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Rollright Stones
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2005
Rollright Stones submitted by JimChampion on 17th Feb 2005. February 2005. A worms-eye view looking north into the King's Men circle. Lovely winter morning sunshine on a somewhat eerie site.
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Round Clump
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Oct 2006
Round Clump submitted by JimChampion on 26th Oct 2006. Round Clump, near Coombe Bissett,
seen from the byway that skirts its western edge. The clump, which is a small wood, hides the long barrow.
(c) Peter Facey and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2005
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum submitted by JimChampion on 30th Apr 2005. March 2005: the front of Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum. The noticeboard features a recommendation from one of Bill Bryson's books: "Salisbury museum is outstanding and I urge you to go there at once."
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Sancreed Beacon Barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 26th Oct 2007
Sancreed Beacon Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 26th Oct 2007. August 2007. View north from Sancreed Beacon, with the northern barrow in the foregound (at grid reference SW41432949)- including the capstone of the cist.
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Sancreed Well
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2006
Sancreed Well submitted by JimChampion on 2nd Sep 2006. There are now two paths to Sancreed Well, this is the end of the older path which approaches from the southeast. The shiny iron railings are part of the landscaping work that took place in the late 19th century when the well and chapel were 'rediscovered' by the vicar of Sancreed. I supposed the remoteness of this site meant that the railings weren't taken for the "War effort" as in so many other places in the U.K. Behind the ferns is a large rectangular moulded fragment of a doorway which has ...
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Scratchbury Camp
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Scratchbury Camp submitted by JimChampion on 22nd Apr 2007. Two-photo composite image of Scratchbury Hill, from Middle Hill to the northwest. The double ramparts are clearly visible, as is the large barrow on the southwestern slope of the hill (to the right of this photo, within the ramparts).
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Scrubbity Barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2008
Scrubbity Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 6th Jan 2008. Looking north-east at the largest of the Scrubbity Barrows. It is nearly 2 metres tall and the mound is very overgrown with brambles and bushes. The other barrows are out of sight on the far side of a deer fence it Scrubbity Coppice. This one is alongside the track/footpath.
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Setley Plain disc barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2006
Setley Plain disc barrows submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2006. View looking north of the lone disc barrow at grid ref SU298998 (diameter roughly 30 metres). The earthworks are noticeable on this open expanse of heathland, but not easy to photograph. Here the low winter sun casts shadows that make the ditch and outer bank visible, and also the mutilated central mound with its covering of burnt gorse bushes.
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Seven Barrow Plantation
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2006
Seven Barrow Plantation submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jun 2006. April 2006. One of the cemetery's round barrows, at grid reference SY64819251. This one has many beech trees growing on it.
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Shirley Holms
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Mar 2005
Shirley Holms submitted by JimChampion on 13th Mar 2005. Looking north at one of the bowl barrows in this group of four. In the foreground is a circle about 20m in diameter, worn into the chalky ground. The circle is striking but not pre-historic: most likely to be some kind of pony training circuit.
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Silbury Hill
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2006
Silbury Hill submitted by JimChampion on 20th Nov 2006. Silbury Hill from the bottom of the path up to the West Kennett long barrow. The autumnal oak on the right usually has 'clouties' hanging from it, there are just a few there at the moment.
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Smitten Corner
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 24th Dec 2006
Smitten Corner submitted by JimChampion on 24th Dec 2006. The two large barrows at Smitten Corner, from the inland coastal footpath. These barrows are easy to spot from the road from Martinstown to the Hardy Monument, and there is a gravel layby close by (next to the Forestry Commission's "Blackdown" sign). This view is from the other side of the barrows, walking along the footpath along the ridgeway from Upwey.
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Southdown (Dorset)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 28th Oct 2006
Southdown (Dorset) submitted by JimChampion on 28th Oct 2006. July 2005. View east towards the most westerly barrow of the group of four, from the gate at the top of the toll road down to Ringstead. Barrow grid reference: SY74678259.
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Spettisbury Rings
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jan 2005
Spettisbury Rings submitted by JimChampion on 10th Jan 2005. A dull day in December 2003. A view of the simple entrance to Spettisbury Rings earthworks (also known as Crawford Castle), as indicated by my assistant.
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Spinsters' Rock
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005
Spinsters' Rock submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2005. 20 August 2004, rainy at noon. This chunky dolmen stands in a field with two sheep and a horse for company (all three animals can be seen in this photo).
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St Augustine's Well (Cerne Abbas)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 28th Dec 2006
St Augustine's Well (Cerne Abbas) submitted by JimChampion on 28th Dec 2006. Springwater leaves the upper rectangular pool over a stone block with a semicircular channel cut into it, the fast flow produces some interesting ripple patterns.
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St Catherine's Hill (Hampshire)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jan 2005
St Catherine's Hill (Hampshire) submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Jan 2005. January 2005. Composite image of the SE side of St Catherine's Hill, viewed from the top of the Twyford Down motorway cutting. Nice view, shame about the noise.
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St Euny's Well (Carn Euny)
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2005
St Euny's Well (Carn Euny) submitted by JimChampion on 25th Aug 2005. Looking down into the dark waters of the well to the south of the footpath. At the bottom of the photo are the stone steps leading down into the well.
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St Joseph's Well
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2006
St Joseph's Well submitted by JimChampion on 12th Aug 2006. Just to show that there really is no other angle on this well... I now realise that if I'd turned the camera the other way the flash would have been less intense on the near (left) portion of the arch. Live and learn. Apparently when the well was baled out during an investigation in 1991 they found hundreds of coins dated 1960 and later, which presumably shows when tourist numbers increased dramatically.
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St Levan's Stone
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2008
St Levan's Stone submitted by JimChampion on 30th Aug 2008. Not wide enough for a packhorse with panniers astride, so the world's not done just yet. Demonstration by the other Dr Champion.
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