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Wells Cathedral
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Saw from a distance. My rating: Condition 5 Access 5
Wells Cathedral submitted by Anne T on 11th Jun 2019. The font in the south transept of Wells Cathedral, recorded as AS Corpus Wells 04, said to be from the original stone cathedral, dated to the 10th to 11th century and recorded as being in situ at this location since the 12th century. The font bowl is cylindrical and tubshaped, and is cut from a single block of Chalfield Oolit limestone. Over the centuries it has been partly recut and remodelled.
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Wayland's Smithy
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Wayland's Smithy submitted by Bladup on 8th Feb 2025. Wayland's Smithy, At Night
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Wallburg Wittekindsburg (Barkhausen)
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 1
Wallburg Wittekindsburg (Barkhausen) submitted by Creative Commons on 5th Jan 2016. „Wittekindsburg Wallrest“ von Benutzer:AxelHH - Foto aufgenommen von Benutzer:AxelHH. Lizenziert unter Gemeinfrei über Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wittekindsburg_Wallrest.jpg#/media/File:Wittekindsburg_Wallrest.jpg
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Vindolanda Roman Fort
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Saw from a distance. My rating: Condition 2 Access 5
Vindolanda Roman Fort submitted by dodomad on 8th Mar 2023. Rock art uncovered by the Border Reivers Archaeology Unit at a remote location near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland may be an ancient phallic symbol
More details in the comments on our main page.
Photo credit: Border Reivers Archaeology Unit
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Upwey Wishing Well
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Would like to visit
Upwey Wishing Well submitted by TimPrevett on 21st May 2005. The gorgeous setting of Upwey Wishing Well. See the main entry for details. I have tested the water for ailments of the feet - a badly sprained ankle dipped for about 10 seconds on 5 occasions. Wonderfully refreshing cold flowing water to swollen and bruised tendons, but have had nothing miraculous!
This view looks downstream.
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Uffington White Horse
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Uffington White Horse submitted by SteveC on 15th Jun 2020. Unable to be seen in it's entirety from the ground, this is an image taken from a drone.
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Uffington Castle
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 3
Uffington Castle submitted by Bladup on 9th Feb 2025. Uffington Castle, In the ditch
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Tisbury Circle
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Tisbury Circle submitted by GemTredwin on 8th Aug 2023. Photo credit: Gem Tredwin
@GemmaTredwin on Twitter
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Tintagel Head
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
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Tintagel Cliff Castle
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Tintagel Cliff Castle submitted by Bladup on 9th Sep 2013. Tintagel Cliff Castle, This is one massive Cliff castle, You can tell how important it was by the other lesser cliff castles along the coast near it, All maybe not much more than lookouts for this main living area, All long before the ages that has made the place famous.
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The Sill
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
The Sill submitted by Anne T on 25th Jun 2019. The Sill building, as seen from its north eastern corner. It is located in Once Brewed, immediately next to the B6318 (Old Military Road).
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The Hurlers
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
The Hurlers submitted by Bladup on 24th Sep 2013. The Hurlers and the Sun.
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The Cheesewring
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
The Cheesewring submitted by cazzyjane on 13th Oct 2010. The Cheesewring looks down on the wonderful moorland surrounding it.
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Süntelstein
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Germany (Lower Saxony, Bremen)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Süntelstein submitted by RunaStera on 18th Jun 2009. 2009er picture of the Süntelstein
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 3
Stonehenge. submitted by Dodomad on 23rd Jan 2025. The Altar Stone during excavation in 1958, pinned beneath the Great Trilithon’s fallen upright (Stone 55b; centre) and lintel (Stone 156; right), photographed from the north-north-east by Richard Atkinson
Image rediscovered in the archive and scanning funded by Tim Daw.
(Source: © Historic England)
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St Peran's Well
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Piran's Well submitted by theendlessbreeze on 5th Jun 2004. Grid Ref: SX076892
Location: Near Tintagel, Cornwall
I notice that you mention St Piran's holy well, near St Nectans Glen in Cornwall; here is a photo of the site.
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St Nectan's Glen
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 2
St Nectan's Glen submitted by Thorgrim on 29th Nov 2003. St Nectan's Glen has been described as amongst the ten most important spiritual sites in the country. (SX080885)
There never was a St Nectan, the name is a Christianised form of the Cornish water god - Nechtan. The way down to the water is steep and slippery, but so beautiful. Hundreds of clouties, messages and small offerings crowd the minute ledges of the steep sides of the glen. It can only be reached on foot, but it is well worth the effort.
The well house is at the entrance to the gl...
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St Michael's Well, Alnwick
Date Added: 17th Mar 2025
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Michael's Well, Alnwick submitted by jamesrattue on 25th Nov 2006. St Michael's Well in the market place at Alnwick, photographed 20th November 2006.
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St Michael's Mount
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Access 3
St Michael's Mount submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2005. August 2004. "Diodorus Sicululs, the Greek historian writing in 70 CE called this island Ictis, and it was from here that Cornish tin was traded with Mediterranean countries." [from Celtic Britain by Homer Sykes, 1997]
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St Materiana's Church (Tintagel)
Date Added: 16th Mar 2025
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Materiana's Church (Tintagel) submitted by AngieLake on 9th May 2019. The 4th century Roman stone in the south transept.
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