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Toll's Island
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Toll's Island submitted by hoya105 on 20th Jul 2019. Toll's Island.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Normandy Down
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Normandy Down submitted by paulcall on 31st Oct 2006. A view of the delapidated easterly entrance grave looking north towards St Martin's. This grave gets trodden on a lot, as it is not normally covered in scrub like the other two. There are more stones to be seen here, but they are rather a jumble.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Porth Hellick Down
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Porth Hellick submitted by Thorgrim on 2nd Jul 2003. Porth Hellick Down entrance grave on St Mary's, Scilly SV 9284 1083. This is the largest and best preserved out of a complex of 8 on the Downs.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Castle Down, Tresco
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1986
Castle Down, Tresco submitted by Thorgrim on 4th Aug 2004. Entrace grave on the south slope of Tregarthen Hill
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, we spent the day on Tresco, exploring the gardens and walking round most of the island.
Gweal Hill, Bryher
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1986
Gweal Hill, Bryher submitted by paulcall on 22nd Oct 2007. This view looks south over the southwestern cairn of the three on Gweal Hill.
The central cist can be seen centre-left, and there are two rings of kerbs both of which can just be seen on this photo, although the whole mound is now greatly weathered by its position on the most westernmost point of the inhabited islands on Scilly.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, we spent the day on Tresco then in the evening I rowed myself over to Bryher to have a look at the place and watch the sun go down from Gweal Hill
Buzza Hill
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Buzza Hill submitted by paulcall on 17th Oct 2006. There are two pairs of stones facing the chamber, one pair in the foreground and one pair to the left. They seem rather far away to be part of the original structure.
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Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Peninnis Head Boundary
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Peninnis Head
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Peninnis Head submitted by Bladup on 11th Jun 2022. Peninnis Head Outcrop
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Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Kit's Coty.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2004
Kit's Coty. submitted by thecaptain on 30th Aug 2004. The sad remains of Kit's Coty House in its cage. Surely it deserves better.
Seen here from the west.
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Addington Long Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2004
Addington Long Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 30th Aug 2004. Large long barrow with many stones still to be seen surrounding it. The barrow has been effectively cut in two by the little road which goes right over the top. This is the western end of the barrow.
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Chestnuts
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2004
Chestnuts submitted by thecaptain on 30th Aug 2004. To see the remains of this chambered long barrow, which lies in private ground, a visit needs to be arranged in advance with the owners, which I hadnt done, as I hadn't planned in advance to be here. However, the top of the stones can be seen over the field from the road through Addington Barrow.
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Coffin Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2004
Coffin Stone submitted by thecaptain on 1st Sep 2004. Whatever this site is, or was, it is obviously in a varying state, as there are now more stones here than in the previous pictures on the portal.
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Little Kit's Coty
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2004
Little Kit's Coty submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Sep 2004. The Countless Stones from the north side. There are many stones here, and trying to make out any semblance of what they once were is not easy.
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Coldrum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2004
Coldrum submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Sep 2004. The eastern face of Coldrum long barrow. It is said that it was built on a natural terrace in the chalk landscape, which has now partly worn away due to erosion, so letting the eastern end of the barrow collapse down the slope.
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Dane John Mound
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Dane John Mound submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. At the southern corner of the Canterbury city walls is a large mound, known as the Dane John Mound.
When the Romans built the Canterbury City walls, they were arranged to incorporate an ancient mound, thought to be a large burial mound within a barrow cemetary.
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Red Rocks
Date Added: 4th Jul 2024
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Merseyside)
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 4
Red Rocks submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Jul 2024. Hilbre Point seen from some of the offshore Red Rocks
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Log Text: Visit to Hilbre Point and a walk out to the Red Rocks
Kings Lynn Museum
Date Added: 21st Jun 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2024
Reflection submitted by Tragic on 11th Jul 2009. Reflected Tragic aka Paul Brooker at the Sea Henge display in Kings Lynn, Norfolk
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Log Text: A visit to the Lynn museum in Kings Lynn, hopefully to see the remains of Seahenge, removed from Holme beach and displayed here. I had seen online that the gallery in the museum was closed for building work, stating that it would reopen in "early June". It is now the 11th June, so not expecting to be able to see it, I was hoping! Upon getting to the museum, the people at the reception told me that the building work was over running, it was not open, but they were now hopeful for some time in July 2024. No good to me.
Warham Camp
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Warham Camp submitted by h_fenton on 14th Mar 2014. Warham Camp viewed from the north west.
Kite Aerial Photograph
9 March 2014
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Log Text: A recommended visit from the bar lady at the Binham pub, to occupy a loose hour. Its really impressive in its scale and completeness. Lots of orchids are flowering on the banks in the sunshine.
Holme II
Date Added: 21st Jun 2024
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Holme II submitted by dodomad on 16th Apr 2023. This is what remains of Holme II in 2023:
Tom writes: After reading Seahenge by Francis Pryor I finally got to Holme Beach on a low tide. Stunning.
Photo by Tom Charlton @TomCharlton25 on Twitter, reposted with permission - glad I did as the original is now gone
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Log Text: After many years, and a fair bit of planning, I got to visit the site of Seahange. It needed a significantly low tide, and a long walk with no features to aim for. It was also a complete unknown as to whether any of the timbers would still be there, and not covered by the sands and mud. I started from the pay car park at Holme, near the golf course, and followed the well marked and made coast path to the north then east, through the marshes and sand dunes. Whern I got to near where I thought the site was, I started looking for the signboard, but it had been knocked over so was not easy to find. I then tried to get down onto the beach, which was not easy with cliffs in the dunes and fences, so I retraced my steps back for a fair old way until I could get down onto the beach, before heading back east to the area of the site. After a fair bit of searching around, near to where it is marked on our map, I first saw a pole and stump sticking up, but nothing else. I wondered whether this was a marker for the site of the original Seahenge now removed. Walking in the wet mud and sand further to the east, I some dark shapes. Is this it? I walked over, and indeed it was a sector of timber stumps poking above the water. Further looking, and there were some more sectors, generally under pools, with a few other stumps showing above the sands, which would have made a circle about 15 metres diameter. Fantastic, and well worth the effort. I noticed that there were a few large timbers on their sides nearby, and many other odd stumps. Nearby were a couple of places with arrangements of stumps showing above the sands, are these remnants of other structures. There are a couple of much more modern linear timber structures heading directly towards the sea from the shore, arranged in pairs, and when speaking to a local, he told me that these were constructed by the army and used as devices to move targets up and down the beach, for training the gunners and tanks that were there at the time. These can be used to give a good indication of where the site is.
Seahenge
Date Added: 21st Jun 2024
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 4 Access 2
Seahenge submitted by Andy B on 14th May 2002. The original 'Seahenge', now removed to safety, but much remains on Holme beach. Photo copyright English Heritage, used with permission
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Log Text: After many years, and a fair bit of planning, I got to visit the site of Seahange. I started from the pay car park at Holme, near the golf course, and followed the well marked and made coast path to the north then east, through the marshes and sand dunes. Whern I got to near where I thought the site was, I started looking for the signboard, but it had been knocked over so was not easy to find. I then tried to get down onto the beach, which was not easy with cliffs in the dunes and fences, so I retraced my steps back for a fair old way until I could get down onto the beach, before heading back east to the area of the site. After a fair bit of searching around, near to where it is marked on our map, I first saw a pole and stump sticking up, but nothing else. I wondered whether this was a marker for the site of the original Seahenge now removed.