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Watenan West
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Watenan West submitted by SandyG on 1st Jan 2018. Edge set slab exposed in the side of a peat exposure. The accumulation of peat around the stone confirms its considerable antiquity. View from south east (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Car parking is available at ND 31885 40851. Follow the signposting to the Cairn O’Get. At ND 31523 40988 follow the track north to ND 31713 42049 where Watenan, East can be visited before proceeding to Watenan, West. Watenan, West is only about 400m away to the north west but the ground is uneven and care should be taken to avoid the frequent boggy areas.
Camster Stone Rows
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Camster Stone Rows submitted by Tom_Bullock on 29th Jan 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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Log Text: Road side car parking is available at ND 26223 43579. Cross the road and head towards the wooden stile. Then head for the gap in the trees and follow the forest ride until you reach the clearing at its end. The row is in front of you although it may take a while to locate it depending on the vegetation.
Battle Moss Stone Rows
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Battle Moss Stone Rows submitted by SolarMegalith on 10th Aug 2011. One of the eight stone rows at Battle Moss - view from the west (photo taken on July 2011).
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Log Text: Car parking is available at ND 30598 43565. This car park serves the Loch of Yarrows Archaeological Trail. Follow the path downhill towards the loch passing a broch on your left at ND 30831 43495. Follow the side of the loch to ND 31275 44000 where a gate provides access to the stone row. There are several broadly contemporary archaeological sites in the area which are all worth visiting.
Tormsdale Stone Rows
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Tormsdale Stone Rows submitted by SandyG on 1st Jan 2018. The stone alignment includes mainly small stones, many just peeking through the turf (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Car parking is available at ND 16869 50479. From here follow the wind farm road to ND 15079 49832 then head west towards the row. In 2016 a twin wire electric fence was encountered but was high enough to pass under. Obviously care should be taken and it also best to assume that it is live.
Saith Maen WSW
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Saith Maen WSW submitted by cerrig on 24th Jan 2010. This is looking South. It's a quite overgrown and confused site now. I counted upwards of 20 stones in this "coral", there should be only 8.
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Log Text: Limited parking is available at SN 94788 59199. Be careful not to block the adjacent farm entrance. From here walk north along the path to the row.
Borgie Stone Rows
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Borgie Stone Rows submitted by Tom_Bullock on 12th Dec 2004. 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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Log Text: Limited car parking is available at NC 66181 58635. Follow the road on foot westward to a gateway at NC 65931 58621. This is a surprisingly busy road and care should be taken. From the gateway make your way across open moorland to the row.
Maes Howe
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Maes Howe submitted by SandyG on 19th Sep 2015. View from south east. (7th June 2015).
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Log Text: None
Fresh Knowe
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Fresh Knowe submitted by SandyG on 21st Aug 2015. Fresh Knowe with the Comet Stone behind on the right. (14th June 2015).
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Log Text: None
Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. View from the other side of Loch Harray. (2nd June 2015).
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Log Text: A trully impressive site.
Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by SandyG on 8th Aug 2015. House 2. View from east with Ness of Brodgar in the background. (2nd June 2015).
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Log Text: Well worth visiting.
Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
OS HY306125
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Log Text: Can be viewed from the comfort of your car.
Stenness
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Stenness submitted by SandyG on 10th Oct 2015. Pair of stones reaching together to the sky. (2nd June 2015).
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Log Text: A must visit site.
Rhos y Gelynen Stones
Date Added: 7th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Rhos y Gelynen Stones submitted by TimPrevett on 15th Aug 2008. Three standing stones, two prostrate, and one partially buried lie in a row west-south-west to east-north-east. A long walk for this, good footwear imperative. Best reached by first visiting the stones at Cefn Llanerchi near the masts and aerials, then cutting a line out west to reach a track which runs past them. Any lower approach ends up being horrendously boggy.
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SN 90917 63892. From here head south along the road to SN 90986 63787. Take the footpath on the right leading up the hill and follow this to SN 89877 63570 beside the communications mast. Head south along the track to the row.
Esgair Pen-y-Garreg
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Pen y Garreg submitted by Bladup on 30th Dec 2015. Pen y Garreg, This stone is on the bank of a hut circle inside the settlement.
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SN 91496 67308. From here head north along the road to SN 91537 67370. Take the footpath through the wood to SN 91540 67491. Turn right and follow the track to SN 91724 67394. Turn left and follow track to SN 91148 67705. Follow the footpath up the hill to the row.
Mynydd Dyfnant
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
Mynydd Dyfnant submitted by SandyG on 6th Jan 2019. The largest stone. View from south east (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Limited car parking is available at SH 97909 14324. From here follow the road a short distance west to SH 97809 14424. Head north along the footpath to SH 97994 15215. Enter the forest and head north along forest tracks to the row.
Mynydd Clywedog
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 1
Mynydd Clywedog submitted by SandyG on 6th Jan 2019. View from above and north of the northern length of the row (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Limited road side car parking is available at SH 91262 13047. From here it is possible to carefully cross the busy A458 and follow the farm road to Braich-llwyd and then the track to access land at SH 90203 13770. From here follow the track northward to the row. Alternatively permission to use the track leading north from Braich-llwyd could be sought at the farm or nearby Talglanau.
Lluest Uchaf
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Lluest Uchaf submitted by postman on 15th Nov 2012. Looking north east
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Log Text: Very limited car parking is available at SO 01184 97072. From here head north along the narrow road and footpath to SO 00349 97987. From this point the foorpath is severly overgrown and an alternative route involves headomg west to the access land and joining another footpath at SO 00034 97917. From here follow the footpath to the row.
Harolds Stones
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Harolds Stones submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Jul 2018. Harolds Stones, 3rd July 2018.
They are bigger than I remember them being - perhaps they have grown in this fine summer weather.
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Log Text: Parking is available in the village at SO 50081 05283. From here walk carefully south along the road to the stones.
Gray Hill summit cairn
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Gray Hill summit cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Apr 2004. Grey Hill or Gray Hill, Monmouthshire. Cairn atop hill at ST434936
Right on the top of the hill, with spectacular views all around is the remains of an ancient, but well worn cairn. I could have been imagining it, but did this cairn once have a kerbed ring around it, and some internal structures ?
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Log Text: Car parking is available at ST 42871 93864. From here cross the road and follow the track that starts at ST 42884 93940. At ST 43270 93715 take the footpath leading up the very steep hill. You will know you have arrived when there is no more hill to climb.
Gray Hill circle
Date Added: 6th Jan 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Gray Hill circle submitted by sem on 6th May 2013. Vandalism!
The idiot who sprayed this hand-print probably thought he was being very clever and somehow "enhancing" the work of his ancestors. The sane and sensible among us will view it for what it is, graffiti.
This has been reported to the relevant archaeo trust. Unfortunately I doubt the culprit will be found..... unless anyone knows of someone bragging on a social network site????
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Log Text: Car parking is available at ST 42871 93864. From here cross the road and follow the track that starts at ST 42884 93940. At ST 43270 93715 take the footpath leading up the very steep hill and follow this to ST 43641 93659. Head downhill from here to the row. The kerbed cairn/stone circle can be found at the lower end of the row.