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Carn Euny Village
Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carn Euny Village submitted by AngieLake on 31st Oct 2004. This view over the Carn Euny Settlement was taken in two shots, which are cobbled together to give an idea of how it looked in March 2004. Bec-Zog's pic is similar to this.
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Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by AngieLake on 2nd Jan 2005. This shot shows the huge but low (4.5ft - 1.4m) SE-facing doorway of the Carn Euny 'Beehive Hut' underground chamber, with its own short passage leading into the fogou passage which runs SW/NE, (but snaking here with a flatter, more W/E run), just outside the doorway. It is thought that the Beehive Hut (chamber) was the first structure on this site, so that originally the eastern wall of the fogou passage would not have obstructed the view. It is possible that the sun was meant to shine down t...
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Chapel Euny Well 2
Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chapel Euny Well 2 submitted by AngieLake on 5th Jul 2019. The dappled sunlight made the site even more inviting.
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Log Text: This well is signposted from Carn Euny courtyard house settlement.
Chun Quoit
Date Added: 11th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Chun Quoit submitted by sem on 16th Jun 2005. The capstone and the horizon.
There is a theory that dolmens (or quoits as they are known in Cornwall) were not totally covered in earth but the capstones were left uncovered and were a copy of the horizon. I have manipulated the tones in this shot to show this, but no shapes have been altered.
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Creeg Tol
Date Added: 12th Feb 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Creeg Tol basin submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Mar 2004. This is the Creeg Tol basin (not the Giant's Footprints - they are on a big stone to the right of this).
It struck me that this would be a very suitable ceremonial site, standing here, using the basin to anoint some leader (possibly?), who may have stood on the natural platform just underneath it, (lower right in pic) in sight of Boscawen Un, (top centre) and - looking down upon the tiny Creeg Tol "circle". (Out of sight, below right).
The whole setting has a strange atmosphere. I almost won...
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Sancreed Beacon Barrows
Date Added: 13th Feb 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sancreed Beacon Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 26th Oct 2007. August 2007. View north from Sancreed Beacon, with the northern barrow in the foregound (at grid reference SW41432949)- including the capstone of the cist.
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Sancreed Beacon homestead
Date Added: 13th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Sancreed Beacon homestead submitted by Bladup on 23rd Nov 2013. Sancreed Beacon homestead - some of the stones of this very overgrown homestead with the beacon in the background. It is very hard to get a photo of the site.
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Men Scryfa
Date Added: 12th Feb 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Men Scryfa submitted by BazCross on 22nd Apr 2007. Midsummer dawn at the Men Scryfa standing stone. The oblique angle of the newly risen sun helps pick out the inscription
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Men-An-Tol
Date Added: 12th Feb 2020
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Men-An-Tol submitted by cromagnonman on 6th Sep 2019. Taken on 29th August 2019.
Foreground: 9 exposures of 30 seconds f/8.0 ISO 100
Sky: 300 exposures of 45 seconds f/4.0 ISO 1600
I find something magical about the process of creating a startrail picture. Sitting under the stars for three or four hours with no lights so my eyes have adjusted to the dark so well that I don't need any additional light. Gazing at the vastness of the universe, spotting meteors, satellites, aircraft, all in complete silence. I don't really sleep because ...
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Boskednan stone circle
Date Added: 13th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Boskednan stone circle submitted by JimChampion on 22nd Aug 2005. The portal stones illuminated by the last rays of the setting sun. The tallest one (on the left) has a diagonal groove present on this and the opposite side. The holes that the restored stones were raised from have been covered with pegged down foliage, presumably to encourage regrowth on the bare earth.
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St Piran's Cross
Date Added: 13th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
St Piran's Cross submitted by Thorgrim on 10th Dec 2003. Difficult to find amid the dunes of Penhale Sands, this 8 foot cross stands close to the sand-buried church of St Piran's Oratory. This is the earliest recorded stone cross in Cornwall and is dedicated to its patron saint and that of tinners and miners.
Near Perranporth at SW7720 5646
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St. Piran's Lost Oratory
Date Added: 13th Feb 2020
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
St. Piran's Lost Oratory submitted by AngieLake on 9th May 2019. A sad sight these days, but good to have a record of the tiny Oratory as it was on 3rd May 2019.
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Ligger Point Barrows
Date Added: 15th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ligger Point Barrows submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2014. Ligger Point Barrows.
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Brent Forehill Encircled Cairn
Date Added: 4th Feb 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Brent Forehill Encircled Cairn submitted by davep on 27th Sep 2016. The barrow which sits at the upper terminal of this double stone row is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Rows website, under their "Neolithic Tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon Ball" walk.
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Corringdon Ball N.
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2019
Corringdon Ball N. submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball N, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards along the northern single stone row. Stones of the southern rows and its cairn circle can be seen to the right.
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Log Text: The gorse that previously covered much of the site has now been removed. As a result the row is much easier to see.
Corringdon Ball South
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2019
Corringdon Ball South submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball S, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards over the remains of the southern multiple rows.
hard to pick out much in the picture, but there are the remains of 7 or 8 rows of small stones here.
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Log Text: The gorse has been cleared from most of the row and it is now much easier to see and appreciate.
Piles Hill W
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Piles Hill W submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Piles Hill Avenue, Dartmoor, Devon SX651611 to SX659611
Rainbow over the western end terminal stone.
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Log Text: Car parking location is available at SX 64342 59548. From here head east to the Two Moors Way at SX 65765 59965. Then follow the track north to SX 65388 61077 where it crosses the row.
Drizzlecombe W row
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe W row submitted by Anne T on 15th Jul 2019. In trying to identify this elusive row, Sandy asked members of the group to stand on stones they thought might be part of the stone row. From foreground to background: Janet Daynes, Dave Parks (Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks), Gordon Fisher (just off to the right) and Sandy G. Sandy G is walking down the line of stones. He is planning a return trip later in the year to take a closer look.
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SX 57887 67306. The row is about 1400m east of the car park across open moorland.
Cairn At Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairn At Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4 submitted by Anne T on 16th Jul 2019. The cairn/circular structure near the standing stone, which can be seen just above centre, in the upper right hand quadrant - a grey shape just poking out of the grass. The circular shape of this cairn can be clearly seen. I understand Sandy G intends going back to take a closer look at this area later in the year.
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SX 57887 67306. The cairn is at the upper end of the row which is about 1400m east of the car park across open moorland.
Standing Stone Near Cairn at Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Standing Stone Near Cairn at Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4 submitted by Anne T on 1st Jun 2019. This photo is taken just from the SSW of the stone, showing its north-north-eastern face.
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SX 57887 67306. The stone stands near to the cairn at the top of the row which is about 1400m east of the car park across open moorland.