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Cherhill White Horse
Date Added: 12th Jan 2021
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Ambience 3
Cherhill White Horse submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Cherhill White Horse - the 18th century hill figure located below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on June 2010).
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Goughs Cave (Cheddar)
Date Added: 12th Jan 2021
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987
Goughs Cave (Cheddar) submitted by dodomad on 16th Feb 2018. A forensic reconstruction of Cheddar Man’s head, based on the new DNA evidence and his fossilised skeleton. Photo Credit: Channel 4
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Cheddar Museum of Prehistory
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Ambience 4
Cheddar Museum of Prehistory submitted by theCaptain on 5th Jan 2014. Cheddar Museum of Prehistory at the lower end of Cheddar Gorge.
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Log Text: Visited during a tour of sites in the SW of England 1987
Creswell Crags
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Creswell Crags submitted by dodomad on 15th Feb 2019. The biggest concentration of protective marks ever found in British caves has been discovered at Creswell Crags in the East Midlands. The caves are home to the only Ice Age Rock art in Britain.
The marks, known as apotropaic marks or witches’ marks, are scribed in the walls and ceilings of the caves to ward off evil spirits. Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the Nottinghamshire/ Derbyshire border with history dating back 60,000 years. Enthusiasts, Hayley Clark and Ed Waters from the ...
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Log Text: I was part of the Manpower Services Scheme employed here in 1987-88. I excavated in Pin Hole Cave (1cm spits)
Silbury Hill
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 1987
Silbury Hill submitted by Scanner on 27th Sep 2019. Silbury Hill by Simon Ferguson
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Avebury
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Avebury Aerial 0507 submitted by JJ on 4th Nov 2003. Here's my theory: As you can see, the shadows cast on the western side of the circle point to the exact spot for the next stone in line. Perhaps this is why Avebury is more hexagonal in shape than round.
Based on this assumption, then it would be easy to work out the heights of the missing stones without too much difficulty. Maybe the distance between each stone along this side was calculated not by 'linear measurement' but rather set by the preceding stone and shadow cast.
Obviousl...
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1983. My rating: Ambience 4
Stonehenge. submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Dec 2006. This was at the Winter Solstice.
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Log Text: Spent a week at the Stonehenge free festival in 1983 (had to go 250 miles home & back midway through to cash my giro!).
St Mary's Well (Newstead)
Date Added: 10th Jan 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1983
St Mary's Well (Newstead) submitted by HOLYWELL on 27th Aug 2006. St Mary's Well Newstead
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Linby Cross and Well
Date Added: 10th Jan 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1983
Linby Cross and Well submitted by HOLYWELL on 29th Mar 2008. Site in Nottinghamshire England
The ancient Linby cross near Nottingham.
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Kilcatherine standing stone (west)
Date Added: 14th Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kilcatherine standing stone (west) submitted by GaelicLaird on 9th Jan 2021. Looking south west to Inishfarnard island.
Photo taken December 2020.
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Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Saw from a distance
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2005. Temple of Khnum
Aswan, Elephantine Island.
N24.08419, E32.88660
Built about 1490 BC during the new kingdom.
Khnum (aka: Chem, Kemu, Khem) was the Ram Headed god of Nile Flooding, and husband of Satet with the same functin who has a temple 100 meters to the north.
The picture shows the massive courtyard which originally had a colonnade. The entrance would have had pylons on either side. This site also survived relatively unscathed until about 1830 when Mohamed Ali leveled the place in o...
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Log Text: Viewed from the Nile
Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Date Added: 19th Jan 2021
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by geoffstickland on 5th Jun 2019. these roots would have been several feet underground when the tree was in its prime
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Log Text: The submerged forest and peat beds extend a little further north and can also be seen at low winter tides in Tywyn on the north side of the Dyfi Estuary
Cathair Deargáin cashel
Date Added: 13th Sep 2021
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kerry)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cathair Deargáin cashel submitted by GaelicLaird on 9th Sep 2021. The view to the south west.
Photo taken August 2021.
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Ab Kettleby
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ab Kettleby submitted by enkidu41 on 30th Aug 2004.
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Long Clawson Stone
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Long Clawson Stone submitted by enkidu41 on 14th Aug 2004. Used by kind permission of Bob Trubshaw, from his <a href="http://www.hoap.co.uk/localhis.htm#ILKLR">Interactive
Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland</a> CD-ROM.
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Woundheal Spring
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Woundheal Spring submitted by HOLYWELL on 6th Feb 2011. The plaque reads: "Oundle or Woundheal Spring. This ancient spring, long noted for its healing properties. Repaired in the year 1900”
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Binn (Burntisland)
Date Added: 27th Aug 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Would like to visit
Binn (Burntisland) submitted by Nick on 2nd Nov 2003. Fife
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Neolithic cup and ring carvings were discovered this summer on the Binn, a hill just north of Burntisland. The hill is known simply as the Binn - a volcanic plug, the name is thought to be derived from the Brythonic Bryn - hill, degraded over the years simply to Binn. From the Cowdenbeath road, take the path signposted 'To Standing Stanes Road' (leads to Glassmount stones). Head uphill, over the first stile, cross the field and over the second stile. Bear up on the right han...
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Nybster Broch
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nybster Broch submitted by h_fenton on 20th May 2011. Oblique kite aerial photograph of Nybster Broch viewed from the northwest.
10 May 2011 @ 7.34am
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Lundin Links
Date Added: 27th Aug 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lundin links Standing stones submitted by Andrehudson on 11th Feb 2021. Lundin Links standing stones.
Here we have a night capture
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Warth Hill
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Would like to visit
Warth Hill submitted by Tom_Bullock on 7th Feb 2005. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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