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Feizor Thwaite (Lawkland)
Date Added: 29th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Feizor Thwaite (Lawkland) submitted by drolaf on 29th Aug 2025. once found it's obvious, with a good bank, and a few stones showing. looking south.
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Log Text: easy to miss this grassy ring, but it's just at the fork in the path going over the hill from the high way, and a path going up the hill to dead mans cave.
Located with wide views over the Wenning valley and just north of where there are views south to Pendle.
Feizor Celtic Wall
Date Added: 29th Aug 2025
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Feizor Celtic Wall submitted by rogerkread on 18th Nov 2010. Eastern end of the wall, taken on 30th September 2010, Smearsett Scar in the background. (Photo courtesy of Derek Kay).
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Log Text: The ends seem very distinct so the two sections do not seem to have ever been joined. The large section seems as it was built, the small section is dismantled. It is about the same width as a modern drystone wall at the base but tapers far less. The smaller section is at a slightly different alignment to the main piece.
It IS visible from local paths.
From the path to the north (Dales high way) through the hills, both sections are on the skyline-very prominent. This might explain the difference in orientation of the two sections.
It is also on the skyline when viewed from near the ring cairn (Lawkland) to its west (probably visible from the cairn before the modern field wall was built).
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
Dudderhouse Hill
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Dudderhouse Hill submitted by Dodomad on 1st Aug 2025. Photo Credit: Historic England
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Log Text: On a limestone slope below the brow. Some paired uprights, a small capstone looking stone, and other collapsed areas. Views nw to ingleborough, ne to pen y ghent. Across the valley south is pendle
Black Hill Round Cairn
Date Added: 18th Aug 2025
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Black Hill Round Cairn submitted by rich32 on 3rd Jun 2005. Black Hill round cairn, Black Hill, Low Bradley Moor, North Yorks, SE0087147535
This round cairn is 50meters SE of Low Bradley long barrow. It has a diameter of 30meters by 24meters, with a main north-south axis. There are a number of depressions within the cairn, probably a result of stone robbing.
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Log Text: before it was robbed for stone this must have been a massive pile. the usual awesome hilltop yorkshire views.
Bradley Long Cairn
Date Added: 18th Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bradley Long Cairn submitted by MarionBenham on 20th May 2004. A close up of the cist chamber in Bradley Long Cairn.
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Log Text: a site that retained its importance from neolithic to Bronze age.
Black Hill Ring Cairn
Date Added: 18th Aug 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2025. My rating: Condition 1
Black Hill Ring Cairn submitted by rich32 on 3rd Jun 2005. Black Hill ring cairn, Black Hill, Low Bradley Moor, North Yorks, SE0081447654
This site is hidden under quite thick heather, the only way to spot it is by its banks, which still measure 40cm or so. In this picture the light brown reedy like thing just to the left of centre, is in the centre of the cairn circle.
Once at the site, up the hill & to the south east you can see the remains of Black Hill round cairn. Low Bradley long barrow is just to the east over a rise in the landscape.
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Log Text: can just be seen as a circular thingy. if you didn't know it was there you'd walk right past though.
Capel Garmon
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Capel Garmon submitted by Penbron on 2nd Oct 2020. Pooch on sentry duty at Capel Garmon
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Log Text: A horned cairn with a blind ‘portal’ to the east (see Belas Knap)
The remaining capstone is very large and almost circular. Far more complex than the usual simple single chamber dolmen found locally.
In a stunning location-views to Snowdonia.
It is sturdily fenced off from livestock and on the CADW visit list 10am to 4pm (so no need to ask to visit). I walked up from Conwy Falls café which does a good all day breakfast. A lovely walk on good ground, signposted (diversion).
Moel Goedog Hillfort
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Moel Goedog Hillfort submitted by Postman on 31st May 2016. Best viewed from a distance
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Log Text: brilliant views over the coast and mountains. a gentle stroll after trekking to Bryn Cader Faner the previous day
Dyffryn Ardudwy
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dyffryn Ardudwy Dolmens submitted by Adam Stanford on 24th Feb 2008. Both chamber at night looking south (ish).
