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Whitby Abbey
Date Added: 7th Jun 2025
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1991
Whitby Abbey submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Nov 2024. Whitby Abbey September 2024, in its bleak windblown position on top of the hill. I found the weathering shapes and patterns on the stone to be fascinating. The museum was also good to visit with many items of ancient historic interest.
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 20th Apr 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 1987. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5
Ring of Brodgar submitted by Dodomad on 12th Apr 2025. Back in 2022, historian Tristan Hughes visited Orkney to film part of the Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland. Although the three programmes were initially for History Hit TV subscribers, the full series can now be viewed by all as a single, two-hour long documentary.
In it we hear from, among others, Professor Jane Downes, the director of the UHI Institute, at the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae; Dr Antonia Thomas at the Unstan stalled cairn; Nick Card at the Ness of Brodgar; Roy Towers on Gr...
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Beaghmore
Date Added: 21st Sep 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Northern) (Co. Tyrone)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Beaghmore submitted by chaika on 28th Sep 2017. Beaghmore stone circle, Sept 2017.
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Bocan Stone Circle
Date Added: 21st Sep 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Donegal)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bocan Stone Circle submitted by Rediana on 11th Aug 2017. Recent damage to Bocan Stone Circle. Photographed 17th May 2017
Photo credit: Diana Redig
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Log Text: located in the middle of a fenced meadows, guarded by a flock of sheep (Sep 2023)
Grianán of Ailech
Date Added: 21st Sep 2023
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Donegal)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Grianán of Ailech submitted by DrewParsons on 15th Oct 2008. Grianan of Aileach taken on October 2008
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Log Text: The signposted "Old Church Visitor Centre" is permanently closed despite signs saying "Open every day". There is now an event location in the old church. If you ask at the adjacent bar you may still get access.
Hazaike Kofun
Date Added: 19th Nov 2022
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Japan (Shikoku)
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Hazaike Kofun submitted by Aska on 3rd Mar 2013. Site in Shikoku Japan
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Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino de Santiago de Chile
Date Added: 19th Nov 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: Chile
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino de Santiago de Chile submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Aug 2019. These remarkable wooden statues were placed on top of tombs in ancient Mapuche cemeteries. They reflect the spirit (am) of those buried there and are intended to assist them in their journey to the afterlife. Chiefs and great warriors were sent to the east after death, to roam among the volcanoes of Kalfumapu, the "blue land". All others went to the west, to eat bitter potatoes beyond the sea.
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Shuri-jō
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Japan (Kyūshū)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Shuri-jō submitted by Aska on 10th Apr 2016. Site in Kyūshū Japan
The ruin of fort wall and the landscape of Naha city below.
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Log Text: main buildings destroyed by fire in October 2019. Will be reconstructed but this will take years. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuri_Castle#2019_fire. A tragic loss, it had taken decades to re-build it after the destruction during WWII. We were lucky to visit it just days before the fire – one of the most spectacular reconstructions I have ever seen.
Machrie Moor 5
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Machrie Moor 5 submitted by jeffrep on 30th Jul 2013. Machrie Moor 5, sometimes called "Fingal's Cauldron Seat," consists of two almost perfectly preserved rings of granite boulders.
The Machrie Moor Stone Circles are located at the end of a 1-1/2 mile track that is off of the A841 (some 200 yards south of the bridge where the main road crosses the Machrie Water) and three miles north of Blackwaterfoot in the western part of the Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Machrie Moor 2
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Machrie Moor 2 submitted by DrewParsons on 12th Dec 2009. October 2006
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Tama Udun
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Japan (Kyūshū)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tama Udun submitted by Aska on 10th Apr 2016. Site in Kyūshū Japan
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Katsuren-jō
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Japan (Kyūshū)
Visited: Yes on 30th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Katsuren-jō submitted by Aska on 20th Jan 2018. Site in Japan
The view from the front yard.
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Nakijin-jō
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Japan (Kyūshū)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nakijin-jō submitted by Aska on 20th Jan 2018. Site in Japan
The view of the main courtyards from the inner courtyard.
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Wayland's Smithy
Date Added: 3rd Dec 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987
Wayland's Smithy submitted by TimPrevett on 19th May 2017. Collage showing a remarkable encounter with a mouse at Wayland's Smithy at its entrance. This mouse and I had each others' eye contact for about a minute before it dove between the horizontal facing stones. One of those happenings on visiting ancient sites which on one level is mere fortune and synchronicity but on another feels very meaningful and profound.
A little video of this on my instagram account here.
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Tiwanaku
Date Added: 13th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Bolivia
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1982. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Tiwanaku submitted by davidmorgan on 12th Feb 2007. La Puerta del Sol or Gateway of the Sun. November 1994.
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Machu Picchu.
Date Added: 24th May 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Peru
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1984. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Machu Picchu. submitted by KaiHofmann on 6th May 2013. Machu Picchu.
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Palenque
Date Added: 24th May 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Chiapas)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1982. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5
Palenque submitted by LivingRocks on 14th Apr 2007. The Temple of the Sun.
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Newgrange
Date Added: 26th Aug 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2018
Newgrange submitted by McDeil on 8th Jan 2002. Entry at Newgrange showing massive carved stone which once blocked the entry. Not shown are the tourists who in Summer would queue for up to an hour to be taken through the tomb!
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Hill of Tara
Date Added: 26th Aug 2018
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hill Of Tara submitted by jeffrep on 21st Aug 2008. Mound of the Hostages from a distance. At Hill of Tara in County Meath north of of Dublin.
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Maiden Castle (Dorset)
Date Added: 5th Nov 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987
Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by pab on 16th Oct 2011. Moon at dawn over Maiden Castle.
Just before sunrise, with the almost full moon about to set.
One of those mornings when you feel it is worth getting up early to catch nature's magic working in a magnificent setting.
This photo is looking across the north east rim, with the early morning mist beginning to catch the light from the rising sun.
October 2011
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