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Tarr Steps Prehistoric Bridge
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2016
Tarr Steps Prehistoric Bridge submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2016. Tarr Steps pictures after Storm Angus had done its worst on Saturday. The follow up storm today has also completely flooded the bridge and threatened more damage.
Picture from ENPA
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Danbury
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 4th Nov 2016
Danbury submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Nov 2016. Upon visiting the site, there is a noticeboard giving some details, including the information that there is very little of the earthworks left to be seen.
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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 18th Jul 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Jul 2017. The beautiful stone circle, almost complete, is contained within a little circular walled enclosure, a bit like Boscawen-un, which has probably helped the survival of this sublime place.
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Log Text: A couple of miles to the west of Inverurie, in some very rural farmland, is the Easter Aquhorthies stone circle. There is a little parking area from which it is a few hundred metres walk aup the lane to the circle. While I was visiting, the local farmer was out with the BT men having his line fixed or adjusted so that he can get a proper broadband connection, if only I could get such a service. The beautiful stone circle, almost complete, is contained within a little circular walled enclosure, a bit like Boscawen-un, which although it has probably helped the survival of this sublime place, makes photography difficult. Unlike many of the others I have seen today, this one is well cared for by the Scottish authorities, and all looking very tidy. Beautiful.
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 26th Jul 2016
Menhir de Coat Mocoun (sud) submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Jul 2016. Spent some time looking for various menhirs here while travelling through the area. To the south of the road junction I followed a pathway through some newly cut scrubland which was until revently forest, heading towards the noise of the quarry. The path eventually entered into some wooded land, with many boulders laying around, the remnants of quarrying.
Then I saw something. Not an 8m tall menhir, but a 4 metre tall stone standing amongst noulders. I am pretty convinved that this stone...
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Carnac Plage menhir
Trip No.216 Entry No.36 Date Added: 23rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carnac Plage menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Mar 2025. In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
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Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
Carnac Plage Dolmen
Trip No.206 Entry No.35 Date Added: 23rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Carnac Plage dolmen submitted by Ogneslav on 19th Jul 2008. Carnac Plage dolmen
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Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.216 Entry No.1 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Kerivin dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Jun 2011. This Tee shaped allee couverte is supposedly a very good example of the type, but in June 2005it had become very overgrown.
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Log Text: Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this from many years ago as being a good and interesting place to visit.
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2016
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2016. Viewed from the graveyard to the north, showing the steep raise then flat top.
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Alveston Round Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2016
Alveston Round Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2016. Remains of a round barrow in the middle of a field beside the intriguingly named Vattingstone Lane, opposite the school entrance at the northwest of the village of Alveston.
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Rockhampton Standing Stone
Date Added: 19th May 2016
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Rockhampton Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2016. Lovely limestone stone standing on a little grassy area at the junction of a couple of lanes. Nicely looked after, its a shame I am too late for the daffodils.
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Log Text: Lovely limestone stone standing on a little grassy area at the junction of a couple of lanes, not actually in Rockhampton but the first junction along the road to the northeast from the village. Nicely looked after, its a shame I am too late for the daffodils.
Eastwood Fort, Portishead
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Eastwood Fort, Portishead submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Mar 2016. The western end of Eastwood Hill and fort, as seen from Battery Point.
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Log Text: Ancient woodland covered limestone hill, now a nature reserve, to the north of Portishead, beside the shipping channel into Portbury and Avonmouth docks, and the river Avon up to Bristol. As such has been an important strategic place since history began. There's a lot of history to the area - the remains of an Iron Age fort can be seen above the path on the north side of the Wood. The Romans also arrived at some point. World War 2 gun emplacements were sited at Battery Point and a military presence has been here as far back as the Civil War when a fort on the site was stormed by parlimentarians.
Battery Point
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Mar 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Battery Point submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Mar 2016. The Seafarers Memorial Stone, at Battery Point, Portishead.
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Log Text: A nice stone with many fossilised shells to be seen within it, stands strategically at Battery Point, Portishead, as the Seafarers Memorial Stone, a memorial to seafarers of the west country. The stone monument marks the closest place on a UK coast which large ships pass. The dedication is to the seafarers of the West Country who, “since the Middle Ages, on voyages of discovery in times of peace and war, have passed this point, some never to return.”
Must Farm
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jan 2016
Must Farm submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jan 2016. Overview of the Must Farm site excavations.
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Chipping Sodbury Stone Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2016
Chipping Sodbury Stone Circle submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Jan 2016. New Years Day 2016 has been a foul miserable dark and wet day, so in a small effort to get myself out of the house, thought I'd go and get a couple of pictures of this fairly new stone circle. I dont know when this was constructed, I only noticed it for the first time sometime last year; it seems fairly new and I assume the stones are from the local quarry.
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Wallaston Green
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Dec 2015
Wallaston Green submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Dec 2015. Four barrows are marked on the OS maps just to the south of Wallaston Green to the north of the B4320 road along the Angle peninsula west of Pembroke.
Stopping for a quick look and a couple of bumps can be seen in the fields.
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Tafarn-y-Bwlch
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2015
Tafarn-y-Bwlch submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Dec 2015. nearby the stone pair is a linear bank and ditch, which incorporates many large stones, some of which extend beyond the height of the bank.
Just a boundary or something more significant?
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Norchard Beacon
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2015
Norchard Beacon submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Dec 2015. Near to the Trig Point, one of the barrows is still to be seen.
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Carew High Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Nov 2015
Carew High Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Nov 2015. Not the best of pictures I know, it was late on in a horrid wet day, but what a great combination. Fabulous ancient cross, terriffic Castle, and best of all, taken while supping a nice pint from in the bar of a good pub with a roaring fire !!!
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Trefin Modern Stone Circle
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Trefin Modern Stone Circle submitted by pab on 20th Jan 2008. Site in Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro)
Across the circle to the bay - it may be modern, but it is a wonderfully pleasant spot to think away the modern world!
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Carreg Samson, Abercastle
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carreg Samson, Abercastle submitted by Horatio on 13th May 2019. In a dramatic clifftop location just outside the pretty port of Abercastle stands a Neolithic burial chamber known as Carreg Samson. The name translates as 'Samson's Stone' and refers to the legend that St Samson placed the huge capstone in place using just his little finger.
The dolmen is composed of seven upright stones topped by a huge capstone. The capstone is over 4.5m long (about 15 feet) and 2.7m wide (9 feet). The capstone is actually balanced perfectly on just 3 of the 7 support st...
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