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Red Farm
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Red Farm submitted by postman on 24th Nov 2012. Looking over the remnants of Red Farm stone circle to Maen Crwn
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Log Text: Walking up from Penmaenmawr, once up on the plateau, the first site I see is the Red Farm stone circle. Its over a wall in a field containing horses, and there are lots of people out looking like they are on an organised shooting event, so I satisfy myself with the view over the wall. Looks like about 4 stones on a flattened platform, with a couple of other either outliers or moved stones laying around.
Fox Covert NW
Date Added: 28th Aug 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2007
Fox Covert NW submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Sep 2007. Overgrown Long Barrow which has been cut in two by a hedge.
The eastern part of the barrow in the eastern field has now been completely ploughed out. The part in the western field is now about 30 metres in length, about 20 metres wide and up to 2 metres in height.
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Log Text: A badly damaged overgrown Long Barrow with possible Chambered Tomb in a field, which has been cut in two by a hedge. The eastern part of the barrow in the eastern field has now been completely ploughed out. The part in the western field is now about 30 metres in length, about 20 metres wide and up to 2 metres in height. There are one or two big stones, which are almost certainly field clearance, dumped on top, otherwise there were no noticeable features that I could see. There are a few other tumuli marked on maps in neighbouring fields, but as far as I could see, these have no all been completely ploughed out, including the Tormarton 1 (Gloucestershire) long barrow in the field just to the north of the lane here.
Tormarton 1
Date Added: 28th Aug 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2022
Tormarton 1 submitted by dooclay on 28th Aug 2022. unploughed (currently) area in which the barrow is located - from the road
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Log Text: Day out walking and stopped for a quick look here on the way home. The field has been harvested, leaving the long raised lump in the ground standing proud. No obviously easy way into the field, so I satisfied myself with a view from the road.
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Iain_P on 12th Aug 2017. Another. It was the only sun we saw all week!
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Log Text: Now to walk around the circle. It's huge, much bigger than my memory was telling me and with a little double stoned entrance up near Long Meg. The stones are basically large rounded boulders, like giant pebbles from a riverbed, and its not really accurate to consider them as standing stones. Lots of young cows in and around the stones, some of which seem to be playing hide and seek.
Long Meg
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by JanF on 22nd Jun 2010. Long Meg (and her daughters) Stone Circle, Cumbria UK, is a magical place.. I watched the sunset on this special day in memory of my loved one.. Many others were here with me.. Complete strangers, but yet close friends..
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Log Text: Before heading east over the Pennines, I have time to go and visit Long Meg. A new car park has been made which is well signposted, which leaves a 500 metre walk to the stone circle. I start my visit with Long Meg itself, as there are a few other people here who go the other way. What a lovely stone, standing proud overlooking the circle with its spirals and of course the face of Long Meg herself.
Penzance Market Cross
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 4
Penzance Market Cross submitted by Stonefly on 5th Aug 2011. The south-facing side.
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Log Text: I took a walk round some of the splendid Penzance gardens, and had a proper look at the lovely old market cross, nowadays just outside the café.
St Mary's Cross
Date Added: 2nd Aug 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 4
St Mary's Cross submitted by Bladup on 12th Jan 2017. St Mary's Cross.
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Log Text: A strange looking stone stump in the churchyard at Penzance. All I could really make out is a couple of carved figures on it, until I realised that the cross arms were broken off.
Giant's Rock, Zennor
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Access 3
Giant's Rock, Zennor submitted by Bladup on 28th May 2017. The Giant's Rock.
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Log Text: Having found myself in the field adjacent to that in which the Giant's Stone is marked, I have a look and can see it over the hedge. However its all very overgrown and I cannot get in to have a proper look
Treveglos, Zennor
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Treveglos, Zennor submitted by maengurta on 2nd Jul 2007. Stone row in Zennor aligned on Sperris hill.
Access by footpath leading to giants rock in the field immediately after the end of the path. Look for the southern terminal stone now serving as a gatepost 8.5ft high. The two other remaining stones stand in the next field to the north, one in a field boundary wall.
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Log Text: I found the large gatepost in the corner of the field, but nothing obvious nearby. The fields and walls here are full of large stones, and what is a standing stone, and what is a natural feature is very hard to tell. Not helped by a lot of growth around the field boundaries. I'm certainly not convinced of a row. Perhaps I was looking in all the wrong fields
Zennor Churchyard Crosses
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Zennor Churchyard Crosses submitted by theCaptain on 18th Dec 2012. In the churchyard is the grave of John Borlase, the legendary Antiquarian.
Two ancient crossheads are are mounted on the grave.
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Log Text: After a day at St Ives, I go to Zennor to pay my respects to the Mermaid. Whilst at the church, I have a look at the various ancient crosses in and around the churchyard, and Borlase's grave. How fabulous is that mermaid chair.
Trevega Cross
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Trevega Cross submitted by hamish on 27th Mar 2007. This nice little cross sits on the side of the path leading to the church.
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Log Text: After a day at St Ives, I go to Zennor to pay my respects to the Mermaid. Whilst at the church, I have a look at the various ancient crosses in and around the churchyard, and Borlase's grave. How fabulous is that mermaid chair.
St Ives Head Fort
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Ives Head Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2023. St Ives Head seen across Porthmeor beach
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Log Text: A day visit to St Ives, which I start with a walk around Clodgy point and then back into St Ives town, making a full walk around the coastline to the harbour, passing over and around all of the fort headland.
