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Maiden Castle (Dorset)
Date Added: 10th Jun 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2010. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by baz on 13th Jul 2002. Part of the southern defences.
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 10th Jun 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Stonehenge. submitted by TimPrevett on 27th Dec 2010. Winter Solstice 2010
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Log Text: The monument's too well-known! Always too busy, and partly on account of that you're rarely allowed anywhere it. It really takes away from the atmosphere. On the other hand, it does still make for a pleasant trip.
Buckland Rings
Date Added: 11th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Buckland Rings submitted by JimChampion on 8th Oct 2006. A late summer/early autumn view along the southern edge of the earthworks: the triple banks are quite densely wooded with beech and oak. There are permissive paths through this field, and near the white horses there is a gate leading to a path up through the ramparts to the interior.
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Log Text: I have been here more times than I care to mind, as Buckland Rings is less than half a mile from my parents' front door in Lymington. The grassy interior and the wooded ramparts are nice, of course, and a welcome habitat for wild rabbits and foxes which are often highly visible. However the ambience is ruined by a number of factors - chief among them proximity to the main road and a rather musically inclined power station. It is a fairly popular spot for strolling or walking the dog for many local people - which would be nice save for the ubiquitous litter which comes as a consequence. Preservation is for the most part fairly good, though not exceptional; the ramparts still stand pretty tall on some sides, however in other places they have been almost completely levelled. Overall the site does leave a fair bit to be desired; it's not particularly worth a visit - the New Forest has plenty of other prehistoric attractions which have a far better feel to them. On the other hand - I keep going back...
Shirley Holms
Date Added: 11th Jun 2012
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Shirley Holms submitted by JimChampion on 13th Mar 2005. View of the most obvious barrow in this group of four, from another hidden in gorse bushes.
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Log Text: Lovely spot. I remember crouching among the bracken on top of one of the barrows watching a pretty girl take her horse through its paces. :P I brought my story with me when I came back later - the place is full of inspiration as soon as you put your back to the road and look out across the Heath. The scene has coloured my vision of more inhabited parts of the New Forest in later prehistory ever since.