Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
Sites DrOlaf has logged. View this log as a table or view the most recent logs from everyone
Beeston Castle
Date Added: 7th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Beeston Castle submitted by vicky on 7th Jun 2002. The entrance to Beeston Castle in Cheshire where a 13th Century Castle was built on top of an Iron Age hillfort (GR: SJ538592 ). Excavations in 1978 revealed that the Medieval wall of this outer gateway was constructed on top of a prehistoric rampart with external ditch and counterscarp bank.
Prehistoric artefacts including bronze axes and implements, clay moulds and crucibles for casting bronze and a large amount of prehistoric pottery have been on the site of this 4 hectare hillfort.
Be...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: you have to be a tourist for this one-National trust. some deep ditches/high banks. models in the visitor centre show the development of the site from Bronze age -Iron age to medieval. a proper good palimpset. they sell fruit wines and spirits in the shop very yummy. very long distance views from the top.
Maiden Castle (Cheshire)
Date Added: 7th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maiden Castle (Cheshire) submitted by vicky on 10th Sep 2002. The earthworks at Maiden Castle in Cheshire (in the summer!). We will go back again in the winter when the veg has died down.
See main site entry for further details.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: not very deep ditches but steep natural defences to nw.
splendid views across to Liverpool and the welsh hills
Street House Farm
Date Added: 12th Sep 2021
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cleveland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 1 Access 4
Street House Farm submitted by drolaf on 12th Sep 2021. view from the site of the neolithic longcairn/timber portal
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: as with many such sites it is the excavation drawings that tell the story. It sits in a timescale overlapping with the neolithic saltworks, and 1500 years before the nearby timber 'wossit'
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2018
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by drolaf on 5th Aug 2018. long meg and circle. all in good nick and clean site. very easy to spend a whole day here.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Druids Temple (Cumbria)
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2018
Druids Temple (Cumbria) submitted by drolaf on 5th Aug 2018. Birkrigg on a foggy day august 2018
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Castlerigg
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2018
Castlerigg submitted by drolaf on 6th Aug 2018. Castlerigg from the north
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Mayburgh
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by TerryStaniforth on 10th Jan 2007. Panorama at Mayburgh Henge in frost.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Grey Croft
Date Added: 24th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Grey Croft submitted by baz on 7th Feb 2005. An incongruous juxtaposition? Grey Croft Stone Circle and Sellafield Nuclear Power Station.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: a lovely little circle of interesting local agglomerate stones
Gamelands
Date Added: 9th Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Gamelands submitted by LivingRocks on 8th Feb 2005. Photographed in November 2004 with short grass, a superb site even though the stones are all fallen.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Raiset Pike
Date Added: 9th Aug 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Raiset Pike submitted by Bladup on 23rd May 2013. Raiset Pike long barrow.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Not visited by the romantic stone circle tourist, so does not suffer erosion, apart from a few sheep.
Oddendale
Date Added: 9th Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Oddendale submitted by stu on 20th Jul 2002. 592129 NE Lakes Sheet.
Excellent double ringed circle, a must see.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle
Date Added: 9th Aug 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2020. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle submitted by baz on 3rd May 2003. Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle (NY587155).
Ten stones form this small stone circle which is now huddled up against a drystone wall, in a field with a locked gate. On the other side of the wall, there appears to be a stone row.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Howes Well ring cairn
Date Added: 10th Aug 2020
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Howes Well ring cairn submitted by Bladup on 23rd May 2013. Sunbiggin Tarn.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
The Cockpit
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
The Cockpit submitted by LivingRocks on 18th Mar 2005. A panoramic view of the Cockpit Stone Circle which according to Magicmap ‘includes a circular kerbed stone bank 2.8m -11.2m wide and up to 0.5m high which encloses an area approximately 27m in diameter. There are 27 (?) standing and recumbent stones set largely into the internal face of this bank, thereby creating the stone circle. The tallest standing stone measures about 0.95m high and some of the recumbent stones are up to 1.9m in length. Within the eastern side of the stone circle, abuttin...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Nine Standards
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Nine Standards submitted by WindC on 6th Oct 2011. Some are in a precarious state.
May, 2011.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: some boggy bits, and cold up top in september. take a hat and gloves and i suspect the riggs were built for some shelter from the unforgiving wind and rain
Iron Hill North
Date Added: 24th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Iron Hill North submitted by stu on 21st Jul 2002. 596147 NE Lakes Sheet.
10 stones remain on one side of a wall.
First stone on right is limestone the rest granite, this is found also at the Gamelands circle, Gunnerkeld and Iron Hill south a few metres away.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: an underrated site of great interest
Iron Hill South
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Iron Hill South submitted by stu on 16th Jul 2004. NY596 148.
The small, slightly odd circle of Iron Hill South.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: a very interesting site and location
Cow Green Long Barrow
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cow Green Long Barrow submitted by drolaf on 6th Sep 2020. west end of cairn/barrow
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: on private farmland. not especially cared for or neglected. just forgotten.
White Hag Round cairn
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
White Hag Round cairn submitted by postman on 24th Jun 2013. Looking over the wall
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: please do not climb the farmer's stone wall as it is precarious, dangerous and they have enough to do without mending walls all the time. there is a gate just along the way and another gate into the field where the round barrow is.
White Hag
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
White Hag submitted by nicoladidsbury on 29th Mar 2004.
White Hag Hill Stone Circle
The circle has eleven stones, and an outlier. It sits on the hillside above an enclosed area containing earth banks, looking very much like an abandoned hillfort, although there is nothing marked on the OS map. Also a fantastic ancient spring called "Kings Well".
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: when is a circle not a circle that is the question.