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

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.

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

Log Text: In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir.

Verulamium Museum

Trip No.216  Entry No.37  Date Added: 24th May 2026
Site Type: Museum Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5

Log Text: Stop off to have a look at the Verulamium roman city remains, when on my way back from Essex. I haven't been here since primary school, and I still remember the Roman fort I made out of cardboard. What an excellent museum, with some tremendous finds and displays. Genuine roman wall paintings and superb mosaics incorporated into the displays.

Verulamium Mosaic & Hypercaust

Trip No.216  Entry No.38  Date Added: 24th May 2026
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: From the museum, walk across Verulamium Park for a look at the covered mosaic floor from a large house, complete with hypercaust flues etc underneath. A feature is the mosaic panel which was built wrongly, at a 45 degrtee rotation to what it should have been!

Verulamium Town Walls

Trip No.216  Entry No.39  Date Added: 24th May 2026
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement Country: England (Hertfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: Much of the city walls can be traced, and now surround the park. I didn't have time to see much of these, but I did go to look at the main remaining stone section, which somehow survived demolition. Most of the Abbey was built using the roman wall and city stone, brick and tile.

Twelve Men's Moor Standing Stone

Trip No.216  Entry No.40  Date Added: 6th Jul 2026
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: Stop on the way home for a walk up and around Kilmar Tor, intending to visit multiple ancient cairns and cists. Start from the parking space at the end of the lane up to Trewortha farm, and walk south along the trackway and around the eastern side of Kilmar Tor. Heading south over the open moor, littered with granite blocks and old workings, I find this stone and it certainly looks like an old menhir rather than a relatively recently quarried block. Its almost flat to the ground, but leaning and looks like it would have been about 2 to 3 metres tall. A good start. From here I walk back north to climb up to the trig point on Kilmar tor, but unfortunately the views are starting to disappear with clouds and mist coming over.

Kilmar Tor.

Trip No.216  Entry No.41  Date Added: 6th Jul 2026
Site Type: Rock Outcrop Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3

Log Text: Kilmar Tor is an excellent tor with multiple granite outcrops, the best of which is no doubt "High Rocks" near the western end. After getting to the top of Kilmar Tor (nearly), with time and weather being what it is, I am not going to do a thorough exploration, one for another time. I did at least get up to the trig point, and am not convinced at all about these so called propped stones.

Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist

Trip No.216  Entry No.42  Date Added: 6th Jul 2026
Site Type: Chambered Cairn Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: Back down to the south from Kilmar Tor and find the old quarry railway, with its amazing lines of granite sleepers, and follow this west and around the end of Kilmar tor to the north until it ends, from where I can head down to the northwest towards Trewortha farm, stopping to have my pasty lunch at a convenient block to sit on. There is a lot of shooting going on over at the farm, and the sounds it makes echoing off the newly denuded Smallacomb Tor is incredible, each shot making about 5 seconds of whoossh noises as the echoes move around, and then more from Kilmar tor behind. Unfortunately the clouds and fog are getting worse, and it is now drizzling with rain showers coming over, so I decide to cut the planned walk short. I drop down and find the Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist easily, even in the mist. Its truly a fabulous monument, with its cist within a complete circle of standing stones, much taller than I was expecting. It certainly is the best one of these I have seen, but looks like a few of the stones are starting to lean over and perhaps in danger of collapse, maybe aided by cattle leaning on them.

Trewortha cairn and cist NE

Trip No.216  Entry No.43  Date Added: 6th Jul 2026
Site Type: Cairn Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: Once I have had my fill of the main event, I head to the northeast to find its neighbour, which is much less distinct within its surrounding of ferns and bushes. Just a couple of kerbstones stand proud, otherwise it looks not much more than a round stone cairn, but there is almost certainly a cist within and might tidy up quite nicely.

Trewortha Cairns

Trip No.216  Entry No.44  Date Added: 7th Jul 2026
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3

Log Text: With the weather getting worse, I now head on northwards and back towards the car passing the "mound" marked on the map (a cairn?) to the Trewortha Cairns which form a sort of line alongside the southern edge of the trackway to Trewortha Farm. I looked at about four of them before deciding that there are too many to look at closely and photograph each of them in this weather. Some are not much more than a grass and stone lump covered with ferns, but one or two are quite big stone structures with some kind of internal features.

Twelve men's moor cairn and cist

Trip No.216  Entry No.45  Date Added: 7th Jul 2026
Site Type: Cist Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: Heading on northeast I get to the marked cairn with cist. This is quite interesting to see as it looks like it is in two halves, one of them complete and covered, while the other half has been removed to show the cist and the stone construction of the cairn. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several more of these out here. I now head back to the car along the track, and see a cuckoo flying across to the north. Brilliant. Time to get out of my wet muddy boots and head back to Bristol, thankfully an easy journey this time.

Treen standing stone A

Trip No.216  Entry No.46  Date Added: 9th Jul 2026
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: Park at Treen, then walk down towards Penberth Cove, and after passing through the first field wall, there is a small stone standing in the field. It is possibly just a cattle scratching post, but it seems very old and has been firmly retained in the ground with a lot of packing stones. Like many of the stones around this part of the coast, it could be an ancient stone.

Treen cliff standing stone

Trip No.216  Entry No.47  Date Added: 11th Jul 2026
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: From Penberth Cove I walk up and along the coastpath to the west, and in the little valley before Trewyn Dinas headland can be seen a stone standing within all the undergrowth, shining bright amongst all the green. I wasn't going to battle my way through all the growth, so made do with seeing just the top of it from a small distance away. There is a spring right beside it, so it could have been placed there to mark this.

The Logan Rock (Treen)

Trip No.216  Entry No.48  Date Added: 11th Jul 2026
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2026

Log Text: As I sit and watch the world from Trewyn Dinas, I try and figure out the route to the logan rock when I realise I cannot see it, wondering if it has been dislodged and fallen again. Much to my relief it is just the viewpoint on the headland, as further around the coast to the west it can clearly be seen. It is here that the old path drops down over the cliffs to the amazing Pedn Vounder (Pednee) beach, which features in so many pictures of the west of Cornwall and top ten best beaches in the World type lists. But the path has been closed off by the National Trust, with cables blocking the way and all sorts of signs saying it is dangerous, both the way down and the beach with its sandbanks and currents. Such spoilsports. I continue heading west to Porthcurno and down to the beach before up to the café for refreshment and a crab sandwich, before heading back to the car at Treen.

Godrevy Headland Barrow

Trip No.216  Entry No.49  Date Added: 14th Jul 2026
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2026. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4

Log Text: Today is a circular walk around the Godrevy headland on a very sunny day. Some lovely clifftop views and suchlike including seals in the coves below. Just before I get to the Lighthouse on the Island I stop and eat my pasty near the remains of the large barrow. After lunch a gentle stroll to watch all the goings on on the beaches and have an icecream, before heading over the Red River and the dunes to Gwithian for a pint.