across mostly in contact with... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe cairn 4 | Stone Circle | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cairn 4: I took photographs of all three cairns in a row, then one at a time. My notes indicate this is Drizzlecombe Cairn 4. This is the most northerly of the three cairns at the head of rows 2 and 3, but this cairn does not have a row descending from it. | 134 | 11 |
| Drizzlecombe cairn 13 | Cist | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cairn 13: Leaving the stone rows behind, we walked up slope and to the WNW. This is a beautiful example of a cairn with central cist. What is very noticeable about this cist is that the stones making up two of the sides projects outside the other two ends. Looking at the Butler diagram ... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe W row | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Drizzlecombe West Stone Row: Whilst Sandy G had our group here, he asked us all to help him have a look for this elusive stone row, and we were happy to help, which mentioned in Burl but not in Butler (I haven’t been able to find the mention in Burl, yet).
The others in the group had a far keen... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe Cairn 18 | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cairn 18: An enormous cairn, which rivals the Giant's Basin in size, so why there is so little information about it, I'm not sure. I managed to clamber up to the top of the cairn and have a look inside, where there is a hollow where it has been excavated. Built almost on top of one of t... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Settlements: After the stone rows, we move up-slope to try and find row 4. Whilst the rest of the group helped Sandy G identify possible stones in this row, I wandered over to Butler's Cairn 18, photographing what looked like some hut circles embedded in the turf. Arriving at Cairn 18,... Read More |
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| Yellowmead | Stone Circle | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Yellowmead Fourfold Stone Circle: This stone circle has long been on my wish-list, but I thought I’d never be able to see it, because access was described as being difficult.
Fortunately, Dave Parks and Sandy G had been here before and knew the pitfalls, selecting the right route for us. We we... Read More |
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| Drizzlecombe cist 22 | Cist | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe Cist 22: This was an ‘added on extra’ as it was only an additional 100m, and if we took a short detour to cross the leat, was on our way anyway. Located in the valley, north of the river, this would have been a pleasant, peaceful spot, within sight of the stone rows. | 134 | 17 |
| Standing Stone Near Cairn at Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4 | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Drizzlecombe West Standing Stone: Whilst Sandy and the rest of the intrepid "Dartmoor Expedition" were searching lower down the slope for the enigmatic and mysterious Drizzlecome West Stone Row, I'd wandered up slope, stopping at this stone and looking at the nearby cairn. Failing to attract the at... Read More |
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| King Arthur's Well (Walltown Gap) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2019 | 1 | 4 | 4 | King Arthur's Well, Walltown Crags: Whilst this well may now be destroyed or lost, the scenery here is fantastic, and it was well worth coming out to look.
We were unable to find this holy well, despite having the GPS to guide us to the spot. However, we did see signs of reeds and tall grasses whe... Read More |
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| Hadrian's Wall (Turret 44b) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Turret 44b, Hadrian's Wall: Located on the crag above King Arthur's Well, this is a lovely spot. We had difficulty in locating the holy well, so whilst I continue to search for the it and see if I could find any structure or water course, Andrew ascended the steps to the top of the crag, and came ba... Read More |
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| Whittenknowles Rocks | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Whittenknowles Rocks Enclosed Settlement: We parked in the small car park at SX 57880 67316 next to a small stream and a ford. Walking across the road bridge, we dived off across a small stream and walked next to a small wood, entering the moorland and continuing in a southerly direction, following ... Read More |
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| Hadrian's Wall (Poltross Burn) | Stone Fort or Dun | England | Cumbria | Visited | 8th Jul 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Poltross Burn Milecastle: We last visited this site on 27th October 2013, and it hasn’t’ changed at all. Andrew, in typical engineering fashion, went round and talked about the offsets and revetted construction of this small fort. It’s layout is remarkably easy to read.
Andrew recalled read... Read More |
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| Leeden Tor | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Leeden Tor Stone Row: It was now the afternoon of 14th May. Having driven from Merrivale to the small car park nearest this site at SX 56725 71397, we had 10-15 minutes to spare before everyone arrived. In the meantime, Sandy led us up the hill to look at this stone row. By this time the wind was h... Read More |
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| Chesters Roman Site b | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 4th Jul 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Chesters Roman Site b, Chesters Roman Bridge Abutment: Whilst we were here to photograph the bridge abutment, we took the opportunity to look for this panel again to see if it had changed. It was very much the same. | 142 | 2 |
| Hadrian's Wall (Chesters Bridge Abutment) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 4th Jul 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Chesters Bridge Abutment: It's been some time since we came here to photograph the rock art panel, which is still here (although heavily lichen covered). This is where “The River Hunters” did a search in their series not long ago, just opposite the bath house at Chesters on the opposite bank. Th... Read More |
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| Merrivale circle | Stone Circle | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale Stone Circle: Will you forgive me for saying I wasn't hugely impressed by this stone circle. For some reason I was expecting the stones to be larger and for it to sit more dramatically in the landscape.
On walking to the circle from the western end of Row 2, we came across an impressiv... Read More |
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| Merrivale Centre S | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale Centre S Cairn (cairn at the head of Merrivale 3/C stone row): Thank heavens for Sandy G's Stone Rows of Great Britain and Dave P's Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks websites to help sort out the photos for Merrivale 3and its cairn. This area certainly has a glut of stone rows and cairns, and the... Read More |
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| Merrivale SW row 3 | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Merrivale Row 3/C: Without Sandy G being there to tell us, I would have struggled to identify this as a stone row in its own right, but with Sandy pointing out where it joining up at an angle with Merrivale 2/B and with the cairn at its head, it became more obvious. The cairn is recorded as a separ... Read More |
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| Hadrian's Wall (Brunton Turret) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 4th Jul 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Brunton Turret 26b, Hadrian's Wall: Parked at the layby by the stile. We met a party of four Americans who were walking the wall and who had started at Newcastle on Monday, and from Corbridge this morning. I wished them a ‘happy 4th July’ and one of the ladies replied “Good job we’re friends... Read More |
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| Merrivale Cists | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale Cist: I've seen quite a few cists, largely in Northumberland, and none this large. Impressive. I tried to persuade Janet to get into the cist to model it, but she politely declined (it would have made a nice refuge for the wind).
At this point, Angie got her dowsing rods out and was mea... Read More |
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| Smith's Shield Milestone | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 4th Jul 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Smith's Shield Roman Milestone (base of): The base of this Roman milestone, located at the northern side of the road which runs east towards Vindolanda, is easy to spot.
A note of warning to future visitors - we had a run in with the AD122 local bus service who told us off for parking in what h... Read More |
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| Merrivale Centre Row | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale 2/Merrivale Centre Row: As we progressed further south over the moorland, and not far from Merrivale 1 (the northern-most row) at that, the stone rows kept getting better and better.
The row features a triangular blocking stone at the eastern end and twin blocking stones at the western... Read More |
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| Merrivale Centre N | Cairn | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale Centre Cairn with Cist: Half way down Merrivale North (Row A or Row 1), we hopped across to row 2 to take a look at the cairn in the middle of the row. Fascinating. Worried about the complexity of recording all these sites in my photo/walk journal, Angie Lake told me about the Butler "Atla... Read More |
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| Merrivale North Row | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale North Row (Merrivale 1): Between the prehistoric settlement and the first of our stone rows for the day, Sandy G had stopped to point out some of the stones of the Great Western Reave.
Continuing on, these stones could be seen from down slope at the Prehistoric Settlement, and proved ... Read More |
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| Peter Hill Roundhouse (Whithorn) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Peter Hill Roundhouse: Part of the visitor experience at the Whithorn Museum. We arrived just after a small guided tour had started. We asked if we could go round after the tour had finished, but were told we could only get in while there was an official guide there. I cheekily asked if we could jo... Read More |
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| Joicey Shaft Cairn | Round Barrow(s) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Joicey Shaft Cairn: I spotted this mound almost by accident as I was photographing Joicey Shaft B from the track. At first I dismissed it as a manure heap, or possible tailings from the leading mining which used to take place here, but the more I walked round it, the more convinced I was it was a ca... Read More |
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| Joicey Shaft b | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Joicey Shaft B: This boulder is only 40m or so to the WSW of panel A, and is the only other large boulder in the field near this location. It is propped on top of other stones, part of the demolished field wall that ERA/NADRAP talk about.
ERA/NADRAP talk about two possible cup marks, which I foun... Read More |
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| Joicey Shaft a | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Joicey Shaft A: With the most of the rest of the UK enjoying warm sunshine, up in this part of Northumberland, the storm clouds had gathered. Having checked the weather forecast to make sure rain wasn't due to arrive until this evening, we set off to find these rock art panels, within easy reach of ... Read More |
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| Tony's Patch 1 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Tony's Patch Rock Art: The information for this nature reserve said there was room to park one car by the stile into the field at NY 81961 65368, and indeed there was, but only just. As we readied ourselves to walk towards the wood, the first spots of rain started, but we decided it would only be a... Read More |
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| Whithorn Museum | Museum | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Whithorn Visitor Centre, Museum, Priory and Roundhouse: I can honestly say that I have never felt so welcomed anywhere as being here as a visitor to Whithorn. From the moment we stepped into the Visitor Centre café for refreshments before buying our tickets, then looking around the round house, mu... Read More |
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| White Cairn (Crouse) | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | White Cairn, Crouse: Our very last stop of this visit, and not a hugely dramatic one. The cairn has been used for field clearance, and there were lumps of concrete, barbed wire and old fence posts dumped at its western side.
Whilst I was photographing the holed stone, I got an excited cry from An... Read More |
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| Crow Stone (Wigtown) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Holed Stone/Crow Stone, Crouse: Coming to these last two sites marked the start of our return journey back to Northumberland, and I wasn’t really ready to go back! This stone stood near the northern edge of a field of grass, just east of the B7052, and south of the White Cairn at Crouse.
The fi... Read More |
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| Little Balsmith | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Little Balsmith/Stairfield Standing Stone: I was very reluctant to tear myself away from Whithorn Museum and Priory, but with it closing at 5pm, we didn’t really have a choice. I popped back into the visitor centre to buy some postcards, then we headed off down the street to buy an Italian Ice Cre... Read More |
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| Kirkmaiden Old Church | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited (still working on) | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Kirkmaiden Old Church: A very lovely drive along the coast road (A747) through Port William to the golf course. We had difficulty finding the grassy track down to the church, but eventually stumbled upon it using the GPS.
Down a steep cliff on its eastern side, and with steps down to the beach ... Read More |
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| Whitefield Loch Crannog | Crannog | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 18th Jun 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Dorman's Island/Loch Whitefield Crannog (east): We went seeking Dorman’s Island crannog at the eastern side of the loch. Having missed the fisherman's road, and the road being too narrow to turn round, we ended up parking in the fisherman's car park at NX 23531 54887 and walked down the angler’s... Read More |
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| Culroy Cairn 1 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Culroy Cairn 1: On the way back from Culroy White Cairn, we had intended to stop and photograph another 4 cairns along this road, but the road was far to narrow to park on, and with large tractors and other traffic coming along, I hopped out of the car and photographed this cairn as best I could.
... Read More |
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| Culroy White Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Culroy White Cairn: The intention was to drive down this minor road, stopping to photograph three cairns to the south of the road on our way to Crouse. However, the road was very, very narrow with no marked passing places (just field entrances and the occasional driveway) and the stone walls were t... Read More |
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| Mid Gleniron 1 | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Mid Gleniron 1: I was really impressed with this now oval-shaped cairn with its burial chambers and spent ages walking round it and over it. The photographs don’t really do it justice. | 137 | 8 |
| Mid Gleniron 5 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Mid Gleniron 5: This cairn lies west of track to the farmhouse, south east of the oval cairn, and is very distinct in the field and on the aerial photographs.
The mound of the cairn stood out particularly today as the farmer was spreading the lines of harvested grass to dry as we walked across th... Read More |
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| Mid Gleniron 4 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Mid Gleniron 4: This is the large bell cairn at the top of the hill, near the farmhouse, which dominates the view as you walk up the track towards the farmhouse. Access into the field is easy, and it’s possible to walk all the way round the cairn to see its structure and enjoy the views. | 137 | 6 |
| Mid Gleniron 3 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Mid Gleniron 3: OK, the GPS led me to this spot, but there wasn’t much to see. Had it not been for the sheer number of cows and their calves in the field, I would have gone for a closer look, but bottled out. I photographed this feature by leaning over the dry stone wall. | 137 | 4 |
| Mid Gleniron 2 | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Mid Gleniron 2: Photos taken from NX 18753 60931, I photographed a mound approximately 20 metres to east (right) of track as walked uphill, with a cattle feeder virtually on top.
I wasn’t sure that this was a cairn at all, although Andrew was certain. In fact Canmore shows there are the remain... Read More |
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| Mid Gleniron Stony Mounds | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Mid Gleniron Stony Mounds: I found these stony mounds as fascinating as the chambered cairns just north of these mounds, so took a few photographs (just in case they were recorded cairns) and grid references. If they are field clearance stones, why place them in different mounds in the same field? A... Read More |
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| Kirkcolm Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Kirkcolm Cross: From the Knock & Maize standing stone we followed the minor roads across this peninsula until we reached the western shores of Loch Ryan, then drove north to Kirkcolm.
This cross slab has quite a complicated history of being sited in different locations (read the Canmore details b... Read More |
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| Knock and Maize | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 18th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Knock & Maize Standing Stone: Lovely views of the sea, but the view of the stone was a little spoilt by its proximity to the telegraph poles. It was only when we got into the field and I was photographing the stone that we realised there was a large herd of bullocks down the bottom end of the field... Read More |
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| Kirkmadrine Church Stones | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Kirkmadrine Old Church & Early Christian Stones: Now this site I was so looking forward to seeing, but in some ways it was the most disappointing.
As we arrived at the foot of the grassy lane to the church, the heavens opened, and my, did it pour. Thankfully, we were sheltered to some extent by ... Read More |
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| Cairnweil standing stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | South Carnweil Standing Stone: From Kirkmadrine Church, we travelled back along the road eastwards towards the A716, we stopped off to see this standing stone, by a wall, up a hill, but not quite at the top of the hill. It certainly is a big stone.
The road was narrow, so we bumped right up on th... Read More |
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| Spittal Croft cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Boreland Cairn: By this time of the afternoon (early evening) I was getting more than a little ‘cairned-out’ having seen, and still trying to make sense of, all those cairns at Torhousekie. But this was a lovely little cairn, complete with sheep warming themselves by the small piles of stones on... Read More |
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| Torhousekie Farm Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Torhousekie Farm Cairn: With tea-time fast approaching and cars whizzing up and down the road at high speed, Andrew pulled into a gateway opposite the cairn whilst I hopped out to take some photos.
It was a lot more interesting than it looked, with definite structures on the sides and top. I cou... Read More |
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| Torhouse North Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Torhouse North Cairn (now destroyed): Being so close to the stone row, the stone circle and other cairns, I was curious to see where this cairn might have been, and what views from it. From the Torhousekie North Side Cairn (to the left/west of the track – see above) we continued up the track for a... Read More |
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| Torhouse North Side Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Torhouse North Side Cairn: We had the Canmore ID record printed off for this cairn, but we were a little confused. One entry in Canmore said the cairn had been almost entirely removed and the site used as a dump for field clearance stones, but at the grid reference point there was nothing but a plou... Read More |
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| Torhousekie N | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Torhousekie N cairn: We had a cairn further up slope recorded to find, together with one by the farmhouse, so it came as a surprise to find this cairn here. I took some photographs on the day (a few before a heavy shower of rain, one after in the sun), and found out about it later.
Recorded as C... Read More |
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| Torhousekie East | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | Torhouseskie Stone Row: Crossing the road from the layby by the stone circle, we entered this field through the gate at NX 38340 56494. This proved a little tricky, as it was two gates bolted together, then tied with multiple loops of string. Whilst I managed to untie the knots, and Andrew and I be... Read More |
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| Torhousekie Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited (still working on) | 17th Jun 2019 | Torhouskie Standing Stone: At the time of our visit, the only route to this stone was either along the very busy minor road then down the farm track (didn't fancy getting run over as sight lines for cars weren't very good) or across the field. With The Huge Bull standing guard, and watching our ever... Read More |
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| Torhousekie Stones East | Standing Stones | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Torhouseskie Stones East: To be found in the field immediately to the east of the Torhousekie Stone Circles, one of these stones was most certainly the size of the boulders used in the stone circle, although because of the sheer number of cattle (and The Huge Bull) around these stones (and the deep ... Read More |
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| Torhousekie stone circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torhouskie Stone Circle: Our second stone circle of the day, and right next to the road. Contained by a fence to protect it from the huge cattle in the next field, this is a lovely little stone circle. We were at this site for what must have been an hour. Just after we arrived, a large ‘white va... Read More |
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| The Sill | Museum | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jun 2019 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The Sill, Once Brewed: After visiting Great Chesters/Aesica, we popped over to the Sill for a cup of tea and a bowl of soup. It took three attempts to get our (simple) order correct, although as the Sill was popular with walkers, it meant queuing up each time to get the correct items.
I was curio... Read More |
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| Aescia Roman Fort | Stone Fort or Dun | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Aesica (Great Chesters) Roman Fort: In a repeat of our last visit in November 2016 (when we came here to see where the Roman aqueduct finished) we parked just off the small, gated road at NY 70421 66432, by the track leading up to Modern Farm and the Hadrian’s Wall Path.
Whilst I was photograph... Read More |
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| Aesica Vallum Round Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jun 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Aesica Vallum Tumulus: This tumulus is marked on the OS map and recorded in Pastcape. As we were nearby, and the tumulus was a simple walk along the metalled road, we walked along to take a look. The field had just been harvested, so we popped in to take a quick look.
Just to the south of the tum... Read More |
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| Bladnoch | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Bladnoch Standing Stone: We found this stone very hard to spot, eventually parking outside the cottages opposite the dry stone wall the stone was in and walked up and down the road with our GPS. We eventually spotted it by looking along the drystone wall and seeing where the tallest stone poking out... Read More |
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| St. Kennera's Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Kennera's Cross, Kirkinner: It took a little bit of doing to contact the vicar at Kirkinner – numerous phone calls, but no answer, then an email to which there was initially no reply, so I'd crossed this cross slab off our visit list.
An email eventually came through whilst we were near Cast... Read More |
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| Minnigaff Old Church | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited (still working on) | 17th Jun 2019 | Cross Slabs, Minnigaff Old Church: The Canmore record says clearly that these two cross slabs are within the ruins of the old church at Minnigaff. We found these enigmatic ruins easily, within the burial ground of the modern-day church. However, the stones have been moved inside the modern church, ... Read More |
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| Temple of Mithras (Carrawburgh) | Ancient Temple | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Temple of Mithras, Brocolita: This being a Sunday, there was a constant stream of visitors, most of whom ignored the fort and came straight down to the temple. I had hoped for bright blue skies and fluffy white clouds, which there had been at Great Chesters a couple of hours earlier.
Nothing muc... Read More |
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| Carrawburgh Roman Fort | Stone Fort or Dun | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jun 2019 | 2 | 4 | Carrawburgh Roman Fort/Brocolitia: When I last came here in 2014 there was a £4 charge for the car park which allowed you to also park at Housesteads and at other car parks at locations along the wall. Today, the machine has been upgraded and it is £1 for up to one hour. Other charges apply beyond... Read More |
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| Roman Cross (Sheepstor) | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Roman Cross, Sheepstor: After having been to Whittenknowles, Drizzlecomb & Yellowmead, we drove back through Sheepstor and I asked to be able to stop and photograph this cross, which I'd seen on the way, just outside St. Leonard’s Church in Sheepstor village.
The cross has been restored, and al... Read More |
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| St Leonard's Well (Sheepstor) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St Leonard's Holy Well, Sheepstor: I spotted this well as we were driving down to the car park near Whittenknowles and we stopped to photograph it on the way back.
The sunshine was really, really bright coming over the wall, so the few photos I took worked out best looking at the well from an ang... Read More |
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| Bennet's Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 15th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Bennet's Cross, Devon: Not on our schedule for the day, but as we drove right past this cross, we pulled over in the small car park just to the eastern side of the B3212to take a closer look at this cross and to take some photographs. A slight problem on the morning, as the car park, even before 9.3... Read More |
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| Glenquicken Circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 17th Jun 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Glenquicken Stone Circle:
Our first stop of the day, and in a delightfully rural location. There was a small layby just to the east of a bridge over Englishman’s Burn at NX 50847 58492 which was large enough for one car. Walking to the gate into the field at NX 50904 58456, the gate had been tie... Read More |
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| Merrivale settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 14th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement: This was our first stop of the day as part of a three day guided tour by Sandy G, who certainly knew his way around this site, and all the others in this Bronze Age complex.
We parked in the small car park at SX 55311 75018 and, having introduced ourselves to the... Read More |
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| Alnmouth Wall Rock 34 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock 34: see main visit report for Alnmouth Wall Rock 32. | 138 | 2 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 36 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock Panel 36: For main visit report see AWR Panel 32. Trying to match these panels with the photos on the ERA records was interesting, but using the grid references taken with our GPS and the photos, I've managed this as best I can. | 138 | 3 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 37 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock Panel 37: See visit report for Alnmouth Wall Rock Panel 32 | 138 | 4 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 32 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock Panels, Alnmouth: A short walk up a lane towards the trig point, with some very friendly horses in the field and some lovely views over the sea and beach. The wall runs for quite a long way, with its eastern side up a slope so it was a little precarious (for those who don't like s... Read More |
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| Alnmouth Wall Rock 15 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock 15: on top of panel 16. For main visit report see Alnmouth Wall Rock 32. | 138 | 5 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 26 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock 26: for main visit report see Alnmouth Wall Rock 32. | 138 | 10 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 24 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock 24: for main visit report see Alnmouth Wall Rock 32. | 138 | 9 |
| Alnmouth Wall Rock 16 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Jun 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alnmouth Wall Rock 16: for main visit report see Alnmouth Wall Rock 32 | 138 | 6 |
| St Laurence's Church (Bradford on Avon) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 17th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | St Laurence's Church, Bradford on Avon: From Wells, we had to decide which church was going to be the very last visit of our Dartmoor Expedition, as we were rapidly running out of time – Deerhurst or Bradford-On-Avon. In the end, the decision was down to knowing that St. Laurence’s Church would ... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Well (Wells) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Somerset | Saw from a distance | 17th May 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | St Andrew's Well, Wells Cathedral: After having had an abortive trip trying to find the sculptured Anglo Saxon stones (now shut up in boxes and cages on the triforium, only accessible by cathedral staff) I only photographed this through the hole in the garden wall separating the cathedral from the B... Read More |
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| Wells Cathedral | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Somerset | Visited | 17th May 2019 | 4 | 4 | 4 | AS Corpus Wells 4, Wells Cathedral: We'd been seriously held up by traffic on the major and minor roads from Exeter to Wells, then by seriously slow roadworks, so were really rushed for time. I'd previously contacted the cathedral to find out if it was possible to see AS Corpus Wells 3, which the Co... Read More |
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| Duddo Five Stones | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 29th May 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Duddo Five Stones, Northumberland: We had three tries at reaching this stone circle, until we discovered the actual, relatively new 'permissive path'. Our first attempt was using the footpath to the north of the stones, but the footpath had been ploughed out and we had to retrace our steps. Then we ... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (New Etal) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 29th May 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | St Mary's Well, New Etal: The ford across the river from Etal village was pretty high, so we decided not to chance wading across it, but drove round to New Etal and used the farm tracks to walk back down to the western side of the ford to find the remains of this chantry chapel and well.
No sig... Read More |
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| High Moorland Visitor Centre | Museum | England | Devon | Visited | 17th May 2019 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Princetown Visitor Centre, second visit: We had arranged to meet one of Sandy G's intrepid Dartmoor Explorers here at around 10.30am, to have a final look around before starting our journey back home. .
I confess to being really disappointed with this Centre as there was only the cast of a standi... Read More |
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| Holy Well (Belstone) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Belstone Spring Head: From the village green, we decided to walk to the well, following the lane past the church and turning right (ESE) onto the common ground/moorland.
Located almost immediately opposite a large pub, and just down slope, this was a lovely location which attracted families and d... Read More |
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| Belstone Ring Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ring headed cross at St Mary The Virgin, Belstone: A lovely little village, with not only the ring headed cross in the church but the Coronation Stone and the old stocks on the village green.
The church has a lovely atmosphere, tucked away to the west of the little village shop cum pub. The chur... Read More |
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| Belstone Boundary Marker | Marker Stone | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Belstone Boundary Marker: Only 1km from the Sticklepath Boundary Stone, this supposedly pre-Conquest stone at the junction of the B3260 and a minor dead-end road which goes north east to a farm.
I got some strange stares from the cars as I photographed this stone, which is no longer on the paris... Read More |
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| Sticklepath Boundary Marker | Marker Stone | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Sticklepath Inscribed Boundary Stone: This stone is only within 20m of Lady Well, separated by a minor road junction. At the time of our visit, the ambience was spoilt by roadworks which had been set up next to, and almost up to it.
With the stone sitting on top of a retaining wall between the p... Read More |
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| Lady Well (Sticklepath) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 4 | 2 | 5 | Lady Well, Sticklepath: This well is right beside the road. The grid reference given by Pastscape must be the original site of the well, as it actually is at SX 63904 94124.
The ambience of the well was dreadful at the time of our visit, as it sat immediately next to a set of roadworks, and also ... Read More |
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| Sticklepath Methodist Chapel Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Sticklepath Methodist Chapel Cross: A very small cross with socket stone being used as a coping stone on the apex of the roof of the Methodist Chapel.
To see the cross better, we let ourselves into the small ‘garden’ of the chapel (being used as a dump for building materials and rubble), and ... Read More |
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| South Zeal Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | South Zeal Cross: Driving the short distance from Moon’s Cross into South Zeal, this is a busy little working village, not just a place for tourists to travel to Oh the cars that were parked up and down the street, but we managed to find a space just south of the village cross.
This is a tall,... Read More |
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| Oxenham Arms | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Oxenham Arms Menhir & Roman Stone: We originally headed off to the wrong pub, at the north western end of the village, but having thought the name of the pub wasn't what we remembered, we found the Oxenham Arms just down the hill from the village cross.
Walking into the pub from the bright sunshi... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Cross (South Tawton) | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Alleged wayside cross shaft, St Andrew's Church, South Tawton: This ‘cross shaft’ (gate post?) can be found at the gate at the end of the path running north from the west end of the church. Whilst it has more recently been identified as a gatepost, it look remarkably like a couple of other cross... Read More |
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| Moon's Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Moon's Cross, between South Tawton & South Zeal: From St Andrew’s Church in South Tawton, we headed south along Fore Street towards South Zeal. At a cross roads just outside South Tawton, there is the remains of a cross shaft in a socket stone. As the road is quite wide here, it was easy to park j... Read More |
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| Oxenham Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Oxenham Wayside Cross: This wayside cross was placed high above a cross roads of two narrow, busy minor roads, where it was difficult to stop. I took photos while Andrew moved the car out of the way. I tried to get a photograph from inside the field, but the gate had been nailed shut with wire under... Read More |
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| Ring Hill Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Possibly the Ring Hill Wayside Cross?: From the Pastscape description, and armed with our GPS, this cross should have been relatively easy to find, but was actually the hardest. We spotted the old footpath coming down the slope and joining the minor road to South Zeal, but the fence posts and gates... Read More |
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| Ringhole Copse Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ringhole Copse Wayside Cross: Not on our original list, but we spotted this cross on the map, with only a minor detour to our next few stops for this morning.
This wayside cross is adjacent to, and just south of, the A30, about 20m west of the road which connects the minor roads running over the ... Read More |
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| Addiscott Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 13th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Addiscott Wayside Cross: Our first stop on this bright, sunny and breezy day, which made us glad to be out of doors.
The Pastscape entry is indeed correct, as the cross is virtually hidden by the surrounding shrubbery and almost impossible to see until we got closer and the sun bounced off its l... Read More |
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| Hunter's Tor Fort | Hillfort | England | Devon | Visited | 12th May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Hunter's Tor Iron Age Hillfort: A very pleasant walk from the end of the lane at SX 75702 83203, up a public bridlepath, the path cutting through a farmyard higher up the hill. Continuing up the hill, we eventually reached a long stone wall with a gate leading into the fort. At its northern end (SX... Read More |
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| Meacombe Cist | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | England | Devon | Visited | 12th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Meacombe Cist: We'd arrived in Devon in a torrential downpour, although this had cleared in the evening. The sheer amount of rain might have contributed to ripping away the road surface at the edge of the road leading to this burial chamber.
The roads to this burial chamber were atrocious, with... Read More |
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| Week Down Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 12th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Week Down Cross: We left the car by the Shorter Cross and continued the 250m up the road by foot; in actual fact there is a large grassy area on the moor here, and another car with a disabled passenger pulled onto the grass whilst we were there. Whilst the cross itself is only 9m from the road, ther... Read More |
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| Shorter Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 12th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Shorter Cross, near Druid's Well, Chagford: Not far from Druid’s Well (about 350m as the crow flies), this is a lovely cross, more like a standing stone, with no cross arms.
The cross is well hidden behind/between trees, but we were able to walk into the dip/ditch between the road and the dry ... Read More |
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| Chagford Druid's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Druid's Well, near Chagford: Our first stop of the day, with bright sunshine and deep shadows. As we approached the well, this was our first of several encounters with a very friendly Granny looking after granddaughter on skittish, but beautiful, horse. Granny was following both round in a car, maki... Read More |
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| South Harton Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | South Harton Wayside Cross: As we drove along the minor roads from the Bishop’s Stone towards South Harton Farm, the sun went in and a haze started to drift across the fields and it started to become very chilly.
This cross simply leans against the dry stone wall, just to the west of the gate... Read More |
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| Bishop's Stone (Lustleigh) | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Bishop's Stone, Lustleigh: This stone is on a corner of a busy road junction of three minor roads– I needed to pick my time to step part way across the road to photograph the stone from the front. The metal railing shown in the Pastscape photo is now largely hidden by a beech hedge. The stone goes... Read More |
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| Datuidoc's Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Writhelstan inscribed stone, St John The Baptist, Lustleigh: Expecting this to be the prettiest village in Devon, I was a little surprised to find I didn’t agree. The church is right in the middle of the village, and we managed to park by the south wall of the churchyard, immediately opposite... Read More |
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| Higher Combe Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Saw from a distance | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Higher Combe Cross: If we could have obtained access to this cross, access would have been a short walk across a field of improved pasture. Shame the gate was double-chained with two electric fences virtually up against the gate. Lovely horse in the field, though.
Andrew resorted to standing on... Read More |
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| Sanduck Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Sanduck Wayside Cross: We were going past this spot to get to the next cross on our list, when we spotted this on the OS map, so decided to stop and look for it. We parked outside a very lovely house built around a courtyard; as the road was very narrow, we pulled into a small tarmacked area opposit... Read More |
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| Horspit Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Horspit Cross, North Bovey: This was to be an afternoon of ‘cross sighting’, with the weather gradually turning from a bright, sunny day to a dull, almost misty day by the time we’d finished.
This squat, small cross sits right on a road junction, with a large boulder immediately adjacent. W... Read More |
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| Moretonhampstead Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Moretonhamstead Village Cross: The remains of this old village cross can be found, surprisingly, on Cross Street, outside the gate at the south side of the churchyard. I confess I had not expected to see a wayside/village cross mounted in a large flower bed! I got some strange looks from locals an... Read More |
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| Challacombe Cross Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Challacombe Cross/Shapley Common Hut Circles: Having seen quite a few hut circles in Northumberland, I wasn’t expecting much from this site – a few stony-outlined circles in the bracken, but what a lovely surprise this site was – hut circles with very large boulders making up the perimeter. It... Read More |
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| Leeper Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Leeper/Leapra Wayside Cross: We had problems locating this cross, so I ended up walking up the driveway up to Moorgate Farm. Just to the right hand side of the gate, I thought I identified an ivy covered cross head shape. Andrew didn’t believe me, so I let myself through the gate and had a clo... Read More |
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| North Bovey | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 10th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | North Bovey Wayside Cross: We’d booked into the local hostelry, The Ring O Bells, for supper, but arrived a little early. As well as seeing the cross on the village green, we wanted to see the local church, St John The Baptist. However, the church (given the time of the evening!) was firmly locke... Read More |
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| Hele Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 10th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Hele Cross, Devon: This cross is not far from the Beetor Cross – some 850m to the east, measured from UK Grid Reference Finder. The lane was narrow and a little windy, but a good introduction to the driving around this part of the world. There were few places to park, so we bumped up on the verge... Read More |
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| Watching Place Waymarker | Marker Stone | England | Devon | Visited | 11th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Watching Place Waymarker/original site of Beetor Cross: Having seen the OS map and sorted out the Pastscape entries, I finally realised that this 'standing stone' was where the cross had originally been located.
Our first stop today was to go and photograph it so I could complete the Beetor Cros... Read More |
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| Beetor Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Devon | Visited | 10th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Beetor Wayside Cross, North Bovey: Our first trip out on the evening we arrived in Devon and having unpacked our things at the barn. This cross was less than a mile from the barn we were staying in.
I was really confused when I read the entries for this cross at first, not realising that it had... Read More |
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| Cockleroy Hill (Beecraigs) | Hillfort | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 22nd Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Cockleroy Hillfort, Beecraigs Country Park: From Lower Craigmailing Socketed Stone, we drove north past the Korean War Memorial to Beescraig Country Park. There was a small car park at about NS 99445 74270, where a path led through the forest, leading to a gate into the field containing the hillfor... Read More |
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| Holy Trinity (Rolleston) | Ancient Cross | England | Nottinghamshire | Visited | 10th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross Shaft Fragments and Cross Slabs, Holy Trinity, Rolleston: By the time we’d photographed the sundial in the churchyard then walked up to the village cross, the church had been opened (thankfully) and we let ourselves in. The cross shaft was immediately opposite the south door into the church,... Read More |
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| Rolleston Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Nottinghamshire | Visited | 10th May 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Rolleston Cross: This was our first stop on our way down to Dartmoor. Having stopped off in Newark for a very early breakfast, we arrived in Rolleston at 08:30, only to find (not surprisingly!) that the church had not yet been opened. After having photographed the sun dial in the churchyard of Holy... Read More |
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| The Hanging Stone (Haydon) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Hanging Stone, south of Haydon Bridge: We tried to find the Treacle Well (Traking Well) in Slaley, but despite an old footpath opposite the church being shown on the OS map, we couldn’t find our way through the houses to see it, so headed off through Hexham and off west on the B6305 to find Th... Read More |
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| St George's Well (Minsteracres) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St George's Well, Minsteracres: Minsteracres had an open day today between 11am and 4pm, so we decided to drive up and see if we could find the well. I understood that it was located near to the chapel, but this was mistaken, as we found out on arrival.
Driving up the private road from the A68, ... Read More |
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| Mossknowe 2 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Mossknowe Cairn: the cairn nearest to the bend in the road, south east of the cottage which has Mossknowe Tumulus in its garden. Nothing special, but another site ticked off the list. | 127 | 3 |
| Mossknowe Tumulus | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Mossknowe Cairn 1/ Belten Mound: We stopped outside the cottage to the west of the minor road at NY 27846 69513, but could not see much. Carrying on to where the road bends at NY 28117 69281, the only gate into the field from the road here is at NY 28067 69222 and hadn't been opened in such a long t... Read More |
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| Mossknowe 3 | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 2nd May 2019 | 2 | 3 | Mossknowe Cairn 3: Saw this from a distance only, as the light was fading rapidly, the rain was pelting down and we couldn’t open the gate into the first field. Couldn’t get too excited about this, although it looked the most interesting of the three cairns. | 127 | 5 | |
| Fair Helen's Tombstone | Marker Stone | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 2nd May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fair Helen's Tombstone: This ‘monument’ is in two parts, the first of which came as a complete surprise, to our west, just off the path in a clearing, just above Kirtle Water. For the legend of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel see: Read More | 127 | 2 |
| Hoddom Parish Church | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 2nd May 2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Sculptured Stone at Hoddom Old Parish Church: Our first stop of the day, and a strange place. A church in ruins, boarded up, although with parts of the churchyard really nicely tended – presumably because of the war graves.
