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Bryn Cader Faner
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 9th Mar 2004
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by thecaptain on 9th Mar 2004. Bryn Cader Faner.
This is the truly wonderful sight as you approach this cracking circle up the hillside.
On a nice day, there is a lovely walk from Harlech, past Moel Goedog to Llyn Trawsfynydd along an ancient trackway, which passes several standing stones, several cairns and a few circles. This is the pick of them all.
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Buckholt Wood
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Buckholt Wood submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Jun 2011. Fairly easy to find - near entrance to overspill car park for Woodchester Mansion - if you miss the Barrow which is not that conspicuous then look for the Glider Winch at the W end of the Airfield
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Log Text: The remains of this badly damaged Long Barrow with possible Chambered Tomb can today be seen as a slight raise in the ground at the end of the Nympsfield Gliding Club – today to be seen just behind the winching equipment. This site has been badly damaged in the past by ploughing. I found nowhere obvious to park while driving north, and thought I’d come back later in the day, but didn’t. There seems to be a trackway nearby from where a better look could be had.
Buffletizion Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.245 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17))
Visited: Couldn't find on 4th Jun 2005
Buffletizion dolmen submitted by Rubis on 16th Aug 2010. The dolmen can be found in the park of this castle.
It has been excavated in 1903 and pulled up at the same time because it was ruined.
Site in Poitou:Charente-Maritime (17) France
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Log Text: I found Buffetision just to the southeast of trizay, but there were no signs of any dolmen. Perhaps it is in the grounds of the chateau.
Bullring
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2011
Bullring submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Aug 2011. Panoramic view of the Bullring Henge, taken early evening of the open day, and stitched together using ICE.
Not sure how this will work when uploaded to the Portal, but can only try!
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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.
Burford Down Stone Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Burford Down Stone Row submitted by Tom_Bullock on 9th Jul 2002. The Burford Down stone row, one of the finest in
Dartmoor, shows evidence of recent damage by whatever farmer is running
huge tractors across the fields. S(he) has been driving right through
the rows (perpendicular to them) along several tracks. I saw evidence of
at least 3 stones that had been dislodged and pushed aside by the wheels
of the tractor. I don't know if there is a procedure for reporting such
damage, or even if the farmer is liable for such damage. I have never, in my 12 year...
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Burry Lesser
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2013
Burry Lesser submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jun 2013. Burry Lesser standing stone, seen here approaching from the north along the field edge, viewed looking southwest.
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Burry Menhir
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2013
Burry Menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2013. Approaching the stone from the north, heading south along the field edge.
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Burwalls Camp
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Burwalls Camp submitted by theCaptain on 15th Sep 2011. View of the site of Burwalls Camp, as seen from Clifton Down Camp across the Avon Gorge.
In the woods to the right, the steep sided Nightingale Valley, which separates Burwalls Camp from Stokeleigh Camp.
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Log Text: The Burwalls Camp hillfort is one of three iron age forts here probably guarding a ford crossing of the river Avon at the bottom of the Avon Gorge, below where is now the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Now mostly destroyed, with the western end of the Clifton Bridge and massive houses built all over it, a few remnants of the original ramparts can still be seen among the gardens of Burwalls. The neighbouring forts are Stokeleigh camp, just across Nightingale Valley, also on the western side of the Avon Gorge, and Clifton Down Camp on the eastern, Clifton side.
Bury Hill Camp (Winterbourne)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2004
Bury Hill Camp (Winterbourne) submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Mar 2004. Bury Hill Camp, near Winterbourne Down, South Gloucestershire.
View of the ditch and ramparts of the eastern side. The inside of the fort is to the right of this picture
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Butcombe Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Butcombe Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Butcombe Barrow, Butcombe, North Somerset. ST516627
This impressively situated bowl barrow lies just below the top of a hillock near Bicknell Farm, with splendid views south over Blagdon Lake to the Mendip Hills, and west to the sea. The barrow is about 25 metres in diameter, and traces of its external ditch are still clearly visible. Excavations have obviously been made in the past here, and there is the usual hollow in the top.
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Butte de Goassec'h
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2019
Butte de Goassec'h submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Aug 2019. The Butte de Goassec'h is a newly discovered large chambered cairn to the south of Carhaix-Plouguer. Currently (2019) being excavated, it has been rich in discoveries with the update in the butte of a large megalithic architecture containing 3 Dolmens that have not been open for 4000 years!
The archeologist in charge of the excavations is Florian Cousseau. "The results are beyond what we could expect, can't wait for the next few years!"
