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Barbrook 2
Date Added: 26th Mar 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Barbrook 2 submitted by PaulM on 31st Aug 2001. Barbrook II Stone Circle, Big Moor, Derbyshire
GR: SK278758
Barbrook II stone circle is not marked on any of the maps but is located 600m to the north-north-west of Barbrook I. It is of a similar size to Barbrook I, consisting of an irregular set of nine (originally ten) stones set into a low dry-stone wall, 14.5m by 13.5m in diameter, 3.5m wide and 0.5m high, with one entrance to the north-east.
A small cairn is located in the interior. Only one of the standing stones, to the west-south...
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Barbrook 1
Date Added: 26th Mar 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Barbrook 1 submitted by Andy B on 25th Nov 2001. Barbrook I General View
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Bartlow Hills
Date Added: 25th Mar 2016
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bartlow Hills submitted by Thorgrim on 17th Jul 2003. This is the largest barrow in Britain and very few people know of it. This Romano-British site at Bartlow is on the Essex/Cambridgeshire border at TL 586453. Originally the largest group in Europe when there were seven enormous barrows here. Then the now disused railway came through and flattened four of them! The largest survivor is 45 feet high and the highest in Britain by far. The wooden staicase gives access to the top without causing erosion. You can then look down on the other ...
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Glenquicken Circle
Date Added: 24th Mar 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Would like to visit
Glenquicken Circle submitted by Bladup on 18th Jun 2013. Glenquicken stone Circle with its centre stone and wonderful setting.
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Jeffrey Hill Cairn Circle
Date Added: 22nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Lancashire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Jeffrey Hill Cairn Circle submitted by Sunny100 on 17th Sep 2010. Plan of Jeffrey Hill Cairn Circle near Longridge. The site dates from the Bronze Age.
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Bencallen Hill
Date Added: 21st Mar 2016
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (South Ayrshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bencallen Hill submitted by PaulM on 29th Oct 2002. Shiel Bridge/Bencallen chambered tomb
Good navigation is needed to find this cairn as the landscape is pretty featureless (NX33779440). Luckily for us the conifers had been recently cleared. There is parking (just) but the lane is very quiet. I dived up the slope and headed in the vague general direction but struck lucky.
Another strange site as the cairn cover has been robbed for drystone walls which all seemed to have been built to hem in the chamber or perhaps as sheepfolds. All t...
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Stanwick Hillfort
Date Added: 16th Mar 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 12th Mar 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Stanwick Hillfort submitted by rich32 on 2nd Oct 2006. Stanwick is one huge site, if you could walk round the ramparts you’d cover about 4miles & internally you’ve got 750 acres to get lost in.
The earliest evidence dates the fortifications from the mid to late Iron Age, with occupation waning towards the end of the 1st century AD. It’s likely to have been an important stronghold for the Brigantes & may have been the home of queen Cartimandua, who ruled at the time those chaps from Rome visited.
Theres bundles of evidence from other per...
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Log Text: HUGE site. To reach the middle of the site I still had more than a mile to drive when I stopped to ask a young couple what a line of ancient-looking earthworks might be. I was very surprised to be told it was all part of the same huge site. I drove around, then I walked around, and I came to an excavated section of wall so wide, so high, and so well built that, oh, the shame of it, I assumed I'd made a mistake and it was Roman. But it isn't - it's proper Iron Age British!
Castle Howe (Little Langdale)
Date Added: 16th Mar 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Would like to visit
Castle Howe (Little Langdale) submitted by Alphasmam on 25th Jul 2014. Castle Howe is a small volcanic " lump"
guarding Wrynose Pass and is locally known as a Neolithic hill fort. This picture was taken from the approaches to Fell Foot Farm looking towards Blea Tarn and Great Langdale.
Wrynose has probably been a trackway since these times and would have been an important route to take connecting the west coast via the Duddon Valley and Great Langdale where the axe factories are located. It also would lead eastwards towards Little Langdale and south to Conis...
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Belas Knap
Date Added: 16th Mar 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Belas Knap submitted by Adam Stanford on 19th Jul 2006. Taken with Aerial-Cam, at aprox 10M above ground level on a telescopic mast with remote control Nikon D70s camera system. This image shows the tapering of the mound from front to back (left to right). The camera was pointing in an Easterly direction. Cheers AS.
