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Castle Ring (Staffordshire)
Date Added: 6th Nov 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Castle Ring (Staffordshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 5th Jan 2004. Castle Ring SK045128
Looking E / NE - despite Castle Ring being the highest part of Cannock Chase, the only part with a panoramic view, looks towards (Rugeley?) Power Station!
Castle Ring was actually recommended to me by a colleague at work who does not know of my stones / pre-history interest; she grew up in the Cannock area, and given we were making a trip to Stafford anyway, I'd heard that Cannock Chase was supposed to quite nice. Knowing that she grew up there, I
asked her if Cannock...
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Berryhill Fields
Date Added: 15th Jun 2021
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Berryhill Fields modern stone circle and amphitheatre submitted by Creative Commons on 19th Aug 2012. Stone Circle at Berryhill Fields
Berryhill fields - not far from the amphitheatre, on a grass path along from the "breaking the mould stature"
Installed: 2000
Background to the circle: Part of the restoration of the Berryhill fields after they had been saved from opencast mining.
Copyright Steven Birks and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Wetton Mill Rock Shelter
Date Added: 21st Nov 2021
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wetton Mill Rock Shelter submitted by stu on 23rd Sep 2004. SK0953 5615. Nan Tor or the Wetton Rock Shelter. Located above Wetton Mill Farm and the tearooms.
In use from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age.
Tricky access up a narrow steep path, on the western side of the Tor.
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Long Low
Date Added: 21st Nov 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Long Low submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2006. Looking along Long Low to the SSW. Two interesting things about Long Low: 1) It is the only long barrow in Staffordshire, and 2) It has rounded ends, which are either described as two round barrows, or as rounded terminals. This is very reminiscent of the Broadmayne Bank Barrow in Dorset. Drystone walling intersects it in several places, and I styal is incorporated into one of the western side walls.
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Cat Low
Date Added: 1st Dec 2021
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cat Low submitted by astronomer on 2nd Dec 2012. View of Callow Hill from NW as one climbs the hill from the rear of the churchyard.
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The Battle Stone (Ilam)
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Battle Stone (Ilam) submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Jul 2006. The Battle Stone - remains of an 11th Century Cross in the grounds of Ilam Hall. For most straightforward access, leave the church with the two Saxon Crosses, left to the river, then before the river turn right for a pleasant walk along its side. The cross is on the right hand side after about 10 minutes walking, as a wide meadow arcs to the left. The cross was not discovered until 1840, and the name, one must suppose, is down to the imagination of those who discovered it.
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St Mary and All Saints (Checkley)
Date Added: 1st May 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
St Mary and All Saints (Checkley) submitted by TimPrevett on 8th May 2007. The three 9th Century Anglo-Scandinavian cross shafts in Checkley Churchyard. One would be fine! A superb group, each around 5 feet tall. The church and churchyard are fascinating. If not open a key is available very nearby - mail me for details. An unusual Saxon font is at the rear of the church, as well as a good guidebook for £2 as of 08/05/07. The churchyard is very nearly completely circled by yew trees, most of them relatively juvenile, but a couple are noticeably larger in girth. On the ...
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Toot Hill Barrow (2)
Date Added: 3rd May 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Toot Hill Barrow (2) submitted by elad13 on 3rd May 2022. Toot Hill Barrow, has easy access to the site and is very well preserved even with the mature trees growing on it
2/5/2022
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St Mary (Rolleston on Dove)
Date Added: 12th May 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
St Mary (Rolleston on Dove) submitted by TimPrevett on 12th May 2007. With me for scale, against the remaining partial shaft and head of a 9th Century Wheeled Head cross.
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Hopestone ; Ipstones/Foxt ; Staffordshire
Date Added: 7th Jan 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gawton's Well
Date Added: 21st Mar 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Gawton's Well submitted by TimPrevett on 4th Nov 2008. Got around to visiting here yesterday, and it's brilliant. It's only 16 miles east for me, so returning won't be too much of an issue. Very atmospheric woodland and castle like folly neaby too. I wouldn't be surprised if therein lies a connection with the well.
The spring lies within a large circular wall, in varying states of collapse, and within that is an elipse of yew trees - reminiscent of the ring of trees in "Nightmare Before Christmas". If this were Wales I'd start thinking this was th...
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Gawton's Stone
Date Added: 21st Mar 2024
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Staffordshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Gawton's Stone submitted by Sunny100 on 12th May 2010. Gawton's Stone at SJ.898554/5
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Tarr Steps Prehistoric Bridge
Date Added: 26th Jan 2023
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Tarr Steps Prehistoric Bridge submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jan 2023. From BBC news, 13 Jan 2023
A section of an ancient footbridge has washed away following heavy rain.
Slabs from the middle of the Tarr Steps on Exmoor, near Withypool, washed downstream during recent flooding in Somerset.
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Stanton Drew NE Avenue
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2023
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Stanton Drew NE Avenue submitted by SandyG on 12th Jan 2018. Stone alignment approaching a stone circle.View from south east.
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Glastonbury Stone Circle
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Glastonbury Stone Circle submitted by dodomad on 25th Jun 2023. Glastonbury Carhenge 2023. The Mutoid Waste Company led by Joe Rush, who also built a Carhenge at Glastonbury Festival 36 years ago, have built a scrap car Stonehenge for this year’s festival. Some of the cars were painted by artists and environmentalists. Brilliant idea and execution!
Photo Credit: Amanda Chadburn
More photos linked in the comments - click on the yellow highlight and scroll down.
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Nesscliffe
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nesscliffe submitted by VirtHist on 15th Oct 2004. Nesscliffe hillfort.
Photo taken from a layby on the Nesscliffe A5 bypass heading southeast. The photo looks northeast.
This fort sits on top of a sandstone escarpment overlooking the Shropshire Plain. It is a D shaped fort with double-ditched inner and outer ramparts.
It's thought to be of mid-Iron Age construcrion but is known to have been in use in the 2nd and 4th Centuries AD.
The site is now a country park owned by Shropshire County Council and is well worth a visit simply to wa...
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Old Oswestry Fort
Date Added: 23rd Mar 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Oswestry Fort submitted by Bladup on 16th Jan 2016. Old Oswestry, western side looking north.
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Carreg y Big (Shropshire)
Date Added: 1st Mar 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Carreg y Big (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Jul 2004. This shows the stone just in front of the meeting of the three boundaries.
"The Big Stone", as this translates, is as about as Welsh as it can be whilst still just in England! The Welsh border is not far, and Offa's Dyke makes its presence felt less than a mile away.
The stone is on a south facing slope, leaning to the west, at the meeting of three boundaries - a fine example of a hoarstone, or boundary stone. The stone is carbonifeous limestone, and 6 feet tall by 4 by 3 approx. There is ...
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Whittington Castle
Date Added: 29th Mar 2022
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 1st Jan 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Mitchell's Fold submitted by w650marion on 21st Dec 2022. Mitchell’s Fold Circle for the setting sun on the winter solstice of 2022.
25 minutes before the event we had torrential rain and dark skies!
But then it cleared and it was quite lovely.
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