Sitting on the southern side of the B725 to the south west of Ecclefe... Read More |
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| Fair Helen's Cross (Kirkconnel) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 2nd May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fair Helen's Cross, Kirkconnel Old Church: It was a beautiful walk from the small parking area provided at about NY 25239 74833. We let ourselves through the kissing gate and followed the footpath which ran just to the east of Kirtle Water, and a pasture field with sheep and young lambs to our right... Read More |
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| St Michael's Church (Warden) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st May 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Michael and All Saints, Warden: Anglo Saxon Sculptured Stones, including The Warden Man and Hammerhead Churchyard Cross: I last visited this church on 3rd September 2014, when I was almost new to the Portal, and hadn’t yet come across Pastscape, Historic England or the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Sto... Read More |
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| St Michael's Church (Warden) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | St Michael's Church, Warden, Northumberland: On the way back from Robin Hoods' Holy Well at Colwell, I detoured via Warden, a church we’ve visited before whilst visiting the Roman enclosure on the hill above Warden, but not really seen. On this last visit, on approaching St Michael’s, we heard ... Read More |
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| Warden Hill Hillfort | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st May 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Warden Hill Hillfort: Homer’s Lane is very narrow, so we struggled to park the car. We eventually ended up bumped up on the verge at the wide entrance to a farm house at NY 91187 67190, ensuring there was plenty of room for tractors, trailers and other traffic to get past.
Walking back to the ... Read More |
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| Homers Lane (Warden) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 1st May 2019 | 2 | 4 | Homers Lane, Warden, Rock Art Panel: Having visited Warden Hill Hillfort, we decided to drive the 1.15km to try and find this rock art panel, as it was so close. Driving north up the almost single track lane we managed to park next to the gate into the field with the rock art panel in, at NY 91110 ... Read More |
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| Howden Hill Middle Cairn | Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Howden Hill Middle Cairn: From the rock art panels, it is only just over 150m to walk to this cairn, which is the most prominent of the two on this side of the ridge above Settlingstones Burn.
In a very lovely spot, the make up of the cairn from stones and earth becomes evident. It is around 9m i... Read More |
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| Howden Hill 3 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Howden Hill/Settlingstone Burn 3: Standing at the Howden Hill Rock Art Panels 1 and 2, two large stones and a large erratic were prominent on the skyline a couple of hundred metres to the east. They looked well worth investigating, so we followed the tractor trail up to the them. Wow. The location ... Read More |
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| Howden Hill Cist | Cist | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Possible stone lined cist and stone setting on Howden Hill: Getting to the sheepfold near the two cairns and the rock art panels was a little challenging, as we had to cross electric fences, cross a number of field drains, boggy areas, and avoid the deep tufts and holes in some parts of the access l... Read More |
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| West Howden Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | West Howden Hill RB Settlement: Unusually, our daughter joined us for this trip, as it was on her way to our house from Scotland, and we met outside the Old Repeater Station on the Old Military Road (B6318) and took one car the 1.4km down to the gate with the path leading to the access land on Howde... Read More |
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| Howden Hill 1 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Howden Hill 1: Rock Art panel within Bronze Age Stone setting, not far to the south of Hadrian's Wall. Setting is quite fascinating, comprising cists, cairns, low banks and rock art. We had not expected to see this cists, so this came as a nice surprise. Whilst we could see quite deep cups on this ... Read More |
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| Howden Hill 2 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Howden Hill 2: Literally 1m to the north of Howden Hill 1, and has most visible. It is clear that both rocks continue under the turf, but not wishing to cause any damage, viewed them as they were. Having seen Andy Curtis's photograph on Geograph beforehand, I'd expected both panels to be covered in... Read More |
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| Wamphray Place | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 4th Apr 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Wamphray Place Motte & Bailey: Continuing down the hill (north west) from Wamphray Church, past the mill and over the narrow bridge, as we climbed the hill at the other side of the river, we spotted this small, compact motte and bailey and stopped to take a few quick photos. Wish we’d had more ti... Read More |
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| Pumplaburn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Saw from a distance | 4th Apr 2019 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Pumplaburn Cairns: Making our way back towards Annandale Water, we went under the smallest railway bridge we’d ever travelled under – 7ft tall and 7ft wide! We didn’t find these cairns, despite wandering up and down the road. Looks like they may have been buried by the large hardstanding for t... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Wamphray) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 4th Apr 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Anglo Scandinavian Cross Slab, St Cuthbert's Church, Wamphray: This seemed far too modern a church to incorporate any old stones, but I was to be surprised. The churchyard was quite spectacular, with a large walled mausoleum and two very large monuments, one being a replica of a churchyard cross.
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| Poldean menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 4th Apr 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Poldean Standing Stone: The third stop of the day with this stone easily visible just to the west of the road, towards the eastern edge of a large field of pasture.
We let ourselves in through the gate NY 10424 99981, walking over a small stream, again with the River Annan to its west and the bus... Read More |
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| Chapman's Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 4th Apr 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Chapman's Stone: Our second stop of the day, and easy to stop alongside the road where it widens slightly, at NY 10746 99049 and walked back the short way to the stone. The stone has a fence built right over the middle of it (it looks like it could be used as a stile). It’s eastern side looks as ... Read More |
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| Skip Knowe | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 4th Apr 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Skip Knowe Standing Stone: Our first stop of the day, which nearly wasn’t, as we got caught in a SSE convoy putting up new poles and wires. We stopped by what looked like a community hall and I asked permission to park there for 10 minutes whilst we walked back 100m to look at the standing stone. ... Read More |
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| Crailing Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 31st Mar 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Crailing Cross: We’d driven by this cross a couple of times before, but just thought it was a stone bearing the name of the village. This time, I got a closer look, then looked it up on Canmore after we drove past and confirmed it was a medieval ‘mercat’ cross. We stopped on our way back from ... Read More |
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| Crosshall Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 31st Mar 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Crosshall Cross: Details of this cross had printed out along with some details of Kelso Abbey, which we visited beforehand. Having found it was not far from Kelso, we decided to take the short drive to see it, and it was well worth it.
This was a little further out of Kelso than we originally th... Read More |
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| Bremenium Roman tumulus | Artificial Mound | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th Mar 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Petty Knowes Roman Cemetery/Bremenium Roman Tumulus: We walked too far north along the track, past Lamb Crags, and had to double back. We should have turned immediately right through the gate at NY 83788 98236. However, being on top of the crags gave us a good viewpoint down to the tomb below, alth... Read More |
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| Three Kings | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th Mar 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Three Kings Stone Circle, Byrness: Driving up the A68 from Corbridge, passing through Rochester, we turned left off the A68 at NT 78013 01533 into the Border Forest Caravan Park. We thought we’d get to a car park where we could leave the park, but instead ended up at a Reception hut with a barrier... Read More |
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| All Saints (Asfordby) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | All Saints, Asfordby: The church is usually open on Saturdays between 2pm and 4pm, but we were fortunate because there was a service here today, from 10.30am until 11.30am, so we arrived as close as we could to the finish time of the service (which, because we got lost, was 12 noon). The congregati... Read More |
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| St Mary and St Hardulf (Breedon on the Hill) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 15th Mar 2019 | 3 | 5 | 4 | St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill: This church is visible from miles around, perched on top of its hill, which used to be an Iron Age hillfort (The Bulwarks). Most of the fortifications have been quarried away, and at the eastern side of the church there is a steep drop down into a large q... Read More |
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| Rothley Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Rothley Cross, Leicestershire: The church is usually kept locked, but we had arranged to pick up a key from the Parish Office mid-afternoon. However, calling at the office, there was no reply. Walking back to the church, I spoke to a lady who had been busy clearing the churchyard of broken branc... Read More |
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| Bottesford Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Market Cross, Bottesford: We saw this purely by chance as we turned down the road heading north towards the A1 and home, and stopped to take photographs. The village stocks and whipping post were right next to the cross, which was placed on top of five steps, the top two of which are modern repairs. | 121 | 6 |
| St Peter's Church (Redmile) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Carved Anglo Saxon Stone, St Peter's Church, Redmile: Our last planned visit before heading off home, and this church didn't disappoint, despite being greeted by "Warning. Falling Masonry" signs on entering the church through the south door! The north western part of the nave was cordoned off, with... Read More |
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| St Michael and All Angels (Harston) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Anglo Saxon cross fragments, St Michael and All Angels, Harston: Before visiting, I wasn’t able to find out much about the church or the AS stone fragments. I was hoping for a church guide book, but there was nothing. There were newspaper articles and photos of the bell tower and the bells displa... Read More |
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| Asfordby Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Asfordby Village Cross: Not really much to see, as the cross shaft is obviously modern, on an older base, but as this was just round the corner from All Saints, we whizzed round to take a very quick look. | 121 | 2 |
| St Bartholomew (Sproxton) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 17th Mar 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Sproxton Cross, St Bartholomew's Church: This church was a little way out of the village and we parked in a small metalled area next to a 'gallop' at SK 85667 24972 and braved the wind to walk back down the road to the gate into the churchyard.
The vicar had previously told us the cross had been ... Read More |
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| Camp Hill (Catcherside) | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Camp Hill Hillfort, Catcherside, Knowesgate: We drove up to Catcherside, which was very obviously a very well looked after cluster of farmhouses with a common courtyard between. As Andrew was looking for somewhere to park, a man walked out of Catcherside Cottage so I leapt out of the car and asked ... Read More |
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| Rugley Walls (Cambo) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Saw from a distance | 24th Feb 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Rugley Walls Holy Well: (note wellies a must if trying to get to the well): We stopped off here very quickly as we wanted to leave enough time to see the settlement at Catcherside.
Whilst we could see the source of the well, and there was a gate into the field, we would have need our wellies to ... Read More |
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| The Elsdon Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Cuthberts, Elsdon (The Elsdon Stone): We stopped off at the very friendly and informal tea shop for tea (one tea bag in a pot for 2) and an ‘omelette sandwich’ (was supposed to be fried egg, and it took me a while to recover from the taste). We’ve been to the church before, but not with the... Read More |
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| Steng Cross and Winter's Gibbet | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Steng Cross & Winter's Gibbet, near Elsdon: If there was a category for Ambience = Spooky/Very Spooky I would assign it to this site.
This is a remote spot, at the very top of the moor at the western end of the forest which runs along the north side of the road. The thought of anyone being hung... Read More |
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| The Rothbury Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Rothbury Font/Anglo Saxon Cross & Other Fragments: We started off in Rothbury, parking on Haw Hill, just outside the church. We intended to go for a cup of tea, but the town was inundated with tourists and bikers, so we went straight to the church to find the font. I’d forgotten how glorious t... Read More |
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| St Mary's Churchyard Cross (Wirksworth) | Ancient Cross | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 17th Sep 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Mary's Churchyard Cross, Wirksworth: I've split this page off as the cross has it's own HE scheduling record and Pastscape record, and got a little lost in with the other Anglo Saxon carved stones within the church itself.
Until we wandered around the churchyard, we didn't know this cross was ... Read More |
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| The Fawns (Kirkwhelpington) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Cairn SE of The Fawns (220m west of Broom House farm): This cairn is easily visible from the top of the ridge, as we walked from the Fawns Farm/Moated Manorial Earthworks, along the footpath, then down hill. The brown blob of the rubbing post comes into sight first, then the circular mound of the ca... Read More |
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| Fawns Moated Site | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Fawns Medieval Moated Site: "One of the few surviving examples in Northumberland and exceptionally well preserved" is how Historic England describe this site. As the third stop on our short circular walk to the east of Kirkwhelpington, this was a nice site to stop and look at. Easier to see the la... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (Kirkwhelpington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | St Mary's Well, Kirkwhelpington: We had previously stopped off at St Bartholomew's Church in the village, and photographed the sundial and some medieval grave slabs. Parking at the eastern end of the the village, almost opposite the entrance to Eastlands, we crossed the small bridge over the ford an... Read More |
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| St George's Well (Kirkwhelpington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St George's Holy Well, Kirkwhelpington: The second stop of four on our short circular walk around Kirkwhelpington. This well is in a lovely location, very peaceful and quiet (once the farmer and his numerous dogs had driven off in his four-wheel drive buggy!). Two holy wells within a couple of hund... Read More |
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| Hallington Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hallington Holy Well: We drove past this well, despite having the OS map with the location of the well marked. In the end we drove slowly back towards Hallington village, identifying the field because it is smaller than the others, with a fence line and line of trees that runs parallel to the road,... Read More |
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| Barningham Moor 99 | Rock Art | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Barningham Moor 99: This was a lovely stone, found a few metres east of the track. The cup with three penannulars was clearly made out. The cup marks were a little more difficult to spot on the day, but could be felt by running my finger tips over the rock. The five cups towards the north end of th... Read More |
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| Barningham Moor 114 | Rock Art | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Barningham Moor 114: This triangular shaped rock sits in relative isolation on the moor. There is considerably more lichen on the stone than when it was surveyed by NADRAP and photographed by rich32 in 2009. It was a good job I had the description with me, but even with rich32 pointing out the mot... Read More |
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| Cowclose House (Barningham Moor) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Cowclose House Unenclosed Settlement, Barningham Moor: In some ways, this settlement was much easier to identify on the ground than Grey Stones, just to the south east, as there was a ditch running east-west alongside the southern side of the metalled track, and a clear circular enclosure, which sto... Read More |
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| Barningham Moor 97 | Rock Art | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Barningham Moor 97 rock art panel: This rock was easy to pick out amongst the others on the hillside. It has clearly been squared off and has ‘feather’ marks in the middle as if it was just about to be quarried, but the workmen have walked off and forgotten about it.
Richard pointed out the d... Read More |
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| Grey Stones (Barningham Moor) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Grey Stones Settlement, Barningham Moor: As we parked just to the east of this settlement and walked south onto the moor, it was obvious we were walking up into something, but what that something was a little difficult to make out, until I started to be able to see low, circular banks. The blocks p... Read More |
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| Barningham Moor 1. | Rock Art | England | County Durham | Couldn't find | 6th Feb 2019 | 4 | Barningham Moor 1: Despite having the grid co-ordinates and also being with rich32, who knew where this stone had previously been located, we were unable to find it. in the end we started a few hundred yards to the west of Barningham Moor 96 and the three of us walked in a line back to BM 96, but n... Read More |
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| Barningham Moor 96 | Rock Art | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Barningham Moor 96: Our first rock art panel on Barningham Moor, and this was a lovely rock to start with. It was so near the road, and easy to reach, with stunning views over to the north towards Barnard Castle. | 117 | 3 |
| St Michael & All Angels (Barningham) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross Base and Cross Head/Grave Marker (Barningham): Having arranged a day out with rich32 to seek out and photograph some of the Barningham Moor rock art panels, I'd also seen the cross base on Historic England, so we arrived in Barningham half an hour before the meeting time to look around the chu... Read More |
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| Barningham Modern Stone Circle | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | County Durham | Visited | 6th Feb 2019 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Barningham Modern Stone Circle: This stone circle, created for a village event in 2006, and made up of gateposts, lies on private land, but is visible from the road which runs roughly east-west through the village. Coming out of the lane from St Michael and All Saints, the circle is virtually oppos... Read More |
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| Homers Lane Cross (Warden) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 27th Jan 2019 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Homer's Lane Cross, Warden: This is another cross base that we hadn't spotted with a short radius of where we live (have Pastscape been adding new records to their database?) This cross base and part of its shaft was easy to find and in a really nice setting, with a small stream trickling away to it... Read More |
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| Acomb Sanctuary Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Jan 2019 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Acomb Sanctuary Cross: I spotted this cross base whilst doing some research for a Journal of Antiquities tumulus not far away a few days ago. This cross base is just off the A6079 Cross Bank, going north from Acomb. This is a very busy road and after driving up and back down the road a couple of tim... Read More |
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| Fairy Stone (Fourstones) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 26th Jan 2019 | Fairy Stone (Fourstones): This is one of the sites I added to the Portal from The Northern Antiquarian, so whilst we were in the area, decided to try and find it. We parked at NY 89360 67929 on the outskirts of Fourstones Village (I didn’t think there was much at Fourstones, but there is a large p... Read More |
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| Corby's Bridge | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Jan 2019 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Corby's Bridge Settlement: This site was quite difficult to make out, as there were stones and banks everywhere, with trees and shrubs growing between them.
On the way down the slope from the rock shelter, we thought we saw the foundations of two old buildings (the stones were aligned in a shape)... Read More |
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| Corby Crags Rock Shelter | Cave or Rock Shelter | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Jan 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Corby Crags Rock Shelter: Parked at NU 12646 09945 and walked up to the gate at NU 12763 10096 (avoiding the fast moving cars), and followed the track up to almost the top of the hill, then turned south west, following little tracks through the bracken. On our way up the hill, we spotted a mound of ... Read More |
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| Carlisle Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jan 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Carlisle Cross: in a visit to Carlisle, we decided not to make an hour to visit what we thought was a cross in Rickerby Park (turned out to be the carved stump of a tree trunk!) and a holy well nearby. This was the first time I've not seen anyone sitting or playing around the base of the cross, and... Read More |
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| Broomhouse (Haltwhistle) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2019 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Iron Age/Romano British Settlement, Broomhouse, south of Haltwhistle: From the smelt works, we headed back to the A69 and turned left towards Haltwhistle. Just before crossing the river South Tyne for the second time, we turned left up Bellister Bank, parking on the grass verge where the road was s... Read More |
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| Tommy Stout's Well (Thornley Gate) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2019 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Tommy Stout's Well, Thornley Gate: Another site ticked off the list of Isaac’sTea Trail. This is obviously a popular spot for walkers, as there are paths both sides of the river, and we passed a number of dog walkers. The small layby on the south side of the river was full (2 cars), so we parked ... Read More |
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| Park House (West Allen) | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Dec 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Boundary stone (?) near Parkhouse, Mohope Burn, West Allen: Andrew found this stone in a book about Isaac’s Tea Trail in Waterstones in Hexham, and as this is an area we’ve not really explored before, we decided to drive out and take a look. Andrew says no one is sure what this stone is – an ... Read More |
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| Limestone Brae (West Allen) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Dec 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Limestone Brae Overturned Cross Base: We parked next to the chapel, just before the lane to Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey. At first sight this stone just seemed like a boulder in the field. “Are you sure that’s it?” I asked my husband. We let ourselves in through the gate into the field and w... Read More |
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| Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery | Museum | Scotland | North Lanarkshire | Visited | 29th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow: After Glasgow Cathedral and the Govan Stones, I found the exhibition of Scotland's Early People a little small and disappointing, but what they had on display was interesting. Best items on display for me were the beaker found when they excavated Temple Wood in Kilmarti... Read More |
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| Tuilyies | Standing Stones | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 2nd Nov 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Tuilyies Stone Setting: There is a small layby on the A985, right by the stones, but as there was no direct entrance into the field, we ended up walking along the grass verge down to where the wire fence is jointed to a wooden one. This is by a small clump of trees, at NT 02801 86657, where we ... Read More |
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| Pitcorthie. | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 2nd Nov 2018 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Pitcorthie Standing Stone, Dunfermline: Our last site visit of our short holiday, and I wish we'd picked a better spot to end on. After the Balfarg Henge, I shouldn't have been surprised that this stone is surprisingly right in the middle of a housing estate, on Standing Stone Walk.
It is a po... Read More |
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| Dogton | Class III Pictish Cross Slab | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 1st Nov 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Dogton Cross: With the clocks having gone back an hour on the Sunday before, it was difficult to correctly judge how fast dusk would fall. It was getting a little dark, but whilst we were here, we really wanted to see this stone.
With the roads busy at this time of night, we managed to park... Read More |
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| Balfarg Riding School mortuary enclosure and henge | Henge | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 1st Nov 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Balfarg Riding School Henge Reconstruction: This now recreated henge is just by the A92, at the end of Old Leslie Road, with part of it seeming to have been cut by the construction of the A92. Traffic streams by constantly.
We arrived with the sun high in the sky and deep shadows, which tested my... Read More |
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| Balbirnie | Stone Circle | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 1st Nov 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Balbirnie Stone Circle: It was a good job we had the SatNav and the GPS, which took us almost to the spot. As this was right next to a modern housing estate, we found layby to park in about 100m metres away in Tofthill and walked back to the stone circle, which has a footpath running to its eastern... Read More |
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| Balfarg Henge | Henge | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 1st Nov 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Balfarg Henge: From Balbirnie stone circle, to reach this recreated henge, we needed to turn right across the busy A92, then almost immediately left down the B969 Western Avenue. The SatNav then took us directly to the henge. Right in the middle of a housing estate, on a circular street appropriat... Read More |
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| The Maiden Stone (Tullibody) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Maiden Stone, Tullibody: This stone coffin is next to the ruins of the old church. We parked in the car park for the new church and walked through the graveyard which runs parallel to the road. Some really unusual tombstones, and quite spooky to walk through the graveyard and look around the o... Read More |
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| Court Cave | Cave or Rock Shelter | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 1st Nov 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Court Cave, East Wemyss: This cave is signposted as 'Dangerous' and 'Keep Out' due to falling rocks from the roof, so despite reading about the symbols on Canmore, we didn't venture in. | ||
| Haer Stane | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Haer Stane, Tullibody: This is one of the strangest erratics I’ve seen, as it’s been repurposed as a war memorial. We parked on School Road, by the school, and walked down to the entrance to this long, thin park; the only gate we could find into this area was through a lych gate at the corner o... Read More |
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| Deil's Cradle (Dollar) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Saw from a distance | 31st Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Devil's Cradle, Dollar: With this being Halloween, I was keen to try and see this massive erratic rock. From the Wizard’s Stone eastwards, the road gets narrower, not much wider than a single track road, so we parked in Tarmangie Drive, at NS 96743 99038, and walked up Upper Hillfoot Road (the so... Read More |
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| Wizard's Stone (Dollar) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Wizard's Stone (Dollar): We stopped off at a café in Dollar for a sandwich and cup of tea, then set off north east out of the town to find the Wizard’s Stone. This was really easy to spot. There is a small area to park on Hillfoot Road, where the road divides, at NS 96634 98999.
Rather than... Read More |
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| Carleith (Crook of Devon) | Cairn | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Saw from a distance | 31st Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Carleith Cairn (Crook of Devon): We didn’t go into the field as there were two very boisterous young bullocks who crowded the gate, along with their protective mothers, so I photographed it mainly from the gate into the field. From the edge of the field, this looked almost completely round, and I ... Read More |
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| Tullibole | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Tullibole Church Ruins with hogback in five pieces: Our first stop of the day, and as Andrew told me this was a site where 11 witches were tried, condemned and burned, a site I thought would be a good, spooky, start to the Halloween. But, this is essentially a field with a few gravestones sticking ... Read More |
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| Bull Stone (Crook of Devon) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Bull Stone, Crook of Devon: We parked in St Serf’s Road, Crook of Devon, at NO 03303 00037 and walked down Church Road, then took the right hand fork of the footpath, which lead almost directly south. Just under 220 metres from the fork, there is a farm track which leads off to the east. The ... Read More |
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| Chapel Well (Cambusbarron) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | -1 | 2 | 4 | Bruce's Well, Cambusbarron: Even with the GPS from the Portal, we had great trouble finding this well, and in the end had to ask two locals. One pointed us to an old water fountain in a nearby park, now repurposed as a planter; the other took us to a footpath by the side of a small stream and point... Read More |
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| Coneypark Nursery (Cambusbarron) | Cairn | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 31st Oct 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Coneypark Nursery Cairn: This cairn is right in the middle of a modern housing estate, where it has been left as a corner ‘open space’. The sides of the cairn have been marginally cut away to create the road and the gardens for the houses, but it is possible to walk over the cairn. A few of th... Read More |
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| St Thomas's Well (Cambusbarron) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Thomas's Well, Cambusbarron: St Thomas’s Well is not far from the rock art panel. Going back to the car, we drove further down Douglas Terrace, past the grave yard, to where the road (St Thomas’s Well) turns right. The well is just past it’s junction with the Old Turnpike Road.
This we... Read More |
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| King's Park Cup and Rings | Rock Art | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | King's Park Cup and Rings, Sterling: From Stirling, we headed off to south end of King’s Park which lies south of the A811 Dumbarton Road. The rock art panel is located at the southern end, near the golf course.
We parked on Douglas Terrace and used the little cut-through to the park at the eas... Read More |
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| St Ninian's Well (Stirling) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 | St Ninian's Well, Stirling: This was just over the road from the Wellgreen Carpark, but we had difficulty in finding this well, because of its rather hidden location. Despite the GPS telling us we were only 20m away, we were unable to find it until we saw the footpath leading to Wellgreen Place at ... Read More |
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| Butt Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Butt Well, Sterling Castle: We parked in the layby near the King’s Knot, just off the A811. There is a footpath signposted to Butt Well leading through the field next to the layby, just down the grassy slope.
Walking up towards the Castle, we were met by a fair number of dog walkers walking to... Read More |
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| Randolphfield Stones | Standing Stones | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 30th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Randolphfield Stones, Sterling: This visit felt really strange, as the stones were literally in front of the police station, and I wondered if I’d get a tap on the shoulder and the memory card from my camera confiscated! No one seemed to turn a hair, though I took a number of photographs of both ... Read More |
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| The Govan Stones | Museum | Scotland | North Lanarkshire | Visited | 29th Oct 2018 | 3 | 5 | 5 | The Govan Stones, Govan Old Church: We only found out about this exhibition/display through a chance email to Glasgow Life, enquiring if St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art next to Glasgow Cathedral had any early Christian stones we could see and photograph. They replied 'no' but told us ab... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Well (Glasgow Cathedral) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | North Lanarkshire | Visited | 29th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Mungo's/St Kentigern's Well, Glasgow Cathedral: This Cathedral is also known as Barony Kirk, High Church, Metropolitan Kirk & St Mongo’s. The holy well is in the south eastern corner of the crypt/undercroft, next to a collection of architectural fragments and part of the arcade of the original... Read More |
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| Lady Well (Glasgow) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | North Lanarkshire | Visited | 29th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Lady Well, Glasgow: To get to this well, we had to walk through the path to the south of the cathedral leading to the Necropolis, then use a gate at the junction of Wishart Street and Ladywell Street, walking east towards the dead end of this street. The well is to the northern side of Ladywell Str... Read More |
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| Boar Stone (Armadale) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Boar Stone (Barbachlaw), Armadale: This is another site we'd picked up from the Ancient Stones website, and although it's not far from my daughter's house in Amadale, we wouldn't normally drive this road. This stone is clearly visible from the A89. We managed to park in the gateway to another f... Read More |
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| Gogar Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Gogar or Easter Norton Standing Stone: The last time I visited this stone, the field was planted with crop with no easy way of crossing the knee high rows of plants, so we viewed it from a distance. On this visit, the field had been left fallow, so we parked in the small layby on Freelands Road... Read More |
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| Niddrie House | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Niddrie House Stone: This has to be one of the saddest little standing stones I’ve seen. Largely hidden by ivy and surrounded by rubbish, in between a largish utility building and a padlocked, disused cemetery, with a bus stop about 10m to the south west and a new estate with many security camera... Read More |
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| Slidey Stane (Holyrood Park) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Slidey Stane, Holyrood Park: As we were in Edinburgh City Centre, we thought we'd try and find this large erratic stone which is featured on The Ancient Stones website, but my goodness - what a search we had!
We followed the directions given on The Ancient Stones, and even armed with the GPS ... Read More |
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| Hanging Stanes (Braid Road) | Marker Stone | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 | The Hanging Stanes: Having spotted this site on the Ancient Stones website, and with them being just down the road from the Buck Stane, we decided to pay this site a visit on the way into Edinburgh City Centre. I don't know why I thought these were originally associated with witches, but found out ... Read More |
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| Caiy Stane | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Caiy Stane, Edinburgh: It was a good job we had the SatNav to help us find this stone, as all the streets around were called ‘Caiy (something)’ and we could have been driving around for ages!
This is a magnificent stone, set back in a niche backing onto someone’s garden on Caiystane Vie... Read More |
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| Buck Stane | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 28th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Buck Stane, Braid Road, Edinburgh: Our first stop of the day in the Tour of Edinburgh Stones. The Buck Stone is in a niche on the western side of Braid Road, about 125m north of the junction with Buckstone Drive and before it turns into Buckstone Terrace.
There is a sign explaining what the ... Read More |
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| Easter Broomhouse | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone: Dusk was falling as we arrived at this site, which I've long wanted to see. We parked by the water treatment works over the road at NT 67718 76493 and walked down the side of the ploughed area of the field until we were level with the stone, then ‘waded’ throug... Read More |
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| St John's Well (Spott) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St John's Well, Spott: With the wind still whistling and starting to get dark, we really wanted to see this well and the nearby Easter Broomhouse standing stone before calling it a day. At the north eastern end of Spott, a gated stile by the small school lets you into the field, which, at the time ... Read More |
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| Witches' Stone (Spott) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Witches' Stone, Spott: I had expected something a little grander than a large stone by the side of a hedgerow with a rusting iron railing and a sign that we could hardly read. There is a photograph on the Canmore record with a photograph of the sign from 2010 which is legible: “The Witches St... Read More |
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| Rood Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Rood Well, Stenton: A very pretty well, and very easy to find. Just by the side of the road, some 300 metres north east along the B6370 from The Tron. The well is below pavement level, with steps leading down to it. The well cavity was damp but there was no pool of water. I couldn’t see any pipe... Read More |
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| Mayshiel Stone Circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Mayshiel Stone Setting: Whilst we were here to see the stones at NT 6298 6465, the first thing I spotted was a huge pile of clearance stones just up the hill in a field just north of the B6355. The second was what looked like a standing stone at the edge of the field at NT 62924 64612. On closer l... Read More |
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| Packman's Grave (Whiteadder Reservoir) | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | East Lothian | Couldn't find | Packman's Grave, Whiteadder Reservoir: Despite having the grid reference, we were unable to find anything at this site, which was disappointing. We did find something remarkably similar at NT 62814 64541 - five stones in a kite-;ike shape, not far to the south west of the Mayshield Stone Setting. | 105 | 3 | ||||
| Whiteadder Reservoir | Cairn | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Whiteadder Reservoir cairn and stone setting: We parked at NT 64304 64291 and walked along the first part of the Herring Road onto the land high above Whiteadder Reservoir with the GPS to find this stone setting and enclosure, with the cold winds whipping around our ears. From what I'd read on Canm... Read More |
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| Duns Mercat Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Duns Mercat Cross: Having set off after a snow storm this morning, we stopped off in Duns just after 12 noon for coffee and a scone.
We went to the café we went to when we were here last (some 3-4 years ago), only to find the café open but no-one in, despite many cars in the town. Parking just... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Bothal) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross Shaft Fragment, St Andrew's Church, Bothal: I had arranged to collect the key to the church from the Reverend John Parks, who lives in Pegswood. The church in Bothal is very easy to find, and in a very scenic place, with a nearby footpath running down to the River Wansbeck.
The ... Read More |
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| Lady Well (Bavington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Oct 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Lady Well, Bavington: This is a lovely spot, and well worth the short walk to and from the road to see this well (or what remains of it).
We parked at NY 99286 80701, just off the B6342, and followed the track northwards towards Ladywell Farm. There was a big boulder with lots of cut marks at ... Read More |
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| Jemmy's Well (Cambo) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Jemmy's Well, Cambo: One of three wells in the village of Cambo, but only this one is marked on the modern OS map, and the only mention we found of it was in Binnall and Dodd's 1941 'Holy Wells of Northumberland and Durham' document. The well lies on private land, just south of Cambo School, and th... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Well (Mitford) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Site of St Cuthbert's Holy Well, Mitford: After having visited Bothal church and spent well over an hour looking around, we stopped off at The Old Chantry tea rooms in Morpeth for a bowl of soup and a cup of tea, then headed off to the small, but very pretty village of Mitford, just over 2.5 km west... Read More |
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| Bedlington Market Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Market Cross, Bedlington: We spotted this rather unusual market cross on our way to St Cuthbert's Church to see the tenth century carved slab, now inside the church. The road was less busy on our return, and we managed to pull into the small car park outside the hairdressers opposite (it was shu... Read More |
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| Leper's Well (Bamburgh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Oct 2018 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Leper's Well, Bamburgh: Guided by the grid reference given on Pastscape, we walked down Doctor's Lane from St Aidan's Well. Some of the old stone walls around properties, and at the sides of the lanes running off here are ancient, and we thought they could well belong to the old leper hospital.
... Read More |
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| Bamburgh Barrow 1 | Round Barrow(s) | England | Northumberland | Saw from a distance | 9th Oct 2018 | 1 | 3 | Rubbing Stone & Tumulus, Bamburgh: Spotted this apparent 'standing stone' in the field when we were walking back along Doctor's Lane towards St Aidan's Well. There was no obvious way into the field along this route, and we'd already walked for miles, so we contented ourselves with photographing fro... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Bedlington) | Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Cuthbert's Church, Bedlington: The Corpus told us the stone we were looking for was on the external east face of the nave. We were joined by a group of four boys who wandered into the churchyard and wondered what we were doing, so I told them, showed them the image, but none of us could find it.... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Bolam) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St. Andrew's Church, Bolam: Hogback, Ancient Crosses and Sculptured Stones: It is almost four years to the day when I first visited this church (15th October 2014), but had only just started making contributions to the Portal and thought the cut-off date for any entries was 1,000AD. That visit took... Read More |
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| St Oswald in Lee (Heavenfield) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Heavenfield cross shaft and cross base: We have been to this church before, but didn’t realise the Roman altar had been recut for reuse as a cross base, so decided to revisit it. It is in a really glorious location. The church is set back from the road, so we parked in the layby by the large wood... Read More |
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| St Aidan's Well (Bamburgh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Oct 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St Aidan's Well, Bamburgh: This well seemed to form a ‘hub’ for visitors, with a school party and tourists sitting on the benches and grass around this structure, so we needed to make two trips to this well. By 5.30pm there was no one around (apart from the blue wheelie bins lined up along the s... Read More |
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| St Aidan's Church (Bamburgh) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh: We hadn’t intended to visit this church, but having seen two wells located in the property immediately to its east, we decided to take a look before heading off to the castle. The church is open during daylight hours, and is very welcoming, with lights in the nave, ch... Read More |
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| Bamburgh Castle | Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Wells and Anglo Saxon Stones at Bamburgh Castle: Note: there is disabled parking next to the State Rooms, but there are many stairs in and around the castle. It’s been a long time since we last came here, and the visit today happened because I’d been sent a 1947 Antiquarian paper about the holy... Read More |
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| St Mary The Virgin (Ponteland) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Oct 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10th century grave marker, Ponteland: As this stone was one of only a few listed on the Corpus in Northumberland that we had still to see, we had previously visited on 20th September 2018, but were unable to get into the tower. Today, I’d arranged to meet church warden David Butler, plus another ... Read More |
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| Cockburnspath Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Cockburnspath Mercat Cross: Before coming to Cockburnspath, we'd visited the really beautiful Cove, with its smuggler's caves. We'd had to park in the village and follow the single track road running along the top of the cliffs to an old mine tunnel which formed a fun, but very dark, shortcut throug... Read More |
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| St Bartholomew's Church (Newbiggin by the Sea) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | Ancient cross slabs, Newbiggin by the Sea: The website for St. Bartholomew’s announces that the church “has one of the most important collections of coffin lids and grave markers in the county, mostly re-set during the 1913 restoration, when the north aisle, demolished in antiquity, was reinstat... Read More |
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| St. Helen's on the Lea (Old Cambus) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Sep 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Hogback at the ruins of St Helen's Chapel, Old Cambus: We found the first hogback easily – at the northern side of the east gable wall, but the second one we hunted for but were unable to find. The cross incised slab we searched for ages, even matching up the angles of the stone to the masonry be... Read More |
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| Wellbraes | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Sep 2018 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Eyemouth Leisure Centre Well, Wellbraes: This well can only be accessed through the Leisure Centre. Having walked round the Leisure Centre and surrounding buildings, I had to ask at the reception desk, and show a photo of the well. The receptionist didn’t know but one of the personal trainers did... Read More |
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| Percy's Leap (Beanley) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Sep 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Percy's Leap, Beanley (associated with Percy's Cross): Labelled ‘Percy’s Leap’ on the OS with a semi-circular enclosure marked against the edge of the road. Having the car pointed in this direction, and curious to see this site, as it sounded related to Percy’s Cross (by the name), we heade... Read More |
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| Percy's Cross (Beanley) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Percy's Cross, near Beanley, Northumberland: We didn’t have enough time to head up the hill behind Old Bewick, as it had gone 5pm, and there was about a mile each way to walk to the first site. Having spotted Percy’s Leap and Percy’s Cross on the OS map, we decided to stop off and look at thes... Read More |
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| Holy Trinity (Old Bewick) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Sep 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Ancient crosses, Holy Trinity Church, Old Bewick: This is truly a real gem of a church, with great historical notes in a binder in the church. I took these temporarily out of the folder and read out from them as we went round and saw the individual features identified. There was another set of not... Read More |
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| St Bartholomew's Church (Whittingham) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ancient Cross, St Bartholomew's Church, Whittingham: [please note: there are steps up to the churchyard and church; there may be wheelchair access which we didn't spot on the day - please check before visiting]. This cross was remarkably easy to spot, as it was sited on the corner of the wall to the... Read More |
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| Hawklemass Well (Whittingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Sep 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Hawklemass Well, Whittingham: From St Bartholomew's Church in Whittingham, we drove round to this site, parking on the verge near the footpath sign to the church, which was quarter of a mile over the hill. Stepping over the stile into the field, there was a boggy patch marked by a substantial post,... Read More |
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| Woodhorn Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 16th Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Woodhorn Church Museum: This church is now deconsecrated and is a museum. It is only open on Bank Holidays and Heritage Days, such as ‘Doors Open Days’. We arrived just before 1pm and they had just arrived to open the church up.
