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Ballycrovane
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ballycrovane submitted by Luca_Paradisi on 26th Apr 2004. Another pinhole photo by Luca Paradisi of West Cork Prints. Not sure where this stone is exactly, will find out.
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Log Text: It's also known as Faunkill. There's something just odd about walking through someone's garden to visit a megalith, even when you've paid to do it!
This tall thin stone itself is a short walk up a steep incline and it's set on the top. Be careful trying to take a photograph, I had it almost in my sights and stepped back, and again, and again and realised there wasn't enough ground to get it all in one shot.
Les Grises Pierres
Date Added: 15th Oct 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Would like to visit
Les Grises Pierres submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2010. The larger of Les Grises Pierres used to stand with its small end into the ground. It was said to turn three times on Christmas Eve.
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Cueva de Menga
Date Added: 8th Nov 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Spain (Andalucía)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cueva de Viera submitted by greywether on 13th Jul 2005. The entrance to Viera.
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Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2012
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Isbister, Tomb of the Eagles ND470845. Skulls are on show inside.
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Log Text: This is a superb site as it's run by the family who own the land that the Tomb is on. The visitor centre is excellent for its talks and information. A shortish walk takes you to the Burnt Mound which is in date much younger than the Tomb, and then there's a much longer walk to the Tomb itself.
Twelve Apostles (Dumfries)
Date Added: 9th Jan 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Twelve Apostles (Dumfries) submitted by kelpie on 4th Jul 2002. Some of the Twelve Apostles, the circle is too big to include them all
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Log Text: Access from the road that runs beside it is over a stile, signposted at that point with a wooden marker.
Duloe
Date Added: 23rd Jan 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes
Duloe submitted by Andy B on 8th Oct 2003.
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Log Text: None
King Doniert's Stone
Date Added: 13th Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Ambience 1 Access 4
King Doniert's Stone submitted by bec-zog on 4th Jan 2004. Inscribed cross of the 9th century in Cornwall SX236688
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Log Text: Very few sites have no ambience at all for me, this was one.
Chalice Well
Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Chalice Well submitted by MarionBenham on 29th Jan 2004. The new well cover, the iron vesica pisces/bleeding lance designed originally by F Bligh Bond, has been slightly embellished and added to the underside of the lid so it can be seen when the lid is raised.
nwwrtjwgty Fly now on raven's wing to find that which you seek
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Log Text: None
Cairnholy 1
Date Added: 20th Feb 2011
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter on 19th Nov 2008. Cairnholy 1
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Log Text: None
Gamelands
Date Added: 20th Feb 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Gamelands submitted by LivingRocks on 8th Feb 2005. Photographed in November 2004 with short grass, a superb site even though the stones are all fallen.
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Log Text: Not very well known locally, none of the staff in our hotel had heard of it.
Poulnabrone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2011
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Clare)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Poulnabrone submitted by groovyearthwisps on 11th Jul 2006. Twilight at Poulnabrone, 10th July 2006.
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Log Text: Situated in the Burren region on the unusual geological Limestone Pavement, exposed rock with its own micro-climate in the cracks - called grykes - for flora and fauna, Poulnabrone Dolmen, made from the same stone, almost blends into its surroundings.
It's so much larger in reality than it looks in images, I could stand inside it easily.
When I visited, the access was unlimited and the landowner sat in a car nearby with a bucket beside it with a handmade sign asking for a donation of 1 Punt per person.
Kenmare
Date Added: 28th Feb 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kerry)
Visited: Yes
Kenmare submitted by bburdetteva on 17th Jul 2010. Kenmare Stone Circle July 2010
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Log Text: None
Eightercua
Date Added: 9th Mar 2011
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kerry)
Visited: Yes
Eightercua submitted by Klingon on 11th Apr 2005. Shoot trough a telephoto lens, direct access is difficult.
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Log Text: There was no public access when I visited and none of the images we have seem to be taken close to these stones. They are easily visible from the road.
Cailleach Beara
Date Added: 11th Mar 2011
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cork)
Visited: Yes
Cailleach Beara submitted by Runemage on 11th Mar 2011. I'd only just passed through the gate when my sandal broke after a few steps, so I continued barefoot. The atmosphere there that day was feminine, gentle and enfolding. It was of an intensity I've only experienced at a few other sites, Cailleach in her aspect of Mother, warm gentle and nurturing.
From the first sight of her, which is the view in this image, I could instantly see where the legend had arisen of her waiting on the shore for her lover Manannan Mac Lir to return. She does look like...
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Log Text: None
Dolmen Of The Four Maols
Date Added: 15th Mar 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Yes
Dolmen Of The Four Maols submitted by Runemage on 21st Mar 2011. Maols means friends/companions if memory serves, but I've forgotten the legend that the stone is named after.
Taken in 1999
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Log Text: None
Gurness
Date Added: 15th Apr 2011
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
Broch of Gurness submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Broch of Gurness HY382268. Another well preserved Broch.
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Log Text: The "well" is so intriguing http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=47934
Cullerlie
Date Added: 23rd Apr 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes
Cullerlie submitted by krautrock on 1st Aug 2010. Cullerlie Stone Circle in the evening sun.
June 2010
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Log Text: None
Bryn Cader Faner
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2011
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bryn Cader Faner submitted by Thingy on 2nd Feb 2010. I couldn't submit pics of Bryn Cader Faner without one showing the 'standard' but nevertheless spectacular view.
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 27th Jun 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes
Stonehenge. submitted by TimPrevett on 27th Dec 2010. Winter Solstice 2010
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Log Text: None
Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 21st Aug 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Log Text: I visited in 2005 so this log’s from memory, it was a superb location. I’ve not seen structures built so close to a loch. Imagine stepping outside first thing in the morning, a few steps and you could have a quick dip and catch your breakfast simultaneously. The Standing Stones of Stenness are only a short walk away and easily visible from Barnhouse, so it leads the imagination to wonder what went on between the two sites. Did the people who lived at Barnhouse build the circle or use it? Present day (2011) excavations at the nearby Ness of Brodgar are unearthing buildings which seem to be constructed in a very similar way to some of the ones at Barnhouse. I don’t know of any other area that has a stone circle with contemporary dwellings so close by. Here we have two within easy walking distance of each other, the Ring of Brodgar with the Ness settlement then cross the causeway which has its own megaliths, the finest being the Watchstone, to find Stenness with the Barnhouse settlement. Maes Howe is also visible from Stenness, I didn’t check from Barnhouse but it’s likely.
All of these sites are so close to each other and I think contemporary, it’s hard not to let the imagination run riot and wonder how the population socialised. Was it harmonious or human nature being what it is, were the Ness and Barnhouse residents in competition with each other. Did the entire population live in these structures or were they only for one section of the community and the others lived in temporary dwellings?
Some of the features in the houses are delineated by different coloured gravels, wooden posts etc. to give a very clear visual of what was where and what it was used for. One has a trapezoidal stone where you couldn’t help but walk over it. I can’t remember what was found under it but think there was one instance of a burial in a doorway, very liminal, threshold and all that, but not so nice for us to think of granny under the doormat!
This area is literally the Neolithic Heart of Orkney, not only does it have so many monuments in such a small area, it has a tantalising link to the people that lived and worked there.