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Browne’s Hill
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Carlow)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1991
Browne’s Hill submitted by ainsloch on 23rd Dec 2016. The immense Brownshill dolmen on a very chilly winter solstice evening
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Log Text: University field trip with the late Prof Marek Zvelebil
Grand Menhir Brisé
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1988. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3
Grand Menhir Brisé submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Grand Menhir Brisé, Locmariaquer.
A megalithic tragedy.
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Log Text: Visited in 1988 during the Brittany project excavations
Maen Ceti
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1988. My rating: Ambience 5
Maen Ceti submitted by PhilipT on 14th Feb 2007.
Maen Ceti, November 2005
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Log Text: None
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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Log Text: None
St Cadfan (Tywyn)
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2020
St Cadfan (Tywyn) submitted by PAB on 28th Aug 2015. Cadfan Stone - lower part of front 'panel'. This is considered to be the earliest known inscription in the Welsh language. Probably early 9th century, but said to be even earlier by some sources...
Sept 2012
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Log Text: None
Croes Faen
Date Added: 19th Dec 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Dec 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Croes Faen submitted by Orcinus on 19th Dec 2020. View from the west
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Log Text: None
Esguan Stone
Date Added: 22nd Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 16th Jan 2021. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Esguan Stone submitted by Orcinus on 18th Jan 2021. Escuan stone voted from the A493 footpath, looking NE
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Log Text: Only visible from the footpath due to fencing
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
Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2009
Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan submitted by Swinside on 21st Nov 2017. One of the pink granite tombs in the Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
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Log Text: viewed from across the Nile
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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Log Text: None
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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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
NT227869
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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Rolleston Cross
Date Added: 13th Mar 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rolleston Cross submitted by Anne T on 21st May 2019. Close up of the stump of the Rolleston Village Cross. Pastscape tells us it once had shields carved into it, although these are no longer visible, and they do not tell us who these belonged to. Dated to the 14th century, the local stocks were once said to be nearby.
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Willow Rundle Spring
Date Added: 13th Mar 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Willow Rundle Spring submitted by HOLYWELL on 17th Feb 2008. Site in Nottinghamshire
The Willow Rundle Spring just found by the road out of Elston
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Lady Well (Ancaster)
Date Added: 12th Mar 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Lincolnshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lady Well (Ancaster) submitted by Tricks on 14th Jan 2020. The spring known as the Ladywell in the woods to the south of Ancaster.
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Honington Camp
Date Added: 10th Mar 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Lincolnshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Honington Camp submitted by darrenmparr on 4th Oct 2012. Approaching the Camp from the east-south-east.
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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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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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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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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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