The Woodhorn Cross was easy to find, but asking where the oth... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Heddon on the Wall) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 19th Sep 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | St Andrew's Church, Heddon on the Wall: The church is no longer open every day, but we were asked to go along to Holy Communion at 10.30am on a Thursday and stay and enjoy the church afterwards. A very kind lady called Ann showed us round (I think she mentioned her husband was the historian), and I... Read More |
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| Edinburgh Runestone | Carving | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 18th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | New site of the Edinburgh Runestone (not been moved yet): As we were going to a building near to hear, we thought we’d do a detour to this part of the University.
We wandered around George Square first of all, but only found a modern sculpture called The Dreamer. We then identified 50 George S... Read More |
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| Grassmarket modern menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 18th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Modern Megalith, Grassmarket, Edinburgh: This stone was on our walk for the afternoon. It took a bit of finding, located behind the bins and underneath the trees. This modern megalith stands under a group of trees on the paved area of Grassmarket. In the time we spent photographing it, no-one else... Read More |
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| Ulgham Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 16th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ulgham Cross, Near Ashington, Northumberland: From Newbeggin By The Sea, we headed inland to try and find this cross, which we thought was near the church. In typical Tate fashion, we'd arrived when there was a Sculpture Show at the Church; as they were charging to go in, we declined, and set off t... Read More |
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| Redhills Rock Art | Rock Art | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2018 | -1 | 4 | 4 | Sockbridge / Redhills cist, small stone circle and round cairn (now all destroyed): We went to see this site as part of our amateur investigation of the possible Newbeggin Stone Alignment. Whilst the location is glorious, overlooking a steep scarp slope to the River Eamont below, and views to the h... Read More |
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| Kells Well (Newbeggin) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2018 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Kells Well, Newbeggin: This well is located opposite a house called Rockholme on the OS map, and near the Clickem Inn, just south of the B5288
The farmer from Sycamore View told us about the well, saying it had recently been “done up and claimed for the village” by the villagers. This was mo... Read More |
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| Motherby (Cumbria) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Well, Motherby, Cumbria: This is a very old village, with very picturesque cottages and farm houses. The well is not recorded on either Pastscape or Historic England.
The ‘wall’ is a strange structure. Following the line of stones up the hill, it ends in what seems to be a building platform... Read More |
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| Newbeggin Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Newbeggin Stone Row: We went along to Newbeggin armed with permission from a number of landowners to walk along their boundary stone walls to look for other possible standing stones. We found a few more, but these looked more like erratics which had been shaped and used in the stone walls. I will ... Read More |
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| Twizel Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Site of possible standing stone, Twizel: The boulder no longer appears to be in the field, although there is a small raised area in the field – as this is England, we couldn’t find anyone to ask permission to walk into the field, so photographed it from the fence near the cottage. For a last st... Read More |
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| Norham Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Norham Village Cross: (Before looking at this cross, we stopped off to look at the Victorian Jubilee Fountain just over the border in Scotland, which still has its original pump handle, although this doesn't work). We passed this cross several times today, but with it being immediately next to the c... Read More |
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| Nun's Well (Upsettlington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nun's Well, Upsettlington: From St. Mary's Well, walking up the hill to the gate which leasds into the next field, we walked back down hill towards a steam. The well monument can be seen between two large trees, just before a small burn leading westwards into the RiverTweed. The trees on the wester... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (Upsettlington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Mary's Well, Upsettlington: From Monk’s Well, and in the same field, we walked east-north-east towards this fenced off area of the field. To our left hand side, raised some 0.5m+ above ground level, and seemingly in a perfect circle, was a funny wooded area; closer inspection revealed it was b... Read More |
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| Monk's Well (Upsettlington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Monk's Well, Upsetllington: From St Cuthbert's Church in Norham with its Saxon pillar, we went to Norham Castle (well worth looking round, and free of charge). This was the start of quite a treat - three holy wells in two adjacent fields!
From the castle, we crossed the bridge over the River T... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Norham) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th Sep 2018 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Pillar, Norham: The journey seemed to take a lot longer than anticipated, and we didn’t arrive here until almost 3pm. At first, keeping the tower of the church in view, we went the wrong way, past the village cross and the first school, then turned round, travelling back along West St... Read More |
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| Saffron Well (Barhaugh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st Aug 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Saffron Well (Barhaugh): After the peace and quiet of Kirkaugh Wells and the Church of the Holy Paraclete, we drove past this even more remote spot. Andrew was brave enough to hop over the stile and descend the very steep, overgrown path down to the river. He reported that a ‘stream just started ... Read More |
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| Whitley Castle (Alston) | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Whitley Castle / Epiacum Fort/Iron Age Hillfort: We were initially going to Kirkheugh to see the old cross there, but were on the wrong side of the river, and passed the fort, named Whitley Castle on the OS map, so stopped in the car park. There was a van and two other cars in the car park, and we ... Read More |
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| Kirkhaugh Wells | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Kirkhaugh Wells, near Church of the Holy Paraclete: After having spent about 2 hours wandering around Epiacum fort, we left to go for a cup of tea in Alston, where we called to the Top Café for tea and crumpets. As suggested by Alastair Robertson, we called into Local Links/Library at the Town Hal... Read More |
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| Kirkhaugh Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kirkhaugh Cross, Church of the Holy Paraclete: Having seen one of the wells on the opposite side of the road, we turned our attention to finding the cross. This church is virtually hidden behind the trees, with only a portion of its eastern end and a narrow, tall spire peeping out of the trees at it... Read More |
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| Whitcastle Hill | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 29th Aug 2018 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Whitcastle Hill Prehistoric Earthwork: We decided to return to this site another day, having had a glimpse of the herd of very large cattle grazing over the site. Shame - the aerial photograph of this site on Canmore looks absolutely fascinating! | 93 | 10 |
| Whitcastle Sike | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Whitcastle Sike Settlement: The OS map shows a group of settlements and hillforts which can be found to the east north east of Broxholme Easter Loch, and today in a pretty remote spot down a gated road. We parked at NT 43929 11939, at the wide entrance to a farm track/field entrance and walked to t... Read More |
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| Borthwick Mains | Class I Pictish Symbol Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Couldn't find | 29th Aug 2018 | Borthwick Mains Possible Pictish Symbol Stone: We got the location of this symbol stone completely wrong, and whilst we found Borthwick Mains, did not find the symbol stone. Its now high on my 'wish list' to return to. A lot of building work had been happening here, with the entrance to the farm i... Read More |
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| Midshiels Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Midshiels Cairn: Having been warned about the large cattle who might "go for us if they saw us", I was cautious about walking the additional 100m from the standing stone to the cairn. Andrew decided that as the cattle were at the far end of the field, and though large, looked relatively docile. �... Read More |
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| Midshiels Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Midshiels Standing Stone, near Hawick: At our last visit, we were put off from entering the field because of a very large bull and his ladies. The bull stood guard near the stone, and any approach made him stand tall, with splayed legs, looking menacingly at us – I contented myself with taking ph... Read More |
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| Cavers Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Cavers Cross, near Hawick: From the motte, we drove round to Cavers – a very nicely kept estate, with well kept verges and few places to park along the straight, narrow road by the houses. In the end, we pulled right up to the fence at the largish entrance to a field gate at NT 54235 15805, inten... Read More |
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| Fast Castle (Bedrule) | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Fast Castle/Bedrule Motte: Not far from Bedrule Church this motte is marked on the map. At first it just appeared as a mound behind some trees, and we weren’t going to stop, until we realised the tree cover finished and the motte was clearly visible from the track going to Bedrule Mill. We let o... Read More |
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| Bedrule Parish Church | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Hogback fragments, Bedrule Parish Church: (note for less mobile visitors, whilst access into the churchyard is on a tarmacked path, there are some steps up into the porch where these fragments are stored. Disabled access is signposted but the door was locked at the time of our visit). This parish c... Read More |
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| Rubers Law | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 29th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Rubers Law (only seen from a distance): This impressive hill fort dominates the area. We decided it was too far and too high to attempt today, although I was fascinated by its changing profile as we drove along the minor roads to Bedrule. We will come back when we're feeling fit and strong - it lo... Read More |
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| Hawthornside Farm (Bonchester Bridge) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 29th Aug 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Well/tank, Hawthornside Farm (Bonchester Bridge): We spotted this ‘well house’ purely by chance as we passed by, then needing to turn the car round to go to Bedrule Church with its hogback fragments. This is a lovely site, right by the A6088. The well house (or ‘sink’ as it is labelled on t... Read More |
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| Todley Hill Mound (Great Whittingham) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northamptonshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Todley Hill Mound, near Great Whittingham: Walking back to the car, we saw a couple of vans with trailers belonging to the farmers, and I was looking for someone to ask permission to enter the field to see the mound, but whilst the trailer doors were left wide open, no people were visible. There wa... Read More |
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| Brandy Well (Great Whittingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Brandy Well, Todridge Farm, near Great Whittingham: We decided to stop off here on our way to Carlisle to look for this unusually named holy well, near The Queens Arms pub/Chinese restaurant we’ve been to several times. We parked at NY 99652 71590, on the verge before the entrance to Todridge Far... Read More |
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| Kilmartin Churchyard (Poltalloch Enclosure) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Poltalloch Enclosure, Kilmartin churchyard: See main report for Kilmartin churchyard (MP 87.18). | 87 | 18 |
| Kilmartin Churchyard (Lapidarium) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmartin Church (Lapidarium): See visit report for Kilmartin Churchyard (MP87.18) | 87 | 18 |
| St Bridget's Church (Brigham) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Bridget's, Brigham (Anglo Saxon Stones): Whilst this church looks very austere from outside, and the entrance doors dark and foreboding, once inside the church, it is a completely different picture – this church is light, airy and welcoming. The painted ceilings are fantastic.
The church war... Read More |
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| Chantry Well (Brigham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | -1 | 2 | Chantry Well, Brigham (Destroyed) The Reverend Mary told us there was a holy well at Brigham. There are actually 2 listed – Chantry Well and Nun’s Well, next to the A66.
Mr. Furness, the church warden also mentioned the well, but said it was no longer there. In the field opposite the chur... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Well (Cumbria) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Kentigern's Well, Caldbeck: This was our last stop of the day, and to a part of Cumbria we've never travelled through before. From St. Bridget's in Brigham, we followed the B5299 to Caldbeck village, which took us over cattle grids and moorlands, with only sheep and the occasional other car in s... Read More |
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| St Bridget's Church (Bridekirk) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Font with Runic inscription, St. Bridget's, Bridekirk: We had an hour to fill between appointments between churches, so headed off to Bridekirk to see the font with runic inscription, which we'd missed during our last visit on 1st May 2015. The notice said the church was "normally open during daylig... Read More |
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| Kilmartin House | Museum | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Kilmartin Museum: We managed to get a space in the car park. From the number of cars parked outside the museum and along the roads, we thought the place would be heaving with people (including a bus tour which had turned up), but the café was quiet and relaxing and there was only one other lady an... Read More |
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| St John The Evangelist (Crosscanonby) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St John The Evangelist, Crosscanonby: We had arranged to meet the Reverend Mary at the church at 2pm. Between Gilcrux and here we had an hour to spare, so went into Cockermouth for lunch and a quick walk round the town. Travelling through Dearham and across the A596 to Crosscanonby, as we dropped ... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Dearham | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Mungo's Church, Dearham: AS Corpus Dearham 03 and The Adam Stone: This was a return visit. pre-arranged with the lovely Reverend Mary, who drove from Crosscanonby to very kindly unlock the door of the vestry to show us AS Corpus Dearham 03, part of a cross-head.
We also saw the Adam Stone. Ma... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Dearham | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient Crosses and a Norman font, St Mungo's Church, Dearham: After having been to two other churches which had been firmly locked, this church was, thankfully open and very welcoming.
The church was packed full of knitted scenes from the bible, jewellery and books. We missed the Adam Stone, b... Read More |
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| St Mary's Church (Gilcrux) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Mary's Church, Gilcrux: The little car park outside the church was full (3 cars and a Water Board van), so we had to park just west of the well and walk back to the church – only a little way. The church door was open for us this time.
This is a remarkable little church inside. At first s... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Church (Bromfield) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hogback and ancient crosses at St. Mungo's Church, Bromfield: Our first stop of the day. This is clearly an ancient village.
The church was locked, so the only stone we could see was in the porch – AS Corpus Bromfield 04. From the Corpus image, the top of the hogback looks clearer from the i... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Church (Bromfield) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 14th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Mungo's Church, Bromfield: We'd arranged with the church warden for the church to be left open for us for an hour or so this morning, so this was our first stop on a 'five church stop' tour. We were looking forward to finding cross head and cross shaft fragments, and to being able to see the rev... Read More |
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| Kilmartin Churchyard | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmartin Churchyard: Having booked ourselves in for an evening meal at the Kilmartin Arms opposite the church (warning: the portions were huge, but really good), we went across to the churchyard to find the cross slabs in the churchyard that Rachel Butter mentions in her "Kilmartin" book (page 99) ... Read More |
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| Nether Largie Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Stone Alignment: Ever since I read about this alignment in the early text for the Portal's book "The Old Stones" I've wanted to visit this location. It's in a lovely, lovely, setting, in the Kilmartin Glen. Having got used to Northumberland where you largely only see sheep or cattle ... Read More |
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| Nether Largie standing stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Standing Stone/Outlier to the stone alignment: The gate into the field with this standing stone was wired shut and the book we had with us asked us not to intrude into the field. There was also a group of largely, lively bullocks clustered around the gate, so we contented ourselves wi... Read More |
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| Glebe Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin: By the time I’d walked from Nether Largie Stone Alignment, across to Temple Wood and to Nether Largie, South, Mid, North and Glebe Cairn, I realised it was quite a long way (about 2km the sign post said), but I hadn’t really noticed the distance as the sites were so fasci... Read More |
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| Nether Largie North | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie North, Kilmartin: From afar (approaching it from Nether Largie Mid) this cairn had a white square in the middle of its top, which looked like Cairnpapple, which got me thinking you could enter the chamber. This was indeed the case, as the white square was a hatch which could be raise... Read More |
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| Nether Largie Mid | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie Mid-Cairn: This cairn is not quite as impressive as Nether Largie South, but we found it fascinating to look at. Reading Webb's "In The Footsteps of Kings" she says the cairn was originally placed on a slightly raised terrace, but its position has been exaggerated because the ground b... Read More |
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| Nether Largie South | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Nether Largie South: Impressively large, with a chamber you can get into. Have seen other chambered cairns in Northumberland, but all in pretty ruinous condition, nothing like this. Our second stop after the stone alignment. Beautiful location; a lot of other visitors at this time of year. | 87 | 14 |
| Temple Wood N | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Temple Wood North East circle: Within sight of the Temple Wood South West circle (I got my bearings all confused here!). This cairn has obviously been recreated, with concrete posts and blocks representing post holes and kerb stones. Nicely done. | 87 | 13 |
| Temple Wood S | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Temple Wood South West Circle: We had this site all to ourselves for all of five minutes before other parties followed us in. We did look for the rock art quite carefully, but were unable to find it. | 87 | 12 |
| Cairnbaan 2 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 19th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Cairnbaan 2 Rock Art Panel: Leaving Cairnbaan 1 by its western corner, there’s a notice saying ‘further panels’. This was a little further than we thought, but very much worth the additional walk.
This second panel was truly magnificent, with its interlinked carvings. As the nice young co... Read More |
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| Cairnbaan 1 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 19th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Cairnbaan 1 Rock Art: This site is marked on the OS map, and we also got details from “In The Footsteps of Kings” page 149. Following the directions in the book (between the hotel and the neighbouring houses is a sign saying “Cup Marked Rocks”. After a flat start to the path, it then climb... Read More |
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| Dunadd Fort | Hillfort | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 19th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Dunadd Fort, with well, footprint, boar carving and cup marked rock: I confess to seeing this site 'from a distance' as the path was too steep for me to feel comfortable. Whilst I say 'this is a short walk on a footpath', the climb is reasonably short, but steep.
Also, being on the tourist tra... Read More |
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| Dunadd Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 19th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Dunadd Standing Stone: This was an amusing visit to start off with. As we drew up in the car park, the “Tour of the Tor” minibus drew up behind us, along with the young couple we’d seen at Kirkmichael Glassary Rock Art yesterday. Other parties of walkers came along the path and marched off u... Read More |
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| Achnabreac | Standing Stones | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 19th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Stane Alane (Achnabreac), Lochgilphead Cemetery: The time was fast approaching when we needed to head back to Armadale, but there were still two more standing stones we wanted to see. Looking at the map, the quickest way appeared to be to drive to the cemetery, walk through the cemetery and walk a ... Read More |
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| Achnabreck Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Achnabreck Standing Stone, Lochgilphhead: Continuing on down the track from the Stane Alane, we came across some new build houses, closely followed by some older ones, close to a road junction with a minor road leading from the A816 towards Auchoish Burn (so presumably the stone could also be driven... Read More |
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| Ballymeanoch Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Ballymeanoch Stone Row: Continued from 88.19 visit report (“Who let the bullocks out?”). This was our last stop of the day. We had hoped to fit in DunnAd fort, but we were ‘all monumented out’ by this time of the evening. A truly wonderful spot, with some fantastic standing stones/stone ro... Read More |
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| Ballymeanoch Kerb Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Ballymeanoch Kerb Cairn: With a number of other cars pulling up in the car park with other people wanting to look at the cairn, we hastened down the marked path towards the stone row, wondering why there were large, fresh cowpats in the cordoned off pathway. We were shortly to be confronted by a la... Read More |
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| Dunchraigaig Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Dunchcraigaig Cairn: Parking in the small car park opposite the cairn, we crossed (ran over between the cars doing at least 60mph) the busy road to have a look at yet another large, stony cairn (special in its own right, but so many of them around here!). Just as we drew into the car park, a black ... Read More |
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| An Car, Leckuary | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | An Car Standing Stone, Leckuary: We found this stone on the OS map, and it is also featured on page 130 (walk 17) of the “In The Footsteps of Kings” book. We are advised by the book: “Please call at the farm if you wish to get closer to this stone”.
We thought about letting ourselves i... Read More |
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| Leckuary Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Leckuary Dolmen or just a quartz covered stone? This stone protruded from the surrounding pasture like a gleaming white, stubby standing stone. We walked over to it and photographed it. It appears to sit on a low, almost circular mound with this stone in the middle, which in turn sits on a bed of... Read More |
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| Leckuary Rock Art | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Luckuary Rock Art Panel: A new find, some three years ago, and about to be included in a survey of Kilmichael Glen, which sounds similar to the England's Rock Art project. This was most definitely one of the highlights of our trip, thanks to the farmer who is very interested in archaeology and work... Read More |
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| Torbhlaran Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torbhlaren Standing Stone: A farmer in a red tractor had been mowing the field here, but had left his tractor and mower sitting by the side of the gate with the light flashing. There was no sign of the farmer. We parked in the next layby down the road, where there was a passing space on both sides... Read More |
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| Torbhlaran 2 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torbhlaran 2: A large portion of the rock was covered in turf, so there may have been plenty of motifs which were under a soil cover, but we were unable to identify anything at the time of our visit. | 88 | 14 |
| Kilmichael Glassary 1 | Rock Art | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmichael Glassary 1, Rock Art: This was a real treat. From the small car park by the play park opposite the kirk, we followed the road up the slight hill, past the houses. The rocks are railed off, but to my surprise, walking to the top of the railings, there is a step to allow you to climb in t... Read More |
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| Kilmichael Glassary Kirk | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Kilmichael Glassary Kirk, Cross Slab: [note: visit 88:10 was to Kilmartin Museum. Am still awaiting permission to publish some photos.] We parked in the small car park opposite the church and next to the small, very busy, playground. At first glance, this church is very intimidating and Scottish, b... Read More |
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| Creagantairbh Beag | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Aug 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Creagantairbh Beag Standing Stone: I hadn’t spotted these on the OS map as we were driving along, but saw the still standing stone through the fence line. Quickly stopping by the side of the road to take a photograph, I noticed there was also a fallen stone. We decided to stop and investigate fu... Read More |
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| Loch Ederline | Crannog | Scotland | Argyll | Saw from a distance | 18th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | Loch Ederline Crannog: We saw this from a distance only, as the view was impeded by a line of trees and shrubs. We needed to stop on the side of the road, going downhill from Ford, where there was only a short length of fence between us and the loch. A great tanker needed to get past us, so Andrew... Read More |
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| Ford Stone (Kilmartin) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Ford Stone, near Torran: We spotted this stone to the west of the road as we drove towards Ford village to see the cairn marked on the OS map and the Torran Cross Incised Stone, but the road was narrow and we could find nowhere to stop, so we decided to look on the way back.
This time, we man... Read More |
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| Torran Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Torran Cross Incised Standing Stone: This was to be the first time we’d seen a cross-inscribed standing stone, so we were pretty keen to locate it. From Ford, we continued up the minor road towards Torran, passing An Lodan Loch to our right hand side. We parked at the wide stony entrance to a sma... Read More |
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| Ford Cist | Cist | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Aug 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Ford Cist: Not having access to the internet, we thought this was just a cairn which had been marked on the OS map. This monument is in an odd location, just inside the village boundary, tucked between the junction of the road through to Torran and the B840 running along the south shore of Loch Aw... Read More |
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| Creagantairbh Beag Cairns | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Creagantaribh Beag Cairns (near gate to the track leading to the Glennan Standing Stones: see report for Glennan Standing Stones. We spotted the larger cairn on the way to the standing stone; these smaller two (nearest the gate) we spotted on the way back to the car. | 88 | 4 |
| Glennan Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Aug 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Glennan Standing Stones and Cairns: What could top Kintraw Standing Stones & Cairns? But we found places that almost did. Carrying on down the A816 towards Kilmartin, we turned east on the road towards the small village of Ford, travelling along a very beautiful valley. We stopped at Old Glennan f... Read More |
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| Kintraw (Kilmartin) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Kintraw Standing Stones and Cairns: This standing stone, when we spotted it on the evening of 17th July looked magnificent, but we couldn’t find anywhere to park; approaching this stone from the direction of Ardfern, there was a gateway to the field to pull into, which gave us just room to pull of... Read More |
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| Port Nan Athlaich (Craignish) | Cist | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 18th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Port Nan Athlaich Cist, Aird, Craignish: I counted this as 'a bit more of a walk' as it wasn't a simple walk along a footpath, but involved a large step over a ruinous barbed wire fence and taking a few stepping stones across a stream. The walk is glorious, and is to be recommended.
Since we’... Read More |
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| Bessygarth Well (King's Meaburn) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Bessygarth Well, King's Meaburn: This is a very old village, with a scheduled 17th century barn opposite the bus stop next to the village hall where we parked. The village runs in a long ribbon along both sides of the road, with an incongruous caravan park tucked behind the village hall.
Despite ... Read More |
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| Powdonnet Well (Morland) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 3 | 3 | 4 | Powdonnet Well, Morland, Cumbria: If not quite so overgrown, I'd have awarded this a '4: Good' rating on Ambience (despite the downpour after the long dry spell!). This well is marked on the OS map, but there is no mention in either Pastscape or HE.
The Holy Wells of Cumbria booklet describes ... Read More |
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| Chapel Well (Staffield) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Chapel Well, Near Staffield, Cumbria: Not far from the incised stone at Cross House. We parked near the junction down the hill where there was room to bump up onto the grass verge and walked to the gate at NY 53603 43081, which is signposted towards ‘Dale’. We kept the dry stone wall to our ri... Read More |
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| Cross House Incised Stone | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross House Incised Stone, Staffield: We parked at NY 53519 43219, where a gate lets you into the footpath which goes down the hill, and joins a second footpath to Chapel Well. We walked back up the hill towards Cross House. The pillar was just visible through the hedge. We let ourselves in to th... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (Wreay) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Mary's Well and copy of the Bewcastle Cross, Wreay: This is a delightful little village, with some very old houses. The church is very easy to find, right in the middle of the village, opposite the colourful school, with plenty of parking on the streets nearby.
This well is to the southern si... Read More |
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| Clenamacrie Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Glenamacrie/Clenamacrie Stone Row: After An Dun, we headed off a few hundreds yards west back down the road. I took two lots of photos here, because I think I mistook an outcrop (an unmown area of the field with stones protruding, at NM 92745 28409). Andrew had mentioned both a ‘stone row’ and... Read More |
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| Glenamacrie Farm | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Saw from a distance | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Glenamacrie Farm Cairn: Having stopped to look at the standing stones, with waist height, new wire fence and barbed wire all around this field, the nearest gate appeared to be by the farmhouse. If we'd been bold enough to walk up the farm track to get a closer look, we'd have got much better photo... Read More |
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| Glenamacrie Dun | Stone Fort or Dun | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | An Dun/Glenamachrie Dun: Not far to the east of the cairns and standing stone at Glenamachrie Farm. We bypassed those, and came here first to take photos then turn the car around to go back and photograph the standing stones and cairn. When husband came back, he said he’d had the most bizarre ex... Read More |
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| Glenamachrie Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Glenamachrie Cairn: This cairn was marked on the map on the way to An Dun fort and the standing stone to the east; I asked “if we spot this, can we stop”, and there it stood, almost on top of the road. As the road was quite busy with lots of cars and trucks going by, Andrew moved the car to the... Read More |
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| Clach na Carraig | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Clach na Carraign, Lorn: When Andrew said ‘that’s the standing stone’ as we approached it on the road, I thought at first this was just part of an old buttress, like the one’s at St. Matthew’s Old Church in Roslin. I wasn’t until I got closer and had photographed the small cairn to its ... Read More |
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| Strontoiller Large Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Strontoiller Round Cairn, Lorn: This cairn is just to the south west of the stone circle. From the stone circle, it definitely looks like a grassed-over round cairn. As we walked over to it, on our way back to the standing stone, I was not convinced we were looking at the right thing, but the GPS ... Read More |
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| Strontoiller circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Strontoiller Stone Circle, Lorn: After having taken a few photographs of the small cairn, we walked a couple of hundred yards back along the road to the gate in the field, which is at the corner of the road and the track to Strontoiller farmhouse/cottage. It was a short walk over the pasture to the... Read More |
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| Diarmid's Grave | Cairn | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Strontoiller (Small Cairn), next to the Clach Na Carraig standing stone: This was perhaps the most amusing encounter of our whole trip, involving a human and two sheep. As we pulled up by the cattle grid at NM 90788 28935, just before some houses set back from the road, I heard a man’s voice repe... Read More |
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| Dalineun | Chambered Tomb | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Dalineun (Dalnaneun Farm) Chambered Cairn, Loch Nell: We made the mistake of thinking the chambered cairn was in the field opposite the crannog, and climbed over a small stile over the fence; however, we realised that we were in the wrong field, climbed back onto the road and walked down to the gate... Read More |
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| Barnacarry | Crannog | Scotland | Argyll | Saw from a distance | 17th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | Barnacarry Crannog, Loch Nell: (note on access: boat needed to get across!) Not having any broadband or mobile connection at the cottage we were staying in, we relied on the OS map. Andrew picked today’s sites, but mistakenly thought the area we were going to was only 10 miles north of Ardfern. ... Read More |
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| Clach An T-Sagairt | Chambered Tomb | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 16th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Clach An T' Sagairt Chambered Tomb, Ardfern: From the map, this cairn appeared to be just behind the small school in the middle of Ardfern, and finding a small path behind the back of the school, followed this for about 20m before discovering we were in someone’s garden! The reality was we had to ... Read More |
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| Craignish Sculptured Stones | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 16th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Craignish Sculptured Stones, Kirkton: After having arrived at the cottage we were staying in for the next three nights, we decided to head off to find supper, but taking in a couple of sites on the way, one of which we learned about from Rachel Butter's Kilmartin book, the other marked on the OS map... Read More |
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| Inveraray Castle | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Argyll | Visited | 16th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Inveraray Castle Standing Stone: On our way from our daughter’s house to Craignish peninsula (having had the trauma of catching their cat and taking her to the cattery first!) we decided to stop of in Invarary to see our first standing stone of this part of the trip. Mistake.
We arrived the da... Read More |
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| St Matthew's Well (Roslin) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 15th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St. Matthew's Well, Roslin: Getting to this well was interesting! Parking in Roslyn Chapel car park at NT 27405 63109, we took the gate from the south east of the car park through the cemetery, then out of the cemetery down a very overgrown lane, with very tall nettles on either side. About 50m fr... Read More |
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| Glencorse Cup and Ring Marked Stone | Rock Art | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 15th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Glencorse Cup and Ring Marked Stone: Just outside the tall, imposing (and locked) Parish Church, which had an amazing old tree in the field opposite, and a long layby; this village is obviously popular with walkers, as there were lots of cars parked around here, and footpaths leading through the woo... Read More |
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| Castle Knowe (Glencorse) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 15th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Castle Knowe Palisaded Settlement, Glencorse: From Castle Law hill fort, we continued northwards up the track, turning right up another footpath onto the Castle Knowe Palisaded Settlement. I stopped half way up to get some photos of Castle Law Hill Fort, looking down on it. There were a few other ... Read More |
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| Castle Law | Hillfort | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 15th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Castle Law Hillfort, Glencorse: First stop of the day, and I was surprised this hill fort was so close to a modern military firing range. Because of its proximity to Edinburgh, there were a few other people parked in the small car park below the fort, but very few walked up onto it; a track carried... Read More |
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| Market Cross (Kincardine) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Fife | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Mercat Cross, Kincardine: Our last stop of this very hot day, thankfully. This cross was in a very busy stop, next to the main bus stop in the town, with lots of take away shops around the ‘triangle’ of what might have been the village green. Not an impressive site, although the cross (apart f... Read More |
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| Stone of Mannan | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Stone of Mannan, Clackmannan: I was surprised to find this only about 20m east of the Mercat Cross (refer to that page for the rest of my visit report). Right next to the market cross and the Tolbooth. See the report above. I was interested to read the plaque on the eastern wall of the Tolbooth: �... Read More |
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| Mercat Cross (Clackmannan) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Mercat Cross, Clackmannan: The Mercat Cross, the Stone of Mannan and the Tolbooth are all in the same small area. When we arrived, it was about 6.40pm and the sun was low in the sky, giving deep shadows. Much to the amusement of the people drinking outside the pub behind the Tolbooth, I took a... Read More |
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| Parkmill Cross (Alloa) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Couldn't find | 14th Jul 2018 | -1 | Parkmill Cross, Alloa: Could not find this – the grid reference seemed to be somewhere in a breaker’s yard. Parking in the nearby housing estate just to the south west of this location, we followed the footpath sign to the footpath which ran west-east along the bottom of the field this cross ba... Read More |
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| Castleton (Dollar) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Clackmannanshire | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Castleton Standing Stone, Pool of Muckhart: To find this stone, we followed the signs to the ‘Japanese’ garden, which had a large car park. The entrance and part of the car park were still in the process of being constructed, but was obviously just about to close for the night, so we parked as ... Read More |
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| Gray Stone (Dunning) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Gray Stone, Dunning: Thrilled to be seeing my second standing stone of the day (and one we were likely to get close to), we parked at the end of the driveway up to The Knowes farm. The stone is signposted, but the signpost follows the line of the fence and wood to the north west. Undecided whe... Read More |
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| Forteviot Cross | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Modern Pictish Cross Slab, Forteviot: Having been spooked by the Maggie Wall Memorial and disappointed at not being able to get into Forteviot parish church (St. Andrews), the lady gardener told us to walk down the road to look at the new cross slab that had just been erected.
Just behind the bus... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Forteviot) | Class III Pictish Cross Slab | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited (still working on) | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | St. Andrew's, Forteviot: We drove up to this church to find a lovely local lady garden by the gate into the churchyard. She told us the church would be locked, "but it'll be open on 29th (July)." We explained we were only here for the day, so this was too late. She told us about the recently erec... Read More |
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| Dunning | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Saw from a distance | 14th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Dunning North Standing Stone: From St Serf’s church, we walked along Kirk Wynd, down alongside the stream, down past some cottages, to where the footpath split. The standing stone was right in front of us, albeit in the middle of a ripening crop of wheat. It seemed very far away, and I was very,... Read More |
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| Dupplin Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 14th Jul 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Dupplin Cross, St Serf's, Dunning: Our first stop of the day, and a very old, popular, tourist village. We first saw a drinking fountain outside the churchyard, almost at the cross roads.
By the southern door to the church were two hogbacks.
Inside was the Duppline Cross and a smaller cross s... Read More |
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| Gleneagles A | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Peterhead Farm Standing Stone, Gleneagles: Our last stop of the day. Driving (it was too hot, and we were too lazy to walk) further along the single track road towards the mast and the entrance to Peterhead Farm, we parked near the mast and walked across the road. The nearest gate into the field a... Read More |
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| Gleneagles B | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Peterhead Farm Pictish Symbol Stone: Right next to the A9, so the atmosphere wasn’t brilliant, but ignoring the traffic, looking east, this was a glorious setting.
There was a gate into this field full of sheep, so we let ourselves in and walked over to the stone, which now sits within 30m of a... Read More |
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| Dunblane Cathedral | Class III Pictish Cross Slab | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient crosses at Dunblane Cathedral: Having been bitten and bitten again by horseflies at Sheriffmuir Stone Row, the weather being very hot and humid, and the Sheriffmuir Inn decidedly shuttered up, we decided to go into Dunblane to find a cup of tea and a late lunch. We managed to find a parking... Read More |
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| The Boat Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Boat Stone, Sheriffmuir to Dunblane lane: Marked on the OS map, but not on Canmore, this fallen standing stone is featured on the Portal and The Northern Antiquarian. The road is single track at this point, with not many passing places. The farmer had left the gate into the field wide open, an... Read More |
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| Wester Biggs (Dunblane) | Stone Circle | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Couldn't find | 13th Jul 2018 | -1 | 4 | 5 | Wester Biggs Stone Circle, Near Dunblane: Returning from tea and cakes in Dunblane, we resumed our search for megalithic sites. Next stop, hopefully, a not-before-photographed stone circle, right by the side of the road.
Finding the telephone mast and driving a couple of hundred yards further on... Read More |
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| Sheriff Muir Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Sheriffmuir Stone Row: Please can I claim the Portal prize for 'the most horsefly bites at one ancient site'? At first glance, it looked easy to walk to this stone row. The reality was it was a couple of hundred yards from the road, in deep heather. Having waded through the shrubbery, and having f... Read More |
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| The Gathering Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 13th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Gathering Stone, Sheriffmuir: From the Sheriffmuir Cairn & Macrae Clan Monument at NN 81569 01934, we followed the footpath to its eastern side, between the main monument and the cairn, following the line of the stone wall, heading in a roughly north westerly direction.
