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Boskenna Cross
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Nov 2004
Boskenna Cross submitted by thecaptain on 27th Nov 2004. Close up of the front face of the Boskenna Cross as promised.
Unfortunately it isnt as clear as I would like it to be, but still shows the wonderful charm of the carving I think.
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Bosporthennis Quoit
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bosporthennis Quoit submitted by ocifant on 13th Mar 2004. Bosporthennis (pronounced Bosprennis) Quoit
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Boswarthen Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Dec 2012
Boswarthen Cross submitted by theCaptain on 19th Dec 2012. A very nice wheel head cross.
The southeastern face has an equal armed cross with widening ends, while the lower part of the cross extends down the shaft.
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Botlann Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.437 Date Added: 23rd May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Botlann dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jan 2015. This small dolmen can be found around the back of some new houses at the east of the village of Erdeven
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Log Text: This small dolmen can be found around the back of some new houses at the east of the village of Erdeven, on the road to Ploemel. A 3 metre by 2 metre capstone rests on three supports, with remains of a chamber 2 metres in width. All other remains have gone, but it stands here proudly for the moment, although I suspect that the capstone willl break before too long, looking at the cracks in it.
Bougon Tumulus
Trip No.204 Entry No.134 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Bougon Tumulus submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Oct 2018. Overview of the magnificent Bougon site.
The necropolis plan From the catalogue of the archaeological site of the Musée des Tumulus de Bougon
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Log Text: A magnificent site not far from the town of St-Maixent-l'Ecole, and signposted for miles around. It was about €4 to get in (2005), and this includes everything. I spent more than three hours here, and went back the next day for more, as it had shut before I had finished seeing everything I wanted to, so it was good value. The raison d'etre for this site are the six ancient constructions of the necropolis, of which there are basically 5 tumulus mounds, all of different types, and all close together, which can be visited on a meandering walk around the grounds. With lots of parking and disabled access, there is also a museum built within the archaeological remains of an ancient priory, which is a great place to visit. The displays within the museum concentrate on the late stone age, when man settled down from nomadic hunter-gatherer to become builder and farmer, and all the associated crafts. There are the usual maps and collection of tools, but there is also an interesting display of ancient megalithic art, showing some lovely copies of engraved stones, which culminates in a full size reconstruction of the Gavrinis internal chamber. Outside there are displays of dolmen building, a 40 metre long longhouse based on archaeological finds, Souray sheep, ancient plants..... Everything. This is the best museum of ancient stuff I have been to. This is a must visit place.
Bougon Tumulus A
Trip No.204 Entry No.135 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus A submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Aug 2010. Approaching Tumulus A along the path from the southwest
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus A is a large round mound with a single dolmenic chamber within it. It's a massive dolmen, with a capstone estimated to weigh 90 tonnes on top of a 5 metre by 5 metre chamber 2.5 metres high. It is incredible. It is a pity the french graffitti disease has got here and people are carving onto the stones. Apparently Tony Blair was here in 2002, and has carved his name to prove it... Its also a pity, but the flash and exposure on my camera seems to be playing up.
Bougon Tumulus B
Trip No.204 Entry No.136 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus B submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Aug 2010. Bougon Tumulus B with its two chambers, seen from the southwest.
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus B is a long thin tumulus adjoining A, within which there are two dolmenic chambers, and also two funerary pits in the top. A superb reconstruction has been done here.
Bougon Tumulus C
Trip No.204 Entry No.137 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus C submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Aug 2010. Bougon Tumulus C viewed from the northwest.
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus C another large round tumulus, with a single small chamber within, about 2 metres by 1 metre. The entrance to this is now open, but the original was sealed. Adjoining on the back of this is another large rectangular tumulus with drystone walling.
Bougon Tumulus D
Trip No.204 Entry No.138 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus D submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Aug 2010. Bougon D seems to be more a defining line separating the necropolis into two parts and it winds in a serpent like form between the quarries used to get the stone to build the other tumuli.
It is about 70 metres in length, but only 1 or 2 metres in width and height.
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus D seems to be more a defining line separating the necropolis into two parts. It is about 70 metres in length, but only 1 or 2 metres in width, and it winds in a serpentlike form between the quarries used to get the stone to build the other tumuli.
Bougon Tumulus E
Trip No.204 Entry No.139 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus E submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Aug 2010. Approaching Bougon Tumulus E from the northwest.
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus E is a rectangular shaped tumulus, containing two dolmenic chambers. One of these would have been covered by a large capstone on top of slabs, while the other was almost certainly corbelled.
Bougon Tumulus F
Trip No.204 Entry No.140 Date Added: 15th Aug 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bougon Tumulus F submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2005. Bougon tumulus and dolmen F0.
