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Bigland Round
Date Added: 26th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bigland Round submitted by drolaf on 25th Jun 2022. the end slab and partition
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Log Text: These smaller chambered cairns are often ignored but there are several in NE Rousay
Berrybrae
Date Added: 14th Aug 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Berrybrae submitted by cosmic on 19th Oct 2005. Recumbent from outside
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Log Text: getting overgrown with nettles grass etc. dark in summer when the trees are in leaf. the east flanker is cracked and the west flanker in massive. As with other local RSCs the stones and bank include some bright orange/pink granite. in flat rolling landscape no long views.
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
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...
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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.
Barsalloch
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barsalloch submitted by h_fenton on 29th Nov 2010. Barsalloch Promontory Fort viewed from roughly north.
Kite Aerial Photograph
17 September 2010
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Log Text: Iron Age hillfort right in coast with excellent views across to Isle of Man
Barpa Langais
Date Added: 30th May 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Barpa Langais submitted by h_fenton on 25th Sep 2012. Barpa Langais photographed from the South East.
Kite Aerial Photograph
16 September 2012 @ 7.54am
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Log Text: The entrance is still blocked off pending repairs. Continue up to the trig following the way posts. It's not hard and get some brilliant views of Machair and mountains
Barp Reineval
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Barp Reineval submitted by SandyG on 23rd May 2016. View from the south east (28 August 2015).
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Log Text: Capstone 1.5m x 1.8m 0.3m thick plus adjacent stone 1.2m x 0.6 x 0.6 m
views of mountains to east. view west blocked.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue8/cummings/reineval1.html
Panorama
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue8/cummings/qtvr/reinev/reinev.htm
Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Log Text: None
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
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Anglesey)
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Barclodiad-y-Gawres (Anglesey) submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Apr 2004. A look at the dolmen, which is the top of the cruciform section, inside Barclodiad.
As with many dolmens, the capstone almost seems precariously placed.
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Log Text: Enclosed encaged in a mock up like at Newgrange, which is very misleading.
It has guided tours inside at summer weekends you book online. I would rate the guide at 5/10.
The original tomb is quite small, has a similar sized cap on the main chamber as other local chambers. What makes Barclodiad different is its side chambers, and the decorated stones giving a distinct Irish style. No Bronze Age material was found so it seems to be not used later.
Oh, and the passage faces north. Haha.
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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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.
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.
Balnuaran of Clava Centre
Date Added: 23rd May 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Access 5
Balnuaran of Clava Centre submitted by Klingon on 27th Feb 2006.
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Log Text: None
Ballochmyle
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (East Ayrshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Ballochmyle submitted by wolfnighthunter on 13th Apr 2009. Site in North Ayrshire
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Log Text: quite awesome
Baile Meadhonach
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Would like to visit
Baile Meadhonach submitted by Skryabin on 14th Nov 2022. Ruined burial cairn at Baile Meadhonach, Arran
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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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Log Text: None
Avebury
Date Added: 29th Apr 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Avebury - The Cove submitted by Nasher on 21st Jun 2005. OVERALL 1st PRIZE WINNER!
This is Leah's (Creator's niece) submission for * A * Summer Solstice Photo Competition.
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Log Text: None
Augmund Howe
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Augmund Howe submitted by DrewParsons on 18th Oct 2010. PID photo. Sept 2010.
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Log Text: had fulmars nesting in it so i did not disturb them,
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.