Eventually a path spli... Read More |
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| Stobo Kirk standing stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Stobo Kirk, Scottish Borders: This was the highlight of my visit. A church I’ve wanted to see for a long, long time, and I thought I’d better grab the chance whilst we were nearby. As we drew up outside the church, my heart sank, as it looked just like another austere Church of Scotland church.... Read More |
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| Dreva Hill West (Broughton) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Dreva Hill West, Broughton, Scottish Borders: To the east of the road, there is a gate leading to a farm track, which we followed for about 100m then headed up towards the mast. In typical Tate fashion, Andrew had muddled up the entries for Dreva Craig Fort and this settlement, so I spent ages phot... Read More |
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| Laigh Hill (Tweeddale) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Laigh Hill Settlement, below Norman's Castle, Scottish Borders: I was really looking forward to seeing this large settlement on the slopes of Laigh Hill, with the River Tweed to the south below.
The walk was easy, along a track, and only 400m past the Patervan Mound. Leaving the track and foll... Read More |
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| Norman's Castle | Stone Fort or Dun | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Norman's Castle, Laigh Hill, Patervan: Strictly, I only saw this dun from a distance, as it was scramble to get to the top of the hill, and my fear of falling kept me on Laigh Hill settlement below. Husband, Andrew, with all the skills of a mountain goat, and no fear of heights, went tramping up wi... Read More |
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| Patervan Cairn, Buildings & Mound | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Patervan Cairn, Buildings & Prehistoric Mound, Scottish Borders: There is actually a rich archaeological landscape around here, although I’m pleased we’ve been out with an Archaeology Group, or I would have had trouble interpreting what we saw. We passed all of these features, all of which are ... Read More |
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| Patervan Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Patervan/Polmood Settlement, just west of Patervan Farm Cottage: After the Meggat Stone, we stopped off at Henderland Chapel (aka Chapel Knowe and Cockburn’s Tombstone) at NT 23112 23414, which was well worth a look, but too modern for the Portal!
This settlement is (almost!) easily reached. ... Read More |
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| Megget Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 12th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Megget Stone, east of Talla Reservoir: Continuing along the twisty, windy road that follows Talla Water, we passed an intrepid cyclist making his way slowly up the hills, and some motorcyclists who had stopped to photographs the waterfalls along the route.
When we got to the grid reference given ... Read More |
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| Talla Linnfoots | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 12th Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Cairn & Enclosure at south eastern end of Talla Reservoir: Our first, proper, stop of the day, as I can’t count the visit to Tweedmuir Kirk, as the stone we saw from from the 1600s.
This is a remote, but very pretty spot, albeit with tall, brooding hills around, only tempered by the gentle tric... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Well (Bromfield) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Mungo's Holy Well, Bromfield: The kissing gate from the north of the churchyard led down some sandstone gate, although the gate had been wired shut with a cable tie, so we had to clamber over. Even though there had been a long period of dry weather, parts of the ground around the well were still... Read More |
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| St Mary's Church (Gilcrux) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Viking cross head and shaft fragments, St Mary's Church, Gilcrux: We arrived here to find the outer screen door open, but the door into the church very firmly locked. To say this was disappointing was an understatement, as the building looking fascinating with a lot of history from the outside.
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| The Hatching Well (Gilcrux) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 4 | 3 | 5 | The Hatching Well, Gilcrux: We arrived here and find this well bubbling away just outside the church - completely unexpected as it's not got any entries on Pastscape or Historic England. Neither is it mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for Gilcrux.
I guess finding this well made up for not being ab... Read More |
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| Blennerhasset Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Three crosses in one, Blennerhasset, Cumbria: Having been to four churches to see Anglo Saxon carved stones, and only found one unlocked, I wanted to stop and see the 'cross' marked on the OS map in this small village. This really is a stunning medieval village, and I wish we’d had more time to ... Read More |
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| St Mary's Church (Wycliffe) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 1st Jul 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hogback and Anglo Danish/Saxon cross fragments, Wycliffe, County Durham: This is a spectacular little village, down a narrow, dead end lane leading to the River Tees. It was difficult to park, as the lane to the church has a sign saying ‘private road’ (although a sign also says ‘to the church... Read More |
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| Cleatlam Wayside Cross | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 1st Jul 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Cleatlam Wayside Cross, County Durham: This tiny village is picturesque, with large houses and farms on either side of the minor road through the village. The cross base wasn't easy to spot, hidden behind trees in a temporarily fenced off area of land, which looked like it used to be the old villag... Read More |
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| The Shearers | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Jun 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | The Shearers, Hownam, Scottish Borders: By the time we got to the Shearers, the sun was high in the sky and beating down on us. Many horseflies, but thankfully no ticks. I was able to help with Sandy G's survey by acting as ‘the target’ for the disto (holding a piece of paper upright against t... Read More |
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| Horseshoe Wood (Hownam) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Jun 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Horseshoe Wood Standing Stone: This was my first real 'day out' since being ill with flu and having been confined to bed for a week, so not feeling hugely great in myself, but great to be outside again. We met Sandy G (of Stone Rows of Great Britain fame) in Hownam Village and followed The Street, ... Read More |
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| St John The Baptist (Rolleston) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 24th Jun 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Churchyard Cross, St John The Baptist, Rolleston: Apart from one sign post on the road by the church in Skeffington, this exclusive hamlet may well not exist. The road is gated (at least 3 gates), the roads are very narrow, and at the junction of the road and the bridlepath down to the church, ther... Read More |
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| St Michael's Church (Illston On The Hill) | Ancient Cross | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 24th Jun 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St. Michael's Church, Illston on the Hill: This was our first port of call on the Sunday afternoon, on a brilliantly sunny day with blue skies and very hot. Although we probably could have walked here with the dog from Billesdon, I certainly wasn’t feeling up to a long walk today, and was very gr... Read More |
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| King's Norton | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Leicestershire and Rutland | Visited | 24th Jun 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Well, St John The Baptist, King's Norton: This is a very posh village, with very large houses. We parked by the tiny little village green just to the west of the church, almost next to the well, which is low down in the western churchyard wall.
Someone has been refurbishing the well, and recentl... Read More |
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| Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre | Henge | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st May 2018 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Maelmin Recreated Henge, Milfield: We had a bit of a tortuous journey to get here, having been stuck in roadworks on the A1 northbound, so instead of the hour and a half it would have taken us, it was almost two and a half, so we were eager to get out of the car and walk.
Having found the ‘Arch... Read More |
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| Netherwitton A | Round Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Netherwitton Round Cairn A: This cairn is clearly visible from both Five Ashes cairn and Netherwitton B. There were some magnificent sheep and lambs in this field, all seemingly oblivious to the ancient monument underneath their hooves. All of them scattered as we approached the cairn. My first i... Read More |
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| Netherwitton Hall | Round Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Round Cairn near Netherwitton Hall: Pulling up by the side of the road, taking the spot of a car that had just driven off northwards, this field was chock full of sheep and lambs, with the gate tightly tied with string in a ‘gordian knot’. Usually, I’d spent time untying the string, but as th... Read More |
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| Netherwitton B | Round Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Netherwitton Round Cairn B: This cairn is located in a really lovely spot, on what was a small promontory, one side forming an old bank of the River Font, the river having changed course many years ago. We walked past this without realising this was the second cairn on the map, both saying: “That... Read More |
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| Clavering's Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Clavering's Cross, Stanton: Disappointed by the third cairn, which we were really unsure of, I’d spotted this cross on the OS map, and as it wasn’t too far away, we thought we go on our way to Ewesley.
Parking on the verge just north of the farmhouse, there were roadworks being set up and a v... Read More |
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| Ewesley Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Ewesley Defended Settlement, Northumberland: This was our last stop of the day, and it was really warm. There is a permissive footpath which runs along the dismantled railway line, although we drove past and had to retrace our steps to find it. The footpath sign is on a gate at approx.. NZ 05932 9... Read More |
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| Five Ashes Cairn (Netherwitton) | Round Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Five Ashes Cairn, Netherwitton: From St. Giles’s Church, we drove back through Netherwitton, taking the right hand turn which runs northwards, to the west of the meandering River Font. Parking at NZ 09891 90457, next to the entrance to the field with the footpath running through, we set off acros... Read More |
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| St Maurice's Well (Ellingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th May 2018 | -1 | 4 | 4 | St. Maurice's Well, Ellingham (destroyed): This church was in a glorious spot amongst old houses. The church looked relatively modern, and as it was still open, we popped our heads in. There was some really great stained glass windows. They also had a book sale, so we bought a couple of books on ... Read More |
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| St Ebba's Chapel | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | St Ebba's Chapel/Early Christian Monastery site: I have long wanted to come to this spot, ever since seeing the Time Team Excavation of this in July 2013. Whilst the rest of Northumberland had a hot day with blue, cloudless skies, this part of the coast was murky. Still, this was a very enigmatic ... Read More |
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| Tughall Chapel | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Socket stone and cross shaft fragment, Tughall: Continuing along the busy B1340 from the Long Nanny standing stone, we turned right off the road towards Tughall Farm. There, the remains of the chapel stood above the road. We parked at a small layby just off the main road at NU 21427 26478, where t... Read More |
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| Long Nanny | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Saw from a distance | 20th May 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Long Nanny Standing Stone, Tughall: On our way into Beadnell, on the B1340, husband Andrew screeched the car to a halt on the busy road, telling me there was a standing stone in the field that only had a couple of photographs on the Portal. We could only see this from a distance, as there were larg... Read More |
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| St Hilda's Church (Lucker) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th May 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Cross base, St. Hilda's Church, Lucker: We had a walk around the churchyard, but were unable to find a cross base amongst the gravestones. We wandered down as far as the river, Waren Burn, which flowed to the east of the church. Not finding anything, we wandered into the church. There was no guid... Read More |
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| National Museum of Scotland (Pictish Stones) | Museum | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 17th May 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Pictish Stones at the National Museum of Scotland: See visit report for the National Museum of Scotland (Early Christian stones). Also went to the Research Library and came away with some great information on all the Pictish Symbol Stones held by the museum, and the names/details of various referen... Read More |
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| National Museum of Scotland (Early Christian Stones) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 17th May 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Early Christian Stones at the National Museum of Scotland: We returned to go to the Research Library to find out more about the Pictish Stones, and to photograph some more exhibits, only to find Tim Peake's Spacecraft had arrived that morning, with a PR exercise in full swing and the gallery we need... Read More |
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| Carby Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 13th May 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Carby Hill Hillfort/Settlement, Scottish Borders: Literally just across the border from England, we parked by the cattle grid at NY 48834 83744, opposite the bungalow/farm. Just to our south east, there was (unusually for Scotland) a footpath sign which led up to the hillfort, so we decided to foll... Read More |
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| Will O'Greena's Stane | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 13th May 2018 | -1 | 4 | 4 | Will O'Greena's Stone, Kersehopefoot: What a beautiful spot, where Kersehope Burn meets Liddel Water. Certainly very historic, if you can reconcile Canmore's version with the interpretation board on site. On the Reiver's Trail, its an easy (if wet, due to heavy rain) walk along the old railway emb... Read More |
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| Great North Museum (Rock Art) | Museum | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 4th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Great North Museum (Rock Art): in the 'Prehistoric' Exhibition on the ground floor (see the general Great North Museum page for full visit report). A real shame that most of the exhibits were behind glass, and very close together, which made them difficult to photograph. It was nice to see some of... Read More |
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| Great North Museum (Anglo Saxon Stones) | Museum | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 4th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Great North Museum, Anglo Saxon Exhibit: A small but nicely presented collection of Anglo Saxon cross fragments and grave goods. Ground floor. See general SID page for Great North Museum for main visit report. | 72 | 2 |
| Great North Museum | Museum | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 4th May 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Great North Museum, Newcastle: The last time I visited here was some 8 or 9 years ago, with some police officers from York. We spent most of our time at the Hadrian's Wall exhibit, with them comparing Roman soldier's battle kit to their modern day riot gear. I found the layout of the galleries con... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 1c | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 1c: This panel was very near the road (some motorists tooted their horns as they went past) and parts of it were under turf and moss. Part of the line of cups visible on the ERA photographs were covered by moss, which we left undisturbed. It was difficult to distinguish any other cu... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 1e | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 1e: On the eastern side of the A697, not far from the gate into the field. This was the stone at the grid reference given, but was almost completely buried under moss/turf, with one end of it seeming to have been grazed by farm machinery, which had taken off the moss and a shallow la... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2e | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2e: This rock is not far upslope from Millstone Burn 2dd and 2d. Again, without GPS we would have struggled to find this rock, and we did struggle to identify any of the motifs - Beckensall described these as two ringed cups and two other cups, one with a natural groove leading to it... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2dd | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2dd: only 15m away from Millstone Burn 2d, and relatively easy to find amongst all the other boulders in the field. As these motifs are on top of the rock, they must have been designed to have been seen as you were coming down the hillside.
This rock looks very different shapes de... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2d. | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2d: Closer to the A697, it's a good job we had the GPS to find this panel. In usual Tate style, we'd brought everything but a bottle of water to bring out the motifs. I had to call up the ERA media (photos and sketch) on my phone to ensure we understood what we were seeing. There re... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2bb | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2bb: This would be a 'short walk on a footpath' if we'd come in through the gate we used at our last visit. This time we approached it from Millstone Burn 2c, walking down the hill towards the start of the bend in the A697 from Longframlington. The rock was instantly recognisable fro... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 4c | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Millstone Burn 4c: It was so hot at home this morning that we decided to seek cooler climes. Husband had compiled a list of rock art panels that looked interesting and their grid references. After having found the gps, we set off for Longframlington, this time parking round the bend at a larger en... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 1d | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Millstone Burn 1d: This rock art panel is just to the east of the A697 and largely covered in turf. There is a deep scar in the rock which looks relatively recent. It also has a curious vein of quartz which runs through the rock. | 71 | 6 |
| Long Stone (Barcombe Hill) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th May 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Long Stone, Barcombe Hill: we always thought this was a modern marker stone, sitting high above Stane Way. We also thought it was difficult to get to. Not so. There are well mown grass trackways that lead from Barcombe Iron Age Defended Settlement/Roman Signal Station, as well as from the Tri... Read More |
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| Barcombe Hill Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th May 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Barcombe Hill Iron Age Defended Settlement and Roman Signal Station: On a very hot bank holiday Saturday, we decided to try and go somewhere a little cooler, so set off towards Bardon Mill (OK, I was born to live in Scandanavia, not hotter climes). We'd previously tried to visit this site but used ... Read More |
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| Priest's Well (Bewcastle) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 23rd Apr 2018 | -1 | 3 | 4 | Priest's Well, Bewcastle (site of): As the ground was far too boggy to go and see the three cairns to the west of Parkgate Bridge, I found this well marked on the OS map, so we decided to go and see it. Arriving at St. Cuthbert’s and the Bewcastle Cross, we orientated ourselves with the map to fi... Read More |
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| Askerton Park | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Cumbria | Visited | 23rd Apr 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Askerton Park Settlement: This is marked on the OS map, so we stopped at the northern end of Parkgate Bridge, where there is room to pull off the road and put on our wellies. We let ourselves in through the gate and tramped over the fields, entering the settlement from its north eastern side.
Th... Read More |
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| Towerbrae Cairn | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Saw from a distance | 23rd Apr 2018 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Towerbrae Cairn, Near Bewcastle: We stopped on the road to St. Cuthbert's, Bewcastle to find out how to walk to this cairn, which was basically up a quad bike track just south of Luke's Cottage. As there was nowhere near to park on a grass verge, we decided to go onto try and find Priest's Well at ... Read More |
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| Tullie House Museum | Museum | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Apr 2018 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Tullie House Museum, Carlisle: We went to see the copy of the Bewcastle Cross and the Anglo Saxon cross fragments I'd seen photos of some years ago. The Bewcastle Cross copy no longer stands in the main entrance lobby, but is now in storage, and there are only a couple of rock art panels on display... Read More |
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| Castlesteads (Lowther) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Castlesteads Earthworks, Lowther Castle: This Castlesteads (as opposed to the Iron Age settlement we visited next) is just over 220 metres south of the gate into St. Michael’s Churchyard.
Being on a high spot above a bend in the River Lowther, it looks like a very strategic spot to build a defe... Read More |
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| King Arthur's Round Table | Henge | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | King Arthur's Round Table Henge, Eamont Bridge: We tried to stop here on the way down to Langwathby, but the traffic was so dense and moving in so many different directions at the traffic lights, we decided to try when it was quieter. Thankfully, we managed to park in the layby opposite on the way ... Read More |
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| Castlesteads (Yanwath Wood) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Castlesteads (Yanwath Woods), Cumbria: This hillfort/enclosure is a pleasant stroll away from St. Michael’s Church and Lowther Castle, along footpaths and forest tracks, crossing the River Lowther either on the road or the footpath. After crossing the river, we followed the forest track north the... Read More |
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| St Michael (Lowther) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ancient Cross and hogback fragments, Lowther: We arrived here eager to see the hogback and grave covers detailed on the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture Volume II, but on arriving at the church, the door appeared to be locked. There were a few broken panels in the south window of the porch, so... Read More |
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| Roman Milestone (Temple Sowerby) | Marker Stone | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Roman Milestone, in its original position, Temple Sowerby: This was a very curious site - now a newly created 'dead end' and technically a private road. The milestone is hidden behind a mound of dirt and stones at the side of the road, protected by a metal railing. Traffic on the he modern A66 Te... Read More |
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| St. Cuthbert's Church (Edenhall) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross at St. Cuthbert's Church, Edenhall: There is a small car park to the north of the church, and a tall/wide gate with a stile next to it to access the churchyard. This is a pretty, red sandstone building which looks as if it has been extended many times in antiquity.
There was no... Read More |
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| Edenhall Cross (Langwathby) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Apr 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Edenhall Cross, near Langwathby, Cumbria: This is one of the crosses we didn't have time to visit on our last trip to Cumbria, and we picked a beautiful, if somewhat chilly day, to arrive.
No sooner had we pulled the car up by the cross to take some photographs, and I was wrestling with the lens ... Read More |
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| Thockrington Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Thockrington Cross, Northumberland:
Having emailed to thank the Reverend Michael Slade (Mike) for the information about Chollerton and Birtley, he replied to my email this morning, saying: Dear Anne, Thank you for your encouraging email. I am so glad you enjoyed your visit. Do have a look at one o... Read More |
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| Callaly Castle Hillfort | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Feb 2018 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Castle Hill Hillfort, Callaly: After Millstone Burn Standing stone, there was time for one more visit before dusk. Andrew had marked this site on the map, so we drove round to the permissive footpath which led up through the deciduous wood to the top of the hill.
It was a very good job that we�... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Feb 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Millstone Burn Standing Stone, Longframlington: After having seen the cross base and some of the rock art on the western side of the road, we crossed the A697 and let ourselves into the field on the eastern side of the road, which is also Open Access land. It was a good job we had a GPS, as there w... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 4a | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Feb 2018 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Millstone Burn 4a, Longframlington: Following the hollow way up the hill (wellies or good walking boots were needed, as the ground was very boggy in parts), as we approached the fence at the top of the hill, this moss and grass covered outcrop looked like a large cairn at first sight. Following the... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2h | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Feb 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2h, Longframlington: Walking down from the main outcrop, Millstone Burn 4a, back to the car, we had the grid reference for this stone, so decided to detour and find it. From the hollow way near the gate into the field by the A697, a small trackway heads north towards this grid refere... Read More |
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| Millstone Burn 2c | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Feb 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Millstone Burn 2a, Longframlington: Making the most of a bright, sunny day, before the 'Polar Vortex' was supposed to hit the UK, we decided to go looking for the standing stone and the main rock here, before heading off to find Castle Hill Hillfort at nearby Callaly.
Parking alongside the very... Read More |
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| St Edmund's Church (Newbeggin) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Feb 2018 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Cross base and remains of cross shaft, St. Edmunds Church, Newbeggin (Culgaith): We arrived here as dusk was dropping fast, so all my photos had to be taken with flash. Surprisingly, the church was still open, so we popped inside, but apart from a reading light near the pulpit, couldn't find any li... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Milburn) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Feb 2018 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Ancient cross and pre-Conquest sundial, Milburn, Cumbria: We scouted all around the churchyard for this cross, only to realise it was at the head of the access road from the village, so back-tracked to find it. It sits right by the northern gate post and we had mistaken it for part of the gate/fenc... Read More |
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| St Lawrence's Church (Kirkland) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Feb 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ancient Cross, St Lawrence's Church, Kirkland, Cumbria: The church itself is unremarkable, although a pretty stream runs just outside the southern wall of the churchyard. Parking is available just outside the church, on the grass, although on the day of our visit it was snowy and the ground was bog... Read More |
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| St Luke's Church (Townhead) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 9th Feb 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient cross, St. Luke's Church, Townhead, near Ousby. OK, so the weather was supposed to be better the further west we went, so we took the option of travelling to this site via Alston and the high moors. A bit of a mistake, as there was much more snow here than at home, but it was lovely, if a ... Read More |
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| Holy Stone (North Tyneside) | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 3rd Feb 2018 | -1 | 2 | 4 | Holy Stone Cross Base, North Tyneside: Having been to the industrial estate nearby, we decided to try and track down this stone. Donning wellies, as there had been torrential rain the night before, we followed the footpath from the Holystone Pub/Premier Inn (where there is a car park almost next to... Read More |
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| Thornborough Central | Henge | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 15th Jan 2018 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Thornborough Henge: We stopped off here just before sunset and walked round the henge in the dusk. This time, rather than being here on our own, there were lots of dog walkers around for the first part of our visit. I was horrified by the amount of burrowing that was all around the henge; it seeme... Read More |
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| Little John's Well (Hampole) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (South) | Visited | 15th Jan 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Little John's Well, Hampole: Please note, when I say disabled access - the site is visible (just) from the road, but there are a few steps up the brambled covered slope (not enough to say 'short walk on a footpath' because there is none). For what seemed to be like a country area with a few little ... Read More |
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| Robin Hood's Well (Burghwallis) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (South) | Visited | 15th Jan 2018 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Robin Hood's Well, just off the A1 near Burghwallis: With the rain pounding down on the car and a warning light just appeared on the car dashboard, we were glad to pull off the A1 near Burghwallis. It was easy enough to pull onto the layby (it was a busy place), but difficult to get back onto the A... Read More |
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| Piper Lane Standing Stone (Birtley) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th Jan 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Piper Lane Stone, Birtley Shields: Spotted this on the way back from Birtley Shields, standing in the middle of the field. There was no easy access into the field and the ground was waterlogged, so passed up on climbing over the stone wall to get a closer look.
It's location is intriguing, as it... Read More |
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| Mill Knock Settlement (Birtley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th Jan 2018 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Mill Knock Enclosure, Birtley: We didn't realise this settlement was here until we pulled up at the quarry entrance and I studied the OS map more closely. At first, it looked like just outcrops of limestone rock, but as I walked up the gentle slope, the outer banks and ditches became more obvious.
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| Carry House Enclosure (Birtley Shields) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th Jan 2018 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Carry House Settlement, Birtley Shields: Cut by two stone walls and ploughed away at its northern end, but this was a stunning spot, tucked below a hill and with a steep slope down to the River North Tyne Valley below.
In the distance I could hear the farmer on his tractor running animal feed t... Read More |
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| Mill Knock Chalybeate Well (Birtley) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 7th Jan 2018 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Mill Knock Holy Well: The skies may have been blue and tempting to put on walking boots, but the temperatures were just on freezing and the minor roads around here were just like skating rinks! This well is not marked on the map, but my husband had come across an article on it, and being not too fa... Read More |
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| Edinburgh Runestone | Carving | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 19th Dec 2017 | 3 | 2 | 4 | The Edinburgh Runestone: Getting to this stone was rather precarious! It was easy to walk up the 40 degree slope by clutching onto the nearby railings around the stone. Getting down was more difficult and left my friend with mud all over his walking boots. The stone is obviously in the middle of ... Read More |
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| National Museum of Scotland | Museum | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 19th Dec 2017 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Pictish and Early Christian Stones, NMS: The weather prohibited my friends and I from doing much outside, so the National Museum of Scotland seemed like a good place to visits. Neither of us had been before, and as neither of us knew where we were going, asked the lady at the reception desk for the... Read More |
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| Belsay Tower Cross (Northumberland) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3 | 3 | 4 | Belsay Tower Cross, Northumberland: Passing Belsay on the way back from the Bolam Cairn, we decided to try and trace the cross marked on the OS map. Although we’ve been here before, we’d not tried to look for this, as we largely had our small grand daughter with us.
The cross is located (on... Read More |
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| Bolam Round Cairn (Northumberland) | Round Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Nov 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Bolam Bronze Age Round Cairn, near Belsay, Northumberland: Although the sun was shining and the photos largely make this site look like we’ve seen it on a summer’s day, the temperature was 2 degrees C and removing my glove for a few minutes to take photographs made my normally very warm hands ic... Read More |
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| Newton Reigny Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Nov 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Newton Reigny Enclosure: Having put the wellies in the back of the car, we decided to try and walk along the lanes from the south of Newton Reigny, where traditionally one of the stone rows ran towards Newbeggin. On our last visit, back in February 2017, the lane was ankle deep in water and mud.
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| Mossthorn Long Cairn 2 | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Saw from a distance | 20th Nov 2017 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Mossthorn Long Cairn 2, Copt Howe, Newton Reigny: See the visit report for Mossthorn Long Cairn 1 for more details. This is the side of the long cairn (or natural feature, as Pastscape says?) we couldn’t see from the road on our last visit on 12th February 2017. This time, we could only see it f... Read More |
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| Mossthorn Long Cairn 1 | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Nov 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Mossthorn Long Cairn, Copt Howe, Newton Reigny: We wrote to Mossthorn Farm immediately after our last visit here in February 2017, but our letter was ignored and we didn’t get a reply. A local historian, who we’d made contact with to find out more about the standing stones / stone row said he h... Read More |
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| Snuff Mill (Stainton) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Nov 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Snuff Mill Standing (?) Stone: On the way back from Pooley Bridge to Stainton and Newbeggin, I saw a standing stone by the side of the road (A592) so Andrew turned around and we parked in the driveway of Snuff Mill Water Treatment Centre. The stone was just passed a corner of this busy little road,... Read More |
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| Thompson's Rock | Holed Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Nov 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Thompson's Rock, Simonside: This was the coldest, windiest day of the year so far,, and I thought we were going to a much more sheltered spot, so I wasn't dressed for the weather. Ashamed to say I sent husband off with the camera, as he was fully equipped for this moorland. He reported the rock was... Read More |
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| St Edwin's (High Coniscliffe) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 8th Nov 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Fragments, High Coniscliffe: This was a most unexpected location, as my perception was that the church should be within a quiet little village, but the reality was it was just off the main road, the A67 to Bishop Auckland. We parked by the footpath at NZ 22567 15316, and had to walk pas... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Billingham) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 8th Nov 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Stones, St. Cuthbert's Billingham: We’d arranged to meet the verger, at the church at 12 noon. We arrived 10 minutes early, and found the south door didn’t have a keyhole, so wondered how we’d get in. It turns out there’s an entrance from the north side of the church. We wande... Read More |
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| All Saints (Crathorne) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 8th Nov 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Fragments and Hogbacks, All Saints, Crathorne: We’d arranged to meet Robert, the curate, at 2pm. He was a few minutes late but by the time I’d walked round the back of the church, he’d opened up the door and turned the lights on. He seemed really shy, asked us how long we’d be, ... Read More |
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| Dacre Church | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Nov 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Andrew's Church, Dacre: Anglo Saxon Cross Fragments: We'd visited this church back in early 2014, before I joined the Portal, to photograph the bears; the church was firmly locked on the day of our visit. This time, the door was open, and we walked into this lovely church, parts of which are ext... Read More |
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| Weston Moor | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 25th Mar 2015 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Needs moving to new site page: Weston Moor (Greystone Rock, Boughey & Vickerman 541)) Rock Art: We had fun and games getting to this site from Otley, as the road over the River Wharfe had been shut for roadworks, then the Weston Moor Road was also closed. We managed to park by the stile over the st... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Church (Darlington) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 25th Oct 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient crosses, Saxon sundials and a hogback in Darlington: Originally due to go out for the whole day, we suddenly found ourselves having to rush back for an engineer arriving at our house after lunch. As we had an appointment to be at the church for 10.30am, to look round whilst there was a servi... Read More |
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| All Saints (Rudby-in-Cleveland) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 15th Oct 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | All Saints Church, Rudby-in-Cleveland: We’d spent so much time walking round Castle Hill, that by this time of day the sun was very low in the sky and dusk was going to fall pretty quickly, pretty soon.
Parking opposite the church at NZ 47133 06667, just off Rudby Bank in a small paved area whi... Read More |
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| Castle Hill (Bishopton) | Misc. Earthwork | England | County Durham | Visited | 15th Oct 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Castle Hill, Bishoptop: This monument is literally just within sight of the church, just over 420 metres to the north west, at the south eastern edge of the village, opposite the pub and next to a garage.
There is a public footpath which runs through the field in which this motte and bailey is si... Read More |
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| St Peter's Church (Bishopton) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 15th Oct 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Medieval Cross in St. Peter's Churchyard, Bishopton: Driving into Bishopton, I realised looking at the cottages and houses that this was a very old village, and had it not been for all the parked cars, it would have been very picturesque.
The church was locked so we couldn’t go in, but the rem... Read More |
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| Fasset Hill (Sourhope) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 8th Oct 2017 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Fasset Hill Scooped Settlement, Sourhope: It was probably a silly time of year to look at this settlement, as the bracken was very tall, and probably also too late in the evening, as dusk was falling. But, hey ho, we were nearby and decided to walk back down to Sourhope Farm, and follow the track u... Read More |
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| Sourhope Hillfort | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 8th Oct 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Sourhope Hillfort, Scottish Borders: Well, this morning was a surprise, as rain had been forecast, but we woke up to a blue and cloudy sky, with little wind, so we decided to make the most of the nice weather before the clocks go back at the end of the month.
We used an ‘unusual’ (twisty/wind... Read More |
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| Craigmailing Boundary Marker (Torphichen) | Marker Stone | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 30th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Craigmailing/Witchcraigs Boundary Stone: To find this stone, we parked near to the Little Criagmailling cross base found earlier this week and followed a little-used footpath through the woodland. This footpath joined another wider one, crossing a stile into a little tree-lined lane which followed... Read More |
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| Torphichen Churchyard Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 30th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Torphichen Preceptory (next door to the church): Also known as Hospital Of Torphichen; Preceptory Of St John; War Memorials.
Finally, on our third attempt, just after 2pm on a Saturday afternoon, we managed to find the small visitor portacabin open and a guide present. Guide was Liam from Order o... Read More |
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| Cairnpapple Hill | Round Cairn | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 30th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cairnpapple (Chamber), West Lothian: We’d spent quite a lot of time around Cairnpapple and surrounding area, but on this trip had not visited. Andrew had not seen this site before, so we parked and joined the other families visiting in the wind and drizzle, and I managed to buy a guide book and a... Read More |
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| North Couston Refuge Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Scotland | West Lothian | Couldn't find | 30th Sep 2017 | -1 | 3 | 4 | North Couston Refuge Stone, West Lothian: From the Westfield Farm Refuge Stone, we set off towards North Couston with only a very small scale book of maps and Trigpointing UK on our mobile phone to try and find this stone. From Westfield, we got back onto the A801 southbound, then turned left onto ... Read More |
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| Westfield Farm Refuge Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 30th Sep 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Westfield Farm Refuge Stone (possibly prehistoric), West Lothian: Our last day for exploring before heading home, and this was a day we’d set aside during the week to try and find some of the refuge stones associated with Torphichen Preceptory. We didn’t have a detailed map for this area, and d... Read More |
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| Craigneich Farm | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 11th Oct 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Craigneich Farm Standing Stone, south of Comrie: From the Lawers Standing Stone, we drove south back through Comrie on the B827, to the junction of a minor road at Coilcambus with a phone box on the corner. Turning right (travelling south), we followed the road along to where Machany Water ran clos... Read More |
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| St Fillan's Chapel (Comrie) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 28th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | St. Fillan's Chapel, west of Comrie: From Wester Tullybannocher Stone Circle, we carried on west along the A85, turning left into a road leading down to St. Fillan’s Golf Club and Western Dundurn Farm. Just before the farm buildings, the track splits. The eastern most track is gated off, and the... Read More |
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| Lawers | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Saw from a distance | 28th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Lawers Standing Stone, East of Comrie: From St Fillan’s Chapel, we headed back towards Comrie, this time continuing east along the A85 until we reached the gatehouse at the northern side of the road, just before Comrie Croft Caravan Park.
The landowner had padlocked all the gates, but being wi... Read More |
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| Tullybannocher | Stone Circle | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 28th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Wester Tullybannocher Stone Circle, Comrie: From the Dalginross/Dunmoid Four Poster Stone Circle, we made our way north through Comrie, heading west on the A85, over Dalginross Bridge then turning left. The road goes through a zig-zag then a bend, passing a caravan park on the right hand side at Tw... Read More |
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| Dalginross | Stone Circle | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 28th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Dalginross Four Poster, Near Comrie: From the Roman Stone and its companions, we headed north towards Comrie. Where the B827 takes a sharp left hand turn through Dalginross and Comrie, take the South Crieff Road towards Easter Dalginross and Muirhead Cemetery, where there is ample parking.
From ... Read More |
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| West Cowden | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 28th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | The Roman Stone, Comrie: Approaching Comrie from the south along the B827, we’d passed these stones at the eastern side of the road before we’d realised it, so ended up stopping for lunch and visiting the motte first. We retraced our steps and managed to park in the entrance to another (gated) ... Read More |
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| Coney Hill (Comrie) | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Perth and Kinross | Visited | 28th Sep 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Coney Hill, Comrie: Again, to escape the dreary weather in Armadale, we found ourselves heading a fair way north today, up to Comrie, where there promised to be quite a few sites – standing stones and stone circles in a relatively small area.
Comrie is a really lovely little village, and we sto... Read More |
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| The Chesters | Hillfort | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Chesters Hillfort, East Lothian: Most places we drove past today had signposts to The Chesters, so reluctant to go back to the house before dark, we decided to stop off and look at this hillfort, which I thought must have been visited by many other Portal users/members, but only uisdean has subm... Read More |
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| White Castle Fort | Hillfort | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | White Castle Hillfort, East Lothian: This is in a wild and lonely spot. As we approached the hillfort, the mist started to roll in over the Thorter Burn Valley, the wind got up and whipped spots of rain across our faces.
I was amazed to be able to park right by the gate, where there were interpr... Read More |
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| Standingstone (East Lothian) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Standingstone Standing Stone, East Lothian: As we pulled up outside the Standingstone farm house, a lady and her black pug came out of the farmyard. I apologised for turning up out of the blue, but did she know about the standing stone, and she said ‘yes’, asked if I knew where it was, and walk... Read More |
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| Loth Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Loth Stone, west of Traprain Law hillfort: Just up the hill from Standingstone Farm, up a lovely grassy lane just to the west of Traprain Law hillfort. The stone has now been moved against a hedge. There is a small gate into the field, where the wheat had just been harvested, letting us walk r... Read More |
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| Traprain Law | Hillfort | Scotland | East Lothian | Saw from a distance | 27th Sep 2017 | 2 | 5 | 3 | Traprain Law Hillfort, East Lothian: We only saw this from afar. It would have taken too long to climb up and get back down and see the rest of the sites we wanted to see this afternoon. Brilliant view. The farmer’s wife from Standingstone Farm told us there were wild Exmoor ponies living on to... Read More |
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| Kirklandhill | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | East Lothian | Saw from a distance | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Kirklandhill Standing Stone, East Lothian: From Pencraig Hill Standing Stone, we drove 3.6 kilometres east along the A199 (which runs parallel to the A1) turning left (north) up the A198. The Kirklandhill Standing Stone is in the middle of the field immediately to the right hand side of the A198.
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| Boar Stone (Drem) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Boar Stone, East of Drem Village: This stone is located to the north side of the B1377, in the garden of Prora Farm, some 1.4 km east of Drem station. It has been relocated from the edge of a field at NT 5280 7924, some 640 metres south south east of its current location.
