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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
Brinklow Tumulus
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Warwickshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Nov 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P on 11th Jul 2017. A general view of this huge mound
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Log Text: always worth stopping on the way up/down the Fosse way
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
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
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
Dane's Dyke
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2017
Dane's Dyke submitted by drolaf on 15th May 2017. The dyke from the beach at low tide
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Log Text: None
Yarnbury Henge
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Yarnbury Henge submitted by drolaf on 3rd Oct 2018. view SW to Pendle hill
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Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2016
Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn submitted by drolaf on 5th Apr 2016. view west across Swale-Ure valley from Great Ayton
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Log Text: None
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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Thornborough N
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Thornborough N henge submitted by MarionBenham on 4th Nov 2003. N henge Thornborough, despite the trees its easy to see the form of the henge, this pic was taken looking South toward the central henge through the opening in the henge bank.SE281801
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Log Text: None
Devil's Arrows
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Devil's Arrows submitted by Humbucker on 27th Apr 2019. All three Devils Arrows looking from the north. The light improved for a brief few minutes & the sun made a brief appearance while I was there before turning into a flat, grey evening.
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Log Text: None
Swinton Druid's Temple
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Swinton Druid's Temple submitted by Misusawa on 17th Jun 2016. The druids temple (folly) from above
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Carperby Stone Circle
Date Added: 24th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carperby Stone Circle submitted by Bladup on 9th Feb 2013. You can see the Embankment curving around to the right at the ruined Carperby embanked stone circle with Ivy Scar above it.
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Log Text: reminded me of the cockpit up near Orton. Larger stones at regular intervals around the bank. It sits south of the crag, on a sloping platform overlooking the Ure valley southwards.
and there is a small cairn about 50 metres away, between it and the crag. The prominent landmark is Addlebrough hill to the sww.
Yockenthwaite
Date Added: 12th Sep 2021
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Yockenthwaite submitted by DavidRaven on 24th Jan 2004. Stormy weather coming from Langstrothdale Chase in the west.
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Log Text: a lovely little kerb cairn/ring. a delightful walk along the Upper Wharfe, with its water-carved limestone. About 70 metres upstream from the ring is Yockenthwaite 'cave' a small fissure, from which some water issues, and also the eerie sound of an underground waterfall deep in the hillside. I wonder if this was there in the Bronze Age and had something to do with the siting of this ring. and what did they think the sound was? The river here is a disappearing/appearing one, as it discharges into several holes into underground aquifers, leaving downstream a dry bed, until a new water source enters it.
Castle Dykes
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Castle Dykes submitted by rich32 on 7th Jul 2004. Castle Dykes Henge, nr Aysgarth, North Yorkshire (SD98228728)
The henge has a diameter of about 75m with the ditch being up to 2m in some places. There are entrances to the north, south & east, although only the eastern one is thought to be original and of antiquity.
This henge is fairly well preserved, but as seems obligatory with our henges its covered in cow poo. This photo (looking east) does not really do the site justice.
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Log Text: the henge lies on a rise to the east of Addleborough hill, and sits directly between that hill and Pen hill to the east, two very distinctive hills. There are good long distance views to the east (North York Moors) and north to Carperby cairn. No attempt has been made to level the site so it takes the shape of the spur it is on. A small amount of rabbit damage.
Appletreewick
Date Added: 17th Sep 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Appletreewick submitted by andy_h on 14th Feb 2003. Appletreewick Stone Circle, Yorkshire Dales.
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Log Text: a lovely little 6 stone ring, that really demonstrates that the neolithic/bronze age was not all about massive fancy sites involving lots of people. the small sites emphasise the personal, a small group of people enacting possibly the same belief system as elsewhere. The stone hexagon at Fancarl top is a fantastic example of a 6 stoner, the most basic of the form, but the spectacular location gives it gravitas. A larger earthfast plus 5 added stones, three stones are cubic blocks. South is dominated by the hills and crags of Simon seat, and Burnstall fell. Looking west you can see the hillsides of Dumpit stone ring and Yarnbury henge 3 1/2 miles away.