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Cairnholy 8
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 8 submitted by markj99 on 12th Jun 2025. Cairnholy 8 Carved Stone viewed from SSE.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 8 Carved Stone is located in the centre of a large grass field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy Farm. There are only 2 small eroded. cup carvings on the flat N half of the top of the stone. Directions are included in the main page.
Cairnholy 9
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 9 submitted by SolarMegalith on 13th Sep 2013. Cluster of simple cup-marks on Cairnholy 9 panel (photo taken on September 2013).
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Log Text: Cairnholy 9 Carved Panel is one of the easiest Cairnholy Rock Art sites to find due to its location under a hawthorn tree in rough pasture. A cluster of cups are carved on top of a rounded stone embedded in turf.
Access to the panel can be restricted by aggressive beef cattle in the vicinity.
Cairnholy 11
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 11 submitted by markj99 on 10th Apr 2025. Cairnholy 11 Cup Carved Panel viewed from ENE.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 11 Carved Panel is located in the NW corner of a rocky knoll on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 miles N of Cairnholy Farm. It is c. 6 feet E of the stone wall marking the field boundary. 8 small cup markings are geometrically arranged in 2 parallel lines of 4 equally spaced cups are carved in the centre of a rounded slab.
Cairnholy 12
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 12 submitted by markj99 on 11th Apr 2025. W Double Cup & Ring Carving on Cairnholy 12 Carved Panel.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 12 Carved Panel is one of 6 panels of rock art carvings on a rocky knoll on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy Farm. The most obvious feature is a double cup marking on the W end of the panel.
Cairnholy 14
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 14 submitted by markj99 on 11th Apr 2025. S Cup Carvings on Cairnholy 14 Cup Carved Panel (20p Coins for Scale).
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Log Text: Cairnholy 14 Carved Panel is c. 3 feet E of Cairnholy 4 in the NE corner of the outcrop. It contains 2 cup carvings several inches E of 2 natural depressions in the S Half of the panel.
Cairnholy 4
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Cairnholy 4 submitted by markj99 on 10th Apr 2025. Cairnholy 4,11,12&14 Carved Panels viewed from ENE.
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Log Text: The Cup and Ring Carving on Cairnholy 4 is one of the most obvious of all the rock art on this rocky knoll adjacent to the W stone wall of a large field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy Farm. It is c. 130 yards SW of a natural knoll in the centre of the field.
Cairnholy 15
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 15 submitted by markj99 on 13th Jun 2025. Cairnholy 15 Carved Panel viewed from ENE.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 15 Carved Panel is probably the the least impressive of all the panels on this rocky outcrop, however an eroded cup and ring marking and a shallow cup carving obscured by white lichen can be found on panel, c. 6 feet SE of Cairnholy 13 at the SE foot of the knoll.
Cairnholy 13
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 13 submitted by markj99 on 12th Jun 2025. Enhanced Grooves on SW of Cairnholy 13 Carved Panel.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 13 Carved Panel is located on a rock outcrop c. 10 feet from a stone wall on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy farm. It is c. 130 yards SE of a natural knoll in the centre of the field. There are multiple carved panels of varying quality on this location. Cairnholy 4,11-15 Carved Panels are all listed separately on TMP.
Badristrane 3
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Badristrane 3 submitted by markj99 on 11th Jun 2025. Bardristane 3 Carved Stone viewed from ENE. (03.06.25)
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Log Text: It is some kind of miracle that these cup carvings were discovered in a rocky field c. 0.5 mile N of Bardristane Farm: Maarten van Hoek was systematically searching for Rock Art on Bardristane in 1993 when he found these eroded cup carvings. They are unimpressive but they exist as remnants of ancient people.
Castle O'er Fort
Date Added: 16th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Castle O'er Fort submitted by durhamnature on 8th Oct 2012. Photo from Report of Commission on Monuments via archive.org
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Log Text: Hillforts are one of my least favourite type of sites: it takes time and effort to investigate all the humps and hollows. Castle O'er Hillfort is no exception. I arrived at a satisfactory understanding after an hour of wandering up and down.
Thetford Castle
Date Added: 16th Jun 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2017
Thetford Castle submitted by Runemage on 10th Jul 2010. Thetford Castle Hillfort
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Log Text: Thetford Castle is an amalgam of an ancient Iron Age fort built in c. 450 BC and a less ancient Norman Motte and Bailley constructed in c. 1075 within the Iron Age Outer Rampart & Ditch defences. The best view of the Iron Age remains is from the summit of the central mound.
The Table Stone of Castallack
Date Added: 16th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Table Stone of Castallack submitted by Bladup on 9th Feb 2023. The Table Stone of Castallack, was it it's own standing stone, part of the standing stone in the next field to the west or part of a possible cairn in the next field to the south or even something else?
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Log Text: I found this recumbent stone when visiting the nearby standing stone but was unsure of its antiquity. It looks like a naked capstone but there are no other stones in the vicinity and the ground is flat. I think the stone is too heavy to be moved so it is probably in its original position.
