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Stane Street (Chichester section)
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 30th Nov 2024
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Stane Street (Chichester section) submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 27th Mar 2024. Stane Street Roman Road
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Log Text: Lovely views on a path that runs absolutely straight and appears lined up with Chichester Cathedral Spire. Mind the brambles though!
Chichester City Walls
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 30th Nov 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Chichester City Walls submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 7th Aug 2024. Chichester. Bastion and Wall. South side.
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Log Text: A pleasant city walk. Very little remains of the actual Roman walls, as the structure has collapsed and has been rebuilt through the centuries, but it gives a pretty good idea of what the old Noviomagus would have looked like in terms of size, road network, gates and so on.
The Novium
Trip No.1 Entry No.3 Date Added: 22nd Jan 2025
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
The Novium submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 22nd Jan 2025. "Helmet.
The underlying helmet found within the grave is of a Coolus type. It would have been hammered into shape from a cast rough-out. The helmet rim is decorated with a hatched and punched frieze. A pair of connectors were riveted to either side for a leather chin strap to secure the helmet in place.
Openwork Crests.
These two openwork crests are unique. They were attached to the helmet by means of five mounts, creating a headdress unlike anything discovered previously. The crescent-sha...
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Log Text: Interesting displays offering a very good insight into Chichester's history.
Chichester Amphitheatre
Trip No.1 Entry No.4 Date Added: 30th Nov 2024
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 8th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Chichester Amphitheatre submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 8th Oct 2024. Approaching the site.
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Log Text: Not advertised, probably because all that remains of the Amphitheatre is a rounded mound, and yet it's easy, once there, to imagine what it would have looked like.
The Trundle
Trip No.1 Entry No.5 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Trundle submitted by paulcall on 15th Jan 2007. The ENE entrance (and one of the hideous telecommunications masts situated within the ramparts).
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Devil's Jumps
Trip No.1 Entry No.6 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes
Devil's Jumps submitted by paulcall on 2nd Feb 2007. Site in West Sussex
A panorama of the five bell barrows from the north. (See my comments for a description of the site)
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Devil's Humps Barrows
Trip No.1 Entry No.7 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes
Devil's Humps Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 26th Apr 2008. View north-east along the ridge of Bow Hill from the cross dyke, showing the Devil's Humps barrows. The two barrows on the left are bell barrows, and those further on are bowl barrows.
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Brandy Hole Earthwork
Trip No.1 Entry No.8 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes
Brandy Hole Earthwork submitted by jfarrar on 28th Jun 2017. Iron Age Boundary Dyke
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Graylingwell Earthwork
Trip No.1 Entry No.9 Date Added: 12th Feb 2025
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Graylingwell Earthwork submitted by CoppellaiaMatta on 12th Feb 2025. New playing fields are being built in the park, they reach the edges of the iron age dyke but don't overrun it. I think it would be nice to have some information points to help people understand the landscape they are moving in, as part of the redevelopment.
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London Natural History Museum
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 10th Dec 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2002
London Natural History Museum submitted by dodomad on 3rd Feb 2014. Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Image copyright: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum
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Log Text: ...and it's a gorgeous building!
British Museum
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2003
British Museum submitted by Andy B on 18th Jun 2022. Druidic / Morris procession with carnyx horns which rounded off the British Museum Solstice Late
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Woodhenge (Wiltshire)
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes
Woodhenge (Wiltshire) submitted by Horatio on 12th Oct 2023. Woodhenge early morning drone shot
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Hadrian's Wall
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes
Hadrian's Wall - Milecastle 39 submitted by Horatio on 24th Jun 2023. Milecastle 39 and the Sycamore gap
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Mitchell's Fold
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Mitchell's Fold submitted by w650marion on 21st Dec 2022. Mitchell’s Fold Circle for the setting sun on the winter solstice of 2022.
25 minutes before the event we had torrential rain and dark skies!
But then it cleared and it was quite lovely.
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Cairnholy 1
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes
Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter on 19th Nov 2008. Cairnholy 1
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Cairnholy 2
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes
Cairnholy 2 submitted by Greengirl on 21st Mar 2020. Cairnholy 2 with Megalithic Jess on Spring Equinox
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Ring of Brodgar
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
Ring of Brodgar submitted by sacred23 on 25th Oct 2002. My wife and i visited scotland on a mainly photographic trip of the neolithic sites..lewis, orkneys, kilmartin etc, summer 2002..i shoot 8x10 inch large format B/W negs and am planning on going thru the whole laborious procedure of making platinum prints of the sites...these prints are archival for 1000 years (i kid u not)...i'm doing these for my own walls but wondering if there is any interest from the community for me to do a limited series or something..email me at [email protected] if...
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Stenness
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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The Orkney Museum
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
The Orkney Museum submitted by jeffrep on 5th Aug 2010. Fragment of a Pictish symbol stone with a sea horse symbol found on the Mainland of Orkney, Scotland.
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Stonehenge.
Trip No.2 Entry No.3 Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes
Stonehenge. submitted by JimChampion on 11th Jan 2009. July 2005. Stonehenge and visitors from the verge of the A303 road.
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