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Acklam Wold Cemetery
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2010
Acklam Wold Cemetery submitted by Runemage on 7th Apr 2010. In the Misty Morning, on the Edge of Time.
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Aill na Mireann
Date Added: 20th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Westmeath)
Visited: Would like to visit
Aill na Mireann submitted by durhamnature on 20th Oct 2012. Great photo from Annals of Westmeath, via archive.org
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Aramu Muru
Date Added: 9th Oct 2011
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Peru
Visited: Would like to visit
Aramu Muru submitted by Michelledubois on 8th Oct 2011. Aramu Muru is a mysterious portal located near Lake Titicaca on the Peru/Bolivia border. This photo was taken by Brien Foerster.
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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.
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.
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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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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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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Cairnholy 2
Date Added: 29th Jan 2011
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnholy 2 submitted by nicoladidsbury on 18th Nov 2008. Cairn Holy II
Golden Sunlight over Cairn Holy II
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Cathair Crobh Dearg
Date Added: 7th Mar 2014
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kerry)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cathair Crobh Dearg submitted by Klingon on 11th Apr 2005. Inner stonewall of the Cathair Crobh Dearg fort.
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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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Comet Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 20th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Comet Stone (Orkney) submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Comet Stone HY296132 standing 137mtrs SE from the Ring of Brodgar.
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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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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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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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Drumtroddan Cup and Ring Markings
Date Added: 8th Mar 2011
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2006. My rating: Condition 3
Drumtroddan Cup and Ring Markings submitted by rockartuk on 20th Aug 2001. On a fenced outcrop, 200m South of the farm (NX 362 447), R.W.B. Morris counted 84 cup-and-rings (1979). This photo was taken in 1993 with the carvings still clear. However, in 2000 the marks turned very faint. Acid rain? The question of preservation (after about 5000 years!) is now actual as well as urgent. How?
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Log Text: It's quite a walk from the parking area at the farm, not suitable for anyone with mobility problems. The largest easily-accessible outcrop with RA I've seen. There was a large herd of bullocks to walk through which some folks find intimidating.
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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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2010
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by Runemage on 30th Jul 2010. Much is said about the composition of the pink stone at Easter Aquhorthies but I've not been able to find out exactly what it's made from. It's often referred to as Red Jasper or Rose Quartz and less commonly Porphyry. The crystal laid on it for colour-comparison is six and a half inch long haemetite quartz which has itself a delicate pinky-peachy hue.
Note to self, next time you go, take some unpolished rose quartz for comparison!
Are there any geologists out there who know what this stone...
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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.
Esslie The Lesser
Date Added: 6th Jan 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Esslie The Lesser submitted by cosmic on 1st Nov 2003. Boulder pile near Esslie Lesser.
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