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Carl Wark
Date Added: 22nd Oct 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Carl Wark submitted by Vicky on 13th Nov 2001. Carl Wark, near Hathersage, Derbyshire GR: SK260815
The huge dry-stone wall defences at Carl Wark hillfort.
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Camp d'Atilla
Date Added: 1st Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Champagne:Marne (51))
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Log Text: Very impressive in parts. Took a leisurely hour or so to walk round the top of the rampart.
Caesar's Camp (Wimbledon)
Date Added: 19th Nov 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2021. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Caesar's Camp (Wimbledon) submitted by SolarMegalith on 10th Jun 2011. SW part of the earthworks with clearly distinguishable rampart and ditch (photo taken on June 2011).
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Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton)
Date Added: 29th Sep 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton) submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. Caer Caradoc, taken from a northwest angle on a lovely summer's morning. Indeed, this offers some formidable defense. If this were the place of Caratacus' last stand against the Romans, this would have indeed been something difficult to conquer, even by Roman standards. However, there is no evidence to confirm this suggestion.
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Log Text: Another hillfort i've been meaning to visit for some time - and this time it was worth it!! Stiff climb up there,but worth the effort.I don't subscribe to the view that this was the site of Caratacus's last stand but i'm sure that he would have visited this hillfort - a site which must have been used a garrison/forward base against the Romans at Virconium.
Cader Berwyn Cairn 2
Date Added: 26th Apr 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Wrexham)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Cader Berwyn Cairn 2 submitted by postman on 23rd Oct 2012. The cairn thats good at breaking wind. Ahem
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Cadair Berwyn
Date Added: 26th Apr 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Wrexham)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 2
Cadair Berwyn submitted by postman on 23rd Oct 2012. The two cairns surmounting the summit are numbered one and two; two is left , one is right. Oh what a beautiful morning.
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Bury Bank (Staffordshire)
Date Added: 25th Apr 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Mar 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bury Bank (Staffordshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 20th May 2006. The inner platform with trees following the arc of the rampart. Courses of pebbles can also be traced, forming what must have been walls at some period. See main entry for details.
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Log Text: Parked in the car park at nearby pub.(Darlaston Inn),at junction of the A34/A51.Walked up the A51 to footpath on the right,(just after passing Bury Bank farm),this led to the quarry area as described by Tim Prevett.A short walk then to the outer rampart.....protected by a low barbed wire fence.Spent an hour there with the place all to myself.
Best remains are on the West side.
Suggest you vist in Winter or Spring.........lower undergrowth!!
Brenig 8
Date Added: 8th Sep 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Brenig 8 submitted by TimPrevett on 20th Feb 2006. The prominent knoll position of Brenig 8, AKA Waen Ddafad, looking SE across Llyn Brenig. In viewing any pictures of the Brenig Cairns, it must be rememered that the lake is a recent addition.
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Brenig 6
Date Added: 8th Sep 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Brenig 6 submitted by TimPrevett on 20th Feb 2006. The small cairn of Brenig 6. Also reconstructed in situ, with posts denoting where posts contemporary with the cairn were discovered. Its low position in the landscape is puzzling. Most cairns sit high on ridges on spurs with good visibility in at least one direction. This does not. This view looks to the South West, with Maen Cleddau below the ridge.
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Brenig 51
Date Added: 8th Sep 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Brenig 51 submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Feb 2006. The reconstructed Platform Cairn, aka Brenig 51. This magnificent monument was a complete surprise - 26 small stones in a perfect circle, with a 7 metre wide flat cairn ring around, raised a couple feet above the ground. The most unusual cairn I have seen to date. Wonderful. This is a composite of 3 shots, looking to the S over Llyn Brenig.
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Brenig 44
Date Added: 8th Sep 2014
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Brenig 44 submitted by TimPrevett on 31st Oct 2004. The ring cairn and timber circle (reconstructed) on the east shore of the flooded valley, now Llyn Brenig, looking south.
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Branas Uchaf
Date Added: 25th Apr 2014
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Branas Uchaf submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Aug 2003. SJ012375
Impressive mound with the stone chamber still identifiable. For a scale, look to the people on the right.
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Log Text: Awful weather.Easy to find but on a very narrow lane.
Atmospheric site.
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Date Added: 19th Mar 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone submitted by Stefan Spencer on 11th Feb 2004. Bradgate Hunt's Hill Stone
Information required please. Where is this?
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Log Text: Debate over whether this site is a genuine standing stone or something some rogue Boy Scouts erected (if so then i hope they got a badge for it?!).
