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Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton)
Date Added: 19th Jan 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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The Stiperstones
Date Added: 15th Nov 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Stiperstones submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. A cairn just north east of Manstone Rock.
"The Stiperstones" is the name for a hill on the far west reaches of Shropshire, well into The Welsh Marches, overlooking the Welsh border. It is the second highest hill in Shropshire, affording superb views in all directions, and having several bronze age cairns along its ridge.
The cairns themselves, excepting the largest, can be quite hard to locate. At a very reductionist level, they are basically piles of stone amidst a whole ridge of piles of...
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Gawton's Well
Date Added: 1st Apr 2015
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gawton's Well submitted by TimPrevett on 4th Nov 2008. Got around to visiting here yesterday, and it's brilliant. It's only 16 miles east for me, so returning won't be too much of an issue. Very atmospheric woodland and castle like folly neaby too. I wouldn't be surprised if therein lies a connection with the well.
The spring lies within a large circular wall, in varying states of collapse, and within that is an elipse of yew trees - reminiscent of the ring of trees in "Nightmare Before Christmas". If this were Wales I'd start thinking this was th...
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Iken Saxon Cross
Date Added: 23rd Aug 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2015
Iken Saxon Cross submitted by PAB on 23rd Aug 2015. Information board, with sketches and artist's impression.
In case it doesn't come out well, this is the text:
"Saxon Cross"
"Stanley West, then county archaeologist, made an exciting discovery in 1977. A large piece of stone built into the base of the church tower was a piece of an early stone cross. It is decorated with Anglo-Saxon interlace patterns and a mythical beast. Dating from the late 800s to early 900s, it would have been originally about 3 metres high. Such crosses ...
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West Kennet Avenue
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2009
West Kennet Avenue submitted by pab on 31st Aug 2009. Wanton destruction along West Kennet Avenue!
ShropshireTraveller's photo of a snail at Avebury aroused my suspicions, and a walk along the Avenue this weekend seemed to confirm them.
Although most of his/her accomplices were skulking at ground level, this brazen lithovore was still munching away in broad daylight.
It is unclear whether the snails are directly eating the rock surface for their shells, or whether they are dissolving & dislodging the grains to get to tasty morsels inside li...
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Barbury Castle
Date Added: 30th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Barbury Castle submitted by h_fenton on 24th May 2010. Barbury Castle (hillfort), an Aerial Photograph taken from the east.
May 2010
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Silbury Hill
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011
Silbury Hill submitted by pab on 2nd Apr 2011. Silbury Hill, from the path up to West Kennet Long Barrow. The dark sky delivered what it promised - hail stones by the time we got to West Kennet. All this really needed was a rainbow....
Photo taken 28 August 2009
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Devils Den
Date Added: 19th Jan 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Devils Den submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Devils Den Burial Chamber SU153696. The only Dolmen in the area around Avebury.
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Avebury - The Cove
Date Added: 3rd Sep 2015
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2015
Avebury - The Cove submitted by PAB on 3rd Sep 2015. Yum....looks like lunch! This wonderful stone always looks like a huge beast to me from this angle, here looking down in a tasty morsel..
June 2014
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Holy Well (Biddestone)
Date Added: 13th Jun 2016
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holy Well (Biddestone) submitted by KiwiBetsy on 13th Sep 2006. The Starwell is quite a large spring that flows from a slope and into a small stream. If you are lucky you may find one of the tiny star shaped fossils (crinoids) which give the spring one of it’s names. These fossils are freed from the underlying rock by the water, carried to the surface and deposited in the silty bed of the spring. We spent some time sifting about in the icy water (closely watched by a herd of curious cows) but found only a few modern coins, no doubt left by previous visi...
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 12th Feb 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2017
Stonehenge. submitted by PAB on 1st Apr 2017. April 1st......so there were many possible titles I wanted to add! Taken this morning towards the end of a great dawn walk organised by the National Trust around the 'Stonehenge Landscape', with Rangers helping to identify the magical bird song and interpret the sights on a circuit from Woodhenge.
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West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 27th Apr 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2020
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by PAB on 6th Apr 2020. West Kennet Long Barrow,
beautiful texture on portal stone.
Photo taken 19th January 2020
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Avebury
Date Added: 27th Apr 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2020
Avebury - The Cove submitted by PAB on 6th Apr 2020. Avebury - the Cove
As a reminder of when we could visit such delights - hopefully we'll all soon we back out there!
Photo taken 19th January 2020
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La Roque-Saint-Christophe
Date Added: 7th Jan 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Would like to visit
La Roque-Saint-Christophe submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In a gigantic cliff face beside the river Vézère is found this World Heritage Site.
It's an entire troglodytic city which was inhabited continuously from 50000 years ago until a few centuries ago.
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Menhir de la Chapelle Saint-Gildas
Date Added: 26th Jun 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Would like to visit
Menhir de la Chapelle Saint-Gildas submitted by Ogham on 29th Jun 2012. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Crec'h Coulm Menhir
Date Added: 30th Aug 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Would like to visit
Crec'h Coulm menhir submitted by JohnGinny on 2nd Sep 2007. Crec'h Coulm menhir, facing Menez Bres.
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Chapelle de Lannourec stèle
Date Added: 21st Dec 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Would like to visit
Chapelle de Lannourec stèle submitted by theCaptain on 21st Dec 2010. Also below the Chapelle de Lannourec, are several springs and wells. This is obviously a very old sacred place, with its remaining sprngs, and stèle to be seen, as well as the Chapel.
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Ty ar Boudiquet Dolmen
Date Added: 7th Aug 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Would like to visit
Ty ar Boudiquet dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Brennilis Dolmen, an Allee Couvert still partially buried under its mound.
Found just outside the small village of Brennilis, about halfway between Brasparts and Huelgoat in western Brittany
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Guinivrit
Date Added: 13th Aug 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Would like to visit
Guinivrit submitted by thecaptain on 25th Mar 2006. Guinivrit allée couverte.
The remains of this allée couverte clearly show the rise in sea level over the past 4000 odd years. Twice a day it gets a wash.
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St Grouanec well
Date Added: 5th Dec 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Would like to visit
St Grouanec well submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jun 2012. St Groanec chapel, where there are many wells and springs gushing forth.
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