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Stanton Drew
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 11th Dec 2017
Stanton Drew submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Dec 2017. Stanton Drew siteplan, from English Heritage
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Stannon stone setting
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2005
Stannon stone setting submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Mar 2005. Stannon stone circle seen looking southeastwards from the strange little row of four outliers at SX12518007.
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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.
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.
Stannon circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2005
Stannon stone setting submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Mar 2005. Stannon stone circle seen looking southeastwards from the strange little row of four outliers at SX12518007.
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Stannon cairn
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2005
Stannon cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Mar 2005. Cairn circle just east of Stannon Circle on Bodmin Moor.
View looking south westwards at this cairn circle which I found while walking back to my car from Fernacre. A fine set of teeth it has.
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Stalldon Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2006
Stalldon Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Sep 2006. Myself stood beside the northern stones of Stalldon Row in order to give some scale.
These stones on the top of the hill can be seen from miles away, and look like some lonely hikers at first, until you realise thay are not moving.
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Stall Moor circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2006
Stall Moor circle submitted by thecaptain on 14th Aug 2006. Kiss-in-the-Ring stone circle, seen here looking south, with the southern end of the longest known prehistoric stone row (more than 3 km in length) leading to it in the foreground.
In the distance of the picture is Stalldown Barrow hill, with the wonderful Stalldon Row marching over its summit, which can be seen clearly in real life.
The river Erme valley is to the left of the picture.
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St-Pierre-Quiberon Alignement
Trip No.203 Entry No.417 Date Added: 21st May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St-Pierre-Quiberon Alignement submitted by thecaptain on 12th Jun 2006. Out on the Quiberon Peninsula, near to the Kerbourgnec cromlech, and towards the town centre and the sea can be found a pleasant little park with the remains of these alignements in it.
The notice says that there are 23 stones in 5 parallel rows, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were many more dotted about in peoples gardens.
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Log Text: Just beyond the cromlech, and towards the town centre and the sea can be found a pleasant little park with the remains of these alignements in it. The notice says that there are 23 stones in 5 parallel rows, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were many more dotted about in peoples gardens.
The stones are of all shapes and sizes, up to 4 metres tall. There's a lovely curved "sharks fin" in front of me as I sit and write this, and a diamond to my right. These stones are wonderful, and its lovely to be able to just sit amongst them. Supposedly the lines travel further down and out into the sea, remains of which can be seen at very low tides.
I followed the little lane down to the beach and the sea, and the tide was well out. There seemed to me to be several very clear lines of rocks stretching out into the sea in parallel rows. The earth and soil has obviously been washed away from around the rocks, and they now just sit on the rocky seabed, but lines of them there definitely are. I believe I can see at least seven rows of rocks from where I sit on the bottom of the steps down to the beach. Fantastic! But I'll bet they dont show up well in my pictures though.
St-Malo-de-la-Lande menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2007
St-Malo-de-la-Lande menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Sep 2007. Beside a track near the top of the hill above the stream, a kilometre or so to the south of St Malo-de-le-Lande, can be found this menhir.
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St-Guinec menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.548 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 4
St-Guinec menhir submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Menhir Saint-Guinec.
A massive menhir standing in the garden of a house a couple of kilometres west of the village of Huelgoat in Brittany
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Log Text: Despite being nearly 6 metres tall, this beautiful menhir is becoming obscured from view by a large thick hedge around the garden within which it stands. This is a shame, as it really is a rather nice stone. It can be found just off the Huelgoat to Brennilis road, by the bridge over the busy north / south D.764 highway.
St-Guinec menhir
Trip No.187 Entry No.82 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 5 Access 5
St-Guinec menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Oct 2010. The 6 metre tall St-Guinec menhir, (Menhir du Cloître) seen in it's garden situation in 2005
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 10. Cycle from Telgruc up over the moors to Huelgoat.
