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Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Paris (75))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 1 Access 5
Place de la Concorde Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jul 2005. Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Taken from Egypt and placed in the center of Paris. It originaly stood in front of the temple of Luxor, where its twin remains. Similar to Cleopatra's needle in London, there are more captured obelisks of this kind in Central Park New York or Rome etc. It received a Gold cap on the Pyramidon tip for the year 2000.
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Pompeii
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pompeii submitted by raythemapman on 24th Oct 2009. Vesuvius and Amphitheatre. 1944.
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Rome.
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Rome. Pantheon submitted by Bjorn on 5th Jun 2007. The Pantheon in Piazza della Rotonda in central Rome.
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Sacred Spring, Bath
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Thorgrim on 8th Aug 2004. The hot springs still rise at Bath. Sacred to Sulis long before the coming of the Romans. Tourists stand in awe of the Roman outflow, but that is merely a drain. Here where the hot water bubbles up from the earth is the real mystery.
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Silbury Hill
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Silbury Hill submitted by MikeyB on 26th Nov 2012. Reflections of Silbury Hill
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St Winefrides Well
Date Added: 13th Jan 2015
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Flintshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy on 26th Nov 2004. Outdoor rectangular bathing pool containing the submerged St Beuno’s Stone which can be seen in the photo nearer to the front of the pool than the steps and hand rail in the rear left corner. The well chamber behind the pool is a fine example of late perpendicular architecture creating an almost square crypt covering the wellhead. Around the well, graceful columns rise to support an elaborate vaulted roof which in turn supports St Winifrede’s Chapel above. Once, steps led from the well up...
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 1 Access 5
Stonehenge. submitted by Feanor on 23rd Jun 2011. Inside the Ring
26 October 2010, ~9.30 AM
Shot inside the Eastern edge of the Circle, looking due north.
We have the NorthEast Trilithon on the left with the morning-shadow of Stones 6/7/107 falling across it.
Bluestone 32-C is in the shadow of Stone 6.
It was a lovely morning!
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Swinside
Date Added: 30th Dec 2015
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Swinside submitted by rldixon on 15th Jan 2006. Swinside well worth the walk
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Log Text: Perhaps my favourite stone circle (beating Castlerigg!)
Taormina
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Taormina submitted by KaiHofmann on 3rd Mar 2011. The Taormina Greek theatre.
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Tarquinia
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tarquinia Etruscan Necropolis submitted by AlexHunger on 13th Apr 2009. Site in Toscana, Italy: Stone Sarcophagus from the Tarquinia Etruscan Necropolis now in the Vila Giulia Nazionale Museum. Many of the other sarcophogi from Etruscan tombs that are displayed in Museum were made of ceramics.
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The Burnley Cross
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Lancashire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
The Burnley Cross submitted by Sunny100 on 26th Jul 2010. The Burnley Cross, Lancashire. A 7 foot high Anglian cross heavily worn by centuries of rain and chimney smoke.
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The Frying Pan 1
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2014. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
The Frying Pan 1 submitted by Sunny100 on 31st May 2010. The Frying Pan, Stone Circle/ Ring Cairn, W.Yorkshire, at SD.943253. Detailed illustration of the site.
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West Kennet Avenue
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
West Kennet Avenue submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Nov 2007. Sunrise on the West Kennet Ave 25/11/07.
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West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by song on 23rd Nov 2006. west kennet, sundown, november 2006
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Wicken Hill
Date Added: 14th Jan 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Wicken Hill submitted by Creative Commons on 20th Jan 2015. Circular feature, Midgely Moor
Urnfield enclosure which looks like a large ring cairn seen in centre of photograph.
Copyright LDBrown and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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