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Lydney Harbour
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2019
Lydney Harbour submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Feb 2019. A modern circle of standing stones, with outliers, constructed between Lydney Harbour and the Severn Estuary.
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Macellum of Pompeii
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2012
Macellum of Pompeii submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jun 2012. A circle of 12 volcanic tuff stones erected in the central Macellum of the ancient city of Pompeii.
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Madacombe
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2006
Madacombe submitted by thecaptain on 27th Sep 2006. Madacombe stone row, Exmoor. Its in there somewhere.
Could I find anything ? No chance !!!! I found nothing at all, wading around in waist deep wet grass and heather. If there are any stones to be found here, they are well hidden under the wet moorland growth. I did however, get soaking wet and a twisted ankle for my efforts !
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Madawg Rockshelter
Date Added: 23rd May 2025
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Madawg Rockshelter submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd May 2025. Heading upstream along the northern side along the river Wye, and on the left the left a bare rockface with various small cave entrances and overhangs.
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Log Text: Heading upstream along the northern side along the river Wye, and on the left the left a bare rockface with various small cave entrances and overhangs.
Madron Well
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jan 2004
Madron Well submitted by thecaptain on 21st Jan 2004. Madron Baptistry
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Madron Well
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Madron Well submitted by Bladup on 9th Aug 2016. The elemental Madron Well.
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Log Text: Despite it being very foggy, I decide I have to visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. When I get to the watery bit by the path, there is not so much tat hanging in the trees as I was expecting, and most of what there is is either real strips of cloth or floral offerings. Despite having a bad foot, and only wearing sandals, I decide I want to try and find the proper well, but soon get beaten with the marshy conditions and my unsteady legs. With nothing to hold on to, at one point I slip, try to adjust my footing onto a duckboard, but that then moves under me and I am down on my ass in the mud and water. Oh well, make the most of it and douse my bad toe in the water. Has to be said that after more than 3 months of not healing, the scar started to turn into a proper scab after this, and was properly healing by the end of the week.
Madron Well
Date Added: 27th Jul 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Madron Well submitted by Bladup on 9th Aug 2016. The elemental Madron Well.
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Log Text: The lovely atmospheric path to the well and baptistry is all that could be wanted, slightly overgrown and gnarled branches with ancient lichen dripping off them. The two areas of water near to the path are as usual decorated with all sorts of stuff, but it is mostly not the junk and tat it was in the past, but sensible cloth and other offerings. Once again, I could not get to the true well, as I could not make my way across the water and through the undergrowth, making me wonder whether I will ever get to it now. I move on to the quiet baptistry, and find that the water no longer flows through it as there has been some breakages in pipe or movement of rocks which direct the stream. As I am leaving and returning to the car, there is a young chap by one of the sites of offerings, wondering what it all is, so I tell him a bit about it, and that there will be more surprises for him if he explores a bit. His comments were something along the lines of "I've never seen anything like it, its amazing".
Maen Castle
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Castle submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Jim's mention of Dr Syntax's head prompted me to search though some of my old pictures this dull damp August afternoon, rather than being out searching for the real thing.
This is Dr Syntax's head, which gives its name to that part of Lands End.
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Log Text: From Sennen Cove, I decide to walk up to the coastguard lookout shelter and on to look at the shipwreck of the RMS Mülheim, wrecked March 2003, the path passing right beside the Mayon Cliff cairn, and with the cliff castle clearly visible the other side.
Maen Ceti
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013
Maen Ceti submitted by theCaptain on 14th Jun 2013. I visited Gower for the first time in 30 years recently. A friend found this picture of me at Arthurs stone all those years ago.
Site in West Glamorgan Wales
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Maen Crwn
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Maen Crwn submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Nice standing stone in field outside Red Farm.
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Log Text: A bit further southwest, and now into an open paddock like area below the farm, and this large stone is stood in the open grass below an avenue of trees. It has a scratches T + J on its southern face, along with other graffitti.
Maen Llia
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 14th Aug 2018. Maen Llia and a Perseid meteorite. I used my influence to book this particular one specially for the Megalithic Portal.
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Log Text: Beautiful day out doing the 4 waterfalls walk to the south of Ystradfellte. After dinner at the New Inn, popped up to visit Maen Llia where we amazingly meet Cerrig, out doing some surveying, but the sun is hidden from him. He takes great pride in showing us some amazing features of Maen Llia, such as the flattened platform with a stone where a shadow would fall, and the place where the stones shadow (or toungue) would reach on solstice sunset. Brilliant!
Maes Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2004
Maes Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Apr 2004. Maes Knoll Hillfort, Norton Malreward, North Somerset, ST600660.