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Log Text: The smaller tomb was built first, then the larger one added and a massive cairn put over them. east facing
The hillfort Craig y Dinas is not here.
Rhoslan
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Rhoslan submitted by CoralJackz on 8th Nov 2024. Our attempt to recreate the photograph from the 1950s!
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Log Text: dolmen in a field with quite a few large stones and field clearance.
Bryn Cader Faner
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by CoralJackz on 15th Oct 2024. Visited in 2024
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Log Text: Walked over from below Bryn Bwbach, the valley is amazing. Took a ‘short cut’ at Coetty-maur up to the main path higher up at Y Gym. This path is a bit sploshy but not boggy. The weather was dire grey cold windy wet. I would have liked to stay longer but the wind was just grim.
I counted 26 pointy stones, 2 were next to each other. Seeing it on the hillside is a welcome sight after a long trek.
Presaddfed
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Presaddfed submitted by pab on 25th Sep 2012. Presaddfed, September 2012
Timber support which features in most photos on Portal has now been removed, so the more southerly chamber looks even better.
Delightful location - the walk over the field feels more like a procession, with the chambers looking more impressive all the time.
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Log Text: a pair of dolmens, one collapsed, the other has the capstone on still. a mixture of stone types-thin slate and chunky (dolomite?)
Trefignath
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Trefignath submitted by ericgrindle on 29th Jul 2016. Trefignath - Anglesey Trefignath is a chambered tomb found close to Holyhead. despite its proximaty to the urban environment, lingering as the sun goes down often reveals stunning sunsets. Trefignath is a chambered tomb found close to Holyhead. despite its proximaty to the urban environment, lingering as the sun goes down often reveals stunning sunsets. Image copyright: Eric Grindle (Eric Grindle), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Three tombs built on a rock outcrop. The earliest opened to north, the second and third to the east. Then it was all made into a large mound. With two tall portals at the east.
There are several quartz stones in and around the edge of the horn of the cairn, and the SW stone of the first chamber is a stone of solid quartz.
The site exuded power and kudos.
nice to see another site that supports the idea that cardinality was important
Ty Newydd (Llanfaelog)
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Ty Newydd (Llanfaelog) submitted by SandyG on 17th Dec 2021. View from north west in 1980.
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Log Text: Massive chunky stones the cap looks like a whale it even has a forked tail
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.
Mynydd Bach
Date Added: 12th Jun 2025
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Access 4
Mynydd Bach submitted by guile on 4th May 2010. Small and perfectly formed, this boulder has much to please the eye in Mynydd Bach ring cairn.
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Log Text: an unassuming little ring cairn. in a dramatic coastal location just below the more well known Barclodiad y Gawres
Bryn Celli Ddu
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bryn Celli Ddu submitted by Humbucker on 23rd May 2022. The replica carved standing stone at the rear entrance to Bryn Celli Ddu.
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Log Text: i got to the car park fairly early so managed to get an hour at the site by myself which was lovely.
a woman turned up and started walking round and round looking very serious and superior.
Then some German tourists turned up, had not researched their visit and flew their drone around high and then right down low over us. Really irritating. I was fairly abrupt to them in a very anglosaxon manner. this amused the walking around woman.
At least ask people if they mind being filmed not just film them without asking. very rude and against drone guidance. It's a CADW listed site so has a no drone policy. I could have brought my drone and got some great shots. it seems it is old fashioned to be polite.
so. mixed feelings on the site. great site. and most visitors are respectful.
Bodowyr
Date Added: 11th Aug 2025
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bodowyr submitted by Postman on 14th Aug 2015. january 2010
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Log Text: an easy amble across the field from road layby
Castell Bryn-Gwyn
Date Added: 11th Jun 2025
Site Type: Henge
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castell Bryn-Gwyn submitted by stu on 28th Jun 2002. Castell Bryn-Gwyn Henge. The remaining bank of the henge at Bryn-Gwyn. A farmhouse now occupies the other half.
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Log Text: i parked in a small layby opposite the farm at Cefn Maesoglan, walked down the old pathway past the ponds. absolute magic. my phone app registered a Cetti's warbler!!!!