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Common Fields
Trip No.2 Entry No.13 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The Plains)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Common Fields submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Common Fields Site just south east of Ste Genevieve, MO. This mound is all that is left of a small Mississippian village. This view is from the railroad grade just west of the mound.
Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007.
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Common Fields
Date Added: 25th Aug 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The Plains)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Common Fields submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Common Fields Site just south east of Ste Genevieve, MO. This mound is all that is left of a small Mississippian village. This view is from the railroad grade just west of the mound.
Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007.
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Log Text: Used the mound as a backdrop for a series of photographs I took leading up to the total solar eclipse at 1318, 21 Aug 2017. On a previous visit it appeared that a farm road north of the mound was the closest access point (one could drive as far as the railroad,) but the county road south of the mound is a far better view point.
Columbia Hills State Park
Date Added: 11th Oct 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The West)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Columbia Hills State Park submitted by Flickr on 29th Sep 2015. She Who Watches Petroglyph Image copyright: Lorene Flaming, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: There were no tours to the "She Who Watches" figure on the day we were visiting, but we were able to see many other examples of rock art. Well worth a visit.
Cliffs End Ring Ditch
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Cliffs End Ring Ditch submitted by bat400 on 17th Mar 2012. Archaeologists escavate the site of a prehistoric teen girl's grave in Kent, England.
Copyright © 2011 Archaeological Field School.
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Circleville
Date Added: 9th Mar 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Circleville submitted by bat400 on 21st Jan 2013. Local historian Wallace Higgins suspects that the slight rise on the south side of Franklin Street may be the remnant of the square earthwork.
Photo by bat400, August 2011.
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Chysauster Fogou
Date Added: 4th Aug 2017
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Chysauster Fogou submitted by enkidu41 on 26th Apr 2004. SW 4720 3483
Only 2 roofing lintels remain of this fogou associated with Chysauster Courtyard House village. The English Heritage response to the cost of restoration is sadly predictable.
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Chysauster
Date Added: 4th Aug 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Chysauster submitted by cromagnonman on 2nd Mar 2011. Part of Chysauster taken at sunrise. Spring 2011
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Chrysler Enclosure
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
Chrysler Enclosure submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2007. Chrysler Enclosure, Henry County, IN.
Circular Earthwork Enclosure.
An earthen ring thrown up on the outside of a circular ditch, about 30 ft dia. The ditch is broken by an entry way sited to align the center of the enclosure with the winter solstice sunrise.
Photo by bat400 Oct 2006.
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Chotuna-Chornancap
Date Added: 25th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Chotuna-Chornancap submitted by bat400 on 17th Sep 2012. Depiction of Naymlap arriving at Chotuna-Chornancap on his balsa raft.
Naymlap, gold plaque, Chimu 1000-1450 A.D.
Photo by wikipedian user: Paname-IV, copyright holder
Date: 31 Dec 2010
Source: Lombards Museum.
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
Site in Peru
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Chinchero
Date Added: 25th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Chinchero submitted by Jurgen on 5th Dec 2006. Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cusco, Peru.
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Chavín de Huantar
Date Added: 9th Oct 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chavín de Huantar submitted by sophs74 on 22nd Aug 2011. Tunnels inside the pyramid at Chavin de Huantar, Huaraz, Peru
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Chankillo Fortress
Date Added: 28th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Chankillo Fortress submitted by bat400 on 15th Nov 2018. The Chankillo hilltop "Fortress" with its concentric walls and the thirteen sighting towers in the valley beyond and to the left in this picture.
Photo by bat400.
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Chankillo - 13 Towers
Date Added: 28th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Peru
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Chankillo - 13 Towers submitted by sophs74 on 22nd Aug 2011. Chanquillo Solar Observatory Towers, in the desert near Casma, Peru
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Chan Chan
Date Added: 28th Sep 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Saw from a distance on 6th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2
Chan Chan submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Dec 2009. However large part of Chimu capital is in very poor condition now, the area of Tschudi Palace with ornaments made in clay is restored (photo taken on July 2003).
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Chaco Culture NHP - Una Vida
Date Added: 29th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Chaco Culture NHP - Una Vida submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2012. A view of the Great House ruin from the cliffside to the north east. Fajada Butte is in the distance.
Photo by bat400.
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Log Text: Atmospheric, and has great views of Fajada Butte (somewhat marred by a view of the rear of the visitor's center). I was there as the sun was starting to set. The site is actually built on a fairly obvious slope above the canyon floor. Since it is mostly in an unexcavated or backfilled state, a trail guide is very helpful.
The petroglyph panel is further up the slop into the lower margin of the cliffs. The view from that location gives you a better appreciation for the Great House layout.
Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo del Arroyo
Date Added: 29th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo del Arroyo submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2012. A view of the Great House taken from the cliffs on the north side of the canyon.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo Bonito
Date Added: 1st Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo Bonito submitted by bat400 on 25th May 2012. Pueblo Bonito Great House, taken from the cliff edge directly north of the site. Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Log Text: An amazing site, the absolute must-see for anyone visiting the park. In the morning I was on a hike that took me to the cliff top above Pueblo Bonita for a striking "aerial" view. By the afternoon, the site was overcast. I think the structure would be particularly beautiful early or late in the day with full sun creating shadows as you walk through the vacant rooms.
The trail through the site limits you by which rooms you can enter, but you can completely circuit the outer wall of the pueblo and there is access to most of the plazas and many rooms in the eastern portion. You can linger as long as you like during daylight hours. Various masonary techniques and architectural styles can be seen in the complex.
Park ranger tours are available several times a day during high season, see the website for the National Park. An inexpensive guide is also available as you enter the site, or from the Visitor's Center. Wheel chair access is possible for a portion of the site's walking trail, but the path is sand or gravel, not paved. Large chair tires or an assistant would be necessary.
Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo Alto
Date Added: 1st Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Chaco Culture NHP - Pueblo Alto submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2012. One of the larger standing walls of the ruin. Most of the structure has been backfilled for its protection.
Photo by bat400.
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Log Text: I decided to hike directly to the site and back using the park service trail (which also includes a loop on the mesa top with an overlook of the Chetro Ketl site and a view of the Jackson Staircase, an ancient stairway carved into the cliff.)
Pueblo Alto has had minimal excavations. The southwestern portion has the most exposed and intact portions, and the walls there show broad stone blocks separated by thin bands of tabular stone. But, the entire site can be circled, seeing the layout of the rooms and central plaza. If you feel the need to cross the mound of the rooms to the central plaza (not expressly forbidden, but definitely discouraged) please follow a path that has already been made, and don't step on the structures stones.
From the northern room blocks there are signs identifying Huerfano Mountain on the horizon in the direction of a northern Chaco road that led toward Chacoan communities on the San Jaun River.
The most difficult part of this hike (which took two and a half hours to walk to Pueblo Alta, New Alta and back, with stops for photography and viewing Pueblo Bonito from the cliff edge) was getting up on the mesa from the trailhead (and back down). From the trailhead parking area, you walk on a flat track to Kin Kletso. Then directly behind that site you go straight up the cliff, following a marked but tightly switch backed climb over boulders for about 40 feet high. The last bit of this is unsupported on the west side (sheer drop off,) but you'd really have to be flailing around to make it dangerous. At this point you can see where the trail goes up a crack behind the cliff face. Although this too is over boulders, you are in the shade and have the cliff walls on both sides until you emerge at the top, 140 feet off the canyon floor.
The trail goes over bare rock along the edge of the cliff (following small cairns) and then turns north toward the two mesa top Great Houses. You have to climb up one more terrace (again, over boulders - tough on my short legs) and then the path is very obvious, through the sage brush and clumps of wildflowers (blooming in April). The total elevation change from the canyon floor appears to be about 250 feet, but if you are a flat lander, it seems like more than that.
Follow the park guidelines and take plenty of water (even if you end up bringing some of it back with you), where a hat and decent walking shoes/boots. I would say a long sleeve cotton shirt is a must, and I also took a jacket (just in case.) The temperature was actually fairly cool, but the only shade was when you are going up the crack in the cliff, so it felt quite warm.
The park service makes this portion of the trail as easy as possible with markers at turns and occasionally placing placards by objects of interest. These include exposed fossils, two bedrock grinding bowls, actual stairs created by the Chacoans, and a portion of ancient roadway showing the stone cerb. I also saw a fairly obvious spiral petroglyph on a boulder.
Chaco Culture NHP - New Alto
Date Added: 28th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Chaco Culture NHP - New Alto submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2012. New Alto.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Log Text: A large raven flew from Pueblo Alto, left, to perch on the walls of New Alto as I approached. (Dexter to my path ... had I been an ancient Roman, I might have turned around and went away...)
A little eerie, as this ruin stands on the edge of a flat sagebrush plain north of Chaco Canyon. Only a portion of the structure has walls standing above the mound that encases the majority of it. You are actually seeing the walls of the second floor of the building.
See my site log for Pueblo Alto (http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=15539) for what the trail was like to get up to New Alto from the canyon floor.
Chaco Culture NHP - Kin Kletso
Date Added: 29th May 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Chaco Culture NHP - Kin Kletso submitted by bat400 on 1st Jun 2012. View from a resting place halfway up the cliff just north of the site.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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