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Joan Ford Newtake row
Date Added: 5th Feb 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Joan Ford Newtake row submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Apr 2019. Viewed looking west
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Log Text: Parking is available SX 65092 72766. From here head across the cattle grid and down the road. At SX 64744 72838 turn left and follow the track to SX 63288 71902. Follow the footpath into Joan Ford’s Newtake towards the stones.
Kittuck
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Kittuck submitted by SandyG on 21st Jan 2019. View from south east (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Car parking is available at SS 84543 44569. From here cross the road and enter the field to the west. Follow the track to SS 83382 43897 and then head to the gateway at SS 82609 44240. Then follow the field wall westward to another gate at SS 82416 44289. Pass through the gateway and head south to Three Combes Foot. From here follow the narrow path up the steep slope to the row.
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.
Beorgs of Housetter
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Beorgs of Housetter submitted by howe on 4th Apr 2012. The much reduced remains of the more southerly cairn also known as the Giant's Stones. Only two uprights of the facade are recognisable.
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Log Text: These stones are seen as the remains of a cairn facade. It is possible that this is a stone row with an adjacent cairn. The stone lying in the centre of the cairn may have once stood in the socket to the east.
Trowie Knowe
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Trowie Knowe submitted by howe on 4th Apr 2012. The remains of the more northerly cairn by the side of the road to North Roe. The cairn is about 9 metres across and appears to have the remains of a trefoil chamber.
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Log Text: This cairn is close to the road and is fairly accessible although wellingtons would help keep feet dry.
Broch of Mail
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 4
Broch of Mail submitted by h_fenton on 1st Oct 2014. The possible broch site of Mail is located on the small grassy island.
To get there you have to pass the fierce white guard Ram.
- tip - you might be able to outsmart him by sneaking past when he is at the end of his tether.
30 September 2014
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Log Text: The tide was in and it was not possible to make it across to the island.
Burga Water Dun
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Burga Water Dun submitted by howe on 10th Apr 2012. The remains of the dun on an island in Burga Water.
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Log Text: The dun is clearly visible from the public highway to the south.
Cattapund Knowe cairn
Date Added: 6th Feb 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cattapund Knowe cairn submitted by josvg on 11th Aug 2014. The ruined cairn viewed from the south; on the right so-called planticrubs (= a small enclosure used for growing root crops, preventing e.g. sheep from eating the plants).
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Log Text: Parking is available very close to the cairn.
Clickhimin
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Clickhimin submitted by jbamps on 12th Sep 2005. Remain of a broch near Lerwik (Shetland).
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Clodie Knowe
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Clodie Knowe submitted by SandyG on 7th Feb 2020. View from the east.
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Log Text: Right next to the road.
East Burra Firth Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
East Burra Firth Chambered Cairn submitted by howe on 10th Apr 2012. View of the ruined chamber
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Log Text: Easy access from the nearby road.
Easthouse
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Easthouse submitted by Ogneslav on 7th Oct 2008. A view from W towards Whiteness Voe.
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Gallow Hill chambered cairn
Date Added: 7th Feb 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gallow Hill chambered cairn submitted by josvg on 11th Aug 2014. Close-up of the chamber from the West.
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Jarlshof
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Jarlshof submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. This picture of Jarlshof shows the beautiful setting of the site, and I think the foreground is the bronze age buildings!
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Log Text: A must visit site. There is so much to see - a veritable palimpsest.
Levenwick Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Levenwick Broch submitted by SolarMegalith on 2nd Jul 2015. Interior of Levenwick broch - view from the north (photo taken on June 2015).
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Log Text: Walked here from the campsite at Levenwick. Loads of wildlife and archaeology along the way. Watch out for the arctic terns.
Loch of Houlland
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Loch of Houlland submitted by pab on 28th Oct 2006. The broch at the Loch of Houlland is one of about 120 around the coast of Shetland. It is very close to the lighthouse at Echaness, which must have some of the most spectacular sea scenery in the UK. It would be hard to improve on the description given in the very informative guide I used in Shetland (written by Peter Guy: Walking the Coastline of Shetland, ISBN:1904746179) - "The broch dominates a small promontory which juts out from the NW into the loch. It is an impressive ruin with walls on ...
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Log Text: None
Mousa Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mousa Broch submitted by h_fenton on 18th Dec 2010. Mousa Broch, Photographed August 1967.
U. Fenton
Uploaded with my mothers permission
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Log Text: None
Sumburgh Airport Broch
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Sumburgh Airport Broch submitted by cosmic on 24th Jan 2005. Hearth reconstruction. Photo taken in 1998.
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Log Text: Still feels like a work in progress, but well worth a visit.
Papil Pictish Stone Cross Slab
Date Added: 8th Feb 2020
Site Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Papil Pictish Stone Cross Slab submitted by jeffrep on 9th Aug 2010. Papil Pictish Symbol Stone Replica, West Burra, Shetland, Scotland
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Log Text: The perfect condition relates to the original which is now far away in Edinburgh. The replica unlike some others looks like a replica which is disappointing.
Scord of Brouster
Date Added: 9th Feb 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Scord of Brouster submitted by jeffrep on 28th Jul 2010. Ruins of House 2, Largest Dwelling at Scord of Brouster Ancient Settlement, West Mainland, Shetland, Scotland
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Log Text: Make your way up to the information board at the top of the hill first. From this point you get an overall view of the site.