Castallack standing stone
Date Added: 14th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Castallack standing stone submitted by enkidu41 on 29th Aug 2004.
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Log Text: Castallack Standing Stone is in a field c. 150 NE of Castallack Farm. There is a narrow passing place c. 100 yards NE of Castallack Farm where careful parking is possible. A gateway opposite leads into a field. Castallack Standing Stone is c. 50 yards ENE of the gateway.
Castallack Round
Date Added: 14th Jun 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Castallack Round submitted by Bladup on 21st Jul 2016. Another view of the Large upright stones to the North East of the South East entrance at Castallack Round.
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Log Text: One of my pet hates is a footpath off a narrow lane with no parking available. A footpath starts at Castallack Farm on a narrow Cornish lane. I parked carefully opposite the footpath in front of 2 houses. Follow the footpath NW for c. 350 yards to Castallack Round: depending on the season the SE entrance may be blocked by vegetation.
Castallack Carn
Date Added: 14th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 1
Castallack Carn submitted by hamish on 2nd Jul 2005. This is an interesting feature,maybe it was from places like this that Cap Stones were taken.there is a small cave here.This is not far from the footpath.
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Log Text: More than 10 years have elapsed since my visit to Castallack Carn Standing Stone. It is located at SW 44740 25374, between Castallack Round and an abandoned quarry. GPS navigation and persistence are required to find this stone hidden in shrubbery.
Cashtal-yn-Ard
Date Added: 14th Jun 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Isle of Man)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cashtal-yn-Ard submitted by TimPrevett on 24th Jun 2015. A low shot atCashtal yn Ard tomb, 31st July 2014, taking in the flowers and the mountains. Magnificent place. We were here over an hour and had it to ourselves. A very exposed location in hard rain and very lovely in warm sunshine, both of which we had in the time here.
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Log Text: Despite the narrow single track road to Cashtal yn Ard and difficult parking this ancient monument is a must visit. I approached Cashtal yn Ard from the SE passing by a ruined cottage. It is one of the most impressive multi-chambered cairns I have ever seen. On my visit the site was well maintained. I was lucky to have half an hour alone with these intriguing stones in good weather.
Carwynnen Quoit
Date Added: 14th Jun 2025
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 26th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carwynnen Quoit submitted by Andy B on 28th Jun 2016. RIP Sustrust's Founder and Heroine Pip Richards.
Beverley Hollyoake wrote: Pip a much loved wife, mother and grandmother passed away peacefully at Mount Edgecombe Hospice surrounded by the love of her family on Saturday 7th May 2016 aged just sixty five. Her family are deeply saddened by their loss, Pip was the bright spark in all their lives.
They draw some comfort at this difficult time in the knowledge that Pip had lived a rich and full life on her own terms whilst enriching the liv...
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Log Text: I visited Carwynnen Quoit 2 months after its reconstruction by a local group. The impressive restoration of this site gives hope for the future of many ruined sites.
Carreg Coetan Arthur
Date Added: 13th Jun 2025
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Carreg Coetan Arthur submitted by PaulM on 24th Aug 2001. CARREG COETAN ARTHUR TRIPOD DOLMEN
NGR: SN06093930 (Landranger map 145/Outdoor Leisure North Pembrokeshire map (No 35))
Located close to the centre of Newport in Pembrokeshire with public access. Although called a tripod dolmen four uprights exist - only two of which support the capstone (which is said to replicate the summit of Carn Ingli to the south).
Excavations have revealed cremated bone, Beaker and Grooved ware sherds.
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Log Text: Carreg Coetan Arthur Dolmen is enclosed by a hedge in Newport. It's survival in an urban development is against the odds so the existence of this small dolmen should be celebrated.
Carragh Bhan
Date Added: 13th Jun 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Islay)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carragh Bhan submitted by nicoladidsbury on 7th Sep 2004. Kintra Standing Stone on the Isle of Islay
Grid Ref: NR328478
The photo was taken at dawn as the sun was rising over the Eastern Fells.
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Log Text: Carragh Bhan Standing Stone is a substantial slab orientated NNE-SSW, located c. 10 yards W of the single track road from Port Ellen to Kintra Camp Site. There is a gateway to park in opposite the stone. It is well worth a short detour.
Carr Brae
Date Added: 13th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Carr Brae submitted by uisdean on 8th Feb 2007. Carr Brae (NG89782451). Cup marked boulder.
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Log Text: I found Carn Brae Carved Stone on a steep hillside c. 120 yards S of Carr Brae single track road which runs parallel to the A87 near Eilean Donan Castle. Take the right turn for Carr Brae (Viewpoint) off the A87 c. 0.4 mile N of Inverate Petrol Station. Follow the single track road for c. 1.8 miles to a lay-by at NG 8962 2463. Walk W for c. 200 yards to reach a croft on the right. Head S through rough pasture for c. 120 yards to Carn Brae Carved Stone at NG 89780 24509.