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Penn Beacon NE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penn Beacon SE
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penn Beacon SE submitted by SandyG on 6th Oct 2014. The stone row with china clay workings in the background. View from north east.
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Hook Lake Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hook Lake Row submitted by SandyG on 4th Oct 2014. Dense molinia makes it difficult to photograph this row. This is the length approaching the prehistoric enclosure. The structure on the skyline is a prehistoric round house. View from south.
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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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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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Assycombe
Date Added: 28th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Assycombe submitted by stonedowser on 26th Feb 2002. This view is from the top end of the row looking downhill.
Ian.
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Challacombe rows
Date Added: 28th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988
Challacombe rows submitted by thecaptain on 21st Oct 2004. Challacome Multiple Stone Rows.
A fairly old view from Brian Byng looking up the hill along this triple stone row.
This is how I remember the place many years ago - all very overgrown. I must go back sometime to see if its any clearer now.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
North Stoke Promontory Fort
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
North Stoke Promontory Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2015. Panorama from the north western slopes of the promontory fort. The fort itself on the top of the plateau behind. The scarp of the hill has been shaped.
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Log Text: Having a walk round Lansdown, passed through this hillfort. Didn't notice too much of the internal banks and ditches, but must have walked alongside them for a while! The hilltop edge is very steep, and the views to south and west are supreme. A lovely place to stand and stare!
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.
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.
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.
Thornwell Round Barrow
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Thornwell Round Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2006. About 100 metres to the east of the chambered tomb, the remains of a bronze age round barrow can be found in another green grassy area left between the houses.
The large oak tree growing in the chambered tomb can be seen above the rooftops to the left of centre.
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Log Text: About 100 metres to the east of the chambered tomb, following a footpath up between the houses, the remains of a bronze age round barrow can be found in another green grassy area left between the houses. Its about 10 metres in diameter, and in a few places an occasional stone can be seen to be sticking through the grass.
Thornwell Farm
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Thornwell Round Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2006. About 100 metres to the east of the chambered tomb, the remains of a bronze age round barrow can be found in another green grassy area left between the houses.
The large oak tree growing in the chambered tomb can be seen above the rooftops to the left of centre.
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Log Text: On a housing estate to the south of Chepstow, right beside the Severn Bridge motorway junction from where it can be seen, are to be found the sad remains of a once major neolithic chambered tomb. It is to be found on a green space between the houses of Fountains Way and the back of a shopping area, 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. Closer inspection of the high ground beside the tree reveals what looks to be the remains of a tomb chamber. Several edge set stones are to be seen sticking out of the ground, forming a rectangular structure about 3 metres by 2 metres, with a right angle incorporated – perhaps remains of an entrance and side chamber ? Below the tree the ground drops away quite steeply, and indeed may be the remains of the edge of the tomb, which has been shown to have once consisted of a large drystone wall surrounded structure. Within the rubble in this bank are several large stone slabs, which may once have been part of a side chamber. The stones are the local hard puddingstone type conglomerate of sandstone with gravel in it. When I was visiting, I was not sure whether this was the right place for this tomb, and so asked a local lady. She told me that although she did not know what was there, she had been told that her views would never be spoiled because no new building would ever be allowed on the green space because of some historical site. Excavations here in the past have revealed drystone walling, one main and two side chambers (one with a porthole) plus human bones, pottery, flints etc.
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