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Kemp Howe
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Kemp Howe submitted by nicoladidsbury on 29th Mar 2004. This is the remains of what must have been a beautiful stone circle. The stones are pink granite and have a lovely glow. Unfortunately the ambience has been shattered by the "wonderful" victorians, who built the railway on top of it.
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Log Text: some large lumps of granite-the ring must have been pretty impressive
Casterton
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Casterton submitted by Bladup on 8th Oct 2014. Casterton stone circle.
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Log Text: about 17 stones with a few gaps. stones are only about 12-18 inches high, but quite regularly spaced. It is sited in a relatively level site on a steep hillside, near where a beck starts. Some trouble was taken to level the site, by embanking the eastern side. The site looks out across to the southern Cumbrian heights.
King Arthur's Round Table
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
King Arthur's Round Table submitted by Patrick Frost on 14th Oct 2002. King Arthur's Round Table in Cumbria.
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Log Text: similar in form to the ure henges
Brownthwaite Pike Round Cairn
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Brownthwaite Pike Round Cairn submitted by SumDoood on 27th Oct 2017. Photo by Carol Doughery (taken with a not-smart phone).
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Log Text: lucky with the weather-a fine clear day for the views
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
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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'
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.
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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.
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.
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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