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Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut
Date Added: 5th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut submitted by AngieLake on 25th Aug 2008. Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut is situated on the east bank of the East Dart river. This photo was taken in the mid-1980s.
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Log Text: Getting down from White Ridge to the river and Beehive Hut is a bit tricky finding the way through the gorse here where it is very rough and largely overgrown, but once down it was easy to find. A splendid little construction and seeing it makes me think I have been here before, possibly on one of those mega expeditions in the 1980's, or perhaps I am confusing it with some of the similar orries in the Ariege Pyrénées. I see my only other person out here on the moors today, well camouflaged and fishing in the Dart, no doubt illegally as he looks very sheepish and hesitant to say hello.
Roundy Park settlement
Date Added: 5th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd May 2022
Roundy Park settlement submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Jun 2022. Roundy Park settlement seen clear on the other side of the East Dart valley from Hartland Tor.
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Log Text: I now try to walk south from the Beehive Hut along the marked bridleway beside the Dart, but its hard going, very rough and largely overgrown, I find it to be much easier higher up on the moorland. South over the top of Hartland Tor with good views south towards Bellever Tor and Roundy Park settlement clear on the other side of the river. Onwards down to the Dart again, through the Hartyland estate to Postbridge, having a look at the old clapper bridge before getting a pint of Jail Ale in the welcoming East Dart Hotel bar.
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle
Date Added: 31st Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle submitted by davep on 19th Aug 2019. The Challacombe Down Cairn Circle, set just to the west of the northern end of this triple stone row. From the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (site 270).
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Log Text: At the bottom end of the Challacombe stone rows, most of the stones are showing white amongst the heather. It is all a bit of a jumble, no doubt many of the stones moved during the extensive mining here, several of which seem to have been placed in surprising positions, with a sort of semicircular feature to one side.
Stannon Newtake West Cairn and row
Date Added: 4th Jun 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Stannon Newtake West Cairn and row submitted by TheCaptain on 8th May 2022. From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I tried to get to the cairn with possible small stone row which is nearby down the hill. However, I could not get through all the chest height gorse and heather to find it. I think I saw the cairn and a couple of the larger stones further down, situated in a cleared area, lower left of this picture
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Log Text: From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I tried to get to the cairn with possible small stone row which is nearby down the hill. However, I could not get through all the chest height gorse and heather to find it. I do think that I saw a couple of the larger stones further down, standing in a cleared area. I later find out that the whole length of the White Ridge stone row has been cleared and links up with these stones, which are possibly the end of that long row.
White Ridge stone row
Date Added: 4th Jun 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
White Ridge stone row submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. White Ridge.
A double row @ SX 6541 8165 167m lg descending the hill from a ruined 8m dia
cairn. 41 stones still show. The cairn is on the skyline when viewed from the
bottom of the row. The end of the row has no obvious termination. The
elevation of the cairn from the bottom of the row is 3 degrees. The true
azimuth of the row is 7 degrees giving a declination of 42. A trawl through
astronomical objects around Bronze Age times suggests that the star Arcturus
would graze the cair...
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Log Text: From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I head north to the boundary wall where it is indicated on the map that the south end of White Ridge stone row is to be found (before it was discovered to run much further down the hill, which I didn't know at the time). Using my GPS I found the correct spot, and saw a couple of possible stones, then looking back south into the newtake, I could see s cleared strip of land going right down to where the cairn I couldn't get to is situated. Walking northwards, I noticed a sort of pathway which I followed, and found a few small stones, then saw a couple standing out against the horizon, confirming I was walking along the line of the stone row. I followed this north up to the top cairn, which is very denuded, but has several stones which can be made out. I have seen the stone row described as "one of the least impressive stone rows on the moor", but it has a few decent sections, and I have visited much worse.
Stannon Newtake cist
Date Added: 4th Jun 2022
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Stannon Newtake cist submitted by TheCaptain on 8th May 2022. Is this an outlier ?