Picture from france3-regions
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Butte-aux-Houx alignement
Trip No.204 Entry No.84 Date Added: 16th Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Butte-aux-Houx alignement submitted by ocdolmen on 16th Sep 2009. Saint-Gondon menhir
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Log Text: Try as I might, I couldn't find any of these menhirs shown on the ign 1:25000 map. The map shows 5 menhirs lined up along the ridge, but the forest and undergrowth here is very thick, and there are many private keep out signs. Some of the area they are shown in is being bulldozed and flattened, no doubt to make more holiday houses for rich Parisiens. Hopefully none of the menhirs are suffering this fate, but I couldn't be sure.
Before I completely gave up and went back to the van, I tried again from another angle, and eventually found a menhir at N47.836, W0.2812. It's about 3 metres tall and in dense undergrowth, but there was no obvious signs of any of the others.
Butterbrook
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Butterbrook submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Butterbrook Stone Rows, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
On Harford Moor, near the upper reaches of Butter Brook, are the remains of a couple of stone alignments, which are very close together. The easiest to find is a short double row, which extends in a northeasterly direction away from a small cairn.
Just to the north of this is a single row of stones, which crosses beyond the end of the double row.
This is a view looking to the east, with the remains of the double row seen to the right of ...
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Butterdon Down Cairns
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Butterdon Down Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Mar 2019. On the top of Butterdon Hill are remains of several cairns.
Looking southeast with Mardon Down on the horizon.
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Log Text: Being such a beautiful day, I walk up to the top of Butterdon Hill, much of which is covered in Gorse, and it’s a bit of a struggle to get to the actual top the way I have approached it. Once on top, it is obvious that there are remains of several cairns up here, and many more of the ancient boundary type constructions, some of which also have large side set slabs within them. The views from up here are fabulous, and its like being up here on a summer day rather than in February. The sky is all a bit hazy, and its obvious there are several fires burning, I suspect from burning of the gorse and bracken.
Butterdon Down West
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Butterdon Down West submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Feb 2019. Heading around the hillside until I find the stone, my first view of it being nothing like I was expecting, a tall thin curved shape presenting itself to me.
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Log Text: Crikey, an easy to reach Dartmoor standing stone which has no pictures on the Portal, so I'd better go visit it. It's not the easiest place to park at Butterdon, but I find somewhere not blocking anything, and it’s a beautiful spot. Walk westwards up the lovely, almost tunnel like bridleway before getting onto the open downland, and head around the hillside until I find the stone, my first view of it being nothing like I was expecting, a tall thin curved shape presenting itself to me. The stone is taller than me, being just over 2 metres tall, and a nice granite slab, crystals sparkling in the bright sunlight, and a good crop of lichen hair on top.
About 40 metres south from the stone is a fairly large triangular slab standing on edge. A closer look at this, and I am not convinced it is an old standing stone, perhaps more of a large slab once making up part of a reave or boundary, as it looks to be in a fairly straight line of some kind with many more large stones present. Further walking around on this hillide, and it is seen that there are lots of these stones over the place, and fairly obviously many of them being in straight rows with each other.
Butterdon East
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Butterdon East submitted by SandyG on 4th Jan 2019. Eastern stone. A substantial fallen pillar measuring 5m long stands up to 0.56m above the surrounding ground. View from west (Scale 1m).
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Butterdon Hill Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2004. Butterdon Hill Barrow, Dartmoor, Devon SX657594
Large cairn just beside the Butterdon Hill stone row, at the point where the row changes direction as it drops over the edge of the ridge, and at what is the crest of the hill when seen from the north. It is possible that it was once surrounded by a ring of stones, but this cairn has been much altered over the years.
Viewed here looking towards the northwest
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Butterdon Hill Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 5th Aug 2004. Butterdon Hill Cairns, Dartmoor, Devon SX655587
At the summit of Butterdon Hill are two very large cairns, with others to be seen in the vicinity. The southern of the pair, on the actual summit of the hill, has been fairly mutilated, with a trig point and various walls of shelters now built into and around it.
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Butterdon Hill Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Row submitted by thecaptain on 6th Aug 2004. The remains of this fantastic row run for nearly 2 kilometres across the moor in a roughly northerly direction from Butterdon Hill.
The row drops off from the ridge at Butterdon Hill barrow and continues towards the top of Piles Hill. At the lowest part of the slopes, the alignment is pretty well defined.
This view is looking south as the row meanders its way across the lower slopes. On the skyline can be seen Butterdon Hill Barrow, at which point the row reaches the top of the ridge and ...
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