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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Apr 2005
Stonehenge. submitted by JimChampion on 4th Apr 2005. 4 April 2005: like something from "The Birds" huge numbers of starlings swoop around Stonehenge and settle on the stones. Some birds of the crow family (not sure which ones) are busy making their nests in holes in the trilithons.
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Northdown (Dorset)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2005
Northdown (Dorset) submitted by JimChampion on 5th Apr 2005. April 2005. The group of round barrows nearest to the ruins of Northdown Barn: those on the highest ground (near a trig point) are 158m above sea level but only 2km from the sea. A spectacularly lofty resting place for any Bronze-ager.
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Broadmayne Bank Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2005
Broadmayne Bank Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 5th Apr 2005. Looking along the 600ft long bank barrow from the E end. Two neighboring round barrows are visible on the right, with Came Wood (home to a Bronze Age round barrow cemetery) on the horizon.
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Gussage Down (North)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2005
Gussage Down (North) submitted by JimChampion on 5th Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking SW at the long barrow from the bridleway with a lot of glare from the springtime afternoon sun. The midwinter sun would set behind it, possibly of significance to the neolithic designers of the Cursus which runs through this site.
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West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2005
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 5th Apr 2005. April 2005. A long picture of a long barrow: composite of three photos showing the West Kennet Long Barrow in silhouette against the spring sunshine.
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Gussage Down (South)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2005
Gussage Down (South) submitted by JimChampion on 6th Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking SW at the Gussage Down southern long barrow from the Jubilee Trail bridleway. The SE end (to the left) is the broadest and the fairly unusual U-shaped ditch is open the the NW end (to the right of the picture). The nearby long barrow which stood within the Dorset Cursus is aligned with this barrow to the NW.
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Wor Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Apr 2005
Wor Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 8th Apr 2005. Looking south at the remains of Wor Barrow. The barrow mound once stood on the flat area enclosed by the excavated ditch, which curves around both ends. The spoil from the 1893-4 excavation has been banked around the ditch, highest (and terraced) on the right of this picture. Across the field to the left, on the other side of the A354 road, is the Bronze Age Oakley Down barrow cemetery. The Wor Barrow would have been very prominent on the landscape when viewed from Oakely Down.
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Knowlton Great Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2005
Knowlton Great Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 9th Apr 2005. April 2005. View of the great barrow from the centre of Knowlton Henge: a dark tree-covered island in a sea of shimmering young wheat. The agriculture in this field has completely removed any remains of the barrow's huge outer ditch (over 100m in diameter) but this can be seen as crop marks under suitable conditions.
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Oakley Down Barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2005
Oakley Down Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 9th Apr 2005. April 2005. A view NW from the Ackling Dyke with round barrows in the Oakley Down cemetery in the foreground and the remains of the Wor long barrow on the horizon (left of the tall round barrow). When the Romans built the Ackling Dyke they drove it straight through the cemetery, over the top of two disc barrows.
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Pimperne Long Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2005
Pimperne Long Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 9th Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking NW at the Pimperne Long Barrow from the A354 roadside. If you are travelling towards Blandford Forum then the barrow is very conspicuous on the right hand side of the road: imagine how eye-catching it was when it was newly built (circa 3000 BCE) and white with chalk.
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Pentridge 3
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2005
Pentridge 3 submitted by JimChampion on 9th Apr 2005. April 2005. This long barrow, aligned on the NE terminal of the Dorset Cursus, has been almost ploughed out of existence. It is just visible as a very low mound occupying the centre of the photograph between the two pairs of tractor ruts. The bank on the left of the photo is the Romano-British Bokerley Dyke, which currently defines the Hampshire/Dorset boundary.
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Pentridge 4
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2005
Pentridge 4 submitted by JimChampion on 10th Apr 2005. Looking north at the Dorset Cursus long barrow, surrounded by trees in Salisbury Plantation. The barrow was incorporated into the NW bank of the Cursus, some of which survives amongst the trees to the SW of this spot.
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Vernditch Chase (South)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2005
Vernditch Chase (South) submitted by JimChampion on 18th Apr 2005. April 2005. Composite view of the western side of the Vernditch Chase (South) long barrow.
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Penbury Knoll
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2005
Penbury Knoll submitted by JimChampion on 20th Apr 2005. April 2005. Composite image of Penbury Knoll (and Pentridge Hill) from Salisbury Plantation to the southwest.
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Thickthorn Round Barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2005
Thickthorn Round Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 22nd Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking east at one of the bowl barrows on Thickthorn Hill, 11m in diameter and just under 1m high, surrounded by a ditch and mutilated by excavation at its centre.
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Thickthorn Down (North)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2005
Thickthorn Down (North) submitted by JimChampion on 22nd Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking northwest at the long barrow immediately to the SE of the western terminal of the Dorset Cursus. The barrow is 47m long, 20m wide with a silted-up U-shaped ditch open at the nearest end.
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Thickthorn Down (South)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2005
Thickthorn Down (South) submitted by JimChampion on 22nd Apr 2005. April 2005. Looking southeast at the long barrow with its traces of a U-shaped ditch (open at the other end). The grass has been recently cut and rolled (the rollers are resting in the barrow ditch on the far side).
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Blagdon Hill tumuli
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2005
Blagdon Hill tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Apr 2005. March 2005. Two bowl barrows on Blagdon Hill. The horse is standing on the bank of Grim's Ditch (whick merges with the smaller barrow) and the individual trees on the far left of the photo are growing on the Bokerley Dyke.
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Bokerley Dyke
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2005
Bokerley Dyke submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Apr 2005. March 2005. Looking south along the sinuous Bokerley Dyke on a misty day with Hampshire on the left (the ditched side) and Dorset on the right. The Martin Down nature reserve is on the left and the field on the right contains the site of the Dorset Cursus northeastern terminal and two long barrows.
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Bokerley Dyke
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2005
Bokerley Dyke submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Apr 2005. March 2005. Looking south along the sinuous Bokerley Dyke on a misty day with Hampshire on the left (the ditched side) and Dorset on the right. The Martin Down nature reserve is on the left and the field on the right contains the site of the Dorset Cursus northeastern terminal and two long barrows.
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