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Bendor Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2010
Bendor Stone submitted by TimPrevett on 20th May 2010. 12/04/10 - a challenge to park for, this one. Small field entrance which slopes very steeply next to a very fast road. Standing stone easily visible from field entrance.
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Doddington Moor
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2010
Doddington Moor submitted by TimPrevett on 20th May 2010. Absolute nightmare to find - unplanned visit at the end of a surprisingly superb weather day. A 1:50000 map wasn't much help - the footpaths bore no resemblance to the map, so taking a grid ref from the map, and switching on the handheld GPS guided us here.
At first I was disappointed with the place - just one stone remaining upright - but discovering several other stones, and enjoying the pre-sunset glow, it was a pleasing finish to the end of a wonderful day. 12/04/10.
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The Ringses Fort
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2010
The Ringses Fort submitted by TimPrevett on 20th May 2010. This was an unplanned visit to Doddington Moor at the end of a surprisingly superb weather day. It would have been a travesty to miss the late evening sun, so en route back to the campsite, we decided to have a plod around this moor.
We decided not to investigate The Ringses: livestock, wanting to bag some more rock art, tiredness, need for food and failing light all conspired. However, I did go near enough to get this image of the rings.
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The Hemlock Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Nottinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Aug 2007
The Hemlock Stone submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Aug 2007. The Hemlock Stone - a towering natural outcrop with myths and legends, west of Nottingham. A good page for more information is here
http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/staplefordhill_hemlock.htm
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Rollright Stones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Aug 2004
Rollright Stones submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Aug 2004. A summer view of the Rollrights; a lovely place.
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Whispering Knights
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Aug 2004
Whispering Knights submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Aug 2004. A megalithic portal view from the Rollrights to The Whispering Knights.
Shame about the yellow paint...
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Wayland's Smithy
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2008
Wayland's Smithy submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd May 2008. Wayland's Smithy, last November 15th - I could not have wished for more perfect conditions for a first visit. Wall to wall blue sky, advanced copper toned beech tree leaves on the ground and above, sunlight across the facade, and 90 minutes of complete solitude up here.
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King Stone at the Rollrights
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2010
King Stone at the Rollrights submitted by TimPrevett on 2nd Jan 2010. The last ray of sunlight catching the top tip of the King Stone 27/12/09.
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Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2003
Mitchell's Fold submitted by TimPrevett on 11th May 2003. The dramatic skies above Mitchell's Fold as we left on the Megalithic Meet, March 2003.
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The Wrekin
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Nov 2003
The Wrekin submitted by TimPrevett on 16th Nov 2003. SJ630083 The Wrekin; atop this monster of a hill which dominates the landscape between Shrewsbury & Telford, are some remains of a hillfort. A spectacular location. We went up the Wrekin on Christmas Day one year - and got caught in a snowstorm at the top! This picture taken from Corbet Wood SJ525237, which gives commanding views across the hills to the south.
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Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2003
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton) submitted by TimPrevett on 19th Nov 2003. To give an idea of the steepness of the ascent / descent (at times) of this Caer Caradoc; I sweated buckets going up this hill, and the long jolting, sliding descent made my legs feel like jelly when I at last reached level ground! This was taken looking N on the W side before the fog enveloped me and the hill!
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Castle Hill (Shropshire)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2003
Castle Hill (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 19th Nov 2003. SO461959; lovely views to the E to Caer Caradoc, and NE to The Wrekin. What may remain of ramparts is probably underneath fern, fireweed, and brambles. It has been argued to be a defended Iron Age settlement, shorn up on 3 sides by human efforts, defining an area about 60 by 90 feet. A ditch and bank is supposed to be visible on the W. This view is looking towards Church Stretton and really is all there about to be seen; though it is a pleasant location. The nearby 1902 church of St Michael & Al...
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Secret Hills Discovery Centre
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Dec 2003
Secret Hills Discovery Centre submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Dec 2003. SO435825. This impressive exhibition is a millenium project worth singing about. A museum to demonstrate the wonders of an outstanding area of England so little known about. Hence the secret hills bit.
This covers archaeology, geology, wildlife, folklore, and local arts & crafts.
The full size skeleton of the Condover Mammoth is there to worry or delight children!
Of interest to the megarak is much on lumps & bumps in the area; a simulated balloon ride of many of the hillforts in the a...
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Whittington Castle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Dec 2003
Whittington Castle submitted by TimPrevett on 16th Dec 2003. SJ 325313. A barrow-like mound (possibly re-used barrow) at Whittington Castle - not disimilar from ones at Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire, or Boscobel House further east in Shropshire, near the Staffs border. A woman we spoke with here said that soil-core tests done here date contemporary with Old Oswestry Hillfort; she was adamant that the inhabitants of the fort actually dwellt here, and only moved to the fort in times of threat.
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Hoarstones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Dec 2003
Hoarstones submitted by TimPrevett on 19th Dec 2003. At the Hoarstones (Shropshire) Meet 2003... Corndon Hill's ghostly figure to the rear!
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Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2004
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) submitted by TimPrevett on 6th Jan 2004. This is the more southerly of two hillforts in Shropshire named Caer Caradoc.
Looking N on the W Side, entrance in the foreground.
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Bury Ditches (Shropshire)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2004
Bury Ditches (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 6th Jan 2004. Bury Ditches is a wonderful example of a hillfort; the views are breathtaking, too. Until 1976, it was shrouded in trees - but a storm blew many of them down, and then the Forestry Commision felled the remainder of trees from the ramparts, revealing the oval-shape hillfort. Parking is to the south east side, where the fort is entered by a prolonged 'inturned entrance', adding additional chance of defence to any attackers breaching the fort's gateway. The more western entrance relies upon the usu...
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Titterstone Clee Camp
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Feb 2004
Titterstone Clee Camp submitted by TimPrevett on 14th Feb 2004. Sitting to the NEE of Ludlow, the imposing figure of Titterstone Clee upon which sits the hillfort at SO592779. On this very murky day the greyness lifted just enough for me to be able to grab this picture of its silhouette from the top of St Laurence's Church Tower in the centre of Ludlow.
Titterstone Clee Camp is the largest hillfort in Shropshire covering some 28 hectares, though parts of it are now lost due to 100 years plus quarrying, thankfully now ceased. Two cairns, one mounted by an ...
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Ludlow Museum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Feb 2004
Ludlow Museum submitted by TimPrevett on 14th Feb 2004. Ludlow Museum sits on the corner of the Marketplace, with Tourist Information within the same building (the cream coloured one). If visiting out of season, phone up to enquire about opening hours as it is closed for much of the time. We were disappointed to find the museum closed when we visited, so do check.
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Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2004
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Apr 2004. Former Location of Shrewsbury Museum
SJ488126
It boasts a small but captivating prehistory collection dating back to
12,000 BC; microliths, neolithic axe heads from Graig Lwyd (North Wales),
Corndon Hill (Shropshire, near Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle) and Langdale
Pike (Cumbria); Bronze Age metalwork and 'primitive log boats' also feature.
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