Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
Sites sophiewilder has logged. View this log as a table or view the most recent logs from everyone
Broadsands Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Broadsands Chambered Tomb submitted by scullion on 19th Mar 2004. SX 892573, Devon
A Neolithic chambered tomb or passage grave located on the southern slope overlooking Torbay coast at Broadsands. This megalithic chamber has a single parallel-sided entrance passage 3.8 metres long and 1.2 metres wide lined with alternating orthostats and dry stone walling set within a near circular cairn 12 metres in diameter at construction but later reduced to 7 metres north east by 9 metres east west.The tomb comprises of a polygonal chamber with dimensions of 3.35 metres ...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Hembury Castle
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hembury Castle submitted by caradoc68 on 15th May 2008. Site in Devon:
Hembury castle (the danish camp), just north of Buckfast "devon" SX 725 684. Good little hillfort hiddern away way in Hembury wood, a site worth visiting>. Has very steep rampart bank, 20 feet in some places, a scrape the other side of the ditch. Inside the fort there is a small motte & bailey in the south west corner.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Denbury
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Denbury submitted by AngieLake on 1st Mar 2005. Denbury Fort, looking towards approximately ENE
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Not so much a long walk as a steep one, but certainly worth going to see. The undergrowth has indeed been cleared but there is still a lot of wood, and it is hard to get an impression of the whole place from any one spot. The steep-sided defensive ditch is the most impressive part.
Leech Wells
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Leech Wells submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Nov 2004. The Leech Wells. Still believed locally to possess healing properties.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: The waters do not flow as readily as they used to years ago, this is possibly because of new houses being built further up the hill.
Merrivale Menhir
Date Added: 25th Mar 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Merrivale Menhir submitted by Dal_gCais on 1st Oct 2003. Merrivale Menhir SX554748 Devon
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None