Very easy to find : 2 to 3 minute walk behind the toilet block as described elsewhere!
Boncyn Arian
Date Added: 8th Sep 2014
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Boncyn Arian submitted by PaulM on 1st Mar 2003. An iinteresting barrow on the shores of Llyn Brenig and part of the archaeological trail.
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Bishop's Wood
Date Added: 11th Sep 2018
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 30th Mar 2018
Log Text: On the scant info available i tried for the best part of 2 hours to locate the site! Using the map references I could find absolutely nothing on the ground ie bank's, ditches etc.
On the way back through the woods and at a different location/map coordinates I did see what could possibly have been the re entrant gully and 2 rather silted up ditches but the rest of the topography didn't fit the Hill Fort description I had. So overall I have to say that I didn't find it!
If anyone out there has any further info as to where exactly to locate this fort - please let me know.
Bishop's Wood
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Dec 2018. My rating: Access 3
Log Text: Tried again to find this site. Thought that by late December the bracken and briars would have died back enough to try to find/access the site -wrong!
Since my last attempt,i've got hold of a copy of the 1965-7 map which clearly shows the Earthwork. However!! 50 years on (unsurprisingly) the minor path (off the forest trackway) leading to/through the earhtworks has been totaly engulfed by bracken/briars.With fallen trees and dense tree growth also obscuring the ground/sightlines it makes the promontory hill fort hard to locate. I know i was closer to it than my last visit but did i actually locate/stand within the hillfort - No!
Very frustrating. Perhaps another visit,once winter has bitten harder.Third time lucky maybe?!
Berth Hill
Date Added: 25th Apr 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Berth Hill submitted by HarryTwenty on 2nd Oct 2022. Victorian aqueduct built into the eastern side of the hillfort to carry water from the spring to the hall and village of Maer (January 2022)
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Log Text: See entry on Berth Hill main page
Berth Hill
Date Added: 4th Apr 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Berth Hill submitted by HarryTwenty on 2nd Oct 2022. Victorian aqueduct built into the eastern side of the hillfort to carry water from the spring to the hall and village of Maer (January 2022)
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Log Text: It's been 3 years since i was last here and this time there was a lot more vegetation to contend with!
On my previous visit it was possible to walk around pretty much the whole of the inner rampart.
This time i reckon that less than 50% of the inner rampart was walkable.Lot's of bracken,fallen trees and unforgiving briars to contend with.
The fine inturned entrance on the S.W side now has large holly tree spoiling part of it.Also,tyre tracks were visible in the entrance on this visit.
With a bit of maintenance this could easily be (in my eyes) the jewel in ithe Crown of Staffordshire hillforts.
Berry Ring
Date Added: 4th Apr 2018
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Berry Ring submitted by TimPrevett on 7th Mar 2007. Between the western ramparts, accessible from the adjoining lane, looking north.
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Log Text: The closest hill fort to home and therefore one that i had never previously visited!
Good remains of the inner rampart ditch and counterscarp bank on the west side - just a few steps away from the modern lane. There is a suggestion that the lane might have been the site of another ditch but i've read that this theory is now discredited.
Also good remains of the rampart on the North side.
No remains left now of the entrance (South side) This was widened out some years ago when marl was being extracted from the interior of the fort. A modern house now spans the gap!
The mid point of the Western defences are also breached by a cottage- How the hell did these 2 propertIes get planning permission?! Shame on those who let them build on an ancient monument.
There is a spring fed pond in the North West corner.From where there are excellent views over to the Wrekin and its hill fort.
Bedd Porus
Date Added: 22nd Sep 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bedd Porus submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Apr 2007. Looking east into the wilderness of The Arenigs.
This is a late Fifth or early Sixth Century Christian memorial stone, removed from its original exact location, but still in the vicinity. It is unusual in being away from any church or churchyard, instead, it is in the wilderness, near ancient routes, both Roman and Prehistoric. (Sarn Helen runs nearby, as well as the huge Llech Idris Menhir). Presented in a caged enclosure, with a crumbling cast of the original (which is in National Museum...
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Log Text: Whilst you can park a lot closer to it,i walked up to it from the Bronaber holiday village (about a 30 minute walk)
The site was overgrown and decaying,with the replica of the inscription not only almost illegible but also with bits of it crumbled away......The word 'Porus' had dissapeared with only the lower part of the 'O' being possibly still there.The middle line was only just legible and i couldn't make out any of the lower line.
The memorial stone (inside it's iron railings) is in a glorious (if not it's it's original)position!
With Llech Idris visible to the southwest,it was still worth visiting Bedd Porus despite it's poor condition.