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Ales stenar
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Sweden (Skåne)
Visited: Yes on 29th Mar 2014
Ales stenar submitted by Alta-Falisa on 29th Mar 2014. Ales Stenar.
As you discover it, inch by inch, while walking up the path...
Photo taken in May 2012.
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Althing
Date Added: 9th Apr 2014
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Iceland
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2012. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Althing submitted by DrewParsons on 10th May 2010. The Law Rock or Lögrétta is a high rock on European side of the chasm and was the site from which laws were passed and trials conducted. April 2010.
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Log Text: The closest you can come by car is the car park (64.263337, -21.117194). From there, a walkway leads you as far as the church and old cemetery.
The path to the valley supposed to be just on top of the dividing line Europe-America (where two tectonic plates pull the Atlantic floor apart) is asphalted at first, then more rocky (and you are not supposed to go that far... Naughty, naughty, naughty, I did !).
Try to come before 09.00 : there are still hardly any tourists and, at 09.00 on the dot, you will attend the raising of the flag.
Anta da Aboboreira
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Porto)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2014
Anta da Aboboreira submitted by Alta-Falisa on 21st Mar 2014. From Baião, take the road to Marco de Canaveses. After about 2 km going uphill, you'll see the signposts "Estações arqueológicas" (which is the last indication you'll see) and "Centro Hípico", both to the right. I give the distances from here.
After 100 m, take to the left : "Centre Hípico". The Centro Hípico will be on your left after 900 m. The asphalted road ends one hundred meters further and here starts the earth road, all right for a normal car.
After 1600 m, in a long cu...
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Anta da Barrosa
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Viana do Castelo)
Visited: Yes on 25th Mar 2014
Anta da Barrosa submitted by Alta-Falisa on 25th Mar 2014. Anta da Barrosa
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Anta da Cerqueira
Date Added: 26th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Aveiro)
Visited: Would like to visit
Anta da Cerqueira submitted by jao on 18th Aug 2009. View from the left of the entrance.
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Anta da Pedra da Orca
Date Added: 7th Jan 2015
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Guarda)
Visited: Would like to visit
Anta da Pedra da Orca submitted by DrewParsons on 8th May 2010. View into the chamber. April 2010.
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Anta de San Gens
Date Added: 2nd Apr 2017
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Portalegre)
Visited: Would like to visit
Anta de San Gens submitted by jao on 18th Aug 2009. Site in Central Portugal: view from the west, which looks like the entrance. that is caused by two broken uprights
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Anta de Santa Marta
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Porto)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2014
Anta de Santa Marta submitted by Alta-Falisa on 26th Mar 2014. Megaliths are more than just stones.
This dolmen, sitting on the top a bare hilltop, with a few trees as sentinels and broom all around, is one of the most striking megaliths in the North of Portugal. Photo : March 2014.
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Anta de Vilarinho da Castanheira
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Bragança)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2014
Anta de Vilarinho da Castanheira submitted by Alta-Falisa on 28th Mar 2014. Anta de Vilarinho da Castanheira.
On the site, this dolmen is still called Pala da Moura (Visor of the Moorish). Such traditional names (Pala da Moura, or Casa do Mouro, etc.) were or are still in use for many megaliths all over Portugal. If quite acceptable locally in a folkloric context, today they lead to confusion.
Photo taken in March 2014.
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Anta do Mezio
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Viana do Castelo)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2014
Anta do Mezio submitted by Alta-Falisa on 24th Mar 2014. Easy to find along the road N.202 going from Soajo (go and see a curious pillory - signposted "Pelourinho"- in the historic part of the village) to Arcos de Valdevez (a nice larger town).
The Information Center of Mezio, providing info about the Parque Nacional de Peneda-Gérês [PNPG] in general, is just off the right of this photo.
Mamoas 5 and 6 are a 300 m walk away (see separate entries).
Photo taken in March 2014.
(Be indulgent : the photo has been heavily edited to soften the ha...
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Arboretum van Groenendal
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Belgium (Vlaams-Brabant)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2014
Arboretum van Groenendal submitted by Alta-Falisa on 17th Feb 2014. The menhir was created by Richard Viandier (1858-1949), probably around 1920, in honour of Alexandre Dubois (1843-1908), General Director of the Waters and Forests Department and creator of the Arboretum.
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Bosullow Quoit
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2014
Bosullow Quoit submitted by Alta-Falisa on 4th Mar 2014. As in May 2011.
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Brunehault
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Belgium
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014
Brunehault submitted by Alta-Falisa on 23rd Mar 2014. Pierre Brunehault, in October 2012.
Signposted along road N.507 (Rue de Tournai), but the signpost is oriented for people coming from the North.
In the middle of fields (on the photo, you can see a heap of beetroots...), therefore in a very calm area.
Over the years, many people have engraved inscriptions in the stone.
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Casiña da Moura
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 11th Mar 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Casiña da Moura submitted by Alta-Falisa on 22nd Mar 2014. Casiña da Moura.
The car doesn't add much to the photo ; it is meant to show how close you can come by car.
The best time for a nice photo would be early morning, when the sun is on the other side.
March 2014.
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Log Text: Casiña da Moura has been re-erected here, somewhat arbitrarily, when the dam was built. The choice isn't very happy. In this scarcely populated region, there would have been plenty of suitable isolated spots on the other side of the dam -- and at respectful distance from Casola do Foxo (see separate entry).
Casola do Foxo
Date Added: 29th Mar 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 11th Mar 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Casola do Foxo submitted by Alta-Falisa on 22nd Mar 2014. Casola do Foxo in Galicia Spain
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Log Text: A superb monument set in an exceptional site, in a thinly populated region. It is indeed far from everything, but really worth a visit, being accessible by car on asphalted roads all the way.
Combestone Tor
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2014
Combestone Tor submitted by Alta-Falisa on 2nd Mar 2014. Comberstone, May 2011.
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D1 Steenbergen
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Netherlands (Drenthe)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Feb 2014
D1 Steenbergen submitted by Alta-Falisa on 22nd Feb 2014. D1 is one of the largest "Hunebed" (chamber tomb) in the Netherlands, Province Drenthe. SEP.2012
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D28 Borger
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Netherlands (Drenthe)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2014
D28 Borger submitted by Alta-Falisa on 4th Mar 2014. D.28 lies just a few meters away from D.29, near the village Borger.
Photo taken in SEP.2012.
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D29 Borger
Date Added: 30th Mar 2014
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Netherlands (Drenthe)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2014
D29 Borger submitted by Alta-Falisa on 2nd Mar 2014. Hunebed D.29.
(D.28 lies just next to it.)
Easy to find, along a road. Car park in front of the site.
Photo taken in September 2012.
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Derible's Twist
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2014
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2009. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Derible's Twist submitted by Alta-Falisa on 2nd Mar 2014. Derible's Twist, in September 2009.
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