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Penwyllt Cairn
Date Added: 15th Mar 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Penwyllt Cairn submitted by sem on 26th Oct 2010. Looking North
From here the cairn stands out quite nicely, but from a distance it blends into the scree slope.
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Roulston Scar Camp
Date Added: 12th Mar 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 12th Mar 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Roulston Scar Camp submitted by SumDoood on 17th Mar 2016. I approached from the N and parked in the car park in the SE corner near the top of the steep descent of Low Town Bank Road, then walked anticlockwise around the western half of the site. I had no map with me so neither looked for, nor noticed any specific ancient features, assuming, perhaps wrongly, that low banks and short ditches were relatively recent. This view is of the steepest and highest of the crumbly-looking cliffs on the west side looking towards the extraordinarily steep main road k...
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Log Text: Perhaps I missed something. The scenery is impressive as it's just a little way south of the mighty Sutton Bank. Some aerials views would help and there's a gliding club pretty much on top of the site.
Sizergh Settlement
Date Added: 7th Mar 2016
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Would like to visit
Sizergh Settlement submitted by Alphasmam on 1st Aug 2014. Sizergh Settlement is covered in trees but this tangle of branches adds to the ambience of the place.It is just possible to see the stone outlines in the grass underneath the trees.
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Dun Ringill
Date Added: 4th Mar 2016
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dun Ringill submitted by Andy B on 3rd Nov 2010. View from the south showing the construction of the wall. It is of much smaller stones than most of the duns on Skye.
Copyright John Allan and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence
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Log Text: Don't expect a conventional broch - this one seems to have been much altered. It must have been an important area, there are three other Duns before you reach the southern tip of the peninsula, and there is a large round cairn, a good stone circle, and other sites nearby.
Balnuaran of Clava Centre
Date Added: 29th Feb 2016
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Balnuaran of Clava Centre submitted by Klingon on 27th Feb 2006.
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Log Text: Re: the central ring cairn, I've been looking through Burl's Stone Circles and have as yet failed to find an explanation for what seems to be a large stone (or two) apparently missing and the resultant space filled in with rocks.
Isn't it odd that had a passage started where such stones might be missing, then it would logically(?) have continued in the same direction, i.e. towards the midwinter sunset, as do the passages in the other two cairns, i.e. passage cairns, on the site.
Kilbride
Date Added: 23rd Feb 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Islay)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kilbride submitted by Andy B on 13th Jun 2011. Standing Stone, Kilbride, Islay
With Kilbride Farm in background.
Copyright Becky Williamson and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Llandudno Museum
Date Added: 23rd Feb 2016
Site Type: Museum
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Would like to visit
Llandudno Museum submitted by dodomad on 22nd Feb 2016. Conservators at work on Blodwen the stone age skeleton
Photo Credit: Cardiff University
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Lordenshaw Horseshoe Rock
Date Added: 20th Feb 2016
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lordenshaw Horseshoe Rock submitted by DrewParsons on 2nd Oct 2011. September 2011.
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Lartington, The Rigg 1.
Date Added: 18th Feb 2016
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lartington, The Rigg 1. submitted by durhamnature on 23rd Aug 2012. Deepdale rock art
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Lartington, The Rigg 8
Date Added: 18th Feb 2016
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Would like to visit
Lartington, The Rigg 8 submitted by SolarMegalith on 17th Feb 2016. Well-defined cup-marks on Lartington, The Rigg 8 panel (photo taken on February 2016).
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Wet Withens
Date Added: 17th Feb 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Wet Withens submitted by TimPrevett on 22nd Jun 2010. Solstice Sunset 2010 at Wet Withens.
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Log Text: I was there late evening, a rushed visit due to the next day's weather forecast being so unpleasant. I'm glad I went. Perhaps it's because dusk was upon me that the ambience was quite impressive, and the site's structure is unusual. I'm dead against grouse shoooting, but it would be sort-of helpful good if the heather in and around the circle were burnt again! V diff to photograph without a wide lens (and a long pole).