The right to roam i... Read More |
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| Pencraig Brae | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | East Lothian | Visited | 27th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Pencraig Hill Standing Stone, East Lothian: Standing just north of the A199, Pencraig Brae Road. There was room to pull the car onto the grass verge next to the tumble-down gate into the field, which we managed to squeeze our way round the edge, as it hadn’t been opened in many a year.
The f... Read More |
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| Logie Old Kirk (Stirling) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 26th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Hogbacks at Logie Old Kirk, Stirling: To reach the church from the University Halls of Residence, we had to walk through the gardener’s compound/offices. The top two gates around the churchyard were locked; the actual entrance was next to the small stone building to the south of the churchyard, n... Read More |
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| Pathfoot Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 26th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Pathfoot Standing Stone, University of Stirling: Walking back across the campus from Logie Old Church, we got caught in a very heavy shower of rain and had to shelter by the student residences at the western side of the campus.
When I caught sight of this, I thought this was a sculpture, not a ... Read More |
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| Airthrey Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Stirling | Visited | 26th Sep 2017 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Airthrey Castle Standing Stone, Stirling University: I have visited the University of Stirling on a number of occasions over the years, visiting an organisation at the Beta Innovation Park, but not known (until I saw them on the Portal) that there were standing stones within the grounds.
We parke... Read More |
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| St Colmac's Cross | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Couldn't find | 25th Sep 2017 | St Colmac's Cross, Isle of Bute: I really, really wanted to find this standing stone with incised Latin Cross, but we couldn't work out a way to get behind the barn at East St. Colmac Farm to view it. The Canmore records show this intriguing stone in a wooden enclosure, which was built round it aft... Read More |
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| St Colmac Cottages Stone Circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Saw from a distance | 9th Oct 2017 | 2 | 4 | St Colmac Cottages Stone Circle: Defeated by a pond between us and the stone circle, a large heap of cow dung by the gate, heavy mist, and running out of time before our ferry back, we stopped at the gate and photographed this from a distance.
We had tried to see the standing stone near Calmac ... Read More |
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| Acholter | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | 25th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Acholter Standing Stone, Isle of Bute: From the Scalpsie Bronze Age Barrow, we headed north up the A844 towards Colmac and East Colmac to see the stone circle, a standing stone with incised cross and an earthwork. By this time, we were starting to run out of time as we needed to get back to Rounsay... Read More |
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| Scalpsie Barrow | Round Cairn | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | 25th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Scalpsie Barrow, Isle of Bute: We didn’t plan to stop here, but there was a car park and information board by the field alongside the A844 past Ambrismore on the way to Ardscalpsie, signposted to the beach, so we screeched to a halt to explore. The information board differentiated between the bar... Read More |
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| Blackpark | Stone Circle | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | 25th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Blackpart Standing Stone, Isle of Bute: About 2.3 km north of St. Blane’s Chapel, still on Plan Road. There is a small car park just off the road, north of the stones, at NS 09160 55716. The ground was very boggy, with large pools of water both on the path to them and in between, so we had to pi... Read More |
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| St Blane's Chapel (Isle of Bute) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | Cross base/socket stone, St. Blane's Chapel, Isle of Bute: Whilst I was wandering through the ruins of the chapel and photographing it, husband Andrew was in search of this sandstone socket in the lower churchyard. In the end, it was easy to find – head south out of the ruins, into the upper chur... Read More |
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| St Blane's Well | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | 25th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St. Blane's Well, Isle of Bute: After St. Mary’s Chapel and Well, we made our way to the south end of the island, by which time the mist was starting to come in from the sea. There is a layby at NS 09299 53076 for around 6 cars at the start of the path uphill to the chapel. I was very disappoint... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well (Rothsay) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Isle of Bute | Visited | 25th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | St. Mary's Well, Rothsay: Almost immediately across the road from St Mary's Chapel, set into a dry stone wall and very sadly neglected. There is no outlet but the remains of a metal tethering ring for a cup or ladle is still embedded in the arch. Worth a walk across from the chapel to take a look.... Read More |
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| Rhymer's Stone (Melrose) | Marker Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Eildontree Stone/Rhymer Stone, Melrose: After our failed attempt to find St. Dunstan’s Well in Melrose, we wanted to end the day on a positive note, so asked to come here, particularly because of the Steeleye Span song. The sign from the road said ‘Rhymer’s Stone’ ½ mile. It was more like ... Read More |
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| Font Stone (Dryburgh) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Font Stone, Dyburgh (Cross Base): Sited on a corner of the B6356, it is a miracle that this cross base is still in one piece, being located so close to the road.
From Mertoun Kirk, we followed the B6356, turning right before reaching Dryburgh along a minor road signposted to Bemersyde, wher... Read More |
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| Mertoun Kirk (St Boswells) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Mertoun Kirk, incised stone: The church lies in the grounds of Mertoun House, which lies almost directly north, across a bend in the River Tweed, from Maxton with its Burgh Cross. To approach the church, we had to follow the signs up the single track road to the house; the church is just before you... Read More |
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| St Boswell's Old Church | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | St Boswell's Old Church, Incised Cross Slab: I was expecting much more from this site, lying in a corner tucked between the River Tween to the east and Boswell Burn to the south. The ruins of the old church have been taken down to only a couple of courses, whilst the graveyard is still in use today... Read More |
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| Maxton Burgh (St Boswells) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Maxton Burgh Cross, Scottish Borders: We stopped off at a garden centre café in Newton St. Boswell’s for refreshments, then carried on eastwards towards the small village of Maxton. We didn’t have precise grid references for this cross at the time, and with no mobile signal, we were a little l... Read More |
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| Purveshaugh | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Purveshaugh (Earlston) Standing Stone, Scottish Borders: Our second stop of the day. Although the B6105 is supposed to be a minor road, it is still very busy and traffic rushes along it at a pace of knots. We managed to pull into the ungated field entrance without causing too much chaos.
A fe... Read More |
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| Dods Corse Stone (Boon) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Dods Corse Stone (Cross shaft and base): We pulled over in field entrance opposite wood the stone stands within, at NT 58395 46267. There was another huge bull with his ladies in this field, standing staring at us very menacingly, as if he was about the charge at us. As we were getting out of the ... Read More |
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| Gormyre | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 22nd Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Gormyre Stone, Torphichen: Ever since I went to Torphichen on 13th May 2017, I’ve wanted to come back and not only look round the Preceptory, but also try to find the other refuge stones associated with the Sanctuary Stone in the churchyard.
Today, despite not feeling 100% I was glad to be in ... Read More |
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| Lower Craigmailing (Torphichen) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 22nd Sep 2017 | 2 | 1 | 5 | Lower Craigmailing Socketed Stone: This socketed stone was well hidden under shrubbery at the start of a footpath running from Cathlaw Lane to Witch Craig/Crag. I would have walked right by it, had husband, Andrew, not pushed his way through the shrubbery to find it.
What a sad fate for this soc... Read More |
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| Galabraes | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 22nd Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Gala Braes Standing Stones, Bathgate: We drove up and down the road, but couldn’t see a gate into the field along either from the ‘main’ road (Drumcross Road) or the side road running north-south up to Cairnpapple Hill, so we ended up clambering over an almost demolished stone wall and squeezi... Read More |
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| Barmore Fort | Hillfort | Scotland | Cowal | Saw from a distance | 21st Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Barmore Hillfort, Ormidale, Argyll: We saw this hillfort from a distance only. The map indicated a footbridge across the River Ruel. We drove up and down several times but couldn’t find it. The ground was so wet after heavy rain, we would have needed wellies to navigate the fields, so elected to... Read More |
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| Meckan's Grave (Loch Riddon) | Cist | Scotland | Cowal | Visited | 5th Oct 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Meckan's Grave, Loch Ridon/Loch Ruel: There is only a signpost by natural crag but grid reference puts it on the mudflats at the head of Loch Riddon/Loch Ruel. There was a phone signal of sorts so I called up some images of Meckan’s Grave on the internet, only to find most people had photographed... Read More |
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| Ardachearanbeg Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Cowal | Visited | 21st Sep 2017 | -1 | 4 | 4 | Ardachearanbeg Standing Stone, Argyll: Hunted all along the fence line, peering into the river and along the banks for around 100 metres each side of the grid reference and couldn’t find this stone. There was no phone signal, so wasn’t able to call up the Canmore record to double check. Later ... Read More |
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| Glendaruel Churchyard | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Cowal | Visited | 21st Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Kilmodan Stones, Glenaruel: Also known as Clacahn of Glendaruel and the Kilmodan Stones
Our second visit of the day, and another lovely spot by the River Ruel. We parked by the now deserted (almost derelict) hotel in Kilmodan village, and walked down towards the church, which is Georgian and ver... Read More |
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| Balliemore (Craigendive) | Standing Stones | Scotland | Cowal | Visited | 21st Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ballimore Standing Stones, West of Dunoon: To escape the rain in Armadale, we decided to take the ferry from Gourock to Dunoon. We stopped off in Dunoon for a cup of tea and a sandwich at The Tudor Coffee Shop above Thornton’s on the main high street, then we set off into the countryside, taking t... Read More |
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| Castle Hill (Ancrum) | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 20th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Castle Hill Hillfort, Ancrum, Scottish Borders: It was getting late in the evening, with dusk coming on, so sadly there wasn’t time to drive back into Ancrum and back round the other side to clamber up to this enticing hill fort, which is visible from Ancrum Old Church and can also be clearly seen... Read More |
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| Ancrum Old Church | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 20th Sep 2017 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Ancrum Old Church, Scottish Borders: This is a very beautiful location, just to the west of Ale Water and north of the B6400, west of the village of Ancrum. There is parking for 3-4 cars at the south western end of the church yard. A gate and steps lead down into the church yard; the ruined church... Read More |
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| Haughhead Kip (Eckford) | Sculptured Stone | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 20th Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Haughhead Kip Tumulus & Inscribed Stone, Scottish Borders: This is one of the strangest sites I’ve been to recently, although in a lovely location. Sited just to the east of the A698, north of the B6401 and south of Kale Water, to the north west of the little village of Eckford, we parked on a co... Read More |
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| Moor Head (Brundean Laws) | Standing Stones | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 20th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Moor Head (Brundean Laws), Scottish Border: This was our first stop on our journey to Armadale, and a part of the world we’ve been to before on a walk up Dere Street, but not stopped at these stones before. We parked at Brundean Laws farm entrance at NT 71651 11987 and walked up the track past the... Read More |
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| Tullie House Museum | Museum | England | Cumbria | Visited | 18th Sep 2017 | 4 | 2 | 4 | The Cursing Stone, Carlisle: This stone is located in the strangely lit underpath that runs the dual carriageway near Tullie House Museum and Carlisle Castle, next to Tullie House museum. We came across this quite by chance, thinking it was located inside the museum. It is actually on the Tullie H... Read More |
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| St Mary's Old Church (Brignall) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 9th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9th century cross shaft, St. Mary's Old Church, Brignall: Deserted Medieval Village: After not being able to find the cross base in ‘New St. Mary’s Church’, we left the car parked in front of the church and took the footpath to ‘The Old Church’ between the south wall of the churchyard and ... Read More |
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| St. Mary's Church (Brignall) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 9th Sep 2017 | 3 | 2 | 5 | Cross base at St. Mary's New Church, Brignall (not found): After having visited the church in Barnard Castle and Barnard Castle, we set of to Brignall. According to Pastscape, there was a 13th century cross base sitting against the south-west corner of the tower of this church, together with a Roma... Read More |
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| Christening Stone (Cotherstone) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 9th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Christening Stone, Cotherstone: This was our first stop of the day. Travelling south on the A68, the shortest route was cross-country through Hamsterley, driving along the B6278 Folly Bank into Eggleston, then turning onto the B6277 through Romaldkirk. The cross base is in a field to the right... Read More |
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| Hethpool Cairn | Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Hethpool Cairn, College Valley: By this time, it was getting reasonably late in the afternoon, and there was a definite chill in the air. After having been out a lot earlier than our normal setting off time, it seemed way past tea-time. Just as we were approaching Hethpool Stone circles, we both n... Read More |
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| Southernknowe Farmstead (College Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Southernknowe Enclosed Farmstead, College Valley: This settlement sits high up the eastern slopes of Blackhaggs Riggs, almost opposite where Lambden Burn meets College Burn. Whilst we could see the stone walls/banks of this settlement from below, it was quite a hike up the steep slopes of the hill.... Read More |
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| Mounthooly (College Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Mounthooly Enclosed Scooped Settlement, College Valley: We drove down the road as far as we could go, nearly at Mounthooly Farm and International Hostelry, and there was a big sign saying ‘no cars past this point’. There were two other cars parked on the grass verge, but no signs of other peopl... Read More |
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| Dunsdale (College Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Dunsdale Settlement, College Valley: Wow. The screen slopes to the north of this path are daunting and impressive at the same time. If there was a landslip here, you might be cut off for some time.
The settlement here was difficult to make out because of the very tall grass and heather, but we ... Read More |
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| Coldburn (College Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Coldburn Settlement (College Valley): After visiting the Southernknowe Settlement, the road splits into two. We took the eastern road at this point, travelling over Sutherland Bridge. There is a sign which says to beware as the road is not in very good condition, which is right! It is very narrow... Read More |
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| Southernknowe (College Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Southernknowe RB Settlement, College Valley: Never having been down so far south in College Valley before, I was fascinated by how beautiful the scenery was, and how many people live here. We saw the sign posts for ‘Wedding This Way’ from Hethpool onwards, and came to the tiny, very white Cuddy... Read More |
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| Hethpool Stone Circles | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Sep 2017 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Hethpool Stone Circles, College Valley: We needed to be up really early this morning, but completed what we needed to do by 9am. As there were high winds and rain forecast for this evening/tonight and for the next few days, husband suggested we make the most of the good weather and go up to College... Read More |
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| The Butter Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | County Durham | Visited | 9th Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | The Butter Stone, Cotherstone: From the cross base, we continued along the B6277, turning onto the minor road from Cotherstone towards the Battle Hill Ranges. We hadn’t expected to turn from pasture and woodland almost straight onto a moorland road.
From the turning in Cotherstone to the But... Read More |
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| Haining House (Lambley) | Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Sep 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Haining House Cairn, Hartleyburn Common: It was difficult to park here, as the road was so narrow. In the end we managed to bump the car up a slight bank to the north east of the track to Haining House. The track to the farm house was well looked after, although to drive to it, you’d have had to... Read More |
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| Coanwood (Lambley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Sep 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Coanwood Settlement, Lambley: Driving from the Diamond Oak and the World War II prisoner of war camp to the north, this settlement lies immediately opposite the junction of the 68 Cycle Route and the A689 at Lambley. It lies very near the Roman route of Maiden Way, which in this part of the world g... Read More |
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| Housesteads Tumulus | Artificial Mound | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Sep 2017 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Housesteads Tumulus, Northumberland: From photographing the remains of Triermain Castle and after having failed to see several sites today because of Boisterous Bullocks or lack of parking reasonably near the well, I wasn’t in the frame of mind to go straight home. As we were very near the B6318... Read More |
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| Housesteads Mound | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Sep 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Housesteads Mound, near Housesteads Tumulus, Bardon Mill: This mound is marked on the OS map as a mound, and as we were in the field, walked to the change in slope where the ground dipped into a hollow. The mound was certainly popular with the sheep. Didn’t walk down to it, as it was a fair way ... Read More |
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| Dead Friar's Stone (Stanhope) | Marker Stone | England | County Durham | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Dead Friar's Stone, Stanhope: From Old Man's Grave, just north of this stone, this was our second stop of the day - a curiously named stone next to Dead Friar’s quarry. Amusingly, husband thought a great slab of concrete lying next to the car park was the stone lying on its side! We looked agai... Read More |
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| Old Man's Grave (Edmunbyers) | Marker Stone | England | County Durham | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Old Man's Grave, Meadows Edge Road, Near Blanchland: We originally intended to go to Blanchland to look at a holy well marked on the OS map, not far from the town square, but the village show was on and it was impossible to park. We drove on across to the moors, intended to stop at a boundary stone... Read More |
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| Edmundbyers Cross (Muggleswick) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Remains of Edmundbyers Cross, Muggleswick: Marked in italic, old fashioned script on the OS map, I guess I was expecting something a little more exciting, such as a cross base with part of a shaft, but no. Just a cross base. Good job I knew what I was looking for as alongside the road there were o... Read More |
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| Feldon Plain (Muggleswick) | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Marker Stone, junction of Meadows Edge & B6278: Despite quite an intensive search, I’ve not found any information on the internet (checked Pastscape, Historic England, National Geograph, etc).
Marked ‘BS’ on the OS map, this impressively large stone (in comparison to the others we saw on th... Read More |
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| Hunstanworth Moor north | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | County Durham | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Hunstanworth Moor North, Townhead: Being the day of the Blanchland and Hunstanworth Show, this road was very busy, and it was difficult to stop as the road was narrow and there were no obvious lay-bys or pull-off points (there being a nice ditch at the western side of the road and a steep bank up to... Read More |
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| Hunstanworth Moor south | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | County Durham | Visited | 28th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Hunstanworth Moor South, Near Townhead: This stone is marked on the OS Map as ‘stone’, and was easily found, although it seems like a tall boundary marker along the road from Townhead to Rookhope. As we drove along the road, we passed the northern boundary stone (see below), which isn’t marke... Read More |
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| Ad Gefrin | Ancient Palace | England | Northumberland | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Ad Gefrin, Northumberland (near Yeavering): Trying to dry out from the walk to the Stob Stones, we decided to go back via Wooler and the A687 rather than back down the A68, passing Yeavering Bell on our way. Driving north, I was surprised to find we re-entered England from Scotland, back into North... Read More |
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| St. Gregory's The Great (Kirknewton) | Sculptured Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Adoration of the Magi (in Roman tunics): St. Gregory's The Great, Kirknewton: I confess to not being ready to go back home as it was such a nice evening, and this church looked very welcoming, so we stopped off for a look.
The main entrance to the church yard leads over a small, nicely landsc... Read More |
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| Elsdonburn Shank Shielings (Kilham) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Elsdonburn Shank Shielings, Kilham: Husband had read somewhere that these might possibly have Saxon origins, although I’ve not been able to find the link.
Marked on the OS map as ‘old shielings’ we missed these on the walk up to Elsdonburn Shank as I was looking on the wrong side of the tra... Read More |
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| Elsdonburn Shank (Kilham) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Elsdonburn Shank Villages, Kilham: Why are all the interesting sites up, up, up hill?? From Longknowe Settlement, we drove to Thompsons Walls and parked just behind their stack of sileage bales. The footpath continues here, and is metalled, but is a private road, so we decided not to drive any fur... Read More |
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| Longknowe (Kilham) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Longknowe Settlement, Kilham: Our first scheduled stop of the day, having been diverted by two very interesting standing stones!
Driving down the single track road towards Longknowe Farm and Thompsons Walls, it was a bit tricky to track precisely where we were on the road because of all the littl... Read More |
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| Ring Chesters | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Ring Chesters, Elsdonburn Shank: This was a relatively long walk. Having parked at Thompsons Wall Farm (NT 86817 30529), we took the tarmacked footpath up to Elsdonburn Shank farm (discussed farmhouse but the land is still farmed) and neatly kept.
Just before the barn at Elsdonburn Shank, we div... Read More |
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| Battle Stone (Kirknewton) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Battle Stone, Kirknewton: This was our second unscheduled stop of the day, and one I was very pleased to have made.
Having turned off the A697 onto the B6351, just before the site of Ad Gefrin to the west, I spotted this stone on the OS map. Goodness knows how I’d missed it before, but then ... Read More |
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| Bendor Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Battle Stone, Bendor: The A697 was busy with holiday traffic today, and with a longish walk ahead of us, we stopped off in a very busy Wooler for refreshments, we headed off towards Kilham and Ring Chesters. As we whizzed along the A697 westwards, I spotted this stone standing in the middle of ... Read More |
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| St Mary's Motte (Beaumont) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St. Mary's Beaumont: Church built on a motte, on a milecastle on a possible Saxon camp: We came to try to see St. Ann’s Well, marked on the OS map as being just off the small triangular village green, but found it was in a private garden surrounded by either a tall hedge or other buildings, so the... Read More |
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| Bride's Well (Stapleton) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | -1 | 4 | Bride's Well, Stapleton: Now underneath a fallen tree? Having had to run away from this site to collect our cats from the vets after a very brief search for the well last Thursday, we went back armed with the GPS and OS map and found we’d been looking in the wrong direction.
I’d seen a set of... Read More |
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| Irthington Mill | Misc. Earthwork | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Irthington Mill 'motte or not?': Having spotted two mottes and a holy well just off the road we were travelling on to Carlisle, I asked to take a detour to find these. Whilst this is marked as a motte on the OS map, and certainly looked like one, I got home to find there is some debate about whethe... Read More |
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| Irthington Motte | Misc. Earthwork | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Irthington Motte, Cumbria: We continued walking down the lane which leads to the River Irthing. At first, nothing appeared to stand out as a motte, then I realised that the mound behind the fence, sitting between the farm and the builder’s yard was actually the motte.
Walking down nearer to th... Read More |
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| Hall Well (Irthington) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Hall Well, Irthington: From Walton we made our way over to Irthington – not a planned visit, but because I saw the holy well and 2 mottes in close proximity in this village.
This small village (too large to be called a hamlet, but too small to be a good sized village) is obviously old. It’s ... Read More |
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| King Edward's Monument | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | King Edward's Monument, Burgh-by-Sands: After having visited Beaumont, I was reluctant to go home without seeing something of the Solway, and looking across to Dumfries & Galloway, where we spent 12 years. When we last visited in February 2014 we were unable to get down the lane because it was so w... Read More |
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| St Mary's Church (Walton) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St. Mary's, Walton: Went to see a cross head, but found an 11th century market cross instead! This is a very pretty little village, and was on our way back to Stapleton to try to find the Bride’s Well (ran out of time last Thursday). We parked opposite the church on the side of the village green ... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Well (Kirkandrews-on-Eden) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 20th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Andrew's Well, Kirkandrews-on-Eden: From Stapleton, we headed to junction 44 of the M6 and stopped for refreshments at Houghton Park Garden Centre, then set off via the A689 (western part of the bypass round Carlisle, turning right at the roundabout where the A689 joins Burgh Road. Kirkandrews i... Read More |
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| Carlatton Demesne | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 17th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Carlatton Demesne Standing Stone: Following the A69 to Carlisle, the only way we could turn left off the A69 to get to Carlatton was to drive north into Brampton and back out again, under the A69. We then followed the B6413 through Castle Carrock, turning off westwards along the minor road past Moo... Read More |
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| Rockcliffe (Cumbria) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 17th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Rockcliffe Wheel-headed Cross, Cumbria: From the centre of Carlisle, we followed the signs heading north on the A7, out to the large Asda by the M6. Just before junction 44, a road north west into the industrial estate, clearly signposted to Rockcliffe.
This road leads straight into the vill... Read More |
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| Green Humbleton Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Green Humbleton Scooped Settlement, Yetholm: Now this was a settlement I could get excited about, and what views! If the first two enclosures on the way up here were somewhat dull, this more than made up for it! To the north and east the land dropped steeply away to Humbleton Syke and to the west G... Read More |
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| Shielknowe Burn Scooped Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Shielknowe Burn Scooped Settlement, Yetholm: This scooped settlement, lying on the northern side of Shielknowe Burn is much easier to see, and is visible from Shielknowe Enclosure, cut by the fence which also cuts the Enclosure. The muddy track from Shielknowe Enclosure runs downhill, crosses the b... Read More |
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| Sheilknowe Burn Enclosure | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Shielknowe Enclosure, Yetholm: From the Virtue Well we made our way to Kirk Yetholm, finding the small side road which is actually the Pennine Way, but which can be driven down to a small parking area beside where the Halter Burn and Shielknowe Burn meet. Here a footbridge leads over the Burn, the P... Read More |
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| Green Humbleton Hillfort | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 6th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Green Humbleton Hillfort: Having been virtually blown off the hillside at Green Humbleton Scooped Settlement on our way up the Pennine Way, we decided we’d visit the Stob Stones first and see if the wind died down on our way back. If the wind was bad on Stob Rig, then what would it be like on th... Read More |
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| Stob Stones | Standing Stones | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Stob Stones, Scottish Borders: From the Green Humbleton Scooped Settlement, by the time we started climbing up towards the Stob Stones, not only was the wind was howling and I was leaning hard into it, but the rain drops were like small pins being driven into my cheeks. I confess to getting a bit f... Read More |
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| Stob Rig (Yetholm) | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Stob Rig Earthworks: On the way up to the Stob Stones from the Pennine Way, there were two really obvious earthworks running in parallel towards the stones and we walked between them to reach the stones. I was keen to try and get out of the wind and the rain (almost impossible in this high, exposed ... Read More |
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| Virtue Well (Yetholm) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Virtue Well, Yetholm: From Venchen Farm Cottages Standing Stone, by the time we drove back down to the west side of the road bridge over Bowmont Water at NT 82132 28576, and parked at a little layby just before the road junction, the rain had eased off a little.
There were two routes up to the w... Read More |
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| Venchen Farm Cottages (Town Yetholm) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 6th Aug 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Venchen Farm Cottages Standing Stone, Scottish Borders: Having left home to avoid days of damp, rainy weather, we went in search of sunshine and blue skies. The further we travelled up the A68, the more obvious it became that the grey skies got darker the more northerly we got. As we reached Town Y... Read More |
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| Hawick Mote | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Hawick Motte/Mote, Scottish Borders: We arrived in Hawick, intending to buy a map, but the majority of the shops (apart from Dorothy Perkins, the bookmakers, charity shops and 1 café, were closed (looking at the opening times, they largely shut at 2pm on a Saturday. The town seemed deserted apart ... Read More |
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| The Dod | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | The Dod, near Bugh Hill Stone Circle and Hillfort: It was amazing what could be seen of this site from the slope just below Burgh Hill Stone Circle. Looking at the plan on Canmore, it is cut in two by the syke by the farm to it's south, but what remains, looking at the settlement from the road, are... Read More |
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| Burgh Hill Hillfort | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Burgh Hill Hillfort, Scottish Borders: What is a 'bit more of a walk' for me is probably a 'short walk on a footpath' for others, but even so, this was a brilliant place to have visited.
With Burgh Hill Stone Circle (or possibly a cairn circle?) not far away, it was worth the additional short tre... Read More |
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| Midshiels Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Midshiels Cairn, Hawick: See visit report for Midshiels Standing Stone (the two are 90 metres apart), sites entered separately as Canmore lists them individually. Couldn't get really close to the cairn - would have loved to have walked up to it, but there was a really big bull and lots of over-frie... Read More |
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| Burgh Hill Stone Circle | Stone Circle | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Burgh Hill Stone Circle, Hawick: After visiting Lord's Tree and Ca Knowe Cairns, we headed off towards Teviothead and some wild, lonely countryside. There is a track leading up the hill towards the stone circle (and the hill fort beyond), at NT 47365 06725, with parking for 2-3 cars opposite.
Fo... Read More |
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| Midshiels Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Midshiels Standing Stone, Hawick: We'd arrived (unknowingly) in Hawick on their Riding of the Marches day. The shops were shut and the town was almost deserted. Having visited some other sites on the southern side of Hawick, we decided to stop off to see this standing stone and cairn on the way ba... Read More |
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| Ca Knowe (Hawick) | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Ca Knowe Cairn, Hawick (aka Hero's Grave): Simply marked as ‘cairn’ on Trigpointing UK's OS map, we could see this cairn from Lord’s Tree Cairn. There is a proper tarmacked footpath up to the modern standing stone with plaque on it. Closer to, it is much larger than it appears from the mark ... Read More |
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| Lord's Tree (Hawick) | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 3rd Jun 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Lord's Tree Cairn, Hawick: We arrived in Hawick, intending to buy a map, but the majority of the shops (apart from the bookmakers, charity shops and 1 café, were closed (looking at the opening times, they largely shut at 2pm on a Saturday. The town seemed deserted apart from a few tourists. We lat... Read More |
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| Carey Burn (Harthope Valley) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jul 2017 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Carey Burn Votadinian settlement, Harthope Valley: After the beautiful Maiden/Pin Well, I got stuck on a 'precipice' above the Coldgate Burn trying to get to the Romano-British settlements to the west of North Middleton and bottled out (my dreaded fear of falling - I've subsequently found the map sh... Read More |
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| Maiden Well (Kettle Hill) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jul 2017 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Maiden Well and The King's Chair, Wooler: After having walked round the outer perimeter of the promontory of The Kettles, we’d actually stood just above the site of the Maiden Well (Pin Well), but would have needed a rope and harness to descend the vertical cliff down to it. We walked back to the... Read More |
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| The Kettles (Wooler) | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jul 2017 | 3 | 5 | 4 | The Kettles Hillfort, Wooler: From Green Castle, we continued along the track leading first south west up the small hill, then turns south east along the top of the promontory. Our GPS told me there was just over 511 metres to walk from the small parking area to the grid reference given by Pastscap... Read More |
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| Green Castle Ringwork | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jul 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Green Castle Ringwork, Wooler: After having stopped off at the ‘usual café’ in Wooler for refreshments, we headed off towards Wooler Common, from the High Street taking Ramsey Lane which becomes Common Road.
At NT 98195 27735 there is a small parking area, where a footpath leads south west... Read More |
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| Barntalloch (Langholm) | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jul 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Barntalloch Motte, Staplegordon, Langholm: It was dull and very wet at our house, and fed up of the rain, we decided to head off to the Scottish Borders for some sunny, 25 deg C weather. Landing in Langholm by 2.30pm, we stopped off for coffee and cake before heading off into the wilds of Eskdale.
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| Little Hill (Craig) | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Little Hill Hillfort, Craig, Scottish Borders: This might be a 'short walk on a footpath', but it was a steady climb! After visiting Barntalloch Castle, we could see no way of getting into the old churchyard nearby, as it looked as if the building had been converted into a house. Mistake not to tr... Read More |
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| Newhall Hill (Paddockhole) | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Newhall Hill Settlements, near Paddockhill, Scottish Borders: From Little Hill, we thought we’d stop off at Balliehill Hillfort again, but driving up to it, it was covered in enormous cattle grazing contentedly within it. Taking one look, we decided to press onto Newhall Farm. Following the mino... Read More |
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| Elvaplain | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Saw from a distance | 29th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Elvaplain Stone Circle, Setmurthy, Cumbria: After having seen the tumulus and settlements at Aughertree Fell we set off for Elva Hill. With a stunning image on the Visit Cumbria website, which told us this although this stone circle was on private land, it could be approached by a footpath, we foun... Read More |
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| Druids Temple (Cumbria) | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 23rd Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Druid's Temple Stone Circle, Cumbria: OK, so we got sidetracked by the splended Furness Abbey, but we then retraced our steps to Great Urswick, skirting round the north side of Urswick Tarn, up and out onto Birkrigg Common. Following the yellow ‘dotted’ road over the common, past Sunbrick Farm,... Read More |
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| Beanley Moor Enclosure | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Jul 2017 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Beanley Moor Iron Age Defended Settlement, Northumberland: We had an abortive attempt to find the Fawdon Cross Base at NU 0281 1591 (nowhere anywhere nearby to park) and Beanley Plantation Hillfort. The tracks to the latter were either waterlogged (husband said we needed diving equipment – a slig... Read More |
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| Haystack Hill (Ingram) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Haystack Hill Settlement Complex, Ingram, Northumberland: Having stopped off at North Haystack Hill, it was getting hot by this point, although there was a pleasant breeze. The path was levelling out now and there was an electric fence to our left hand side. Where this had dropped down to the gras... Read More |
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| North Haystack Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | North Haystack Hill, Ingram, Northumberland: After Ingram Hill Enclosure, we took the permissive footpath to its east, walking up between Turf Knowe to our east and Wether Hill to the west. From this point on, for the next quarter of a mile, we seemed to be constantly moving out of the way of a tra... Read More |
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| Ingram Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Ingram Hill Settlement, Breamish Valley: Making the most of a warm, sunny day we set off to the Ingram in the Beamish Valley, not to walk the Hillfort Trail this time, but to look at some settlements marked on the OS map. Taking supposedly ‘the shortest route’ the roads were so twisty and windy... Read More |
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| Cow and Calf Rocks | Rock Outcrop | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 30th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cow & Calf Rocks, Ilkley: We visited here on a very blustery day after having seen Maiden Castle hill fort. By now rain was threatening and the moorland bleak. Parking at the café down below, we walked up the footpath. The view from the Cow and Calf over to Ilkley was great, although there were l... Read More |
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| Yatesfield (Otterburn) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Yatesfield Settlement, Otterburn Ranges: By this time, it was 6pm, and rather than face another long walk over rough ground to the Roman Tombs at Lamb Crag, we decided to save our feet and drive to this site up on the Otterburn Ranges. We spotted the two ‘archaeological area’ signs at the south... Read More |
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| Yatesfield Hill (Otterburn) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Yatesfield Hill Standing Stone, Otterburn Ranges: Driving up to Yatesfield Hill, I noticed this stone by the side of the road. There is no mention of it on Pastscape, English Heritage or the OS maps.
It might be a marker stone or a rubbing stone, as it is sited by the junction of Yatesfield Hi... Read More |
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| Burdhope (Rochester) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 2 | 5 | 3 | Burdhope Hill Village, Rochester, Northumberland: After having stopped at the Camien Café for refreshments, we headed off into the hot sun again. This time it was only a few hundred metres up the road. There was a small layby at the side of the road opposite Woolaw Farm entrance. Crossing the ro... Read More |
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| Brownrigg (Rochester) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Brownrigg Ancient Cross Base, Rochester, Northumberland: Two cross bases in one day, although this one isn’t marked on the map. Husband, Andrew, found it by doing a location search on Pastscape before we set off (he gets to look at settlements and Roman forts he's interested in whilst I get the c... Read More |
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| Woodhouse (West Woodburn) | Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Woodhouse Round Cairn and Roman Milestone, Northumberland: How many times have we driven up and down this road and never spotted anything? Today I saw the stone peering above the stone wall to the west of the A68, where the Sandstone Way crosses it.
There was a tumulus marked on the map, so I sta... Read More |
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| Woodburnhill (East Woodburn) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cross base near Woodburnhill Farm, Northumberland: Trying to find the footpath near Parkhead Farm to Robin of Risingham, I spotted the ‘cross (rems of)’ on the OS map just outside East Woodburn at Chairford Bridge.
As this wasn’t far away, we decided to explore. Parking at the northern sid... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg Marker Stone (Crossley Gate) | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Danby Rigg Marker Stone (Crossley Gate), North Yorkshire: this isn't marked on the OS map, but it is scheduled and listed on Pastscape. It is in a beautiful spot looking east to Lower Fryup Dale and marks the junction of two paths - one which comes up from the valley to the east, the track that run... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg Marker Stones | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Danby Rigg Marker Stones, North Yorkshire: I was really surprised to find these marker stones on top of the moor, running from the Standing Stone and trig point in line with Slate Hill to Danby Dale.
We didn't walk to all of them, as we wanted to get across to the cross dyke, round cairn and ring... Read More |
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| Robin of Risingham (Woodburn) | Carving | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Jul 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Robin of Risingham, West Woodburn: Our first stop of the day, just south of West Woodburn on the A68. The sun was shining, it was warm and there was barely a breeze apart when the many motorbikes whizzed past at high speed.
