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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'
Stonehead
Date Added: 12th Aug 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Stonehead submitted by krautrock on 21st Jul 2010. Stonehead, view to the west.
June 2010
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Log Text: just the flankers and recumbent left, in a farm field. can park at road junction-short walk to gate to climb over. impressive sized stones.
Stone of Setter
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 2
Stone of Setter submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. The Stone of Setter is an impressive site, very tall and imposing.
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Log Text: None
Stone 'O Quoybune
Date Added: 30th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stone 'O Quoybune submitted by howar on 25th Jan 2004. Wheebin standing stone , HY253263 Orkney
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Stenness
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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Log Text: None
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
South Sannox
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
South Sannox submitted by Aska on 16th May 2019. Can you recognize the circle?
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Log Text: a lovely little banked circle, on the lower slopes of Goatfell. Leveled with banking to the N- NE. No obvious entrance evident and about 15m diameter. so maybe not a hut circle. or, maybe a hut circle.
South Clettraval
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
South Clettraval submitted by SandyG on 6th Feb 2019. View from east.
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Log Text: Looked south of the cairn uphill to me. A quartzy stone aligned EW
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.
ST628252
Mature trees cling to the steep hillsides.
Scanned photo from c1995
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Log Text: a great view over somerset levels
Sleights Pasture Round Barrow
Date Added: 21st Aug 2025
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sleights Pasture Round Barrow submitted by SumDoood on 7th May 2016. From the roadside, the B6255, Low Sleights Road.
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Log Text: Can clearly see bank and whats left of central mound which could have been 2 or 3 m high? Great location between ingleborough and whernside
Skyreholme (401)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2022
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Skyreholme (401) submitted by rich32 on 1st Feb 2005. Skyeholme, North Yorkshire –SE07338 62489
A small flat rock, close to the track on High Green. The carving consists of 3 grooves & 10+ cups, several of the cups are joined by the grooves.
Referenced ‘401’ in Boughey & Vickermans ‘Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding’.
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Log Text: easy to find, not far off the footpath
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
Skara Brae
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Skara Brae submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Looking out over Bay of Skaill.
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Log Text: None
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
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach
Date Added: 6th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2025. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 2
Siambr Gladdu Caer Bach submitted by SteCymru14 on 13th Aug 2019. Edrych tuag at y safle. Fel y dywedais yn y disgrifiad, mae’r maen capan yn enfawr (wrth gymharu â safleoedd eraill tebyg yn yr ardal hon) ac mae’r pridd naturiol yn dal i’w weld yn ei le gwreiddiol.
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Log Text: hard to discern if this is natural or man made or a bit of both. its a very small 'chamber'
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
Roseness
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roseness submitted by howar on 4th May 2007. western view of North Cairn
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Log Text: This cairn is prominent on the headland, and can be seen from Taracliff bay cliffs to the north east, and from the southern island headlands
Rollright Stones
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Dec 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rollright Stones submitted by Adam Stanford on 16th May 2012. Rollright stone circle with oil seed rape crop, May 2012.
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Log Text: nice on an early winter morning few tourists
Robin Hood's Butts (Stoupe Brow)
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2017
Robin Hood's Butts (Stoupe Brow) submitted by drolaf on 16th May 2017. View from the brow north to Robin hoods bay
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Log Text: None
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