This is stated to be the oldest known and dated man made building in all the Atlantic facing lands.
Inside the entrance is a round room, roofed not with a large slab, but with corbelling.
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Log Text: Bougon Tumulus F is a wonderfully reconstructed three stage construction. The earliest part, F1 has a small round dolmen within a cairn made of drystone walling with a corbelled beehive roof. This is said to be the oldest dated man made room in the world. Fantastic. F2 is a long thin construction adjoining F1. F3 is another circular construction at the far end of F2 from the F1 cairn. This contains a large dolmenic chamber under a massive capstone, and includes some engravings on some of the side slabs.
Bourtie Pictish Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Bourtie Pictish Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. The chapel is easy to find and there is room to park and just a short walk from there through a wooded area. High up on the south side of the Bourtie chapel, near the eastern end, is this pictish stone built into its wall. Symbols are hard to see, but parts of the carvings can be made out.
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Bout-de-la-Côte Menhir
Trip No.205 Entry No.215 Date Added: 30th Nov 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Languedoc:Lozère (48))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bout-de-la-Côte menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 29th Aug 2006. Bout de la Côte menhir above Le Pompidou village, 3 metres high.
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Log Text: As the Corniche-des-Cévennes passes over the high point to the north of Pompidou, about 1040m high, there is stood to the side of the road this menhir. It stands about 2.3 metres tall and has in its time served as a gatepost, fencepost and snow marker beside the road. But it is still standing proud, with tremendous views all around, particularly towards the southeast.
Bouyé Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.133 Date Added: 10th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Midi:Lot (46))
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bouyé dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2006. To the southeast of Gramat, near the hamlet of Bouyé can be seen the remains of this double dolmen and its little mound.
I could not get into the field for a close look, and thick hedges and trees made making out what is there, and getting photographs difficult.
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Log Text: To the southeast of Gramat, a few hundred metres along the GR.6 south from the hamlet of Bouyé can be seen the remains of this double dolmen and its little mound. Its just to the side of the track, opposite a home with a swimming pool being installed. I could not get into the field for a close look, and thick hedges and trees made making out what is there, and getting photographs difficult. I could however make out that there were some large slabs of stone at the eastern end of a long mound.
Bowda Stone Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 4th Dec 2010
Bowda Stone Circle submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Dec 2010. I had never heard of a stone circle here until I saw the Pastscape entry here, so thought I’d better go and have a look.
Certainly there are a couple of large side set slabs standing on edge here, with others fallen and laying about which could conceivably be remnants of a stone circle.
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Bowerman's Nose
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Bowerman's Nose submitted by Bladup on 25th Apr 2013. Bowerman's Nose.
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Log Text: Drive down from Hound Tor passing Bowerman's Nose, but the sun has now gone, so decide not to go out to the fabulous looking rock column. One for another time. The drive down this little road is splendid, part of it being gated (I'd forgotten the joys of gated roads!), part through a stream bed , some over open common and some through woodland.
Bowerman's Nose
Date Added: 22nd Dec 2022
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bowerman's Nose submitted by cromagnonman on 6th Nov 2021. 'Twilight Huntsman'
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Log Text: Walk up and over the hilltop, then go and have a proper look at Bowerman's Nose, a really fabulous rock outcrop, said to represent the giant hunter turned to stone by a coven of witches. Lots of photo opportunities here!
Bown Hill Long Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Sep 2021
Bown Hill Long Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. Approaching from the riding School/Livery Stables this Long Barrow is impressive.
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Log Text: Fabulous loop walk from Coaley Peak picnic area, starting at Nympsfield long barrow, down through Woodchester Park, back up through the vineyards to Selsey Common, and back along the Cotswold Way through the lovely woodland on the edge of the hills. Hoping to get a glimpse of this longbarrow over a couple of fields, but no such luck or obvious way through towards it, and I have a long way to go so not adding on any extra!
Brac Island
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Croatia
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2004
Brac Island submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Sep 2004. The large Adriatic island of Brac has been continuously populated since Neolithic times with evidence of habitation found in several caves.
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Brackenbury Ditches
Date Added: 25th Apr 2021
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Brackenbury Ditches submitted by Humbucker on 16th Jun 2020. The footpath along the ridge of The West Woods follows the ramparts to Brackenbury Ditches on this section from North Nibley to Wotton Under Edge.
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Log Text: Beautiful sunny morning walk from Wotton-under-Edge, up and over to Waterley Bottom down the valley to join the Cotswold Way and head up through North Nibley and up the steep Cotswold Edge to the Tyndale Monument. Then all along the edge of the hills, through beautiful bluebell, wild garlic and anemone filled woods, taking in the atmospheric old iron age fort of Brackenbury Ditches before out into the open above Wotton, dropping steeply down into the town for a pint in The Star.