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Dane's Graves
Date Added: 8th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dane's Graves submitted by SumDoood on 8th Apr 2017. Short of time and daylight inside the narrow western end of the woodland I walked quickly out and back and counted 48 graves inside the plantation! How many there are in all I don't know.
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Log Text: I have never been anywhere like this and found it to be one of the most excitingly odd places I have visited.
Duggleby Howe
Date Added: 7th Apr 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Duggleby Howe submitted by PaulH on 2nd Apr 2003. North Yorkshire
SE 881669
Duggleby How Neolithic round barrow, viewed from North.
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Log Text: Take your imagination with you.
Rudston Monolith
Date Added: 28th Mar 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Rudston monolith submitted by rldixon on 25th Dec 2005. rudston monolith in colour
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Log Text: I visited at sunset 24 March and on the next day's sunrise. Some background reading on the area will help the visitor to appreciate the very considerable importance of this stone within the wider environment. I recommend "Inscribed Across the Landscape - The Cursus Enigma" by Roy Loveday.
Willy Howe
Date Added: 26th Mar 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 25th Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Willy Howe submitted by DavidRaven on 9th Jun 2003. Part of the 'Great Yorkshire Barrows' group. To say that these have been called by some, 'the ancestors' of the mighty Silbury Hill in
Wiltshire, you'd think a little more would be made of them!
Reckoned to be as old as Duggleby Howe, and a similar size: seven and a half meters high and thirty six and a half meters in diameter.
Attempts at finding its secrets in 1857 and again thirty years later yielded nothing. A pit about nine feet deep was discovered but was bereft of objects or human ...
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Log Text: Impressive. Well worth a visit.
Weston Camp
Date Added: 21st Mar 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Weston Camp submitted by SumDoood on 21st Mar 2017. Taken from the southern edge of the enclosure. Notice 2/d in from the left is Allt yr Esgair, the location of another hillfort.
The lake is Llyn Safaddan / Llyn Langors / Llangorse Lake.
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Log Text: This location (where did that name Weston Camp come from?), is I think a settlement, not a hillfort. My 1:25000 map showed it as a Settlement. Both of these (hill)forts were perhaps "defended enclosures", but this is significantly smaller than the adjacent Llanfilo Camp.
Superb location for views of the Brecon Beacons which surely were of significance to the builders, and of other hillforts in the area.
Battle (Powys)
Date Added: 20th Mar 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 17th Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Battle Standing Stone submitted by Johnny on 3rd Jul 2002. Battle Standing Stone, Powys (SO 006 306):
On private farmland, the stone is marked on maps and is visible from the road near a disused railway bridge 0.8km south-west of Battle.
The Battle stone is a particularly impressive Bronze Age monument: 100m to the south of a tumulus, a stony cairn supports this attractive standing stone which is 3.96m in height.
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Log Text: A fine standing stone. Notice how many (hill)forts there are nearby. I've found six all around.
Slwch Camp
Date Added: 16th Mar 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Slwch Camp submitted by Andy B on 27th Feb 2011. Slwch Tump
This level bench in the hillside is the southern edge of the hillfort which sits above and immediately east of Brecon/Aberhonddu. It is one of three hillforts which surround the town. Slwch Tump and nearby Pen-y-crug are accessible by public rights of way.
Copyright Alan Bowring and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Much overgrown in summer and not spectacular, but the views are *enormous*.
Dane's Dyke
Date Added: 3rd Mar 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dane's Dyke submitted by DavidRaven on 20th Aug 2006. The southern end of Dane's Dyke, where the densely-wooded ravine leads to the sea.
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Log Text: Well worth a look. The structure is 4.5kms long and very complete.
Manor Farm
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Lancashire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Feb 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
Manor Farm submitted by LivingRocks on 12th Apr 2005. Manor Farm Barrow seen from the roadside. The straight ridge across the field is of modern origin.
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Log Text: I just laughed. Built by farmers and, I think we can safely assume, destroyed by custodians of the countryside.
Unstan
Date Added: 29th Dec 2016
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Log Text: Very complete, but a little disappointing due to the roof.
Newton Cairn
Date Added: 22nd Dec 2016
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 21st Dec 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Newton Cairn submitted by Bladup on 13th May 2013. Newton Burial chamber.
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Log Text: Worth a look, but modern agriculture has done the site no favours.
Achavanich
Date Added: 26th Nov 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
submitted by on .
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Log Text: None
An Carra
Date Added: 15th Nov 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
An Carra submitted by SandyG on 20th May 2016. View from south (28 August 2015).
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Log Text: Access easy by road followed by an inconvenient scramble over a fence, and a short walk. The stone is visible throughout. Ambience pretty good if you keep the works behind you.
Crois Chnoca Breaca
Date Added: 15th Nov 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Crois Chnoca Breaca submitted by SHUGS on 2nd Oct 2012. Site in South Uist Scotland
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Log Text: I feel there's more to be found in this location, so be sure to take a walk along the fast eroding coastline.
Bladnoch
Date Added: 24th Oct 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bladnoch Standing Stone submitted by PaulM on 29th Oct 2002. This standing stone is marked on the OS Explorer Map 311 (Wigtown, Whithorn & The Machars) and can be found in the drystone wall flanking the A714 and directly opposite the house called Ashleigh in Bladnoch. The whisky distillery is only a short stagger away.
NGR: NX 423542.
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Log Text: Fun to find.
Pierre Levée (St Léger-de-Montbrun)
Date Added: 17th Oct 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Deux-Sèvres (79))
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pierre Levée (St Léger-de-Montbrun) submitted by ocdolmen on 5th Sep 2009. "Pierre Levée" dolmen near Saint-léger-de-Montbrun
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Log Text: A few photos to follow.
Cnoc a Phrionnsa
Date Added: 27th Sep 2016
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cnoc a Phrionnsa submitted by SumDoood on 26th Aug 2016. Approaching from the north.
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Log Text: Location, location, location!
Clach An Tursa
Date Added: 27th Sep 2016
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 16th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Clach An Tursa submitted by Andy B on 10th Dec 2004. A telephoto view from the road
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Log Text: I walked from the road and down the drive of a house that seemed not to be occupied, then on down a field of long grass. This is a curious place where the sloping land seems to have been levelled around and downslope from the stones.
Pen-y-Crug Hillfort
Date Added: 28th Aug 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Pen-y-Crug Hillfort submitted by Creative Commons on 27th Feb 2011. The impressive Iron Age hillfort at Pen-y-crug just west of Brecon provides commanding views over the surrounding countryside. It was defended by multiple banks and ditches as seen here.
Copyright Alan Bowring and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Low cloud and long bracken - I'll have to go back.
Beamsley Beacon
Date Added: 6th Aug 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Beamsley Beacon submitted by SumDoood on 5th Aug 2016. Pendle Hill to the WSW (and to the right is, I think, Longridge Fell).
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Log Text: Middleton Moor's rock art is 1-2kms away, but this is a pleasant out and back walk from the highest point on the nearest road, with powerful views from a location itself visible from a wide radius. The cairn is simply a BIG pile of stones, but the location gives it considerable validity.