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Trefin Modern Stone Circle
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2008
Trefin Modern Stone Circle submitted by h_fenton on 5th Feb 2008. Trefin Modern Stone Circle, I suspect that this prominent nearby standing stone, 330m west at roughly SM828324 is modern too. I have been unable to find any records of it.
To get to it just walk a bit futher west along the coastpath.
(visited 1/4/2005)
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Castell Coch, Trefin
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2008
Castell Coch, Trefin submitted by h_fenton on 5th Feb 2008. outer rock cut ditch of the promontory fort (looking north), the interior of the fort it to the left, on the far right is a modern field wall.
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Dinas Mawr, Pwllderi, Pencaer
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2008
Dinas Mawr, Llanwnda submitted by h_fenton on 5th Feb 2008. Dinas Mawr Promontory Fort from the north east. (photographed from the coast path)
date: 2 April 2005
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Poseidonia Temple of Athena
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Calabria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Feb 2008
Poseidonia Temple of Athena submitted by h_fenton on 6th Feb 2008. Temple of Athena, built around 500BCE and dedicated the Athena. This temple was commonly attributed to Ceres for many years until votive offerings to Athena were found nearby.
The temple has six front columns and Thirteen side columns, these outside column capitals are of the doric type whilst those on the inside were of the ionic type, none of the interior columns are still standing but many fragments of these colums and their capitals were found.
Many terracotta statues representing ...
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Poseidonia Temple of Hera
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Italy (Calabria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Feb 2008
Poseidonia Temple of Hera submitted by h_fenton on 6th Feb 2008. Temple of Hera, this is the oldest temple at Poseidonia / Paestum built from around 550BCE in the doric style.
The interior is split into two naves and with the absence of any religious features this led early historians and archaeologists to suggest that this may be a civil building possibly Roman in date, this led to the temple becoming known as the Basilica. An alter was later discovered just outside the temple, futher discoveries were made of terracotta statues and other offerings which...
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Uffington White Horse
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Feb 2008
Uffington White Horse submitted by h_fenton on 11th Feb 2008. Uffington White Horse and Dragon Hill
Kite Aerial Photo, Very little wind and had trouble keeping the camera aloft
10 February 2008 @12.20pm
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Juego de los Bolos
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Spain (Castilla y León)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2008
Juego de los Bolos submitted by h_fenton on 4th Mar 2008. The cairn from roughly the south
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Cendere Bridge
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 7th Mar 2008
Cendere Bridge submitted by h_fenton on 7th Mar 2008. Cendere Bridge showing the gorge that the river flows out from
12 May 2003
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Serapeum at Alexandria
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 7th Mar 2008
Pompey's Column submitted by h_fenton on 7th Mar 2008. Pompeys Pillar (stands 30metres high) at Serapeum at Alexandria
8 June 2003
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Dragon Hill
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Mar 2008
Dragon Hill submitted by h_fenton on 16th Mar 2008. Dragon Hill, lowlight helping to show the shape of the top of the hill and the chalk pits that have dug into the eastern side of the hill. Also on the eastern side (right) of the top of the hill the grass is longer and less trampled.
26 / 09 / 2004
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Khufu's Pyramid
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2008
Khufu's Pyramid submitted by h_fenton on 18th Mar 2008. Boat Pit at the base of Khufu's Pyramid.
27 May 2003
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Parthenon
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 29th Mar 2008
Parthenon submitted by h_fenton on 29th Mar 2008. One of the better preserved scenes shown on the Elgin Marbles which were removed from the Parthenon in the Early 19th Century. in the British Museum.
South Metope XXXI
Centaur and Lapith tussle like wrestlers. The centaur has his opponent by the throat, while the Lapith attempts to fend him off with a fist and a knee. (Text from display label in the British Museum)
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British Museum
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 29th Mar 2008
British Museum submitted by h_fenton on 29th Mar 2008. The Mold Cape (Bronze Age), in the British Museum.
The Mold Gold Cape found by workmen quarrying for stone in a burial mound in Mold, Flintshire, North Wales in 1833. In the centre of the mound there was a stone lined cist containing an inhumation burial and the cape was found on the shoulders of the skeleton, pieces of sheet bronze were also recovered which may have formed a backing to the gold cape. Additionally in the grave were numerous amber beads, some estimates put the number of bea...
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Knollbury Enclosure
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2008
Knollbury Enclosure submitted by h_fenton on 10th Apr 2008. Knollbury viewed from the south east under different weather conditions. Kite Aerial Photographs.
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Gobustan Rock Art
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Azerbaijan
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Gobustan Rock Art submitted by h_fenton on 8th Jul 2008. Gobustan, Azerbaijan: large panel of petroglyphs depicting humans animals and a snake.
14 May 2008
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Istanbul Amenhotep III Obelisk
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2008
Istanbul Amenhotep III Obelisk submitted by h_fenton on 9th Jul 2008. views of the Marble base below Istanbul Amenhotep III Obelisk, showing crowd scenes at the hippodrome.
the obelisk stands on some metal feet (looks like bronze) on top of this block of marble. in the right photo you can see where some of the hieroglyphics have been truncated when the lower part of the obelisk was removed.
24 April 2008
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Spiral Column
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Carving
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2008
Spiral Column submitted by h_fenton on 10th Jul 2008. Spiral Column in the Hippodrome (Atmeydani) in Istanbul, in the background you can see the nearby Amenhotep III Obelisk
24 April 2008
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Uffington Castle
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2008
Uffington Castle submitted by h_fenton on 21st Jul 2008. The western entrance of Uffington Castle
The inner rampart bank continues around the ends of ditches, flanking the entrance causeway, the bank then joins the counterscarp bank.
Kite Aerial Photograph, 20 July 2008
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Grimspound
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2008
Grimspound submitted by h_fenton on 11th Aug 2008. Grimspound, from the northwest (Hookney Tor). Low level oblique kite aerial photograph. There are a few people on the right side of the photo to help show scale.
Photo taken: 8 August 2008
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Coldwell Bridge Long Barrow 2
Date Added: 25th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2008
Coldwell Bridge Long Barrow 2 submitted by h_fenton on 16th Aug 2008. Coldwell Bridge Long Barrow 2, nothing really to see here, but it does show the proximity of this site to the Ascott-Under-Wychwood Long Barrow with which it is often confused.
Photos taken July 2008
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