Treryn Dinas
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Treryn Dinas submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2014. Treryn Dinas from Percella Point.
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Log Text: Time is getting on, although not necessarily as much as I thought it was, as things are playing tricks on me and others, with my phone regularly switching hours, presumably picking up its signal from French sources better than there is round here. It not only confuses the time, but screws up the labelling of my photos! Once back to Porthcurno, I have an ice cream and decide not to walk on, but drive to the Logan Rock Inn for a pint. After this I feel I can carry on, so walk back to the cliffs for a look at the most beautiful Pedn Vounder beach and out onto Treryn Dinas. Again there are several choughs noisily going about their business, and this time I get a reasonable picture of a couple. No chance I can get up to the old logan rock that I remember climbing up to with my Grampy back in the 1960's! What a fabulous day.
St Levan's Well
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
St Levan's Well submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. The well from the south.
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Log Text: After lunch I head back to Porthgwarra for a drink at the café, then on around the cliffs to Porth Chapel, where St Levan's well sits prominently above the beach. This used to be the way down past the chapel, but the path is falling down into the sea, so is no longer the through route. There is a little chapel building beside the little well, with water in it even after a hot dry month. I head round and then down to Porth Chapel beach, where I clearly remember having heatstroke back in the 1960s when I was about 7. I still remember that hurt and my brainfog, in my red hat with my plastic boat in the rock pool fed by the stream. Its still there, exactly as I remember it, despite having never been back since then. Up above the beach can be seen the remains of the chapel, which has recently been stabilised and excavated, with a little exhibition in St Levan's church. Its not easy to get down onto this beautiful beach, having to clamber down the cliffs. Quite how we did this all those years ago as a family with all the stuff we would have taken is beyond me!
Carn Lês Boel
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Jun 2023
Carn Lês Boel submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. August 2007. View across Mill Bay towards the Carn Lês Boel headland. The shallow inner ditch and bank are quite clearly highlighted by the low evening sunlight - look just above the shadowy chasm. There is a narrower, fainter outer ditch that reaches to the top left of the chasm - possibly an unfinished outer defence.
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Log Text: Walk from St Levan along the coast path, through Porthgwarra and out to Gwennap Head. Keep going right round to Carn Barra where I stop for my pasty, overlooking Zawn Kellys to Carn Lês Boel and Lands End. I spend ages watching the flocks of seabirds on the sea, no doubt all above shoals of fish, fulmars soaring around in the coves and their nests on the cliffs, and lots of choughs busying themselves between feeding on the clifftops and taking food to their nests on the cliffs. Its great to see the choughs back here again. Fabulous.
St Levan's Stone
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Levan's Stone submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. View from the south showing the narrowness of the gap and the matching contour lines of each half of the stone.
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Log Text: At St Levan's church, have a good look around the churchyard, with the split St Levan's stone in pride of place. The split is not wide enough to get a comfortable sit down, let alone to ride a loaded packhorse through, so the world is safe for the while.
Churchyard Cross St Levan
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Churchyard Cross St Levan submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. On the right, the tall churchyard cross; beyond and to the left the split St Levan Stone. I have read suggestions that the stone represents the female form and the cross represents the male form, or that the proximity of the Christian cross neutralises the pagan influence of the stone.
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Log Text: Onwards to St Levan's church, and have a good look around the interesting churchyard, with several old crosses and cross heads to be seen here. Dropping down from the fields into St Levan's church, there is a really interesting stone entrance to the churchyard, with a coffin shaped stone surrounded by what appear to be granite seats, and a round crosshead. The tall St Levan's cross is positioned in the churchyard outside the church entrance, and near to the split St Levan's stone. The more interesting western face was in deep shadow, and did not come out well in my pictures.
Rospletha cross
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Rospletha cross submitted by Bladup on 28th May 2017. Rospletha cross with the top of St Levan's church in the background on the left.
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Log Text: A day walking and exploring the coast between Porthcurno and Gwennap Head. Park at Porthcurno, and initially head inland then up onto the fields to pass Rospletha cross. It’s a nice thing, but rather overgrown at the moment.
Lanyon Quoit
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lanyon Quoit submitted by Bladup on 24th Dec 2022. Lanyon Quoit after Sunset on the Winter Solstice 2022
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Log Text: It had been swelteringly hot and sunny all day on the southern coast, but there had been a cool sea mist blowing across all day from the north coast. Despite it being very foggy, I decide on an evening visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. Leaving Madron well, I drive north perhaps to Men-an-Tol but the fog up here is even thicker. I give up with that idea and just park to visit Lanyon Quoit, where I eat my pasty in the cold damp fog blowing across the moor!
Madron Well
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Madron Well submitted by Bladup on 9th Aug 2016. The elemental Madron Well.
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Log Text: Despite it being very foggy, I decide I have to visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. When I get to the watery bit by the path, there is not so much tat hanging in the trees as I was expecting, and most of what there is is either real strips of cloth or floral offerings. Despite having a bad foot, and only wearing sandals, I decide I want to try and find the proper well, but soon get beaten with the marshy conditions and my unsteady legs. With nothing to hold on to, at one point I slip, try to adjust my footing onto a duckboard, but that then moves under me and I am down on my ass in the mud and water. Oh well, make the most of it and douse my bad toe in the water. Has to be said that after more than 3 months of not healing, the scar started to turn into a proper scab after this, and was properly healing by the end of the week.