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Balnuaran of Clava SW
Date Added: 23rd May 2024
Site Type: Clava Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Balnuaran of Clava SW submitted by Scotaviaimages on 14th Jan 2011. The Easterly cairn from the Cessna camera plane
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Log Text: gets busy so best to visit early morning/late evening. it was lovely at 6am. by 8 car park was full and there were unofficial 'guides' pontificating to gullible tourists.
Nunwick Henge
Date Added: 12th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2024. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Nunwick Henge submitted by Bladup on 26th Jan 2025. Nunwick Henge (Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Log Text: nout to see of henge parking on a busy road means not worth bothering
Hutton Moor
Date Added: 12th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 1
Hutton Moor submitted by Bladup on 23rd Feb 2025. Hutton Moor Henge (Another wonderful image courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Log Text: on private farmland needs permission. ploughing has smoothed the banks and ditches but gives a good idea of what it was like to be inside this large space
Cana Henge
Date Added: 12th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Cana Henge submitted by Bladup on 26th Jan 2025. Cana Barn Henge, The late afternoon sunlight reveals the henge, To be found near the city of Ripon, North Yorkshire (Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Log Text: nout to see of henge but a decent view over to dales and n y moors. doubts over views in neolithic due to tree cover
Maes Howe
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by howar on 24th Sep 2013. distant Maes Howe ablaze with sun, viewed from the bird hut near the Barnhouse settlement
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Log Text: I visited the mound in 2022 and inside 2023. you aren't allowed to take photos inside.
The tour guide was up to date and covered the neolithic and much later norse visitors and runes. There is a very good article on the passage alignment in the 2023 issue of the Orkney Archaeology review £10.
https://shop.orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/product-category/books/
Their website has lots more info on Maes and Orkney and it is only £15 to join, £10 for pensioners (you get sent the annual review)
Banks Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Banks Chambered Tomb submitted by howar on 17th Jul 2011. Western chamber repaired. not yet excavated to floor level, as can be seen by height of deposits by LH side of pasage
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Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles submitted by cosmic on 20th Feb 2005. Exiting the Tomb
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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Easter Aquhorthies RSC.
June 2010
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Log Text: fortuitous meeting with a geologist there-almost all the stones are of similar igneous, typical 'granite' type. Two are finer grained with striations, and the 'jasper' stone is a very different type, probably slower cooling. Views of the peak of Bennache to WNW.
Tyrebagger
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 3
Tyrebagger submitted by Suncircle49 on 15th Aug 2022. Collection of photos of the recumbent 16-21/6/19: Canmore describes Tyrebagger with ‘a fallen recumbent’, but my first impressions, it’s a ‘Dolmen’. The recumbent and its flanker’s are very different to any existing RSC in Aberdeenshire. Its alternative name DYCE which is very similar to DYSSE meaning ‘Dolmen’. A recumbent on stone mounts…. a Dolmen?
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Log Text: None
Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Loanhead Of Daviot submitted by Suncircle49 on 23rd Aug 2022. 19/06/2019 08.41: A beautiful sunny morning, perfect for flying a drone. The aerial photos showed clearly the shadow in the slit of the recumbent, ending midway along its length. However, what was interesting was the shadows of the standing stones which touched the inner ring of the RSC. The next morning at Easter Aquhorthies I saw similar shadows.
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Log Text: None
Balquhain
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Balquhain submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Balquhain Stone Circle. It's not easy to spot the circles in the field in summertime.
June 2010
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Log Text: the 3.2m quartz outer is an imposing stone. lichen does not seem to grow on quartz, so it is bare rock. The landowner is very proud of it and said that in the full moonlight the stone gleams. it would have been a beacon from afar.
Esslie The Greater
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Esslie The Greater submitted by safesurfer65 on 15th Oct 2015. Esslie The Greater taken from above with a Quadcopter. Taken February 2015.
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Log Text: None
Garrol Wood
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Garrol Wood submitted by hamish on 11th Dec 2005. These stones are the left arc of the circle.
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Log Text: None
Links of Noltland
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG on 17th Jun 2015. Bronze Age house. Note the slab lined tank adjacent to the doorway and the absence of paving slabs around the entrance. (12th June 2015).
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Log Text: the site is covered with old tarp and stones, but a couple of houses you can see the central hearths.
Auchquhorthies
Date Added: 26th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Auchquhorthies submitted by mattchapman on 12th Apr 2012. Looking SE
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Log Text: i parked up the road in an empty farm yard. it's about a km walk from there, along an old track (don't block this). no gates. the site is more overgrown than old photos, but someone cuts the grass now and then. Take care as it is lumpy stones under the long grass. The stones seem to be local rock, as i saw several red granite, quartz and mica encrusted stones in the field walls and clearance dumps. quite an exotic feel.
the stones are verging on monumental. a red granite west and quartz east. the west flanker is quartz and the recumbent's top is a fat quartz vein. other stones are notable for their 'pointy' ness.
Droughduil Mote
Date Added: 21st Jun 2023
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Droughduil Mote submitted by drolaf on 28th Sep 2018. mote from NW
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Log Text: None
Belas Knap
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Belas Knap submitted by drolaf on 1st Jun 2017. Detail of the stonework on the northern horn at Belas Knap which possibly means good view hill.
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Log Text: a mile walk from Cleeve common car park
Rivock
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Rivock submitted by drolaf on 7th May 2017. Pendle hill from Rivock edge rock carvings
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Log Text: limited parking at road
Skipsea mound
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Skipsea mound submitted by drolaf on 15th May 2017. Mound from the south low land
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Log Text: limited parking by gate at road
Rudston Monolith
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rudston Monolith submitted by drolaf on 15th May 2017. Small standing stone 40m NE of monolith. Monolith just visible behind.
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Log Text: short walk from road by church