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Log Text: Walk north over Merripit Hill and on via Stannon Newtake to look for this cairn with cist, which is easily found. The cist is a bit overgrown and I can only see one side of it, but the surrounding semi circle of large stones is in fine condition.
Memorial stone to Richard Jefferies and Alfred Williams
Date Added: 18th Apr 2022
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Memorial stone to Richard Jefferies and Alfred Williams submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Apr 2022. On the northern slopes of Burderop Down, Just to the east of Barbury Castle, stands this monument to two local authors, with great views over Swindon and the plains to the north.
Seen here looking east
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Log Text: To the east of Barbury Castle, just below the ridge of Burderop Down, on the northern slopes below the wood and with great views over the plains to the north of the downs, is seen a stone standing. Closer inspection shows it to be concreted in place, and with two plaques mounted on it, as a memorial to Richard Jefferies and Alfred Williams, two local authors, and erected in 1939.
Barbury Castle
Date Added: 18th Apr 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Barbury Castle submitted by h_fenton on 24th May 2010. Barbury Castle (hillfort), an Aerial Photograph taken from the east.
May 2010
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Log Text: Easter visit to Barbury Castle and a walk on bits of The Ridgeway. This is a lovely well defined hillfort with full double ramparts and good views all around. Several other circular features and pits which may be the remains of ancient barrows and relatively modern flint pits. Interesting to see the views north from the ramparts, the old Wroughton airfield now covered with a solar farm.
Barbury Castle Barrows
Date Added: 24th Apr 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barbury Castle Barrows submitted by custer on 30th Jan 2011. On left hand side of the path leading up to the Barbury castle hill fort can be seen a disc shape in the grass. A low mound is also just below this.
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Log Text: Around Barbury Castle are several other circular features and pits, some of which may be the remains of ancient barrows alond with some relatively modern flint pits. Following the Ridgeway west, there is a clear disc barrow on the slopes down from the castle, and some round barrows in the saddle below the hills.
Draycot Foliat Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 24th Apr 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Draycot Foliat Bowl Barrow submitted by HarryTwenty on 7th Jan 2019. The barrow is buried under trees. Looking NE.
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Log Text: Not the nicest of walks along the old Ridgeway which is now a dusty/muddy/rutted gravel farm track, with several bits fenced and rerouted, I eventually get to the first of two barrows marked. On the north of the track is a large overgrown mound, which is well dug by badgers. A bit further east and to the south of the track where the other barrow is marked, there is nothing to see other than a difference in the growth of the yellow flowering rapeseed.
Burderop Down Disc Barrow
Date Added: 24th Apr 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Burderop Down Disc Barrow submitted by HarryTwenty on 4th Jan 2019. Looking NE at the barrow across the ditch. The trees on the right are growing along the top of the bank. The shadow of the nearest one falls down into the ditch and up the other side onto the barrow showing you the slope.
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Log Text: Eventually finding my way back west and up the hill through the recently diverted and fenced pathways, I pass by the large circular ring barrow, now getting a bit overgrown from the other pictures I have seen. Up to the top of the hill and a good view over the site is had.
North Stoke Promontory Fort
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
North Stoke Promontory Fort submitted by Bladup on 10th Jan 2015. The bank and ditch at the eastern entrance of North Stoke Promontory Fort.
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Log Text: A walk round Lansdown battlefields and around the racecourse, making sure to check out the hillfort defences this time, which are more substantial than I remember. Lovely views to south and west, overlooking the Avon valley and watch the birds.
Offa's Dyke at Tidenham Chase
Date Added: 7th Apr 2022
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Offa's Dyke at Tidenham Chase submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Apr 2022. A walk up Offas Dyke from Chepstow to Brockweir, and not hammering down with rain this time, so I got a few snaps. The banks are not built as big as further north, but there is a lot of stone in the construction here, looking more like a wall in places.
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Log Text: A walk up Offas Dyke from Chepstow to Brockweir, and not hammering down with rain this time, so I got a few snaps. The banks are not built as big as further north, but there is a lot of stone in the construction here, looking more like a wall in places.