Conveniently, there is a layby next to the start of the footpath leading... Read More |
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| Hart Leap Stones | Misc. Earthwork | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Hart Leap, Glaisdale Rigg: From the Black Hill Cross/Standing Stone, despite having the grid references for this site, we drove past it twice and had to park up and get out and explore. Fortunately there was a moorland track heading eastwards across the moor with room to pull up in. In driving furt... Read More |
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| Glaisdale Rigg (Hill Top) | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Glaisdale Rigg Standing Stone: From Hart Leap, we were making our way home. Spotting this, I got my husband to virtually do an emergency stop as I spotted this stone at the side of the road. There is nothing on Pastscape or Historic England about this stone, but it lies just under 700 metres north ... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg Cairn With Standing Stone | Ring Cairn | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Danby Rigg Ring Cairn with Standing Stone, North Yorkshire: Of all the sites on Danby Rigg, this was the one I wanted to see most of all, especially after seeing the photos on the Portal, and I wasn't disappointed, although rather than a stone circle, I found a ring cairn with standing stone. The ... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg Cross Dyke (Crossley Side) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Danby Rigg Cross Dyke (Crossley Side), North Yorkshire: From the standing stone (marker stone) and trig point, we walked along the footpath leading approx. north east along the eastern side of the ridge towards the large round cairn. I confess to having walked past this at first, almost reaching th... Read More |
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| Black Hill Cross (Glaisdale Rigg) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Black Hill Cross, Glaisdale Rigg: From Danby Rigg, we made our way to Glaisdale Rigg. I’ve been to some surprisingly beautiful parts of England before, but this was Pretty with a capital ‘P’. We needed the map to follow the surprisingly windy (and hilly) roads through Street village to Glais... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg (Crossley Gate) | Cairn | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Round cairn overlooking Crossley Gate, Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire: From the other marker stones along the track between Little Fryup Dale and Danby Dale, we walked back to the trig point, then took the footpath (mountain bike track) headed north east along the path that runs along the eastern edge ... Read More |
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| Danby Rigg (Slate Hill) | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Marker/Standing Stone & Trig Point, Danby Rigg, North Yorkshire: Not marked on the OS map, this stone sits within a couple of metres of Trig Point TP2728 (Danby Moor). It is sited almost on the eastern edge of Danby Rigg, where the ridge starts to slope sharply down to Little Fryup Dale. There is no... Read More |
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| Glaisdale Rigg Tall Cairn | Cairn | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 2nd Jul 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Glaisdale Rigg Dry Stone Cairn, North Yorkshire: I spotted this whilst we were walking along the road to find Hart Leap. It looks relatively modern (there are lots of grouse shooting butts in the area) but by this late in the evening and after having walked seemingly miles across knee deep heather,... Read More |
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| Carby Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 24th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Carby Hill Settlement, Scottish Borders: We only got to see this from a distance because of the ENORMOUS cattle grazing it's slopes. Even my husband, who was brought up on a farm was wary of these beasts. We plan to come back for a repeat visit in a month or so. Whilst the hill looks steep, from ... Read More |
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| Milnholm (Newcastleton) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jun 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Milnholm Cross, Newcastleton: Not my usual type of cross, but interesting nevertheless. This cross sits just to the south of Newcastleton Village, on the right hand side of the B6357. There is a small layby at NY 47633 86073 where a side road heads off up the hill, signposted to Ettleton cemetery. ... Read More |
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| Old Castleton (Newcastleton) | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Old Castleton Earthworks (Liddel Castle), Near Newcastleton: At the north-eastern end of the cemetery, there is a small iron gate which leads out onto the field with the earthworks. The gate had been tied fast, but rather than walk all the way round, I used my un-knotting skills (honed from many ye... Read More |
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| Castleton (Newcastleton) | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jun 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Castleton Cross, Near Newcastleton: Whilst this cross can be seen from the road, it is best viewed from the field (gate opposite the cemetery, otherwise its a clamber over a barbed wire fence in boggy ground). The shaft is a modern replacement, made of concrete. The field contains many lumps and b... Read More |
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| Caddrounburn Calvert | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 24th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Caddrounburn Calvert, Scottish Borders: [Note: whilst the site can be seen from the road by Liddel Water, it is a short climb up the slope to walk round the exterior walls of the settlement. I found the tussocks of grass and hidden lumps of stone challenging on my ankles, but took a walking pole to ... Read More |
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| Gibbie's Knowe (Kielder) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 17th Jun 2017 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Gibbie's Knowe, Kielder Forest: After our long trek up to Dour Hill Chambered Cairn, the heat was definitely getting to both of us. Andrew decided to drive the 12 miles down the Forest Drive toll road from Cottonshopeburnhaugh to Kielder. Goodness, this road is remote, but lovely.
We stopped ... Read More |
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| Rochester (Otterburn) | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Northumberland | Visited | Rochester (Otterburn) Modern Four Poster: We’ve seen this stone circle and a tumble-down round house whilst driving by on the A68 on a number of occasions but never stopped. However, today, after a hot but pleasant afternoon walking to Dour Hill Cairn, we doubled back to the café for refreshment... Read More |
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| Dour Hill (Rochester) | Chambered Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 17th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Dour Hill Chambered Cairn, Near Otterburn: We picked the hottest day of the year so far to visit here, and climbed the gently sloping hill up past the very tall forest plantations towards the top of Dour Hill.
This visit was interesting as the army were carrying out exercises on the Otterburn Ran... Read More |
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| Chatton 1a | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Chatton 1a, Rock Art, Northumberland: After our trip to the Farne Islands, as we were nearby and had an hour or so to spare, we decided to head off to Chatton to see if we could find the rock art and the rock shelter. Little did I realise that we’d be blown off the top of the hill – I found it ... Read More |
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| Chatton 3 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Chatton 3, Rock Art, Northumberland: See visit report for Chatton 1a. | 30 | 2 |
| Chatton 2 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Chatton 2, Rock Art, Northumberland: See visit report for Chatton 1a. | 30 | 2 |
| St. Cuthbert's Well (Farne Islands) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Jun 2017 | 2 | 4 | 3 | St. Cuthbert's Well (site of), Inner Farne: Requires boat trip and short walk from the jetty to see exterior of the building within which it is located. The sea was very calm today, but there were lots of people on the boat – there must have been around 3 to 4 space places. We had a trip around ... Read More |
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| Beckermet Ancient Crosses (St Bridget's) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient crosses, St. Bridget’s Church, Beckermet: Despite having been given directions by the vicar of St. John’s, Beckermet, we had several attempts at finding St. Bridget’s, but got there in the end. We need to take a left hand turn off the main road through Beckermet opposite Crofhouse Far... Read More |
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| Langdale Axe Factory | Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Aug 2015 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Mickleden Way, finding pointers to the Pike O'Stickle Axe Factory: I was lucky enough to win a copy of Gabriel Blamires book in a Portal photographic competition. It arrived just in time for our trip over to the Lakes on 10th/11th August. We followed Chapter 4: The Mickleden Way, having parked at ... Read More |
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| Hurl Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Aug 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The Hurl Stone, Newtown, Northumberland. Second visit: Saturday, 30th August 2014. Armed with a letter from the landowner allowing us access, we set off back to the Hurl Stone before the weather turned.
The farmer was busy herding sheep down the road to the field next to the Newtown Mill stand... Read More |
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| Harbottle | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Harbottle Modern Standing Stone/Castle: From Holystone, we passed through Harbottle to get back to the A68, so stopped to look at the castle. The site is lovely.
I spotted the modern standing stone to the west of the car park. The standing stone is inscribed with words:
The Sad Castle
Who ... Read More |
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| Outer Golden Pot (Otterburn) | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Outer Golden Pot (Otterburn): What stunning views across to Upper Coquetdale from here. No wonder the site is marked as a view point on the Otterburn Ranges Access Map. The fencing surrounding this Golden Pot has been broken on three sides, so it’s possible to appreciate its form more fully than... Read More |
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| Inner Golden Pot (Otterburn) | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | -1 | 4 | 5 | Inner Golden Pot, Otterburn Ranges: No trace of this cross base can be found, but I couldn't resist having a look. There were some small sandstone pieces around the grid reference point, together with a funny green box - presumably some military equipment. A great viewpoint across to Upper Coquetd... Read More |
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| Middle Golden Pot (Otterburn) | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Middle Golden Pot (Otterburn): Fenced off behind a nice, neat fence with a label “Do not feed the cross base” – no seriously, “Archaeological Area”. This stone was mostly hidden under the marsh grass and I struggled to get decent photographs as the camera kept focusing on the grass rather... Read More |
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| Ridlees Cairn | Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ridlees Cairn, Otterburn Ranges: This is one of the times I’ve actually made it up to a Trig Point (usually too steep a climb or too high a drop for my liking), but this was easy. Ridlees Cairn was actually 250 metres to the east north east of Bushman’s Crag, but I’m sure some people may visi... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Well (Northumberland) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 4 | 4 | 5 | St. Mungo's Well, Holystone, Northumberland: We’d already visited the lovely Lady Well on 8th September 2013, but stopped to look at this one, which is at the side of the Coquet River. Sitting by the right hand side of the road just before entering the village from the Otterburn Ranges, just befo... Read More |
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| Bellshiel Law | Chambered Cairn | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2017 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Bellshiel Law, Otterburn Ranges: It felt very strange driving onto the Otterburn Ranges with no red flags flying and no military around – I felt like I was trespassing. The ranges are absolutely huge – the Access map and Guide says they cover 90 square miles. We saw 3 other cars all day, 2 of ... Read More |
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| St. Mungo's Well (Simonburn) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th May 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | St. Mungo's (Mugger's) Well, Simonburn: Our first stop on this hot, sunny day. Parking at Simonburn tea-rooms, we asked if it was OK to leave the car there whilst we walked round the village, and were told it was alright (there is another car park in between the south wall of the churchyard and the... Read More |
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| Shitlington | Marker Stone | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Shitlington Cross, near Bridge House (south of Bellingham): We stopped here because we were passing on the way to the Bridge House/Hetherington Farm homestead and it was marked on the OS map as a ‘cross’. It looks like an old standing stone on a sandstone cross base, similar to the Hurl Stone n... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Well (Bellingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Cuddy's Well (St. Cuthbert's Well, Bellingham): Parking in a small layby at NY 83833 83303, just opposite Manchester Square side road, we headed off to the church. The church was open, so we popped in to have a look. It looked relatively modern, but a plan hooked on the wall told us the sanctuary ... Read More |
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| East Steel Farm | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th May 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | East Steel Modern Stone Circle, Near Beltingham, Northumberland: From Beltingham, the further we drove out into the fells, we kept seeing bright yellow ‘Art Gallery Open’ signs. Long way to go for an art gallery, but a lovely drive. Note for future visitors – follow these signs!
As we pul... Read More |
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| Walwick Fell | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st May 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Walwick Fell Farmstead, near Hexham: This settlement is not far from Tower Tye, where the Tynedale North of the Wall Archaeology Group used to meet before the surveys. Turning south on the un-named road towards Whinney Hill, we parked in a small layby at the edge of the wood on the east side of the... Read More |
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| Cross Well (Linlithgow) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 18th May 2017 | 4 | 3 | 5 | Cross Well, Linlithgow: From the Knock Modern Stone Circle, we set off towards the Gogar Stone. Passing through Linlithgow (we plan on going to see the Palace and nearby Hopetoun House) another day.
There was no market today, so I persuaded my friend to quickly stop which I got a proper photog... Read More |
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| Physic Well (Corstorphine) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 18th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | The Physic Well, Corstophine, Edinburgh: Pulling up on the northern section of Dunsmuir Court from Ladywell Road, I thought we’d spotted the well head under the trees between the houses and the main road, but this turned out to be a milestone!
Thankfully having the image of the well from the Po... Read More |
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| Gogar Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Saw from a distance | 18th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | The Gogar Stone, West Lothian: This stone was conveniently located on our way back into Edinburgh, although we were only able to see it from a distance. Sited towards southern edge of a huge field, about 300 metres south east of East Norton Farm, access to the field can be gained from Freelands Roa... Read More |
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| Knock Stone Circle | Modern Stone Circle etc | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 18th May 2017 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Knock Modern Stone Circle, West Lothian: Having passed this stone circle on the way to Cairnpapple, it looked impressive and I couldn’t wait to get back for a closer look. “Is this what a real stone circle looks like?” my friend (who is a relatively novice Megalith-hunter) asked. I chuckled ... Read More |
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| Cairnpapple Hill | Round Cairn | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 18th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cairnpapple Hill, West Lothian: Our first stop of the day, and I was really excited to visit this site after what I’ve read about it. We pulled up in the layby at NS 98968 71832 and made our way up the steps to the grassy field in which the cairn sits. My first reaction was ‘wow, look at those... Read More |
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| Torwood Broch | Broch or Nuraghe | Scotland | Falkirk | Visited | 13th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Tappoch/Torwood Broch, West Lothian: I’d wanted to go in search of the 2 boundary stones near Torphinchen, but was over-ruled in favour of the broch at Tappoch. By the time we’d left Torphinchen, the rain really started to come down, but being equipped with waterproofs, and supposedly sheltered... Read More |
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| Cross Well (Linlithgow) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 13th May 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Cross Well, Linlithgow: This was our last stop on this rainy day, and we arrived to find a small market around the well, along with an event happening at the Burgh Halls immediately behind it. Couldn’t really get close to the well itself until later in the afternoon, as there were lots of stallho... Read More |
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| St Thomas (Brompton) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th May 2017 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Hogbacks and Crosses, Brompton, North Yorkshire: This is a visit I’d arranged some time ago, arranging to meet the church warden at 2pm on 11th May (details on the 'A Church Near You' website). The church is kept locked, as we found out when we’d tried to visit a couple of years ago, and I was m... Read More |
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| Money Hill (Pickhill) | Artificial Mound | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th May 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Money Hill Motte, Pickhill: Leaving All Saints, going back down Money Hill to Street Lane, we stopped to look at the remains of the motte. I confess that without the grid reference and the OS map, I would have mistaken this for just another earthwork.
This is in fact a scheduled ancient monume... Read More |
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| All Saints (Pickhill) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Hogback and Cross Fragments, Pickhill, North Yorkshire: This church was recommended by ‘Rev Robbo’ (Reverend Ian Robinson) of St. Gregory’s, Bedale, who told us that there was a collection of fragments in the base of the tower. I’d sent an email to the vicar but received no reply, so phoned... Read More |
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| Torphichen Churchyard Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | West Lothian | Visited | 13th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Torphichen Sanctuary Stone, West Lothian: After an exciting day at the filming of Robot Wars yesterday we stayed overnight at daughter and son-in-law's nearby. Torphichen is a lovely little village (Cairnpapple is also signposted further on from here), larger than I expected. The parish church inc... Read More |
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| St Gregory's Church (Bedale) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo-Danish stones, St. Gregory's, Bedale: We’d been to St. Gregory’s a long time ago, but the stone fragments had just been moved into the crypt at the advice of North Yorkshire Police because one stone had been stolen.
So as not to be disappointed this time, I’d been corresponding with �... Read More |
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| Jingling Gate | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th May 2017 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Jingling Gate Homestead, near Dotland, Hexhamshire: OK, probably this should have been called Edge House Homestead, but the name Jingling Gate sounds so much nicer! What a spot this is. Farmland here is so lush and green and the views are tremendous. Locals still hold onto much of their Hexhamshi... Read More |
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| Lively Well (Witton-le-Wear) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 4th May 2017 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Lively Well, Witton-le-Wear, County Durham: Andrew saw this well on the “Ancient, Healing and Holy Wells of County Durham” listing by Laurence Hunt, which formed the basis for today’s ‘well hunt’.
He says “On the banks of the river Wear below the level crossing at Witton le Wear. A fo... Read More |
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| Holy Well (Wolsingham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 4th May 2017 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Holy Well, Wolsingham, County Durham: This was our last stop of the day and to find this, I loaded the map from the Portal page. To the north of the main village, the well is sited just to the west of Holy Well Farm on Holywood Lane.
At first sight, it looks like a very small barn, but looking c... Read More |
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| Ceoppa's Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 4th May 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ceoppa's Barrow, Tyne & Wear: From Bucks Nook/North View, we headed off eastwards along Bradley Fell Road, taking the second right ((Kyo Lane), then dog-legging right/left along the Lead Road then down Horsegate Bank to Claython Terrace Road. Pulling in in the small layby next to the forestry track... Read More |
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| North View enclosure | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 4th May 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 | North View/Bucks Nook Enclosure, Gateshead: Whilst this site is literally within sight of the eastern end of Prudhoe, to drive to it, we needed to go through Greenside and take the Rockwood Hill/Bradley Fell road until we reached the point where the road divided,travelling south/wout-west towards Gu... Read More |
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| Collingham Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 27th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Collingham Crosses, West Yorkshire: What are the chances of meeting someone whose grandparents built the house you live in now and has recollections of visiting, together with photographs of what the house used to look like? The grandparents of Rev. Sylvia Earle who is vicar of Collingham did in f... Read More |
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| All Hallows (Bardsey) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 27th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon crosses, Bardsey, West Yorkshire: This is a very lovely spot, not far from the main A58 travelling south into Leeds. Considering how close it is to the main road, this is a peaceful, tranquil spot. Having checked with the parish office beforehand, the church is open all day until 5pm.... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Well (County Durham) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 30th Apr 2017 | 3 | 2 | 4 | St. Cuthbert's Well, Durham: We had difficulty in locating this well from the 6 digit grid reference, so I've updated it with the official 10 digit reference from Pastscape.
From the Galilee Well, we took the steps/sloping path down to the riverside, then walked up and down, down and up, past t... Read More |
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| St Helen's Church (Bilton-in-Ainsty) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | Anglo Saxon Crosses, St. Helen's Church, Bilton-in-Ainsty: We’d tried to visit this church before, but because there was no vicar in post, the church was kept locked. Emails to the York Diocese weren’t helpful.
Knowing we were coming down to Ingelby Arncliffe again, I checked on A Church Nea... Read More |
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| St Mary's Well, Durham City | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 30th Apr 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St. Mary's Well, Durham: From St. Cuthbert’s Well we walked past the Old Fulling Mill and the Boat House, across Prebend’s Bridge, were we heard shrieks from the river below. Peering over the bridge, we saw the lady rowers trying to avoid going into the bank!
St. Mary’s Well is easy to fin... Read More |
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| Old Fulling Mill Museum of Archaeology | Museum | England | County Durham | Visited | 30th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Old Fulling Mill, Durham: Now closed to the public. All exhibits have been transferred to the University of Durham Museum of Archaeology at Palace Green.
We walked up and down, then down and up, this lovely riverside path, directly underneath Durham Cathedral and the Castle, looking for St. Cuth... Read More |
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| St. Oswald's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Couldn't find | 30th Apr 2017 | St. Oswald's Well, Durham: From St. Mary’s Well, we headed off along the footpath by the side of the river, on the outer bank of the river Wear as it curves south and east around the cathedral. It is a very pretty path, although with quite a steep drop on the river side at times. We were amused ... Read More |
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| Galilee Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 30th Apr 2017 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Galilee Well, Durham Cathedral: We arrived at the Cathedral only to find large marquees on the lawn outside, lots and lots of heavy duty cable laid neatly across the lawn. The west walls had been cordoned off with iron railing with filming equipment piled behind.
We decided to go to the café fo... Read More |
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| All Saints (Ingleby Arncliffe) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 27th Apr 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Cross fragments (not found), Ingleby Arncliffe, North Yorkshire: We last visited here on 28th July 2015, but the church was locked and I’d arranged for the church warden, to unlock the church for us, although when I’d mentioned the Anglo Saxon fragments to the vicar, he’d replied “this doesn... Read More |
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| All Saints (Ingleby Arncliffe) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 28th Jul 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ancient Cross, All Saints Ingleby Arncliffe, North Yorkshire: All Saints at Ingleby Arncliffe is very close to the A19 so we thought we’d stop off on the way back home, but finding this church was quite interesting – we had three unsuccessful attempts, driving down different roads from the centr... Read More |
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| St Mary and St Alkelda | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 27th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Anglo Saxon Cross Fragment, Middleham: On the way to the holy well, we stopped off to look at the porch of St. Mary’s & St. Alkeld, but evensong was one, so we couldn't go inside but carried on westwards through the churchyard into the fields beyond to find St. Alkelda’s Well.
At home (29th ... Read More |
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| St Alkelda's Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 27th Apr 2017 | 2 | 1 | 4 | St. Alkelda's Well, Middleham: How tragic – a now dried up well, completely uncared for.
From St. Mary’s and St. Alkeld’s church, I was determined to find St. Alkeld’s Well. Armed only with the mobile phone, OS maps and the grid reference from Pastscape, we set off westwards across the f... Read More |
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| Newbeggin Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Cumbria | Visited | 25th Mar 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Newbiggin Stone Row, Near Penrith: Following our first visit to try and find the standing stones mentioned on the village website, but drawn a blank, we did find 2 of the 4 wells, and recorded these in photographs. An email to the Parish Council, who'd featured one of these stones on their website,... Read More |
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| Horsley Hill Homestead | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Apr 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Horsley Hill Homestead, Northumberland: Well, this site got the adrenalin racing, if only for the crossing of the footpath across the A69 dual carriageway, at a very fast spot! We parked in Horsley Village on the B6528, outside the Hearth café, and walked up Lead Lane, which runs just to the west ... Read More |
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| St. Mary's Well (Jesmond) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 23rd Apr 2017 | 4 | 4 | 4 | St. Mary's Well, Jesmond: From the elusive (non-existent!) Axwell Park Tumulus, we headed off down the Coast Road to Jesmond to find this well. It was a delight – an oasis in the midst of the city.
Parking on Jesmond Dene Road where it meet Grosvenor Avenue, we headed west up The Grove – a s... Read More |
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| Axwell Park Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Tyne and Wear | Couldn't find | 23rd Apr 2017 | 2 | 5 | Axwell Park Tumulus, Gateshead: OK, even with the grid reference, we couldn't find any trace of this - not surprising, since checking the Pastscape records this morning (24th April), they say no trace of the mound exists! There were lots and lots of humps and hollows on the slope to the left of the... Read More |
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| Holy Well, Greenside | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 23rd Apr 2017 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Holy Well, Greenside: From Ryton Motte, we headed off south towards Greenside through the back lanes. Considering how close were are to Winlanton, Blaydon, Gateshead and Newcastle, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the depths of the countryside at this site. Disappearing down a small ... Read More |
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| Ryton Motte or Tumulus | Artificial Mound | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 23rd Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ryton Motte, Gateshead: Parking on the main road opposite The Old Cross pub and Holy Cross church on Barnmoor Lane, as there was an event on at the church, the first surprise was to see the old cross located on the village green.
Pastscape reveals this is relatively modern, having been erected in... Read More |
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| Exhibition Park Circle | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 23rd Apr 2017 | 4 | 1 | 4 | As we’d failed to find the Axwell Park Tumulus, we sat in Café Nero in Fenwicks and I was looked up details of sites we were going to on the mobile version of the Portal. I came across an entry for ‘Leazes Park Circle’ which mentioned a modern stone circle. This took me by surprise, as we�... Read More |
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| St Peter's Minster (Conisbrough) | Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (South) | Visited | 15th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Carvings, Conisbrough: Having seen this on the Portal, with only a sepia image of the stones, I had been keen to visit this church for some time as it was only a short detour from my step-father's house; the nearby castle had been my very first ever school trip, over half a century ago (... Read More |
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| Castle Hill (Whittonstall) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Apr 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Castle Hill, between New Ridley and Whittonstall, Northumberland: This is only a couple of miles from our house, and being a lovely sunny evening, decided to try and find some of the earthworks on the OS map.
This site has the advantage of being close to Wheelbirks Farm with its café, unpasteuri... Read More |
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| Three Howes Rigg (East) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Three Howes Rigg (East), Smeathorns Road, North Yorkshire: Having stopped at White Cross and Three Howes Rigg (West) first, and having 'got our eye in', these barrows rise from the surrounding ground on access land. On the eastern side of Smeathorns Road, and clearly visible on UK Grid Finder, tramp... Read More |
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| Three Howes Rigg (West) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Three Howes Rigg (West), Smeathorns Road, North Yorkshire: Despite being called ‘Three Howes’, there are actual 5 barrows in total! It would be easy to whizz by these barrows, as they appear as slight mounds at the top of the ridge. With cars speeding by at a good 60mph or so, it’s difficult t... Read More |
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| Millennium Stone Danby High Moor | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Millennium Stone, Danby High Moor, North Yorkshire: Driving at a sedate pace along the moorland road from Wolf Pit Tumulus (which I realised as we got a phone signal back, that we’d picked up the wrong monument), I was really surprised to see what looked like a large standing stone at the jun... Read More |
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| Young Ralph Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Young Ralph Cross, Ledging Hill, North Yorkshire: Just down the road from Fat Betty Cross/White Cross, Young Ralph’s Cross sits almost opposite the road junction of the minor road (Knott Road) to Rosedale and the road northwards across Castleton Rigg to Castleton.
Turning right at the road jun... Read More |
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| White Cross (Three Howes Rigg) | Marker Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 2 | 2 | 5 | White Cross, Three Howes Rigg, North Yorkshire: Approaching the Three Howes Tumuli on Smeathorns Road, we spotted this "White Cross" marked on the map at the road junction with Commondale Village. Stopping and running across the road in between the fast moving traffic, I took some photographs. Thi... Read More |
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| Fat Betty | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 9th Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Fat Betty's Cross, Danby High Moor, North Yorkshire: From Wolf Pit Tumulus, carrying on down the road (New Way) over Danby High Moor, past the curiously named Lower Fryup Dale to the east, then over Seavey Hill, passing by the modern standing stone (Millennium Stone) at NZ 69699 01296, we turned we... Read More |
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| Bell Mount | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cumbria | Visited | 25th Mar 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Bell Mount Erratic (or standing stone?): Saw this very briefly on our first visit to Newbeggin, but whizzed by in the car and didn't stop. This time, we parked by the open gate to the field. There being no stock, we took the chance to walk up the grassy slope to see this stone. Whilst it's not ma... Read More |
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| Four Stones Hill Standing Stones | Standing Stones | England | Cumbria | Couldn't find | 2nd Apr 2017 | 3 | Four Stones Hill, Haweswater: Ashamed to say I was defeated by the large stiles with big drops and missing steps. Was so looking forward to going to see this site and from Google Earth, it seemed possible for me to walk this route. Did look for gates in the fields to avoid the stiles, but up by Lo... Read More |
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| The Galloway Stone | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cumbria | Visited | 2nd Apr 2017 | 3 | 2 | 5 | The Galloway Stone, near Orton, Cumbria: Spotted this named stone on the map as we drove towards Orton to find refreshments. There were many other large (but not quite as large as this) stones in the vicinity. With the M6 Northbound carriageway almost immediately behind, and above, this stone, I c... Read More |
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| Shapbeck Plantation | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 2nd Apr 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Shapbeck Plantation Stone Circle: Our first stop of the day, whizzing off the M6 southbound at Eamont Bridge and travelling on the A6 through Clifton & Hackthorpe to Shapbeck Gate. There, a side road leads to a bridge across the River Leith, but there was no parking to be had. We turned back north... Read More |
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| Winderwath Stone Circle | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 25th Mar 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Winderwath Stone Circle, Penrith: After our 'stone hunt' around Newbeggin and Newton Reigny, by this time it was gone 5pm and there was no hope of getting to Haweswater to look at the standing stones on Four Stones Hill before dark, so we set off to Winderwath. The Visit Cumbria website says in its... Read More |
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| Alnham | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th Mar 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Alnham, Northumberland. Ancient cross bases: From the A697, we turned left through the pretty little village of Whittingham. The road to the west of the village runs by the meandering course of the (at this point small) River Aln. Just past the village, we turned right onto the minor road leading ... Read More |
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| Castle Hill (Northumberland) | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th Mar 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Castle Hill Fort & Settlement, near Alnham, Northumberland: From St Michael & All Saints (Alnham) and its location next to the trickling River Aln, we headed further up the winding (almost harepin at a couple of points) narrow, single track road climbing up the hill to Castle Hill Fort and Settlemen... Read More |
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| Biddlestone | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th Mar 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Biddle Stones, Northumberland: From Castle Hill, Alnham, we returned to Alnham Village and took the minor road towards Biddlestone. Also a cycle route, the road was gated and very muddy. Being twisty and with numerous side roads joining, it was sometimes a little difficult to keep to the main ... Read More |
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| The Portsburgh Stone | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 20th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Portsburgh Stone, Natural Erratic, Edinburgh: Intrigued by the 'no photograph' of this site in the heart of Edinburgh, I determined to find it, although we did mis-interpret the location published in the Portal text and walked in a couple of decreasing circles! The actual grid reference is NT 25283... Read More |
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| St Anthony's Well (Edinburgh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 20th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St Anthony's Well, Holyrood, Edinburgh: Located some 400 metres east south east from St. Margaret’s Well, the paths lead up the hill away from Arthur’s Seat, up to St. Anthony’s Chapel. Where the paths going up the hill divide (the left hand fork leading to the cave and chapel, the right cont... Read More |
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| St Margaret's Well (Edinburgh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 20th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St Margaret's Well, Holyrood, Edinburgh: Located just off Queen’s Drive in Holyrood, near Dynamic Earth, and 400 metres from St. Anthony’s Well, this well house can be seen from the road. I had to photo-shop out the pile of rubbish that had gathered at the base of the well (disgustin... Read More |
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| Ravenswood Avenue | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 20th Feb 2017 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Ravenswood Avenue Standing Stone, Edinburgh: Our third stop of the day, and another ‘not impressive’ one. Definitely not in situ, at the end of a heavily parked-up cul-de-sac, outside a small block of flat, protected by a tall circular iron railing. I was glad to escape from this site... Read More |
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| Cat Stane (Inch) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 20th Feb 2017 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Cat Stane (Inch), Standing Stone, Edinburgh: Also known as the Liberton Road / Gilmerton Road Standing Stone, this stone has obviously been relocated next to what appears to be the rear entrance of Inch View nursing home, off Gilmerton Road, next to Inch Park. Driving into the complex from Gilmerto... Read More |
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| Stanwick Hillfort | Hillfort | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 19th Feb 2017 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications:(note: whilst the main entrance of this enclosure can be driven to, getting onto the monument could be difficult because of the short climb to the top of the bank). We'd been in this area before, but to the churches of Stanwick St John and Forcett, to see the Anglo S... Read More |
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| Scots Dyke (Olliver) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 19th Feb 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Scots Dyke (Olliver): From Scots Dyke at Easby, heading back into Richmond, we took the B6274 to Gilling West, turning off to the right to Olliver Cottages. Here, opposite Olliver Cottages, is a small (appears to be public) car park. Walking up the track towards Olliver itself (a large farm and pr... Read More |
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| Scots Dyke (Easby) | Misc. Earthwork | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 19th Feb 2017 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Scots Dyke (Easby): Having purchased our map (one of the few we don’t already possess), we headed off eastwards from Richmond, down the minor road passing through Anchorage Hill towards Brompton-on-Swale. Just past St. Nicholas, there is a right hand turn towards Easby. Turning down this road, t... Read More |
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| Lowhouse | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Lowhouse/Holme Head/Kitchenhill Standing Stone, Penrith, Cumbria: From Newbeggin, heading back up the M6, leaving at junction 41, turning right onto the B5305 and taking the first exit off the roundabout, we headed up the minor road signposted to Calthwaite. Where the road divides at Kitchenhill Fa... Read More |
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| Newbeggin Stone Row | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Cumbria | Visited (still working on) | 12th Feb 2017 | Newbiggin Stone Row, near Penrith: See comment on main page. Tried to find. Seen an image of a stone in an enclosure wall but unable to locate. Working on finding exact location and will return! | 9 | 4 | |||
| Newbeggin Wells | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Newbeggin Wells, near Sewborwens Standing Stone: We went originally to try and trace the standing stones, one of which stood in the wall of Rosemary House (we found Rosemary Cottage but not the house) and another which stood in the field behind. Parking at the side of the road near Rosemar... Read More |
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| St. Helen's Well (Newbiggin-on-Lune) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2016 | 2 | 3 | 5 | St Helen's Well, Newbeggin-on-Lune, Cumbria: After seeing the Loki Stone at Kirby Steven, we followed the A685 south and west to Newbeggin-on-lune. St Helen’s Well is about 50 metres to the north of the A685 (called Fell Lane at this point). It sits almost at the junction where Chapel Butt Lane s... Read More |
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| Sewborrans Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Sewborwens Standing Stone (and outliers), Penrith, Cumbria: From the Skirsgill Standing Stone, we made our way back on the A66, heading westwards (you can only turn left onto this dual carriageway). Turning round at the next roundabout, heading back to Penrith, we took the first left hand turn down... Read More |
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| Skirsgill Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Feb 2017 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Skirsgill Standing Stone, Penrith: Situated in Skirsgill Business Park, just to the west of the southern part of Penrith, we’ve tried visiting this stone before, but never found it. From Penrith, heading west across the M6 on the A66 towards Ullswater, take the very first turn into the ... Read More |
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| Mossthorn Long Cairn 2 | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 12th Feb 2017 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Long Cairns near Mossthorn Farm, near Sewborwens Standing Stones: From Sewborwens Standing Stone(s), we drove westwards along this minor road, through the roadworks currently there, and parked in the layby outside The Wreay. The first long cairn is visible in the field immediately opposite. ... Read More |
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| West Lordenshaw Main Rock | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | West Lordenshaw Main Rock, Northumberland: From Channel Rock, we walked back through the hill fort, stopping to admire a possible cairn field and three roundhouses next to the path. Main Rock generally had other visitors around it, but by this time it was starting to get really quite dark and we co... Read More |
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| East Lordenshaw Channel Rock | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2017 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Channel Rock, Lordenshaw, Northumberland: At the main Lordenshaw car park, there is a display board with a QR reference which I scanned to get me through to the Newcastle University Rock Art Mobile site. This is the first time I’ve been able to use this, as I had a good mobile signal, and found i... Read More |
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| Lordenshaw Hillfort | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2017 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Lordenshaw Hillfort, Northumberland: after an abortive trip to the Five Kings stone row, via Tosson Tower Bastle/Tower House, we parked at the main Lordenshaw's car park and headed northwards up the hill towards the hillfort. It was almost 3pm on new year's day and dusk was starting to fall, togeth... Read More |
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| Five Kings | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 1st Jan 2017 | 3 | Five Kings, near Grasslees, Northumberland: The easiest access looked as if it was from the footpath near Ovenstone Plantation off the B6341, just past Grasslees. Parking off the road at the entrance to the footpath, we headed off up the track - easy walking at this stage. 100 metres up the track ... Read More |
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| Hollin Stump Cairn | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Hollin Stump Cairn, Gaythorp Plain, Cumbria: From St Helen's Well at Great Asby, we headed south south west, following the single track road to ASby Winderwath Common, were the metalled carriageway turned west across Gaythorne Plain. We parked by the cattle grid on opposite Linglow Hill, where a dog... Read More |
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| St Hilda (Ellerburn) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 1st Oct 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross parts at St. Hilda's Church, Ellerburn, North Yorkshire: From Black Howe, with the light rapidly fading, we decided to go to St Hilda’s in Ellerburn. The Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculpture has added York and East Yorkshire to their catalogue, and I was able to pull all up the... Read More |
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| St Helen's Well (Great Asby) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Sep 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Helen's Well, Great Asby, Cumbria: This was our third stop of the day. From (confusingly) St Helen’s Well at Newbeggin-on-Lune, we took a right hand turn back onto the A685 then the next turn right taking the minor road between Crosby Garrett Fell and Ravenstone Moor. Turning right at the T-j... Read More |
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| Black Howe (Rawcliffe) | Cairn | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 1st Oct 2016 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Black Howe round barrow, west of Newton-on-Rawcliffe, North Yorkshire: Just 800 metres from Rawcliffe Howe, travelling east along Rawcliffe Road, Black Howe round barrow can be found. There is a small layby (which says no parking) but was large enough for several cars, so we parked and hopped ... Read More |
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| Rawcliffe Howe | Cairn | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 1st Oct 2016 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Rawcliffe Howe, south of Stape Village, North Yorkshire: No entry exists for Rawcliffe Howe on the ADS, but does on Historic England. From Old Wives’ Well, driving southwards back down through the Village of Stape, we came to a four way cross-roads. Parking in a small layby just as we turned int... Read More |
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| Old Wives' Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 1st Oct 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Old Wives' Well, just south of Mauley Cross, near Stape, North Yorkshire: With this well only 223 metres south of the Mauley Cross, we decided to walk down the narrow metalled road ((Keys Beck Road) to the well. Again, Chrispy’s directions were spot on. This time, the rally cars were back, appea... Read More |
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| Mauley Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 1st Oct 2016 | Mauley Cross, north of Stape, North Yorkshire: Chrispy's directions were spot on - thanks! Trust us to arrive on the day of a rally, with all the cars coming in the opposite direction. Being off-stage, they needed to stick to the speed limit and we found ourselves constantly pulling in to passing p... Read More |
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| Thunder Stone (Shap) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Return visit 5th July 2014: We recently obtained the farmer's permission to walk across the fields to look at any of the Shap Row Stones on his land. Having woken up after a night of heavy, heavy rain to grey skies, we hopped in the car and went over to the Lake District, where the forecast was mu... Read More |
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| Dreva Craig | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 10th Aug 2016 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Dreva Craig, hillfort and settlements, Scottish borders: OK, so it rained last year on my birthday. This year, the rain was equally as torrential, so we hopped from site to site. This was our last stop of the day, after (trying to visit) Tinnis Castle/Hillfort and Altarstone. There is a parking s... Read More |
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| Altar Stone, Stobo | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 10th Aug 2016 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Altar Stone, near Stobo, Scottish Borders: This stone is clearly marked on the map and features on the Portal, but I can find out nothing about it on Canmore or other web sites.
