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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.
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Log Text: not very deep ditches but steep natural defences to nw.
splendid views across to Liverpool and the welsh hills
Breiddin Hillfort
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Breiddin Hillfort submitted by TimPrevett on 24th May 2004. From the left Breiddin hill (also spellt Breidden) with New Pieces, centre and Moel y Golfa, right. Viewed from the south.
The hillfort on Breiddin hill made national news in July 2000 when the culmination of a decade of diligent deforestation showed the remains of this settlement, hidden for over 1500 years.
At well over 1000 feet above central eastern Powys (formerly Montgomeryshire), not far from the Shropshire border, the fort has a panoramic position. As one would expect, the extremel...
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Log Text: a fair hike to the summit (Rodneys pillar which sadly has been condemned as too decrepid to repair) took me 3 hours and only 1 1/4 to come down. great long distance views from top. the ramparts are mostly in woodland but the main entrance can be seen as the path goes through it. the full size of them can only be appreciated by a visit-they stretch about a mile from NE to SW on the SE side.
quite an awesome build.
Old Oswestry Fort
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Old Oswestry Fort submitted by Bladup on 16th Jan 2016. Old Oswestry, western side looking north.
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Log Text: a massively built enclosure, built in 3 phases from inner upper to outer lower. a sizable fairly level enclosure on top. good long distance views as usual
Bury Ditches (Shropshire)
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bury Ditches (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Feb 2006. A composite of 3 shots, looking south at the eastern entrance of Bury Ditches. John & Lynne K here help give a sense of scale.
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Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mitchell's Fold submitted by Orpbit on 21st Mar 2025. The Lion Roared at Mitchell's Fold stone circle on the Equinox and I roared back. After 14 years of researching the site I finally got the one image I really wanted. Almost perfect weather, yet I was the only one there to observe sunrise on this Spring Equinox of 2025, except for a local couple doing a morning walk, who caught up with me walking down the track back to my car. Pity we didn't bump into each other before the sunrise, as I had spare eclipse glasses too. And for me it beat even Stone...
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Log Text: on a level bit of ground overlooking the severn valley to NW, and positioned between Corndon hill to the south and Stapeley hill to NNE. Has been battered by farmers but has a few stones as original.
Stapeley Hill Cairn
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Stapeley Hill Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. A cairn on Stapeley Hill; see main entry for full details - click on blue text link to the left of the picture.
A composite shot looking towards Corndon Hill, and Mitchell's Fold (out of view).
It was snowing hard at this point on Midwinter Solstice Eve, and even I was questioning my sanity about being in this exposed, beautiful and dramatic landscape.
A biting wind meant I did not stay here for any longer than necessary to get a shot, but on subsequent trips, it will be worth spending tim...
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Log Text: a great little ring cairn right on the ridge, so has views to NW and SE, so would have been very visible on the skyline.
not protected and unfortunately the footpath goes right over it. so is eroding.
someone pretty important could have been buried here
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) submitted by camperman on 31st Aug 2022. An aerial view from the North.
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Log Text: not far to walk from Chapel lawn, but steep. the ditches/ramparts are deep and high and in very good condition. a bit of wow factor. the entrances are well preserved. a sloping site enclosure. well worth the climb
South Cadbury Castle
Date Added: 15th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 1972. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
South Cadbury Castle submitted by PaulH on 12th Mar 2003. South Cadbury Hill fort, Somerset.
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Mature trees cling to the steep hillsides.
Scanned photo from c1995
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Log Text: a great view over somerset levels
Badbury Rings
Date Added: 15th May 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 1971. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Badbury Rings submitted by croppy on 20th Aug 2015. Badbury Rings August 2015
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Moel Ty Uchaf
Date Added: 17th May 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Moel Ty Uchaf submitted by DJMace on 9th Nov 2020. Very nice example of a cairn circle in a spectacular location and well worth the hike. A straight walk up the hill along a rough track after passing through two metal gates. Continue on up and the circle is on left hand side. You won't be disappointed.
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Log Text: Lovely ring cairn with stunning long distance views to nww Fader Goch? and to nee .
On a hill about half way up to the peak at Cader Bronwen on the north west slope.
41 stones from 1 foot to 2.5 ft high. Two gaps with small stones in them maybe had larger ones in once.
The large (fallen?) outlier is to the south west? not ne
A slow slog for an old un from Llandrillo but a great walk -saw some small bouncy deer (maybe muntjac).
Silbury Hill
Date Added: 22nd May 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 1972. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Silbury Hill submitted by MikeyB on 26th Nov 2012. Reflections of Silbury Hill
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Log Text: in the ignorance and folly of youth i was just a passenger in a car passing, betwixt music festivals. we stopped. this was before any fences. I attempted to climb the gradient, and managed about 10 feet. it seemed very precipitous. No-one laughed at my failure to scale the slope as they had attempted nothing. i have no idea who i was with, where i had come from and where i was going. ay. viva la 1971
Lletty'r Filiast
Date Added: 5th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lletty'r Filiast submitted by stu on 14th Oct 2002. Near to the Grt Orme Mine, at the end of Cromlech Road.
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Log Text: the stone cromlech sits at the SE end of a large oval mound about 50m long. the monument is the whole thing, not just the stones at the end
Great Orme Mine
Date Added: 5th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Great Orme Mine submitted by raythemapman on 16th Apr 2009. Site in Conwy (Bwrdeistref Sirol) Wales: Side passage with Malachite Ore in the rock. 10/04/09
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Log Text: a great way to see how people mined copper in the Bronze age. they used fire to break the rock, and must have been expert at ventilation. they also smelted it on site.
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr) submitted by nigeynoo on 24th Apr 2018. The magical Druids Circle taken at night with the Milky Way, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter
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Log Text: A lovely banked stone ring, near another smaller one and a stone 'something'. great views over to Orme head.
Monument 280
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Monument 280 submitted by nigeynoo on 21st May 2018. Monument 280 taken May 20 on a very peaceful afternoon
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Log Text: a clump of rounded stones. not quite sure what this is, but it looks related to the two banked rings
Cefn Coch (Penmaenmawr)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Cefn Coch (Penmaenmawr) submitted by LivingRocks on 26th Apr 2005. Cefn Coch as seen when coming over the ridge from Monument 280.
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Log Text: not as grand as its larger neighbour, but a good example nonetheless
Red Farm
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Red Farm submitted by postman on 24th Nov 2012. Looking over the remnants of Red Farm stone circle to Maen Crwn
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Log Text: didn't look much from the track, but closer it was more convincing. on a small level plateau which is common site
Bwlch y Ddeufaen N
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bwlch y Ddeufaen N submitted by Supersequin on 15th Mar 2025. View looking south in which the pylon is clearly visible.
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Log Text: not far from the car park at end of road (very small single track)
Bwlch y Ddeufaen S
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bwlch y Ddeufaen S submitted by Supersequin on 15th Mar 2025. This is the stone to the left of the path as you travel from Rowen.
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Log Text: a very stately monolith about 8 foot high
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Conwy)
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Conwy) submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Near the path by the Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen stones, is this large cairn. The long grass in the right of the photo has the remaining stones of the chamber.
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Log Text: None