St-Etienne-du-Vouvray burial chamber
Trip No.202 Entry No.92 Date Added: 30th Mar 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Normandie:Eure (27))
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2005. My rating: Condition -1
St-Etienne-du-Vouvray burial chamber submitted by theCaptain on 14th Jan 2011. any remains of this once fine trench grave, similar to Dampsnesnil, are now underneath the railway line.
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Log Text: There are no remains of this gallery grave as it is destroyed and underneath the railway line. It was once a fine trench grave like Dampsnesnil and had many finds.
St-Benoit polissoir
Trip No.203 Entry No.605 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St-Benoit polissoir submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2005. St Benoit polissoir, near St James.
Not a million miles from Mont St Michel, this lovely polissoir stone is nowadays nicely kept in a little garden type area beside the lane.
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Log Text: I was understanding that this polissoir stone was going to be difficult to find, but thought that I'd give it a go. Luckily for me, since the source of my information was written, it's all been tidied up into a nice little area and signposted. It's about 800m from the village of St Bénoit, up the D.363 to the east, beside the little stream.
The stone itself is a sort of white quartz, about 1.2 metres in length and flat on the ground. In the top face are three polishing bowls, one large, and up to 16 polishing grooves. The little stream which provides its water source to lubricate the polishing is rich in iron ore, and this has caused the stone to stain a rust red colour in its cracks and grooves.
The stone has been dated to 4000BC. Legends have become associated with such a stone, one being that it can cure colic in horses if they are walked around the stone three times, then made to drink the iron rich water within its basins.
Terriffic, I love these polissoir stones.
St-Benoit polissoir
Trip No.210 Entry No.5 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St-Benoit polissoir submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2005. St Benoit polissoir, near St James.
Not a million miles from Mont St Michel, this lovely polissoir stone is nowadays nicely kept in a little garden type area beside the lane.
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Log Text: Decide to take Dad here to see this special stone, so leave the autoroute at St James, to go have a look – the third time I will have tried to take Dad here, having missed it twice before due to roadworks and a shut bridge, and lateness on the previous occasions. Blimey, there are now big brown signs indicating it from the main road.
Set in its nice little marshy area, this is now very well looked after and presented, unlike the old description when I was first looking for it several years ago. The stone is a bit smaller than I remember it, but it is really wonderful. I just love being able to sit and stroke the very polished grooves, and let my mind wander back through the millennia. Again, Dad seemed well impressed at being able to see something like this.
St Teath Cross
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Teath Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Jul 2022. Lovely tall cross in the churchyard at St Teath.
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Log Text: Lovely tall cross in the churchyard at St Teath, not far from the White Hart. Ambience somewhat spoiled by all the signs below it.
St Samson Chapel well
Trip No.203 Entry No.560 Date Added: 3rd Jun 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Samson Chapel well submitted by Ural on 26th Dec 2012. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Just to the north of the St Samson chapel is a splendid little spring and well house, with clear water bubbling up from within it.
St Samson Chapel well
Trip No.193 Entry No.17 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993
St Samson Chapel well submitted by Ural on 26th Dec 2012. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones.
St Pratt's Well
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2022
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Pratt's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy on 23rd Sep 2006. St Pratt’s Well flows with beautifully clear water.
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Log Text: To the Blisland Inn for a wonderful crab sandwich and a pint of King Buddha's Blisland Special before driving back to Bristol, stopping for a proper look at this cross.
St Nicholas (West Tanfield)
Date Added: 8th Oct 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Nicholas (West Tanfield) submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Oct 2022. In the churchyard is what looks like a very ancient cross shaft mounted on a block. Its obviously far older than anything else in the graveyard, but I saw nothing written on or about it.
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Log Text: After visiting the Thornborough Henges on my way back from Northumberland, I call in to the Bull Inn at West Tanfield for a pint, and notice that there is something marked at the local church. A very interesting old place with pele tower outside; I cannot look inside the church as there is building work going on, but outside in the churchyard, there is what looks like a very interesting and ancient cross shaft mounted on a block. Its obviously far older than anything else in the graveyard, but I see nothing written on or about it.