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Stoke Flat
Date Added: 13th Feb 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Stoke Flat submitted by PaulM on 1st Sep 2001. Froggatt Edge stone circle (aka Stoke Flat), Derbyshire GR: SK249768
Froggatt Edge stone circle is set on a flat shelf, overlooking the picturesque Derwent Valley.
Often referred to as Stoke Flat, the site is complex, though now sadly quite ruined. It consists of an embanked stone circle with two entrances exactly opposite, to the north-north-west and south-south-east. Traces of dry-stone walling in the northern entrance suggest that it may have been deliberately blocked at some time in p...
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Batcombe Hollow north stone
Date Added: 26th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Batcombe Hollow north stone submitted by dawntreader on 7th Oct 2012. Standing stone at the north end of Batcombe Hollow with dew pond in the background.
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Rolstone
Date Added: 26th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rolstone submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Jan 2018. Near Cannaway's Farm, this stone stands in the middle of a field.
Apologies for awful picture. It was a miserable wet and misty day, and the batteries on my camera had died, so this was taken from the fieldgate on my phone.
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Wook's Quoit
Date Added: 26th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wook's Quoit submitted by soulsurfer on 4th Nov 2009. Wooks Quoit. Yarberry farm. October 2008
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.4 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Antler picks, Greenwell Pit, Grimes Graves
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Log Text: It's worth bearing in mind that to see much underground you will need to enter the shaft on hands and knees, so dress accordingly. The temperature is about 10C.
The flint was mined from the chalk using red deer antlers that had been naturally shed - the antler material is hardest when just shed.
There are two other pits which have been entered by the public on the site - one which is now closed was the one open to the public in the 1960s and 70s, and the current public access pit, Pit One.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.3 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Descent into Greenwell Pit - ladder
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Log Text: Unlike the public access pit this one will generally be via restricted ticketing, the event I was at was a members event. The English Heritage description of the event
thanks to a new winch and harness system we can now access Greenwell’s Pit and see a mining shaft in its original archaeological state.
Join our Neolithic expert Will Lord and discover the history and archaeology of the site before he leads the descent in to the newly opened pit.
This event has been graded as challenging access as the descent in to the pit is by winch and harness only and will require an extended period underground.
made it sound like we were going to abseil into the pit, but although visitors are kitted up with a harness and attached to a winch with a breakaway cable, this is only a safety requirement in case someone slips or has a heart attack underground, entry is quite conventional, down a steel ladder.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.2 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Grazing sheep used to keep the English Heritage site of Grimes Graves clear of trees and brushwood
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Log Text: There’s not much to see above ground at Grimes Graves, this is a mine, after all, so all the action happened underground. The surface is pockmarked by depressions where the backfill has settled, and sheep are used to keep the ground clear.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.1 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. One of the radial shafts at Grimes, Graves, Greenwell Pit. Originally the floor would have been covered in flint
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Log Text: English Heritage have opened up a new pit to occasional public access. Greenwell Pit is one of the 433 on the Grimes Graves neolithic flint mine site at Grimes Graves. I was on the first public descent into this pit – it had of course been opened and entered before by archaeologists, but the 6th April was the first time it had been opened to the public.
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Hart Leap Stones
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Hart Leap Stones submitted by kelpie on 7th Jul 2002. Said to mark the dying leap of a hunted hart these are probably the remains of a stone row. NZ 73476 03555
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Blue Man-i'-th'-Moss Standing Stone.
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Blue Man-i'-th'-Moss Standing Stone. submitted by Bladup on 28th Jan 2014. Blue Man-i''-th''-Moss Standing Stone.
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Kerlescan Alignements
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2002
Kerlescan alignements submitted by ermine on 10th Sep 2002. View of the Kerlescan alignments at Carnac.
The alignments are formed of rows of standing stones running for several hundred yards approximately E/W Panorama is taken from the NW
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Ménec alignements
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2002
Ménec alignements submitted by ermine on 10th Sep 2002. View of the Carnac Alignments from Le Menec village at the western end. The alignments consist of up to twelve rows of menhirs extending for almost a kilometre
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Clendy Steinalleen
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Switzerland (Waadt)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2004
Clendy Steinalleen submitted by ermine on 23rd Jun 2004. Alignment of standing stones at the southern end of Lac Neuchatel, Switzerland near Yverdon-Les_Bains. Two lines of standing stones intersect, roughly at the camera POV. As well as the straight lines, there is a semicircle of stones. For more details see http://www.megalithia.com/sites/4678n0666e.html
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Grandson Menhir
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Switzerland (Waadt)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Grandson Menhir submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Grandson Menhir
See megalith map entry
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Kerran Dolmens
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Kerran dolmens submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Kerran
47.598N 2.988W
This is one of two dolmens near the intersection of the D28 with the D781 (the other is more dilapidated)
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Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer)
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Les Pierres Plates
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La Table des Marchands
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
La Table des Marchands submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Table des Marchands - carving in capstone
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Luffang Allée Couverte
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Luffang Allée Couverte submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. 47.61309N 3.024552W
This passage-grave contained unique artwork on the end stone, now preserved in Carnac museum. Signposted at the site as Allee Couverte
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Grand Menhir Brisé
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Grand Menhir Brisé submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Grand Menhir Brisé, Locmariaquer.
A megalithic tragedy.
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Degernau Menhir
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2004
Degernau Menhir submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Menhir of Degernau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
47.66380N 8.401683E
lovely setting on the crest of a rise with a commanding view
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