The remains of this Iron age hillfort lie at the eastern end of the Dundry Hill ridge just to the south of Bristol. The hillfort consists of a fairly large flat open area, roughly triangular in shape, that has been fortified by ramparts and shaping of the steep sided hilltop around the northern, eastern and southwestern sides of the hill. The western end of the fort is made across a narrow neck of the ridge of high land, and co...
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Magnez Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.36 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Magnez dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. Magnez dolmen can be found up a little track behind the hamlet of Magnez.
It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway.
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Log Text: Walk up a little track behind the farmhouse to the south of the road as it passes through the hamlet of Magnez (Magné) for a couple of hundred metres and you will see a large stone to the right of the trackway. This is the capstone to the dolmen which is full of holes with plants and flowers growing in them. It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway. It’s a lovely rockery but not much of a dolmen.
Maiden Castle (Eskdale)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 7th Oct 2017
Maiden Castle (Eskdale) submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Oct 2017. Looking east towards Scafell, from the path running from the west of Burnmoor Tarn towards Wasdale.
The Maiden Castle cairn is pretty much central in this picture.
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Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2008. Inspired by Jim's recent pictures, I just had to search out and find this picture I had taken of a barrow cemetery at Maiden Castle, back in 1985 or 6.
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Maiden Hill
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Maiden Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Sep 2021. A large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Devils Tor, looking to head on to Conies Down there seems two choices, either down and up the steep and deep Cowsic valley, or a longer route round the head of the valley further north, which I decide to take. The path is fairly good, and obviously used a fair bit by people on quad bikes, so is easy going except for the odd bit of bog. Onto the top of Maiden Hill, avoiding a large herd of ponies, and look for the cairn in the featureless long grass, finding only a large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath.
Mail de Soupène Cromlechs
Trip No.205 Entry No.67 Date Added: 26th Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Midi:Haute-Garonne (31))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mail de Soupène Cromlechs submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Jul 2007. My little rough sketch plan of the Mail de Soupène Cromlechs.
For my notes of the circles, see the site page details.
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Log Text: Wow ! A bit further down the hill to the east, on a little upland ridge, is a row of stone circles all interlocking with each other. I counted 14 cairn circles up here, sort of joined together in a line along a little hillock. Fantastic. The largest one is on the top of the hillock, and there a row of others running from it down the ridgetop. Then there are other smaller circles built in between the larger ones.
Some of these circles have very well defined cists in their centre - indeed a couple of the smaller, lower circles still have slab lined boxes with both floor and capstones still in place. The top circle has a diameter of 7 metres, and is nicely formed with 23 stones making up the circumference with just a few gaps. There is nice flat grass within but no other obvious features. There are too many circles to write about individually, so I will just list the basic details of the circles I saw in a table below, with numbers matching the little sketch plan.
There is possibly a lot more remains here in the bracken, and not so well defined, and difficult to find.
Maison de la Vieille Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.49 Date Added: 5th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Maison de la Vieille dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Dec 2005. South along the track from Les Pérottes, can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. There is the remains of a dolmen inside.
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Log Text: Further on along the track and to the south of where it crosses a perpendicular trackway can be seen a little wooded area inside a cultivated field. This is just where I had seen the dolmen symbol on the 1:25000 ign map I had earlier looked at in the shop so I went for a look. Having crossed the field to the little copse I found a bramble and bush covered mound the vegetation almost too thick to penetrate. But inside this can be seen a broken capstone about 3 by 2 metres and 0.6 metres thick. There is no obvious chamber or side slabs to be seen underneath but its all a bit of a jumble.
Maison des Fées (Miré)
Trip No.204 Entry No.318 Date Added: 12th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Maison des Fées (Miré) submitted by theCaptain on 13th Dec 2011. Just at the northern edge of the village of Miré, just off the main D.27 road north, and beside a little side road can be found this dolmen.
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Log Text: Just at the northern edge of the village of Miré, just off the main D.27 roadnorth, and beside a little side road can be found this dolmen. It's a tall dolmen with a single capstone covering a squarish chamber of about 3 metres dimension, and over 2 metres tall. With it being right at the side of the road, it cant be sure that it's not been altered at all, and there are some rather large gaps in the stones. There are 4 support stones, two of them being large slabs, the other two fairly slender.
Maison du Loup dolmen 1
Trip No.203 Entry No.111 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Couldn't find on 22nd May 2005
Maison du Loup dolmen 1 submitted by ocdolmen on 7th May 2006. Maison du Loup dolmen (also called Monpazier dolmen), Dordogne, France.
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Log Text: The book I have says this one is 100 metres from the D.2 road near Marsalès at a place called Borie-Neuve so I thought this one was findable and worth a go. I found Borie-Neuve easily enough but no obvious dolmen. So I looked round all the lanes and tracks in the vicinity but still found nothing. There was nobody here to ask so I had a look in the forest here but its all thick undergrowth and there's no way of finding anything without knowing where to look. Why oh why don’t they all have signposts or at least footpaths to them ?