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Normanton Down
Date Added: 25th Feb 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake on 14th May 2010. The Normanton Down barrow that is due SW of Stonehenge, looms on the ridge to your left as you head north towards the A303.
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Lake Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 25th Feb 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lake Barrow Cemetery submitted by Andy B on 16th May 2010. Wilsford Down
One of a multitude of tumuli in the vicinity.
Copyright Andrew Smith and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Mother Anthony's Well
Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 1
Mother Anthony's Well submitted by Jansold on 19th Mar 2019. Scramble through the undergrowth to find more of a boggy patch than a spring. But nice views of Oliver's Castle in getting there...
And nobody knows who Mother Anthony was.
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All Saints (Alton Priors)
Date Added: 16th Aug 2020
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
All Saints (Alton Priors) submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2007. The holed sarsen stone, beneath the trapdoor to the right, near the rear of the church.
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St. Peter's Pump
Date Added: 4th Nov 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Nov 2020. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
St. Peter's Pump submitted by KiwiBetsy on 3rd Sep 2006. St Peter’s Pump with view towards the National Trust’s Stourhead Garden sheltered by the trees in the distance.
The site can be accessed from Stourhead Garden where it sits up the valley at the head of the series of lakes. It could also be reached from the road near King Alfred’s Tower where it can be glimpsed through the roadside trees.
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Whitby Cross
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Whitby Cross submitted by Jansold on 17th Jun 2013. Whitby Cross, adjacent to abbey car park
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Roche-aux-Fées (Essé)
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Roche-aux-Fées (Essé) submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Sep 2004. Roches Aux Fees viewed from North West
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Ménec alignements
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ménec alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Ménec alignements, north of Carnac, Brittany, France.
View of the Ménec alignements as they were in summer 1987, when you could walk amongst them before they were fenced off, and with an awful lot of erosion going on around them.
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Wassu Stone Circles
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Gambia
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1988. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Wassu Stone Circles submitted by paulcall on 14th Feb 2009. This circle has the largest diameter of any at Wassu
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Keltenwelt am Glauberg
Date Added: 7th Sep 2016
Site Type: Museum
Country: Germany (Hesse)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Keltenwelt am Glauberg submitted by Harald_Platta on 6th Apr 2015. Keltenwelt am Glauberg - museum near the tumulus of the "Lord of Glauberg".
© Platta 2013
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Glauberg Fürstengrabhügel
Date Added: 7th Sep 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Germany (Hesse)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Glauberg Fürstengrabhügel submitted by AlexHunger on 6th Jun 2006. Celtic Chieftains Tumulus in Glauberg dating to 500 BCE, just south of the Hillfort. The site was discovered in 1988 when anomalies showed up on the aerial photography. The content of the tumulus had drifted into the henge like ditch and processional way suroounding the mound and leading South. The grave in the middle was empty, but artifacts, in particular a complete life sized limestone statue were found in two other graves within the ditch. The mound was restored afterwards.
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Knossos
Date Added: 28th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Greece (Crete)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Knossos submitted by Thorgrim on 12th Nov 2004. The Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete. Dating from the Minoan Bronze Age, the first palace was built around 2000BC and subsequently destroyed by earthquake. This later palace from the Neopalatial period had 1,200 rooms on five levels. In 1450 BC, it too was destroyed in a disaster caused by the volcanic eruption on Thera (Santorini) which destroyed that island and the Minoan civilisation. The restoration is by Sir Arthur Evans who commenced excavation in 1900.
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Arkoudiotissa Cave
Date Added: 5th Feb 2014
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Greece (Crete)
Visited: Yes on 5th Feb 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Arkoudiotissa Cave submitted by jansold on 31st Jan 2014. Inside Arkoudiotissa cave
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Tikal
Date Added: 19th Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Guatemala
Visited: Yes on 28th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Tikal submitted by C_Michael_Hogan on 29th Apr 2008. Site in Guatemala
Tikal's Temple I, consisting of stepped-pyramid topped with a temple with roof comb.
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Althing
Date Added: 1st Jul 2013
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Iceland
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Althing submitted by DrewParsons on 10th May 2010. The Law Rock or Lögrétta is a high rock on European side of the chasm and was the site from which laws were passed and trials conducted. April 2010.
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Qutab Minar Complex
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: India
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 1998. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Qutab Minar Complex submitted by DrewParsons on 14th Dec 2009. The Qutab Minar Tower photographed in November 2009
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Pasargadae
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pasargadae submitted by SolarMegalith on 29th Sep 2010. Columns in ruins of Audience Palace (photo taken on April 2007).
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Naghsh-e-Rostam
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Naghsh-e-Rostam submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Oct 2006. It is known that the tomb at the right (with the scaffolding) is that of Darius I also known as Darius the Great. Other kings probably interred nearby are Xerxes I, Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III. Darius I lived from 550 until 486BC and ruled Persia from 521BC until his death at which time the Persian Empire was probably at it’s peak.
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Persepolis
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Persepolis submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Oct 2006. View of Persepolis taken from near one of three rock tombs on a terrace behind the site.
Site known as Takhet Jamshid in Persian
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Tomb of Cyrus
Date Added: 27th Sep 2014
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2013
Tomb of Cyrus submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. The six tiered Tomb of King Cyrus.
Site in Iran
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