From Tinnis Castle, driving up the B712 through Drumelzier and Drumelzier Haugh, just past Dawyck Botanic Garden, a sma... Read More |
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| Menzion | Standing Stones | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 10th Aug 2016 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Menzion Stones, Tweedsmuir: I confess to being really confused about this site (not too difficult, really!). Whilst the map showed three standing stones in close proximity at the sides of the road (2 at the western side, 1 on the eastern side) we could only find 2, one on either side of the road. ... Read More |
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| Dyke Row | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 10th Aug 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 | Dyke Row or Three Stanes, Moffat: I have driven this road many times before, but never noticed these three stones at the side of the road. Having come off the A74(M) onto the A701 travelling towards Moffat, travelling at the speed limit of 60 mph, they are difficult to see. The traffic was too hea... Read More |
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| Whiteholme Rig | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 31st Jul 2016 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Seven Brethren Stone Circle, near Lockerbie: I was surprised to find this was so near where we used to live at Corrie. But when we lived here, with three young children, we didn't have the same interests as we do now, so (although the kids say we traumatised them by taking them to so many monuments)... Read More |
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| Burnswark Hill Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 31st Jul 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Cairn at Burnswark Hill, near Ecclefechan: After walking around the hill fort, we spotted this cairn on the next hill top to the north east and followed the tracks over. There were great views down to the Roman fortifications on the north western side of the fort. Whilst Romans usually leave me co... Read More |
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| Burnswark Hillfort | Hillfort | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 31st Jul 2016 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Burnswark Hill Fort, Dumfries & Galloway: A week of being stuck in the house contemplating on, and preparing for, the building work to come I was glad to escape the house for a walk in open countryside with few people around. Considering we’ve lived in this area for 10 years, we never visited thi... Read More |
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| Edlingham Anglo Saxon Cross Bases | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 23rd Jul 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Edlingham Anglo Saxon Cross Bases, Northumberland: We went to visit Edlingham Castle/Fortified Manor House nearby, not expecting to find this charming (but very squat) 11th century church (St John The Baptist). As we approached, I spotted the Anglo Saxon cross bases by the south porch, although noth... Read More |
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| Clifton Stones | Standing Stones | England | Cumbria | Visited | 3rd Jul 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Clifton Stones, near Penrith, Cumbria: These standing stones are only a short distance from Trainford Brow Long Barrow. There is a side road opposite Mount Clifton farm which allows for parking of one car on the grass verge. It was interesting crossing the A6 as cars sped along in both directions;... Read More |
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| Mare and Foal | Standing Stones | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Jun 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Mare & Foal (2nd visit). We had been up at nearby Edges Green for a geology field day (afternoon) as part of the Tynedale North of the Wall Archaeology Group and had the pleasure of taking one of the members of the group (well known to the Portal, but I don't want to give his name here as I've not ... Read More |
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| Midstead 1 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | After visiting Jenny's Lantern Hill fort and settlement and Midstead 2 and 3 to the west, we walked eastwards along the top of the crag to find the rock art we'd failed to find on our first trip in 2014. Thank goodness for GPS otherwise we never would have found these. The ground in this rocky fie... Read More |
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| Midstead 3 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Midstead 3, Rock Art near Edlingham, Northumberland: Also see visit report for Jenny's Lantern Hill Fort and Settlement, Midstead 1 and Midstead 2. This stone is about 3 metres to the west of Midstead 2, although the cups are more difficult to spot. Beautiful views over the Aln Valley and to the l... Read More |
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| Midstead 2 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Midstead 2, Rock Art near Edlingham, Northumberland: Having visited Jenny's Lantern Hill Fort and Settlement, we headed back east with the GPS to find the rock art stones we'd failed to find on our visit back in 2014 (our first trip out to find rock art, without a GPS). This rock sits right on the ... Read More |
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| Jenny's Lantern | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 3 | From the Lemmington Wood rock art/rune stone, we carried along on the minor roads headings towards the tiny village of Bolton, having gone through the somewhat exciting ford over the River Aln between Abberwick and Bolton Mills, then carried on past Jenny's Lantern Hill to Jenny's Lantern. Despite n... Read More |
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| Lemmington Wood | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Lemmington Wood Rock Art/Rune Stone, Northumberland: We'd been told about this rock by a member of the Tynedale North of the Wall Archaeology Group who is renowned for visiting many and various rock art sites in Northumberland. From the A1 North, we turned up on the A697 and drove the almost 1... Read More |
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| Brecken Hills | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 10th Apr 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Revisit to Blue Crags (Brecken Hills) Hillfort: The last time we visited this site we had to stop at the gate to the field on the Colwell Village side of the site, admiring the outcrop/settlement from a distance. My memory sees at least 3 enormous bulls, feet planted wide, staring at us, daring us ... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert's Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Feb 2016 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St. Cuthbert's Well, Wetheral, Cumbria: I'd tried the (very pretty) walk along the recently flooded River Eden to St. Constantine's Cells, but failed as the path overhangs the river by some 5-6 metres. As a consequence, I was determined to go to this well. Just as you arrive into Wetheral village ... Read More |
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| Anglo Saxon Cross Base, Wetheral Parish Church | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Feb 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross Base, Wetheral, Cumbria: A notice in the guard house at the Priory Gatehouse mentioned boundary crosses, so I thought it might be worth investigating whether or not there were any fragments inside the church. As we walked up from the Eden River up Ferry Hill, with the churchyard t... Read More |
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| Prudhoe Castle | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 26th Mar 2016 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Rock Art @ Prudhoe Castle, Northumberland: I only found out about this stone because I'd been doing some research for the Tynedale North of the Wall Archaeology Group and spotted a record for Prudhoe Castle on the ERA web site (also another one in the Monastic Workshop in Hexham Abbey, which I’ve ... Read More |
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| Mare and Foal | Standing Stones | England | Northumberland | Visited | 24th Jan 2016 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Mare & Foal Stone Circle, just west of Twice Brewed, Hadrian's Wall: After many months of not being able to get 'out and about', even though the day dawned dull, damp and dreary, it was great to be able to get out into the open countryside again. Strangely, we've driven past this little stone circl... Read More |
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| St Bernard's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 17th Dec 2015 | 3 | 2 | 4 | St Bernard's Well, Edinburgh: This was by far the most attractive of the three wells we saw in Edinburgh today, although again I wouldn’t have known it was a well but for the plaque next to it telling us it had been refurbished in Victorian times. It sits at the base of a steep hill with housing ... Read More |
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| St Margaret's Well (Edinburgh Castle) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 17th Dec 2015 | 3 | 2 | 4 | St. Margaret's Well, Edinburgh Castle: I arrived in Edinburgh on an early train but even at 08:45 it was wet and windy and too dark to see much. By 09:30, fortified by a cup of coffee, having met my old University friend, we set off towards the castle. The well sits on far side of the railway trac... Read More |
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| St George's Well (Edinburgh) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Midlothian | Visited | 17th Dec 2015 | 3 | 2 | 4 | St George's Well, Edinburgh: An easy walk along the Water of Leith walkway. I wouldn't have recognised this as a well without the Portal. It looks like a very run down stone gardener's house, complete with chimney, sitting between the walkway and the river, which was running very high at the time ... Read More |
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| Lindisfarne Priory | Museum | England | Northumberland | Visited | 18th Oct 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Anglo Saxon and Viking Stones on Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Sunday dawned dull and drizzly; looking up the weather forecast and the tide times for Lindisfarne strangely we were able to cross over (there and back) in the afternoon just when we wanted to. In haste, I turned on my computer an... Read More |
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| Southwell Minster | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Nottinghamshire | Visited | 20th Sep 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10th/11th century tympanum, Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire: On our way back from Grantham we took a short detour to Southwell. What a stunning little town, with a huge Minster. At the time of our visit there were two services running almost back to back, so we didn't get to see some of the ear... Read More |
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| St Oswald's Well (Kirkoswald) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 10th Oct 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon stones and a holy well, Kirkoswald, Cumbria: This church is in a very pretty location, opposite "the college" and boasts not only an Anglo Saxon cross arm fragment and holy well but a separate bell tower on top of what looks like a motte. It is a little difficult to park, as there are n... Read More |
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| Giants Grave, Penrith | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 10th Oct 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Norse Crosses and hogback tombstones (Giant's Grave), St Andrew's Church, Penrith: On our way to Kirkoswald, we stopped off in Penrith for a coffee and a cake. I remembered from some dim and distant memory that there were some Viking Hogbacks and Anglo Saxon crosses in Penrith but couldn’t remembe... Read More |
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| St Mary the Virgin (Wirksworth) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Derbyshire | Visited | 17th Sep 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Stones at St. Mary The Virgin, Wirksworth, Derbyshire: My husband's father had died unexpectedly last week and we were down sorting out the funeral and his house. It all got a bit too much, and I asked to 'run away' for the afternoon to do something different. Funny, we'd nearly bought... Read More |
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| Bewcastle Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Oct 2014 | 3 | 5 | Bewcastle Cross. Fourth visit, 22nd August 2015. We first came here back in 1992/1993 not long after we'd moved to Dumfries. Funny, as from dim and distant memory both my husband and I remembered this (falsely) as being the Ruthwell Cross. After having taken a photo of our 3 children gathered roun... Read More |
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| Robin Hood's Well ( Yorkshire) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 5th Sep 2015 | 4 | 3 | 3 | Robin Hood's Well at Fountain's Abbey, North Yorkshire: After our visit to Ripon Cathedral to see the Anglo Saxon/Pre-Norman stones, we took our small grand-daughter over to Fountains Abbey to enjoy the sunshine in a beautiful location. Walking past the Abbey to Studley Royal Water Gardens, we retr... Read More |
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| Stanwick Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 5th Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Stanwick Crosses, North Yorkshire (St John The Baptist): 8th August 2015, return visit in daylight. As we were passing close by on the way back from Richmond, we decided to pop in to try and see the rest of the stones in relative daylight (there is no electricity in the church - should have thought... Read More |
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| Ripon Cathedral | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 5th Sep 2015 | 3 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Stones, Ripon Cathedral: Visit by arrangement with the Head Verger, 5th September 2015. I'd made enquiries about the Anglo Saxon stones and received the following reply: "There is in fact little at Ripon by way of sculptured remains from the Anglo Saxon period. Clearly the Crypt it... Read More |
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| Copt Howe | Rock Art | England | Cumbria | Visited | 11th Aug 2015 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Copt Howe (The Langdale Boulders): When we drove past here on the way to Mickleden further down the Great Langdale valley, we spotted the signpost to Copt Howe but the road was so narrow and busy there was no room to stop. On the way back it was now after 6pm and the roads were quiet apart from one... Read More |
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| Hexham Abbey | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Hexham Abbey, Northumberland: St Acca and Spital Cross Shafts.
23rd August 2015: Took my daughter and her husband to the new visitor centre after a lovely lunch in the Refectory (much recommended). We had great fun dressing up as Queen Ethelreda, Bishop Wilfrid and Augustinian monks). There was b... Read More |
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| All Saints (Kirby Hill) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 28th Jul 2015 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Crosses, Kirby on the Moor (Kirby Hill), North Yorkshire: All Saints sits on a green just outside the village of Kirby on the Moor, between Church Lane and Millings Lane. There was a notice near the entrance gate saying the church was open on Sundays between 2pm and 4.30pm and ‘all we... Read More |
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| All Saints (Northallerton) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 28th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Danish cross fragments, All Saints Church, Northallerton, North Yorkshire: I found the exterior of All Saints in Northallerton, which sits at the northern end of the High Street on the A167, very forbidding with its blackened stones. However, the inside was nice enough, although very Victoria... Read More |
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| St Wilfrid's Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St. Wilfrid's Holy Well, Skellgate Road, Ripon: Armed with only a 6 digit grid reference and a GPS device that was rapidly running out of battery, this well took some finding, but in the end we did. St. Wilfrid’s Well is located at the north side of the B6265, some 700 metres west of the city cen... Read More |
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| St Mary (Masham) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Four Anglo Saxon Crosses in the church of St. Mary The Virgin, Masham, North Yorkshire: After seeing the Anglo-Danish and Anglo-Saxon crosses at both East Hauxley and Wath, we went into Masham to get some lunch. Having visited here twice before, we’d never ventured into the church here (either ha... Read More |
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| St Mary (Wath) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross, St. Mary's Church, Wath: Situated on a bend in Main Street, Wath, this church is in a pretty little village. We parked outside the main gate of the church (there is just room for one car to sit here, as someone else’s gates are immediately adjacent). We eventually found the cro... Read More |
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| St Mary (Thornton Watlass) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 23rd Jul 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross Heads, St Mary The Virgin (Thornton Watlass), North Yorkshire: St Mary The Virgin is 3 miles from Bedale and 11 miles from Ripon. It is grade II listed (English Heritage Building ID: 333615), dating largely from the 15th century.
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| Fallowlees Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fallowlees Settlement, just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: Close to Fontburn a(vi), a(vii) and a(viii). See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. From a distance, coming up the quad bike track from Fallowlees Burn, there appear to be standing stones on the slope, but a... Read More |
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| Fontburn a(viii) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(viii), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Fontburn a(vii) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(vii), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Fontburn a(vi) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Aug 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(vi), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Fontburn a(iii) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jan 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(iii), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Fontburn a(ii) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(ii), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Fontburn a(i) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn a(i), just off the National Trust Greenleighton Walk, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| West Shank Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 2 | 3 | 3 | West Shank Enclosure, near Fontburn Reservoir, Northumberland: See visit report for Hollinghill Enclosure. | ||
| Hollinghill Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jul 2015 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Hollinghill Enclosure, near Fontburn Reservoir, Northumberland: Before setting off on this walk, we'd identified a number of sites (2 enclosures and several rock art boulders) close to tracks/marked pathways on the Ordnance Survey map. Parking at the car park to the east of Fontburn Reservoir (near... Read More |
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| Corbridge Rock Art Panel | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 12th Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Corbridge Rock Art Panel at Corbridge Roman Fort, Northumberland: OK, we've lived in this area for 13 years now, and the nearest we've been to this site is to take my daughter for driving lessons as it was good to practice reversing around corners in the quiet cul-de-sacs around here. Having said t... Read More |
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| Wallington Hall Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jul 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Wallington Hall Standing Stone, Northumberland: Having been treated to National Trust membership for my birthday, we then sat and wondered how best to make use of this. We'd heard that there was a standing stone at Wallington Hall, but had never found it before. Having tracked down the location (ar... Read More |
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| Glebe Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Glebe Stone, Yarrow, Scottish Borders: parked at NT 35172 27575
Driving back westwards from Warrior’s Rest standing stone, we immediately spotted the Glebe Stone in a field to the north of the road – how had we missed it the first time? With granddaughter’s pushchair in tow, we didn’... Read More |
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| Warrior's Rest | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Warrior Stone, Yarrow, Scottish Borders: The Canmore Site (no. 53054) notes say that this stone is “at the south east corner of the cottage known as Warrior’s Rest, 300 yards west of Yarrow Church, there is a standing stone measuring 5ft 3ins in height, 5ft 9ins round the base and 4ft around the... Read More |
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| The Yarrow Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 27th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | The Yarrow Stone, Yarrow, Scottish Borders: From Selkirk, we took the A708 towards St Mary’s Loch and Moffat. There was a diversion coming out of Selkirk, due to roadworks, so we had to double back to get onto the A708. Passing through the hamlet of Yarrowford, the road runs by Yarrow Water to t... Read More |
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| Great Urswick Burial Chamber | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | England | Cumbria | Visited | 23rd Jun 2015 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Great Urswick Burial Chamber, Cumbria: There is not much on the web about this site, and nothing (apart from a finger post in the vicinity) on ADS, apart from the fact this site is ‘ruined’ and ‘possibly Bronze age’. Parking on these narrow lanes was dreadful and were also very busy with tr... Read More |
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| Great Urswick Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 23rd Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Great Urswick/The Tunwini Cross, Great Urswick, Cumbria: Turning right off the A590 just south of Ulverston/Swarthmoor, along a road signposted only to ‘Urswick’, we headed off on narrow little lanes, just as the sun broke through the clouds. The village of Great Urswick is built round two side... Read More |
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| Jarrow | Ancient Cross | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 10th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Fragments, St Paul's Church and St Bede's Monastery, Jarrow: We parked at Bede’s World (a couple of hundred yards away from the church and the monastery) and having decided to start off at St Paul’s Church, we followed (or tried to follow) the signs, which took us across the busy mai... Read More |
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| St Wilfrid (Melling) | Ancient Cross | England | Lancashire | Visited | 6th Jun 2015 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Anglo Saxon Cross, St. Wilfrid's Church, Melling: From seeing the reconstructed cross at Halton, we set off back to Melling, to work our way back towards Levens Park/Sizergh Fell to end the day. Following the A683 back through Hornby, we drove through the village of Melling, with very narrow roads, ... Read More |
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| Sizergh Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Cumbria | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Sizergh Settlement and Cairns, Levens, Cumbria: I’ve spent more time trying to find out more about this intriguing site than all the others we visited today (4th June) as there seems to be so little about it, apart from on the Portal. I’ve tried to visit durhamnature’s ‘archive.org’ to re... Read More |
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| Leven's Park ringcairn | Ring Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Leven's Park/Archer's Hill Ringcairn, Cumbria: This cairn is close to the roundabout where the A590 meets the A591 and A6 just south of Sizergh Castle. My map reading failed, as the junctions were complicated – no proper roundabouts, just adjoining roads with ‘give way’ signs to transfer from... Read More |
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| Red Well, Barnard Castle | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 2nd Jun 2015 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Red Well, Barnard Castle: Before leaving home late this afternoon, I'd done a quick trawl of what information could be found on the Red Well on the internet, and come across a curious document entitled: “Archaeo-Environment Ltd: South West Durham Heritage Corridor, Volume II Journeys Part 2” in ... Read More |
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| St John the Baptist (Tunstall) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Lancashire | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Votive Stone, St. John The Baptist, Tunstall: Driving from St. Wilfrid’s, Melling, we continued north along the A683. Just mile or so along the road, the A683 becomes a ‘minor road’ splitting off to the left, whilst the main carriageway continues as the A687. Following the A683 into Tunstall... Read More |
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| Halton St Wilfrid's Churchyard | Ancient Cross | England | Lancashire | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ancient Cross, St. Wilfrid's, Halton: From St. Margaret’s in Horby, we followed the busy A683, turning off onto the road to Halton just south of Caton. Although only a side road, this road seemed busier than the main road.
This must be one of the most dangerous sites I’ve visited. The chu... Read More |
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| St Margaret (Hornby) | Ancient Cross | England | Lancashire | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross Fragments, St. Margaret's Church, Hornby: From Gressingham, we continued east along the twisty-turny Back Lane, over the narrow bridge over the River Lune, to its junction with the A683. Turning right, we were almost immediately in Hornby. St. Margaret’s sits on the left hand s... Read More |
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| St John the Evangelist (Gressingham) | Ancient Cross | England | Lancashire | Visited | 4th Jun 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9th Century Anglo Saxon Cross Fragments, St John The Evangelist, Gressingham: Having decided upon a day out in Lancashire/Cumbria on an Anglo Saxon Cross hunt, this was our stop of the day. We approached from junction 35 of the M6, taking the B6254 through Over Kellet and taking a right hand turn, ... Read More |
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| Preston Cleugh Fort | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 30th May 2015 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Preston Cleugh Fort, Scottish Borders: On our way to Edin’s Hall Hill Fort & Broch, having stopped in Duns for a late lunch, this fort was right next to the road on our way, so we decided to stop and take a closer look. Taking the A6112 through Preston, just after where the B6438 forks off the A6... Read More |
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| The Sleepy Sheep, Deepdale | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | County Durham | Visited | 2nd Jun 2015 | 4 | 4 | 4 | The Sleepy Sheep Stone, Natural Erratic near Barnard Castle: Having decided to go to see Egglestone Abbey, I did a quick trawl on the Portal to see what else was nearby around Barnard Castle. The Red Well and this stone looked intriguing so I printed off the pages, and off we set. [Thanks to Durha... Read More |
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| Edin's Hall | Broch or Nuraghe | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 30th May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Edin's Hall Fort & Broch, Scottish Borders: Having stopped at Duns for refreshments, there is a small car park, large enough for 3 to 4 cars just off the A6112 at grid reference NT 78933 60957 which gives access to a forest/river walk. At the car park, there is a signpost for the Broch, saying ‘2... Read More |
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| Dodlaw Burn | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 23rd May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Dodlaw Burn Standing Stones and Cairns, Scottish Borders (alternative name = Chatto Hill Standing Stone): I guess we’ve become more than a little bit fascinated by this part of the Scottish Borders, probably because it’s easy to get to (about an hour from our house), there are very, very few peo... Read More |
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| Woden Law | Hillfort | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 23rd May 2015 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Woden Law Hillfort, Scottish Borders: Firstly, congratulations are due to husband, Andrew, for getting me up onto this high, remote and very beautiful spot. The climb was certainly very worth it!
Driving back down from Dod Law/Chatto Hill, we arrived back at Pennymuir Roman Camps, turning left dow... Read More |
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| Jedburgh Ancient Christian Stones | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 4th May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Jedburgh Early Christian Stones: We've driven past Jedburgh, with the Abbey looming high on the hill to our left, on many an occasion but never stopped to take a closer look.
Turning left into Jedburgh, we were surprised to find that not only was the parking free, but there was free Wi-Fi throughou... Read More |
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| Horseshoe Wood Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 4th May 2015 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Horseshoe Wood Settlement, Hownam, Scottish Borders: After having parked in the sleepy little hamlet of Hownam, a footpath called The Street sets off near the village/community hall, leading off to the left of the main road up into the hills.
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| Horseshoe Wood (Hownam) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 4th May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Horseshoe Wood Standing Stone, Hownam, Scottish Borders: Note, when parking in the village and starting up The Street, in the field immediately to the right hand side of The Street, there appears to be what might be another standing stone or stones at grid reference NT 77991 19158. I coudn't find ... Read More |
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| The Ponteland Boulder | Rock Art | England | Tyne and Wear | Visited | 17th May 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | The Ponteland Boulder, The Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: We'd been told about this boulder in March by one of guys at the Archaeological Group who is a very keen tracker of any new rock art found in the region. Then, strangely, it came up in Rock Articles which was emailled to me by Dr. ... Read More |
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| Jedburgh Rock Art | Rock Art | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited (still working on) | 23rd May 2015 | Jedburgh Rock Art: We spotted this site page after our last visit to Jedburgh earlier this month, and having missed this piece of rock art first time round, we decided to stop when we next passed through to see if we could find it. Armed with SolarMegalith's grid reference, we went scouting, but we... Read More |
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| Ireby Old Church | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 1st May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Anglo Saxon Cross, Old Chancel, Ireby: Travelling from Bridekirk back towards Carlisle, we took the minor road through Torpenhow (couldn’t spot the pub marked on the map, which would have been a welcome stop at this time of day). Just leaving the village a sign told us the road wasn’t suitable ... Read More |
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| St Bridget's Church (Bridekirk) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 1st May 2015 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Scandinavian Cross Arm Piece, St Bridget's Church (Bridekirk): We arrived here just after 4pm. I’m not sure what I expected, but the old church was an enigmatic ruin at the eastern end of the churchyard – no more than a few ivy covered walls left of the chancel with graves contained withi... Read More |
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| The Shearers | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 4th May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | The Shearers Stone Row, near Hownam, Scottish Borders: Continuing on from the Horseshoe Wood Standing Stone, continuing up the hill, towards the top of the hill, but not quite, the pathway divides. To the left runs a path to Belford, with The Street leading to Alwinton.
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| Sewingshields Crags | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Sewingshields Crags Possible Stone Row, now known to be a boundary feature: I'm putting this on for completeness, as Andy B has added this as a site in it's own right; for my originalvisit report with more details, see Simonburn (Davy's Lee) Stone Circle visit report, 20th July 2014.
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| St Kentigern (Aspatria) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 1st May 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Norse Crosses and a Viking Hogback, St Kentigern's Church, Aspatria: Following the A596, signposted to Aspatria, the church is on the right hand side as you drive into the village, set above the road and separated from it from a stone wall.
Parking in a one hour disk parking spot just outs... Read More |
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| St Patrick's Well (Aspatria) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Cumbria | Visited | 1st May 2015 | 4 | 3 | 4 | St Patrick's Well, Aspatria. This well can be found in the churchyard of St. Kentigern's Church at Aspatria. Driving into Aspatria along the A596 from Carlisle, the church is on the right hand side of the road with disk parking on both sides of the road. There are steps up from the gate into the ... Read More |
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| Dere Street Cairn | Round Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 23rd Apr 2015 | 3 | 5 | 3 | Black Knowe Cairn (Dere Street Cairn), Scottish Borders:
From Trestle Cairn we followed the other side of the stone wall from Dere Street back downhill (this being Scotland I can’t get wholly used to the ‘right to roam’ even though we lived here for over 10 years. I wish we had this in Engl... Read More |
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| Trestle Cairn | Stone Circle | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 23rd Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Trestle Cairn, off Dere Street, Scottish Borders: Continuing north up Dere Street from the Black Knowe standing stone, the stone wall is continuous uphill. To get back to Black Knowe Cairn we either had to carry on to Trestle Cairn then double back to Black Knowe Cairn or walk back down the hill to... Read More |
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| Black Knowe (Borders) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Visited | 23rd Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Black Knowe Standing Stone, Scottish Borders: Continuing on northwards from the Falla Knowe Cairn the path becomes more of a grassy footpath with evidence of ditches at either side in parts, so we knew we were following the old Roman road of Dere Street (funny, as this Roman road continues south dow... Read More |
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| Falla Knowe Cairn | Cairn | Scotland | Scottish Borders | Saw from a distance | 23rd Apr 2015 | 4 | Falla Knowe Cairn, Scottish Borders: Not quite the actual Falla Knowe robbed out cairn, but one nearby.
Travelling up Dere Street, having parked next to Pennymuir Roman Camp A just across the road from this section of the Roman Road, we made our way north up this deeply rutted section of the foot... Read More |
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| Barmishaw Stone | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (West) | Couldn't find | 17th Apr 2015 | Barmishaw Stone, Ilkley: we planned to find this piece of rock art after visiting the Comet Stone as it's not far away. From the small car park on the Keighley Road near the Comet Stone grid reference, there is no direct footpath but a track through the moorland grass could be made out. My husband... Read More |
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| All Saints (Ilkley) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 17th Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Three Anglo Saxon Crosses, All Saints, Ilkley: On the way I telephoned All Saints in Ilkley to find out if they were open as some churches we've visited recently have been kept locked because of vandalism. A very nice lady in the Parish Office answered and told me the church was open until dusk and... Read More |
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| Panorama Stone | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 17th Apr 2015 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Panorama Stones, Ilkley (Rock Art): Climbing up out of the town centre, we found St. Margaret’s Church on Queen’s Road easily and parked outside it. Just across the road there is indeed a small wood and the enclosure around the Panorama Rocks can be clearly seen.
I have to say it felt like a... Read More |
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| Westwood Drive 01 | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited (still working on) | 17th Apr 2015 | 2 | 2 | 5 | The Comet Stone, Ilkely: (we found the grid reference but queried if this was the stone): From the Panorama Stones, driving the 700 metres up towards the moor we parked by the footpath sign just west of the junction of Moorlands and Westwood Drive and headed up the steep path (with steps) onto the m... Read More |
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| Wulfhere's Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 17th Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Wulfhere's Cross, Addingham, West Yorkshire: After a busy day with an early start and a disappointment getting to rock art sites on Ilkley Moor, this was a great end to a long day.
St. Paul’s is in the prettiest little spot in the small village of Addingham down by the River Wharfe and is in a hi... Read More |
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| All Saints Church (Weston) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 31st Mar 2015 | 5 | 5 | The Weston Cross - repeat visit with key to church! We picked up the key to the church from The Cock Pit Farm Tea Rooms, which is open from 11am until 4pm (summer hours – very popular with cyclists and great tea-cakes and tea). We were very kindly told that if we were back after 4pm (which we we... Read More |
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| Bogle Walls | Hillfort | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Bogle Walls Earthwork/Fort, Eskdalemuir: We spotted this earthwork as we drove back to Bentpath and Langholm on the way back from Bessie's Hill and stopped to take a closer look and take a few photographs. Sitting at the foot of Enzieholm Hill to its 'back' and a bend of the River Esk to its 'front... Read More |
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| Girdle Stanes | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Girdle Stanes, Stone Circle near Eskdalemuir: Even though we lived only 10 ½ miles from Eskdalemuir for 4 years in the laste 1990's, we’d never explored this area, apart from taking our (then very young) kids to a local river to paddle and visit a few of the Roman forts nearby, which in hindsight... Read More |
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| St Oswald (Guiseley) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 10th Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Cross, St. Oswald's Church, Guiseley: I had tried on several occasions to phone the vicar, the parish office and some of the church wardens to find out if the church was open during the day, even leaving messages on voice mails which weren’t returned. A couple of hours before our visi... Read More |
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| Tree of Life Stone | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Apr 2015 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Tree of Life Rock Art Stone, near Otley: From seeing the remains of the Anglo Saxon cross shaft at All Saints in Weston, we re-joined Moor Lane, turning left to the village of Askwith. This appears to be a ‘rat run’ from Ilkey to Otley, and there are a lot of cars along this very narrow lane, s... Read More |
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| Over Rig | Misc. Earthwork | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Over Rigg Enclosure/Settlement, Eskdalemuir (south of Bessie's Hill but before reaching Castle O'er): We saw this natural amphitheatre to the right hand side as we drove down towards Castle O’er, seeing what looked like man-made banks and ditches on its slopes with the meandering White Esk glintin... Read More |
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| Bessie's Hill Fort | Hillfort | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Bessie’s Hill Hill Fort, Eskdalemuir: Travelling on from the enigmatic earthworks and cemetery at the foot of Holm Craig (which I haven’t been able to find anything out about – yet), by the time we arrived here it was gone 5pm and the forest was deserted, apart from one other car in the visito... Read More |
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| Loupin' Stanes SE | Stone Row / Alignment | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 2 | 4 | 4 | The Loupin' Stanes Stone Row, Eskdalemuir: The walk between the Girdle Stanes and the Loupin’ Stanes along the side of the river was boggy and wet and we kept having to step over modern field drainage ditches so we deviated onto higher ground towards the road. In doing so, we came across a number... Read More |
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| Loupin' Stanes NW | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 6th Apr 2015 | 4 | 4 | 4 | The Loupin' Stanes, Stone Circle near Eskdalemuir: From the Girdle Stanes, the footpath pointed along the field boundary above the river, so we attempted to follow this line, although there were lots of boggy areas and field drains to step/jump across. A tall, but well built stile helped us over th... Read More |
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| All Saints (Otley) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (West) | Visited | 25th Mar 2015 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Crosses, All Saints, Otley: Having been to Leeds in the morning, we decided to make the rest of the day one of exploration (the first one for a long time!), so made our way back to the north-east via Otley, Weston and Weston Moor. Coming down into Otley from the A660 from Leeds, All Sai... Read More |
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| Thornborough High Barns | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 8th Mar 2015 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Thorborough High Barns Rock Art (single displaced stone): We first went to visit this site on 25th May 2014. Even though we were armed with a six figure grid reference number and detailed map, we were unable to locate this stone due to the high grass and deep brambles on both sides of the hedge. H... Read More |
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| Addingham Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Nov 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Addingham Crosses, Cumbria: This red sandstone church sits on a site which has had a church on it from the 13th century; previously the village of Addingham (home of Adda's people), including its church and churchyard, was washed away by a major flood of the River Eden in the 12th century.
The pr... Read More |
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| Lazonby Ancient Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Nov 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Lazonby Cross, Cumbria: At first glance this seems the most unlikely church to have the shaft of a cross, thought to be preaching cross dating from the 8th century, as at first glance it appears to be thoroughly Victorian in origin.
From Kirkoswald, travelling on the B6413 over the Eden Bridge into... Read More |
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| Little Meg | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 30th Nov 2014 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Little Meg, Little Salkeld, Cumbria: After visiting the Addingham Cross, which is within walking distance, we went in search of Little Meg. Strange, as we've visited Long Meg and Her Daughters on a number of occasions, but somehow managed to overlook this little gem.
Located just to the west of th... Read More |
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| Queen's Crags Cup Marked Boulders | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Nov 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Queen's Crags Cup Marked Boulders, Northumberland: We last visited this area, immediately to the north of Sewingshields Crags/Hadrians' Wall in July this year, and I was fascinated and intrigued by what I thought might have been another possible stone row and stone circle/enclosure on the way to Sim... Read More |
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| Beckermet Ancient Crosses (St John's Church) | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient crosses: St John’s Church, Beckermet, Cumbria: As we arrived, I could hear the buzz of voices coming from inside the church and thought there might be a service on. Sort of. Children kept coming out of the church, and out, and out. It turned out the whole local school had come for a Har... Read More |
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| Gosforth Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | The Gosforth Cross and Hogbacks, Gosforth, Cumbria: This was a busy, busy little village. By this time, it was 3pm and I was more than ready for a cup of tea, but the cafe above the village store was closing. Away from the main car park for the village, we struggled to park, but in the end managed... Read More |
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| St Michaels Church, Muncaster Castle | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ancient cross shaft, head and base at St Michael and All Angels, Muncaster, Cumbria: After Irton, our next stop was Muncaster, further down the A595, where I was intrigued to find what the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculptures catalogue refer to as ‘Irton 02’ being cemented to a plinth at the b... Read More |
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| Irton Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Ancient cross shaft, head and base, St Paul’s, Irto, Cumbria: This cross, apart from the Gosforth Cross, is perhaps the most complete of all those we saw during our day in this part of Cumbria. From the Ordnance Survey map, we weren’t sure if we could drive most of the way, or if we needed to w... Read More |
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| St Bee's Priory Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Ancient Crosses, St. Bees Priory (notes: 1. all the leaflets and books refer to this as ‘St Bees Priory Church’ but the name, according to information plates in the church is ‘St Mary and St. Bega. 2. I record this visit as 'ordinary' as the church was having its complete heating system repla... Read More |
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| Waberthwaite Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Cumbria | Visited | 24th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ancient crosses, St John the Baptist Church, Waberthwaite: This was our last planned stop of the day and dusk was drawing in. I confess to being a little tired of getting in and out of the car by this time, but a drive down a narrow country lane to reach a cluster of farm houses by the estuary of t... Read More |
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| Auckland St Andrew Ancient Cross | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 17th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Auckland St Andrew Ancient Cross: This church is open during the day between May and the end of September, so I’d had to arrange a special appointment with the Church Warden to visit at 10am. In the event, the ladies were in arranging flowers in the church, so it would have been possible to gain ... Read More |
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| Conyer's Chapel Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 17th Oct 2014 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Conyer's Chapel, near Darlington: Hogbacks and Anglo Saxon Crosses: In reading about the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Stone Sculptures material for Northumberland, I’ve become more and more excited about trying to visit Sockburn Hall. In order to find out who to contact, I went through English Heritage,... Read More |
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| All Saints (Crathorne) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 17th Oct 2014 | 3 | 5 | All Saints (Crathorne): Anglo Saxon Cross Shafts and Hogback Fragments: This church was on the way home, being very close to the A19, so I stopped off hoping it would be open so I could see the Saxon fragments incorporated into the fabric of the nave; according to the Pastscape record for this churc... Read More |
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| St Cuthbert (Forcett) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 17th Oct 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Cuthbert (Forcett): Anglo Saxon Cross Shafts and Cross Arms in Porch: From Piercebridge, it is only 4 and half miles south west to Forcett, via the B6275 and Greystone Lane (although the road in Piercebridge was closed so I had to detour - thankfully I had my son’s SatNav to help, otherwise com... Read More |
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| The Ruthwell Cross | Ancient Cross | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 12th Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | The Ruthwell Cross, Ruthwell: I’ve visited the Savings Bank Museum in Ruthwell to have meetings with the curator on more than one occasion and thought I had visited the Ruthwell Cross before (both my husband and I have vivid memories of taking the children to see an ancient sandstone cross in a ch... Read More |
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| Middleton Crosses | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Oct 2014 | 3 | 5 | Middleton Crosses, St. Andrew’s Church, Church Lane, Middleton, North Yorkshire: From St. Gregory’s Minster, the A170 took us right through Middleton, and it was easy to spot the church on the left hand side of the road. I’d tried to phone beforehand to check if the church was open during the... Read More |
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| Kirkdale Sundial | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Oct 2014 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Anglo Saxon Crosses, St. Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire (Kirkdale Sundial): Because the Corpus of Anglo Saxon Sculpture catalogue for Yorkshire cost £145, and my budget won’t currently run to buying it (!) I typed in ‘Anglo Saxon Sculptures’ into the internet and the search ca... Read More |
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| The Dragon Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Oct 2014 | 3 | 5 | The Dragon Stone, St John The Baptist, Levisham: The last time I was in Levisham was on a sunny but extremely cold January morning, when our department went on a ‘team building exercise’ – 7½ miles on a circular walk followed by lunch at The Horseshoe Inn. We stopped half way round the walk ... Read More |
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| All Saints (Helmsley) | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 10th Oct 2014 | 2 | 2 | 5 | All Saints (Helmsley) (Hogback Tomb Remanant): We last visited Helmsley on 19th August 2010 (was it really so long ago?) as we’d heard a lot about this attractive little town but never been. There was an event on at the castle and the place was totally overrun with tourists. After a cup of tea a... Read More |
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| Low Dinsdale Cross | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 5th Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | I found details of this beautiful little church on the Darlington Borough Council Website, under their Scheduled Monuments list.