The Bulwarks (Monmouthshire)
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Bulwarks (Monmouthshire) submitted by byll on 16th Aug 2010. Ditch/slope to the south of the Bulwarks
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Log Text: Walking the Welsh Coast Path route from Chepstow to Caldicot. Remains of a hillfort / camp built by the Silures in the late Iron Age, overlooking the river Wye just to the south of Chepstow. Good views from the corner where the trees are cut back
Thornwell Farm
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Thornwell Farm submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2006. On a housing estate to the south of Chepstow, are to be found the sad remains of a once major neolithic chambered tomb.
It is on a green space between the houses of Fountains Way, and has a very large old oak tree growing on top of it.
Under the tree can be seen remains of a large mound with various rocks sticking out, particularly on the northern side.
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Log Text: Walking the Welsh Coast Path from Chepstow to Caldicot. Remains of a chambered longbarrow on a green area in the housing estate of Thornwell, near to the motorway junction south of Chepstow. Remains of two slab sided chambers can still be seen when the undergrowth is low.
Sudbrook Camp
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Sudbrook Camp submitted by h_fenton on 13th Nov 2012. Sudbrook Camp, viewed from the east.
Kite Aerial Photograph
10 November 2012
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Log Text: Walking the Welsh Coast Path from Chepstow to Caldicot. Remains of iron age fortifications on the banks of the Severn estuary at Sudbrook, beside the railway tunnel pumping station and the landfall of the M4 Severn Crossing on the Welsh side. Lovely looking out to sea when the tide is in, not so lovely looking inland with the houses built so near.
Luckington II
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Luckington II submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Mar 2022. On the southern side of the lane opposite the Giant's Caves longbarrow is the large unkempt raise of the Luckington 2 longbarrow. I didn't go for a root around, and sitisfied myself with a few pics from over the hedge.
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Log Text: Windy grey walk round Badminton estate, then a look at the Luckington long barrows, finishing with a pint at the Old Royal Ship. On the southern side of the lane opposite the Giant's Caves longbarrow is the large unkempt raise of the Luckington 2 longbarrow. I didn't go for a root around, and sitisfied myself with a few pics from over the hedge.
Giant's Caves
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Giant's Caves submitted by thecaptain on 16th Apr 2004. Giant’s Caves, Chambered Tomb, Luckington, Wiltshire, ST820830
Overall view from the south of this fantastic long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, in a field just to the north of a little stream on the edge of the Badminton estate. The initial impression is that it is fairly ruinous, but closer inspection reveals that there is much left here. Although the ends of the barrow appear to have been removed at sometime in the past, the remaining central part show what a large structure th...
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Log Text: A lot of the large trees and overgrowth has gone since I was last here 19 years ago, but its still overrun with brambles etc, and not in a good condition. The remains of three chambers are easily found with large side slabs still in place, but there is also a worrying heap of large slabs piled nearby, no doubt once part of the structures. I didn't do too much delving to see what else I could find.
Hiscocks Hill barrow
Date Added: 8th Feb 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hiscocks Hill barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Feb 2022. Remains of a round barrow on Hiscocks Hill on Fritham Plain Forest heathland.
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Log Text: Walk with friends in the New Forest over heathland through an old bombing range, hunting down a few tumuli. Before we got to the (closed) pub at Fritham, I took a small detour to hunt down what is marked as tumulus on my map.
Irons Well (Eyeworth)
Date Added: 8th Feb 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Irons Well (Eyeworth) submitted by JimChampion on 28th May 2006. January 2006. A view downstream from the chalybeate spring on a dull winter's day. Red ferric oxide precipitates out in the water, giving it a very orangey hue. The waters join a stream which feeds Eyeworth Pond.
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Log Text: New Forest walk with an expected lunch stop at Fritham, but the pub was closed. Leaving we go downhill to a large pond with some serious birdwatchers, before following the stream up the valley passing a muddy area with a fenced off spring with iron rust red water burbling out of it.