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White Horse Stone
Date Added: 12th Nov 2016
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2014
White Horse Stone submitted by hengest on 28th Mar 2013. Someone has painted "runic" symbols on the stone in red paint.
Image credit: Hengest
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Log Text: Coldrum/Kits Coty/White Horse Stone. All possible (just) in one day.
Tinkinswood
Date Added: 12th Nov 2016
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2014
Tinkinswood 2 submitted by coldrum on 5th Nov 2011. Archaeological Dig November 2011
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Log Text: Muddy track, BIG capstone.
Well worth a visit!
Ruines de Bobastro
Date Added: 26th Mar 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Ruines de Bobastro submitted by Flickr on 9th Dec 2015. Ruinas de Bobastro (siglos IX-X) Site in Andalucía Spain
Ardales (Málaga) Image copyright: -Kaesar- (César Rubio), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Long walk up and down a damaged pathway; but worth it.
Remember to take water with you on a hot day, the journey is hot and stony.
Super scrambling around on Bobastro. Loads of things (holes and caves & stuff) to see. One wonders what it was like in the dungeon though, slightly weird feelings about what scenes may have played out here one the eons.
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer)
Date Added: 23rd May 2023
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Access 4
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Les Pierres Plates
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Log Text: Fabulous vista. Unfortunate is wired off but you can get close if you want.
Peyrefitte
Date Added: 22nd May 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Aquitaine:Gironde (33))
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Peyrefitte submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jan 2006. Large menhir near to the Dordogne river in the commune of St-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens in Gironde.
This is said to be the largest standing stone in southwest France, (but not the tallest) and it is 5.2 metres tall, 3 metres wide and less than a metre thick, with the bottom part of it chipped away to make the distinctive shape.
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Log Text: Awesome spectacle and the hole has a hollow sound if tapped. I played a little drum solo.
Big stone.
Pentre Ifan
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2014
Pentre Ifan submitted by thebeer on 2nd Dec 2006. Fantastic place with loads of atmosphere. You can see and feel why this place was selected by its builders.
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Log Text: Iconic day!
Moel Ty Uchaf
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Denbighshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015
Moel Ty Uchaf submitted by Bladup on 9th Oct 2014. Moel Ty Uchaf.
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Log Text: Wonderful day. Special moments.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37511372@N08/24486757185
Merrivale Stone Slabs 1 and 2
Date Added: 13th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2016
Merrivale Stone Slabs 1 and 2 submitted by AngieLake on 1st May 2009. Slab 1 with the hole in it, here looking towards the SW and the standing stone in the distance.
(A separate photo will show the hole in close-up).
Jack Walker says that this hole and the menhir align with the place on the horizon where the winter solstice sun sets. He wonders if this is the original Winter solstice sunset alignment at Merrivale.
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Log Text: Short walk from the road, the line begins and leads to the distance.
Its said during the plague, victims would camp out here and be brought food by their relatives. Grim stuff.
Kit's Coty.
Date Added: 26th Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2014. My rating: Access 4
Kit's Coty. submitted by bec-zog on 8th Oct 2003. Kits Coty : Remains of burial chamber : Kent
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Log Text: Beaut. Very cute.
Gorafe 140
Date Added: 24th Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gorafe 140 submitted by markhewins on 23rd Mar 2018. GORAFE 140
With the Almond tree in Blossom, Gorafe and Sierra Nevada in the background
Original - https://flic.kr/p/FJXhXk
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Log Text: Beautiful set of (tribal family?) Burial sites.
Wonderful ambience with a huge arc of time hanging in the air.
Wonderful and majestic location, we'll be visiting again.
Gorafe 134
Date Added: 24th Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gorafe 134 submitted by markhewins on 23rd Mar 2018. GORAFE 134
Panorama:
Bit of a vertiginous walk up from the car park but nothing to worry about if you keep your balance! Some of the (recent) steps are crumbly but there are several routes to get to it. Neolithic monument panorama Image copyright: more Mark Hewins (MARK HEWINS), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: The best preserved of the set on the road into Gorafe and although a bit of a scramble up from the car park but a privilege to visit.
Dolmen Gorafe 108
Date Added: 13th Nov 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dolmen Gorafe 108 submitted by baz on 3rd Nov 2016. Site in Andalucía Spain
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Dolmen Cerro de la Corona
Date Added: 26th Mar 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dolmen Cerro de la Corona submitted by markhewins on 22nd Feb 2016. Length detail
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Log Text: Nice walk up the hill and a great panorama, very chilled out even though the site was a wreck, never disappointing.
Cueva del Romeral
Date Added: 24th Mar 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Cueva del Romeral submitted by ShamrockStone on 14th Dec 2015. Dolmen de El Romenal
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Log Text: Astounding, unusual, easy and stunning.
Cromeleque da Portela de Mogos
Date Added: 22nd Jan 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cromeleque da Portela de Mogos submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Nov 2019. There are about 40 stones, and again many are beautifully shaped and have motifs carved onto them.
I am alone here in this lovely wooded place, and think that this is perhaps my favourite place of all my visits
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Clach An Truishal
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 7th Nov 2016
Clach An Truishal submitted by markhewins on 7th Nov 2016. Nice day, sea calm, huge stone!
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Log Text: Beautiful still day.
BIG stone!
Chestnuts
Date Added: 26th Mar 2018
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Chestnuts submitted by enkidu41 on 8th Apr 2004. The stones are massive (the 2 capstones and some uprights weigh up to 10 tons) and once formed a rectangular chamber 12' long and 7' high entered through a facade of sarsen stones. The owner will suggest you try dowsing rods. Do so, because you will be able to trace out the full extent of the chamber and long gone mound. TQ 652 592
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Log Text: Joan taught us to dowse.
Callanish 8
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2016
Callanish 8 submitted by Postman on 28th Aug 2016. From the other side of the misty bridge, if you like bridges this one's a good one, it was the first example of a bridge made of pre-stressed concrete girders in the country. Though why anyone would be daft enough to travel the country for years on end spending thousands of pounds just looking at bridges is beyond me.
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Log Text: The old man of the Loch
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Callanish 4
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2016
Callanish 4 submitted by markhewins on 7th Nov 2016. Sunset at the site, all 5 stones.
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Log Text: Ceann Hulavig at sunset.
Classic stones respect moment.
Callanish
Date Added: 11th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2016
Callanish I submitted by chrispy on 2nd Jan 2010. Callanish 1 june 2009 at sunset showing the central circle
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Log Text: Super blustery day.
Too many people tho'.
We'' be back in the camper van in the winter.