Low Dinsdale is situated in a bend of the River Tees south east of Darlington. The church was originally built of pink sandstone, with modern work in red sandstone, ... Read More |
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| St John's Well (Osmotherley) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Yorkshire (North) | Couldn't find | 5th Oct 2014 | St John's Well (Osmotherlery): This being a glorious late afternoon, and having not only precise instructions on how to reach St John’s Well from the Mount Grace Priory staff but the GPS co-ordinates and a map I’d printed off with the exact location of the well, we set off to try and reach it. N... Read More |
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| St. Mary's Well (Gainford) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | County Durham | Visited | 5th Oct 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | St. Mary's Well, Gainford, North Yorkshire: OK, it was fairly dark by the time we arrived here. But when you’ve had a great day out, I’m always reluctant to call an end to it. From Stanwick with it's Viking and Saxon cross fragments, we had to pass through Gainford to get home anyway, but having... Read More |
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| Birtley Iona Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Iona Cross, Birtley (St. Giles, Birtley): From St. Giles in Chollerton, this church is easy to find, being only 6 miles away. To reach it, drive down the small road to the left hand side of the church and continue on down through Barrasford, turning right just before reaching the village of Wark (s... Read More |
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| Chollerton Cross | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 2nd Oct 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Chollerton Cross (St. Giles, Saxon Crosses, Chollerton): It being the most beautiful sunny day with blue skies (but a frosty start), it was a perfect autumn afternoon. Last night I looked through the Anglo Saxon Corpus database and picked out some places within easy reach of my house.
My husband... Read More |
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| The Anker's House | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 25th Sep 2014 | 4 | 5 | 5 | The Anker House (Anglo Saxon Cross Shafts and Cross Arms): The purpose of my visit was to see the Anglo Saxon cross fragments, but the impact of this visit is still with me today - the tiny little Anker House and what it meant to commit yourself to the rest of your life in this tiny village was quit... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Bywell) | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Bywell Anglo Saxon Cross (St. Andrew's Church): This is a very pretty spot, nestled in a bend of the River Tyne, surrounded by neatly kept estate lands. The two neighbouring churches on this site are less than 2 miles from my house, but although I've been here on more than one occasion, can't say I'... Read More |
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| St Peter (Osmotherly) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 26th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Peter’s Church, Osmotherley. Saxon cross fragments: Note, whilst there is parking on School Lane immediately by the church, there are steps to negotiate from the road up to the church.
Having failed to get to Mount Grace Priory and St. John’s Well from the northern carriageway of the A19 ... Read More |
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| Pudding Pie Hill | Round Barrow(s) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 26th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Pudding Pie Hill, Sowerby near Thirsk: From St Mary The Virgin at Leake, we headed south to Thirsk, leaving the A19 at its junction with the A168 to get as close as we could to Pudding Pie Hill.
It wasn’t possible to get to the round barrow from this direction, as there are all private roads le... Read More |
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| Howe Hill (Felixkirk) | Round Barrow(s) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 26th Sep 2014 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Howe Hill Round Barrow, Felixkirk: After having been to Pudding Pie Hill Round Barrow in Sowerby, we drove to the village of Felixkirk from the A170, up the first minor road leading north east. There is no doubt that Howe Hill is something ancient – but what? My initial impression, driving up the... Read More |
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| St Mary (Leake) | Ancient Cross | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 26th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St Mary’s Church, Leake: Saxon Cross and Sundial: I hate the A19 as I think it’s a fast, dangerous road, and avoid it whenever I can. However, driving up and down to York in a previous life, I’ve seen this church which is right by the A19 a couple of times before – driving past at 70 mph t... Read More |
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| Goatstones O | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones O, Simonburn, Northumberland: See visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art stones/boulders within a couple of hundred metres). | ||
| Goatstones N | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones N, Simonburn, Northumberland: See visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art boulders all within a couple of hundred metres) | ||
| Goatstones J | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Goatstones J, Simonburn, Northumberland: This was a real treat - a marker stone on top of an apparently undisturbed cairn. For rest of visit report, see Goatstones A (14 rock art boulders within a couple of hundred metres). | ||
| Goatstones F. | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones F, Simonburn, Northumberland: See visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art stones with a couple of hundred yards of each other). | ||
| Goatstones G | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones G, Simonburn, Northumberland: See visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art boulders within a couple of hundred metres) | ||
| Goatstones E | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones E, Simonburn, Northumberland: See visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art stones within a couple of hundred yards). | ||
| Goatstones H | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones H, Simonburn, Northumberland: see visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art boulders within a couple hundred metre area) | ||
| Goatstones A | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones A to P, Simonburn, Northumberland (excepting K, L and P): Having previously wasted time hunting for rock art we couldn't find, my husband splashed out on a cheap, but cheerful GPS device in Carlisle yesterday. We decided to put it to use today by going to find the rock art near Goatstone... Read More |
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| Goatstones B | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones B, Simonburn, Northumberland: see visit report for Goatstones A (14 rock art stones in near to each other). | ||
| Goatstones D | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones D, Simonburn, Northumberland: see visit report for Goatstones A (14 stones near to each other). | ||
| Goatstones C | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 21st Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Goatstones C: see visit report for Goatstones A (group of 14 stones in same area). | ||
| Anwoth | Class I Pictish Symbol Stone | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Couldn't find | 19th Sep 2014 | Anwoth, Rock Art: Couldn't find as too much gorse and bracken. It was very difficult to orientate ourselves and tried several of the hills, just in case. We have since invested in a cheap and cheerful GPS system, which we've since tested out on Goatstones Rock Art in Northumberland. We did walk o... Read More |
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| Cairnholy 2 | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Sep 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Cairn Holy 2, Dumfries and Galloway: From Cairn Holy 1, there is a gate in the stone wall leading up to this monument. In the field to the left of this footpath there is the remains of another possible cairn.
I found Cairn Holy 2 more atmospheric that Cairn Holy 1, but the ambience was spoiled... Read More |
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| Cairnholy 1 | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Sep 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Cairn Holy 1: Having lived in Dumfries and Galloway for 10 years in the 1990s, we’ve driven by the signs to Cairn Holy on many an occasion, but never detoured to look. Now having seen the images, my husband described both these cairns as ‘like Pentre Ifan, but without the people’ (not quite, ... Read More |
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| High Banks Farm | Rock Art | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Couldn't find | 19th Sep 2014 | High Banks Farm Rock Art: Found the track to High Banks Farm easily enough, but husband wouldn't risk our car on the farm track, saying that we'd need a four wheel drive to attempt it. Our tight schedule of sites to visit for the rest of the afternoon didn't allow time to walk up to this rock art s... Read More |
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| Twelve Apostles (Dumfries) | Stone Circle | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Sep 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | The Twelve Apostles, Dumfries: Shortly after we moved to Irongray in 1992 and my husband was touring the county to get to know it for his work with Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise, he came home one lunchtime and said we needed to go and see a stone circle. Being then only 6 miles from our house, w... Read More |
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| Powburn Rock Art | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 22nd Sep 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Stopped at the Visitor Centre during our Breamish Valley Hill Fort Trail walk, to visit St. Michael's Church at Ingram. Beautiful setting next to the river. Came across this stone quite by chance outside the Visitor Centre (now closed and The Muddy Boots Cafe). | ||
| Rutherford's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Scotland | Dumfries and Galloway | Visited | 19th Sep 2014 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Rutherford's Well, Anwoth, Dumfries and Galloway: Having just visited Cairn Holy 1 and 2, husband, Andrew, had identified some Pictish motifs, a holy well and some rock art at Trusty’s Hill which seemed worth visiting on our way back home. Anwoth seemed the ideal location for a base for this shor... Read More |
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| St Andrew's Church (Aycliffe) | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 18th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | St. Andrew’s Church, Aycliffe Village, County Durham: A treasure-house of Anglo-Saxon cross-shafts.
OK - it’s only just over 9 miles between Escomb Saxon Church and Aycliffe Village, but I drove more than twice that distance as I managed to get hopelessly lost trying to follow the directions ... Read More |
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| Escomb Cross | Ancient Cross | England | County Durham | Visited | 18th Sep 2014 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Escomb Saxon Church, Saxon Green, Escomb, Northumberland: This church is well worth a visit as it is a showcase for simple, understated architecture with an enormous ambience of history and worship. Peaceful, cool and reflective, Escomb is said to be ‘the most complete Anglo-Saxon Church in Engla... Read More |
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| Coventina's Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2014 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Coventina's Well, near Carrawbrough Roman Fort, Northumberland: Having visited Robin Hood’s Holy Well in Colwell a short time ago, I was interesting in seeing Coventina’s Well and the adjacent Brocolitia, aTemple of Mithras. Having tried to visit 10 days ago, intending to park in the car park f... Read More |
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| Ridley Common | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Ridley Common Stone Circle and Enclosure, Northumberland: All the web sites we’d looked at quickly before visiting this stone circle said that it was sited on private land, and access was difficult. According to our 2007 Ordnance Survey Map, this land is now marked as Access Land, so we decided t... Read More |
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| St John Lee Church (Oakwood Stone) | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 14th Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | St John Lee Rock Art, near Hexham. Also known as The Oakwood Stone: We’ve been to St John Lee Church near Acomb a few years ago, as it is only 6 miles from our house, when our interests lay in finding Roman remains reused within local churches. At the time I only had a small camera and wasn’t ... Read More |
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| Iron Hill South | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Iron Hill South Cairn/Stone Circle, near Oddendale, Cumbria: Just 50 metres south of Iron Hill North Cairn/Stone Circle there is another monument, not far from a limestone scar (small modern quarry or crag?). It can be easily seen from Iron Hill North.
Whilst we were looking at this monument, we... Read More |
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| Iron Hill North | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Iron Hill North Cairn/Stone Circle: From Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle, we drove down the single track road towards Hardendale Quarry, with Castlehouse Scar wood on our left hand side. Where the wood ends, the road turns a sharp left and right. Just where the road turns right, there is a marked foo... Read More |
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| Oddendale | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Oddendales Stone Circle, Oddendale, Cumbria: From Seal Howe, heading directly north west across the pasture to the ‘cairn circle’ was interesting walking, as the ground was lumpy and bumpy with hidden stones underneath. I was not prepared for what we found – a beautiful stone circle of some 3... Read More |
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| Seal Howe | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Seal Howe Cairn, Oddendale, Cumbria: Having passed Kalmott Cairn Circle by the stone wall next to Oddendale, we made our way to the Bield and Cairn Circle marked on the map.
All around, the limestone pavement/bedrock pushed its way above the grass; it was particularly spectacular on the right han... Read More |
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| Kalmott cairn circle | Ring Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Kalmott Cairn Circle, Oddendales, Cumbria: Arriving at Oddendales to see the cairns marked on the OS map, just past the footpath sign pointing us to the Coast-to-Coast/Crosby Ravensworth, we were surprised to come across what appeared to be a small cairn with a ring of stones with a central cluster.... Read More |
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| Raise Howe Cairn | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 | Raise Howe Cairn, Cumbria: From Gamelands Stone Circle, 1 km east of the village of Orton, we drove back into the village and found the B6260 which heads over the moors towards Crosby Ravensworth and Appleby-in-Westmorland. The road climbs steeply from Orton, leading up onto Orton Scar, Beacon Hill... Read More |
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| Thunder Stone (Castlehowe Scar) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Thunder Stone (Castlehowe Scar), near Shap, Cumbria: When my husband suggested going back to Shap, I groaned inwardly - another day of walking round searching for stones within the village? But I was in for a great surprise. Andrew had identified stone circles and cairns within a few miles of each... Read More |
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| Gamelands | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Gamelands Stone Circle, near Orton, Cumbria: By now, it was late afternoon, with the evening rapidly approaching, and almost time to head off home. From the Oddendale Cairns and Stone Circle we headed off in search of something to eat and drink before finding Gamelands. In Orton, we found the Choc... Read More |
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| Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 7th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle, near Shap, Cumbria: Having previously stopped at the Thunder Stone 200 metres to the west of Castlehowe Scar Farm, we drove almost 1 kilometre up to this little stone circle. All the land from the Thunder Stone up to Castlehouse Scar Wood on the right hand side of the ... Read More |
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| Fontburn B | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn B (Rock Art), near Rothbury, Northumberland: Fontburn Reservoir is just over 12 km north of Wallington and 9 km south-south-west of Rothbury. Despite it not being very far from where I live I can’t say I’ve ever heard of it this reservoir, yet it’s clearly very popular with fishermen... Read More |
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| Fontburn Four-Poster | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 5th Sep 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Fontburn Four Poster, near Rothbury, Northumberland: This was a continuation of our very pleasant meander around Fontburn Reservoir from Fontburn B.
Crossing over Fallowlees Burn and just starting to head back along the northern edge of the reservoir the Stone Circle comes into view on the hori... Read More |
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| Robin Hood's Well (Chollerton) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 3rd Sep 2014 | 1 | 2 | 4 | Robin Hood's Well, Colwell, Northumberland: I last visited Colwell on 13th June 2014, when we went in search of the old chapel (located in someone’s back garden, so not accessible without permission), the two wells in the centre of the village – Coley’s Well and Pricky’s Well – and Blue Cr... Read More |
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| Chesters Roman Site b | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th Aug 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Chesters Roman Bridge Rock Art, Chollerford, Northumberland: Parking at the George Hotel at Chollerford on the north side of the river Tyne, we walked back over the bridge and found the small gate to the west side of the bridge to the footpath leading to the Roman Bridge. This is a really easy walk... Read More |
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| Wall Crags Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 25th Aug 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Wall Crags Settlement, Northumberland: It was 4pm on Bank Holiday Monday and we wanted to go somewhere, but didn’t have time to go far. Husband Andrew had spent the afternoonon the internet looking at rock art on the old Roman Bridges at Chollerford, and spotted the settlement to the east of Wall... Read More |
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| Doddington Moor | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 30th Aug 2014 | Doddington Stone Circle, Northumberland (second failed attempt!). Having visited Weetwood Moor, as we were so near, and it was still only relatively early (5pm), we decided to drive a couple of miles further up the road to Weetwood Hall and try the footpath I’d identified as a possible easier rou... Read More |
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| Weetwood Moor 3a | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 31st Aug 2014 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Weetwood Moor 3a (Bicycle Rock), Northumberland: My husband had seen photographs of the rock art at Weetwood Moor, which was very near the Fowberry Mains/Fowberry Park site we'd seen on 17th August 2014). Parking at the road junction next to where the metalled track runs alongside North Plantation, ... Read More |
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| Tremaenhir Standing Stones | Standing Stones | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 22nd Aug 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Standing Stone by Tremaenhir, Pembrokeshire: After an amazing day at St. David’s Cathedral and Bishop's Palace, followed by St. Non’s Well, Chapel and standing stones, we were reluctant to call an end to the day, so we decided to drive along the A487, heading north to Tremaenhir Farm, where the ... Read More |
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| St Non's Chapel | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 22nd Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Non's Chapel, Pembrokeshire: A gate leading from between St Non’s Well (to our left) and the vault with her statue in (to our right), led into the field containing the chapel. It was a short walk to the ruined building, which is enclosed by a fence to protect it from the cattle in the field.
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| St Non's Well (Pembrokeshire) | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 22nd Aug 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | St Non's Well, Pembrokeshire: It was interesting trying to find the small road leading down to St. Non’s Chapel and Well; it turned out to be a side road off a side road, with a very, very narrow section coming out of St. David’s.
This road led down to St. Non’s Retreat Centre, with views o... Read More |
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| Nevern Churchyard | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Nevern Churchyard, Pembrokeshire: After having felt ‘thwarted’ by the farmer’s notice to seek permission before accessing the Trafael Rock Art capstone (but with no details of who to contact) we cut our losses and drove back towards Newport to have a cup of tea and a piece of cake. We came ac... Read More |
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| Garn Turne | Chambered Tomb | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Saw from a distance | 23rd Aug 2014 | 1 | Burial chamber at Garn Turne Rocks, Pembrokeshire: (couldn't find anywhere to access this site): The final sites we wanted to see before hitting the motorway home to Northumberland were the burial chambers at Garn Turne. Having successfully located the field and the footpath nearest to the largest ... Read More |
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| Gors Fawr Outliers | Standing Stones | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Gors Fawr Outliers, Pembrokeshire: It was an easy walk of about 150 metres or so north-northeast across the moorland to the Gors Fawr Standing Stones/Outliers, which were visible from the stone circle.
Standing at the Outliers looking towards the circle, they do appear to be an entrance. We spot... Read More |
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| Gors Fawr Stone Circle | Stone Circle | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 4 | 5 | 4 | Gors Fawr Stone Circle, Pembrokeshire: After stopping off at St. Brynach’s church in Nevern to see the stone crosses, we started on our long journey home to Northumberland. We’d identified a number of ancient sites we wanted to see on our way back, including the Gors Fawr Stone Circle. My husb... Read More |
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| Tre-llwyn Fawr | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Trellwyn-Fawr Standing Stone, Pembrokeshire: [We found more than one standing stone at this site, one of them not marked on the map, so I hope I am reporting them correctly – if I’ve confused them, please let me know so I can correct my entries (thank you!)].
On the way back to the road from ... Read More |
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| Trellwyn-fach | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Trellwyn-Fach Standing Stone, Pembrokeshire: [We found more than one standing stone at this site, one of them not marked on the map, so I hope I haven't confused them – if I’ve got it wrong, please let me know so I can correct my entries (thank you!)].
From the Trewllyn-Fach Stone Pair, we wa... Read More |
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| Trellwyn-fach Stone Pair | Standing Stones | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Trewynfach (Tre-llwyn Fawr) Stone Pair, Pembrokeshire: About 400 yards up the road from the Parc-y-meirw stones, just before reaching a house called Trellwyn, is an un-named farm to the south side of the road. On the map there are two standing stones marked, which stand very slightly to the west of... Read More |
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| Parc y Meirw | Stone Row / Alignment | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Parc-y-meiry standing stones, Pembrokeshire: After having visited the Llanllawer Holy Well, we set off eastwards up the road towards Trellwyn farm, where there were two sets of standing stones marked on the southern side of the road.
Driving slowly up this single track lane, trying to look over t... Read More |
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| Hogtivis Stone | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Intrigued by just the word ‘Stone’ on the map, we drove from Garnturne burial chamber towards Sealyham Bridge, looking for the church next to ‘The Stone’. There are just a few farms and an outdoor centre here; it is a very pretty little spot. Just before the bridge over the river Afon Angh... Read More |
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| Glyn Gath Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 2 | 4 | 5 | Glyn Garth Ring Cairn, Pembrokeshire: After visiting a series of standing stones on the northern side of the Afon Gwaun river, we headed eastwards back towards the hotel at Gellifawr. We passed directly by the Glyn Garth ring cairn, so stopped to take a look.
Even with a detailed map, without th... Read More |
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| St Gwyndaf Stones | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 22nd Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | St Gwyndaf’s Church, Llanwnda with stone crosses: Husband, Andrew, and I were both intrigued by Vicky’s description of the St. Gwyndaf Stones on the Portal, so after a busy day exploring the St David’s area, we decided to stop off in Fishguard for dinner, taking a detour to Llanwnda on the way... Read More |
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| Trefael | Rock Art | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Saw from a distance | 23rd Aug 2014 | Trafael Rock Art, Pembrokshire: We were looking forward to seeing this rare example of rock art in Wales, but despite driving up and down the B4582 road twice, we couldn’t find any of the marked footpaths. We could identify from the field pattern from our detailed map exactly where the stone was l... Read More |
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| Pentre Ifan | Portal Tomb | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire: I was particularly excited to go to the site, as I’d seen many photographs and paintings of Pentre Ifan during our brief visit to Pembrokeshire, together with photographs on the Portal. I was unprepared for the sheer number of visitors who came to see this spectacular ... Read More |
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| The Pillar Stones | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Pillar Stones, Cwm Gwaun. These stones were the second of the ancient monuments we saw during our visit to Pembrokeshire, and a great start to our trip.
The five pillar stones were visible from the road, in the grounds of a small chapel, so we parked in the driveway to get off the single track ro... Read More |
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| Trefach | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Trefach, Pembrokeshire. This stone was literally just round the corner from Gellifawr, where we were staying. We parked at the entrance to the field on the corner of the road and walked up to the footpath which leads up to Waun Mawn. There was actually a couple of parking spaces at the bottom of t... Read More |
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| Llanllawer Church | Early Christian Sculptured Stone | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 2 | 3 | 4 | The only access to the church is through a gate and a 100 yard walk through the field to the church gate.
This church is not used, and is falling into ruin. It is boarded up and there are slates coming loose from the roof.
It was not possible to get inside, as the door was locked and some of the w... Read More |
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| Llanllawer Holy Well | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2014 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Having visited the Pillar Stones, we drove the additional 2km through the village of Llanychaer to the Llanllawer Parish Church and Holy Well. There was a small lay-by opposite the gate to the field leading up to the church, so it was easy to park.
The church, which stands on top of the hill, is... Read More |
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| Bedd Morris | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Wales | Pembrokeshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | I spotted this standing stone by the right hand side of the road as we were driving over the Ffordd Bedd Morris road from the A487 towards Cwm Gwaun, where we were staying for a few days. After an eight hour journey, and with the rain coming down in huge droplets, we drove past and returned on the ... Read More |
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| Salters Nick Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | Following our visit to The Poind And His Man, there was a settlement marked on the map at Salter's Nick, and I was keen to try and see this as it was nearby.
We continued westwards along the footpath from the Poind and His Man, the pebbly surface giving way to concrete slabs leading onto access l... Read More |
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| The Poind And His Man | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | I didn’t expect this site to be as atmospheric as it was. We parked on the road that runs just south of Bolam Lake, in a small layby about 100 yards to the south west of Craig Hall, approx. grid reference: NZ 07126 82266 (only a couple of kilometres from the busy A696). We walked down the gravel... Read More |
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| Fowberry Park B | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 17th Aug 2014 | 3 | 5 | 4 | Having been disappointed at not being able to reach the Doddington Stone Cricle from the footpaths across the golf course (they seem to have vanished with an extension to the quarry) we were determined not to head home without having seen something. We spotted a number of other cup and ring marked ... Read More |
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| Newtown Mill | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 17th Aug 2014 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Driving southwards from Fowberry Park rock art site, through the small hamlet of Newtown, this standing stone appeared on the map to be very near the road, so we drove past hoping to see it. And there it was – about 50 yards inside the field to our left hand side, easily accessible by a metal gat... Read More |
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| Ros Castle hillfort | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Saw from a distance | 17th Aug 2014 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Driving back across Hepburn Moor towards the A1, the purple heather spreading in front of us was truly impressive. Although early evening with looming black clouds, we were going to stop off and look at this really impressive ancient monument, but when I opened the car door, it was torn from my han... Read More |
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| Wades Stone (North) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 15th Aug 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | From Robin Hood’s Bay, sadly Old Wife’s Neck was the wrong direction (at this time of day and for this trip) so needs to wait for another day; wanting somewhere to go on the way home, we hit upon Wade’s Stones near Goldsborough and East Barnby. Avoiding Whitby, we headed west on the A174, and... Read More |
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| Wades Stone (South) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 15th Aug 2014 | 3 | 3 | From Wade’s Stone North, we drove back down Goldsborough Lane to the junction with the A174 and crossed straight over to East Barnby. Immediately over the road junction, there is a view of Wade’s Stone South from the first field gate (about 50 yards south of the junction), to the right hand sid... Read More |
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| Ramsdale | Standing Stones | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 15th Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Having escaped the rain and wind in our part of Northumberland, we headed for the east coast, where it was sunny and warm (although windy). However, it was a real relief to escape the sheer numbers of people in Whitby and head for the relative peace of the moors. Heading out of town on the A171, w... Read More |
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| The Castles | Stone Fort or Dun | England | County Durham | Visited | 3rd Aug 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | We’d come across mention of this site from Time Team Series 15 episode 11 (“5000 tons of stone”) in 2007, and noted it because it was a site relatively local to us. Being late on a windy, but sunny, Sunday afternoon, and wanting to go out somewhere without going far, we decided to head off to... Read More |
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| Maiden Castle (N Yorks) | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 30th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 3 | We ran out of time to see this site on 11th July, when we visited Thorborough Henges and West Agra (we got thoroughly distracted by the tremendous rock art at the latter), so took advantage of a trip down to Nottingham to detour via North Yorkshire and Swaledale to visit Maiden Castle.
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| Paines Bridge, Wallington C | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 29th Jul 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Full visit report under 'Wallington A', as there are three boulders with rock art within 2 metres of each other in the same location. Worth a visit if you pass over Paine's Bridge or are visiting Wallington House. | ||
| Paines Bridge, Wallington B | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 29th Jul 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Visit report logged under 'Wallington A', as there are three stones within 2 metres of each other. Worth looking for if you are passing by Paine's Bridge/Wallington House. | ||
| Paines Bridge, Wallington A | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 29th Jul 2014 | 3 | 3 | 4 | “Just for some fun, how about going to Wallington to try and spot the three rock art portable stones that Stan Beckensall says are near the bridge?” my husband said. “The web site says they are set into concrete, so they should be easy to find.” It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, so I sai... Read More |
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| Dod Law Main Rock A | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 27th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Access to Dod Law Main Rock is exactly as DrewAndrews describes. It is a relatively easy walk up hill, following the path up hill, southwards, through Wooler Golf Course (one of the golfers told us it was alright to leave our car parked in their car park).
Immediately opposite the fenced boundar... Read More |
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| Ketley Crag Rock Shelter 1 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Couldn't find | 27th Jul 2014 | 1 | We went to seek this magnificent example of rock art, well armed with map, compass and camera, and parked outside South Lyham farm. At the adjacent cottages, one of the residents came out to speak to us, and pointed out the way to the permissive footpath across to Ketley Crag and Chattonpark Hill, ... Read More |
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| Simonburn | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 2 | We know this stone circle as either: Davy's Lee Stone Circle, King's Crag Stone Circle or Haughton Common Stone Circle, rather than Simonburn Stone Circle, although the Grid Reference is the same.
Having spotted a group of features that looked interesting: Davy's Lee Settlement, Davy's Lee Stone Ci... Read More |
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| Davy's Lee 1 | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Having visited Davy's Lee Settlement and Davy's Lee Stone Circle, rather than walk directly southwards across the boggy ground and the stream, we headed eastwards back to the main footpath between Halleypike Lough/Folly Lake. We lost the footpath, but continued as best we could, trying to keep on t... Read More |
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| Davy's Lee Enclosure | Misc. Earthwork | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th Jul 2014 | 2 | 4 | 2 | Continuing south on the footpaths from Standingstone Rigg at Great Lonbrough would have brought us to Davy's Lee Settlement and Davy's Lee Stone Circle and tumuli, but on this walk we elected to park at the Old Repeater Station, just off the B6318 (old military road), and follow the footpath to Sewi... Read More |
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| Standingstone Rigg | Stone Row / Alignment | England | Northumberland | Visited | 13th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Having first visited Goatstones Four Poster stone circle on 30th June, the farmer from Great Lonbrough Farm further up the track (whom we met on the track as he was coming down from the farm in his Landrover) had mentioned some other standing stones, but was mysterious about the location – we thou... Read More |
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| West Agra | Rock Art | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th Jul 2014 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Google maps showed it was only just over 10 miles between Thornborough Henges, which we had just visited, and West Agra. Stopping off in Masham for a cup of tea, we need to take a minor road passing through the small villages of Fearby and Healey. We took a wrong turn which lead us down over the Ri... Read More |
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| Thornborough N | Henge | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 14th Jul 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | After visiting Thorborough Central (and having tried to see where Thornborough South was), we went back to the Northern Henge. Having driven past the first time and failed to find somewhere to park, this time we spotted where other people had parked, complete with a gap in the trees to nip through.... Read More |
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| Thornborough Central | Henge | England | Yorkshire (North) | Visited | 11th Jul 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | I was completely taken back by the sheer scale of Thornborough Henges. Wow. My husband had managed to get the afternoon off, so I picked him up at Thirsk, and we followed the A61 then the B6267 through Ainderby Quernhow, under the A1, until we got to Nosterfield - a distance of just over 9 miles. ... Read More |
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| St Mungo's Church | Ancient Cross | England | Northumberland | Visited | 9th Jul 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | I'd read about the hog's-back tombstone located in this church, and as Simonburn is only 20 miles away from our house, took advantage of the sunshine to go and explore. By absolute chance, I happened to arrive at the same time as a small coach party who had booked an organised tour with the vicar, s... Read More |
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| Shap Avenue | Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Jul 2014 | 2 | 4 | 3 | Armed with information from the Portal and a map of the locations of the stones they've mapped in the stone row so far from Shap Local History Society, we started off at Kemp Howe stone circle, and walked round the village looking for stones. We met a couple of the more senior locals as we went rou... Read More |
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| Kemp Howe | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Jul 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Having been kept awake most of the night by heavy, heavy rain, then being greeted by leaden skies with a distinctly autumn feel, the weather in Cumbria, according to the weather forecast, seemed a lot more appealing.
Armed with information from the Portal and a map with the locations of stones in t... Read More |
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| Swinside | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 5th Jul 2014 | 4 | 5 | 3 | After an afternoon spent visiting the Shap Stone Row, my husband was particularly keen to see Swinside Stone Circle, so we took an additional hour to travel to this site. I have to say it was well worth the visit, and I would very definitely go again.
We parked in a small layby just down from Crag... Read More |
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| Brecken Hills | Hillfort | England | Northumberland | Visited | 13th Jun 2014 | 2 | 4 | 4 | We know this site as 'Blue Crags Hillfort', rather than 'Brecken Hills', so both names are in use. The English Heritage Schedule describes Blue Crags Hillfort as a 'defended settlement of Iron Age/Romano-British date'. It makes excellent use of an existing outcrop of rock (whinstone, from the offi... Read More |
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| Houghton Camp, Heddon on the Hill | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 1st Jul 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Return visit on 1st July 2014: I obtained permission from Close House Golf Club to walk across the golf course to look at the settlement from the side furthest from the road. They told me that they are unable to do anything with this parcel of land 'because of the antiquities, but there isn't much ... Read More |
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| The Cockpit | Stone Circle | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Almost at the course of High Street Roman Road, there is a view of Ullswater from the footpath just below the Cock Pit Stone Circle.
As the circle is on a good footpath, most of the people stopped at the circle. It's always nice to see people appreciate ancient sites, but I had to wait quite a whi... Read More |
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| White Raise Cairn | Cairn | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 3 | From the footpath leading from the Cop Stone to The Cockpit Stone Circle, this cairn lies after the Cairn Circle, on the right hand side of the footpath.
It initially appears unremarkable as a large mound with stones marking the extent of the cairn, but walking up the slope I came across the excava... Read More |
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| Aspers Field | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 4 | 4 | 3 | This stone is within sight of the Googleby Stone, although a little more difficult to access. The gate to access the field is in Keld Lane, but it's difficult to park here, and we were wary about walking in private fields. There were some dog walkers from the nearby caravan park walking in the fie... Read More |
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| Goggleby Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | After failing to park along the narrow lanes around Keld, to see various stones in Shap Row, we finally parked outside the Fire Station on the A6 running through Shap, and followed the footpaths westward to the Googleby Stone and the partially toppled stone in Asper's Field.
This is a short walk, w... Read More |
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| Cop Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cumbria | Visited | 28th Jun 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | For a long time we've wanted to walk along High Street, the Roman Road, but the scramble up from Ullswater side was too difficult for me. My husband managed to identify another route, via the B road through Askham and Helton, then following the track past Outgang Farm and Heltonhead. There were ot... Read More |
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| Goatstones Four-Poster | Stone Circle | England | Northumberland | Visited | 30th Jun 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | There are a couple of parking spaces next to 'Manor House' on Ward Lane, just below Ravensheugh Crags, and followed the footpath up to the crags, turning right up to the stone circle.
It is an easy walk, with spectacular views - the visibility was around 30 miles - we could see the Cheviot Hills in... Read More |
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| Bygate Hill | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 22nd Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Having previously visited the site the weekend previously, we were put off from going in by alarms coming from within the plantation and a notice 'not to enter without the necessary authority' on the gate, so I sought the landowner's permission to enter. Bygate Hill Plantation houses a telecommunic... Read More |
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| Roughting Linn Rock Art | Rock Art | England | Northumberland | Visited | 20th May 2014 | ||||||
| Middleton Standing Stone (Northumberland) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 27th May 2014 | ||||||
| Meg's Well, Aydon | Holy Well or Sacred Spring | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2014 | ||||||
| Bow Bridge Homestead | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 28th May 2014 | ||||||
| Grasmere Cup-Marked Rocks | Rock Art | England | Cumbria | Visited | 2nd Jun 2014 | ||||||
| Sidwood Iron Age Settlement | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Northumberland | Visited | 11th Jun 2014 | ||||||
| Warrior Stone (Ingoe) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | We've visited Inghoe before, but to look at the remains of the medieval village and also the hut circles just beyond Sandyway Heads Farm.
Having just visited the Matfen Standing Stone, and having tried to visit the Bygate Hill site (which is a private plantation with a telecommunications mast and p... Read More |
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| Matfen | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 15th Jun 2014 | 3 | 3 | 5 | This standing stone, near Matfen Hall Hotel/Golf Course, stands on the edge of a road in a hamlet called 'Standing Stone'. It is easy to find, being on a right hand turn just before the main entrance to Matfen Hall Golf Course, and opposite Standing Stone House, about 100 yards from the road juncti... Read More |
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| Swinburne Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Northumberland | Visited | 13th Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | We sought the landowner's permission prior to visiting the stone. We parked outside the Roman Catholic Church at Ox Hills, and walked back to the footpath leading firstly to Swinburne Castle, then splitting off to the left at a large tree to tumuli and the standing stone.
The footpath is easy wal... Read More |