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Castle Folds
Date Added: 19th Nov 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castle Folds submitted by h_fenton on 12th Jun 2011. Castle Folds defended Romano-British settlement, viewed from the south west.
Kite Aerial Photgraph
23 April 2011 @ 8.53am
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Log Text: If the weather is other than warm and dry and settled, try to find an approach on grass. There is one on the south side. Limestone pavement can be very slippery. It was covered in black ice at the time of my visit.
Let me know if you find a quern stone on, near or within the site.
Longstones Barrow
Date Added: 6th Sep 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood on 6th Sep 2019. 040919: From the WSW.
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Log Text: It's a whopper. Higher, I guess, than the front end of West Kennet Long Barrow. At a glance from the road it might be mistaken for a modern pile of earth from road building, or similar construction. The aerial view in Bing's mapping shows a crop mark of sorts with squared off corners at NNE, ESE, SSW and WNW, BUT there is horse racing training going on nearby, although one wouldn't expect squared corners on such a circle?
Maen Melyn (Lleyn)
Date Added: 9th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Melyn (Lleyn) submitted by pab on 7th Oct 2007. Maen Melyn.
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Log Text: Perhaps consider Maen Melyn as having been a guide for, say, Bronze Age sailors rounding the point, or returning to the mainland from Bardsey, or crossing from Ireland.
If perhaps there was a haar, as there had been on the previous evening, a cliff top standing stone visible above the mist perhaps, would have been invaluable as a guide (if local knowledge was such that it could be usefully aligned on a hilltop or another stone), for sailors returning to the narrow inlet, wouldn't it. Cf. the guide / marker stones up the west side of the Western Isles.
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf)
Date Added: 9th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Pierres Droites (Monteneuf) submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Jun 2007. The true extent of these stones was only discovered in the last 20 years or so after a forest fire, yet this set of aligned menhirs is probably one of the most important in France.
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Log Text: A good visit with children, I suggest, because the techniques for moving and setting up the stones are demonstrated, and actively so at more popular times of year. For me the site is somewhat lacking in ambience because, although I can't adequately explain why, the replaced stones seem modern.
Cader Elwa
Date Added: 18th Jun 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cader Elwa submitted by PaulM on 28th Feb 2003. A standing stone located near Cader Elwa at SH54186829.
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The Great Stone Of Fourstones
Date Added: 10th Jan 2018
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Great Stone Of Fourstones submitted by Sunny100 on 9th Jun 2010. The Great Stone Of Fourstones Nr Bentham, N.Yorks at SD.669663.
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Log Text: Zoom in using Bing’s aerial view and you will see, close to the big stone, a big enough boggy hole in the ground to the North, and one at 1 o’clock, and another at 2 o’clock. I’ll dare to suggest that they might indicate where the missing three stones once stood.
Interesting too is the track immediately on the west side of the Great Stone. To the south it becomes one track which seems to continue on across Aikengill Road, then swing west to join that same road c. 200m away, and to swing east then south to continue generally towards the farm known as Sea View on Ringstones Lane (and there’s a name to ponder on!). North of the Great Stone the “dual carriageway” of tracks spreads like fingers through the boggy ground, but the walker here will find that generally the path curves towards Fourstones Barn and continues north-ish from there. It seems quite possible that the track(s) described in this paragraph were the forerunners of the modern Slaidburn Road.
Cauldside Burn Stone Circle
Date Added: 18th Mar 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cauldside Burn Stone Circle submitted by wolfnighthunter on 4th Dec 2008. Cauldside Burn Cairn & Stone Circle
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Cwrt-y-Gollen
Date Added: 14th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Cwrt-y-Gollen submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2004. Cwrt-y-Gollen, Standing Stone in Powys, SO232168
This magnificent standing stone lives beside the busy A40 just inside the entrance to the Welsh Brigade army camp just to the south of Crickhowell. Over 4 metres high, “The Growing Stone” looks most impressive, and has a pleasant grass and trees area around it.
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Maen Colman Stone
Date Added: 10th Aug 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Maen Colman Stone submitted by SumDoood on 9th Aug 2017. There are viciously stinging nettles in the hedge behind the stone.
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Log Text: Ambience rated at 4 just because so much prehistory is to be found in the area.
Kirkcarrion
Date Added: 19th Jul 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (County Durham)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 14th Jul 2017
Log Text: You can park free in the old school yard next to the bridge over the Tees, and follow the Pennine Way until you choose to divert towards the site. I know this because a helpful woman in the community bookshop told me (but she did say it's a Saxon burial site). The tourist info office is open only a few hours a week. Both places are staffed by volunteers.
Old Radnor Church
Date Added: 28th Jun 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jun 2017. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 4
Old Radnor Church submitted by TimPrevett on 2nd Sep 2006. The possible standing stone at Old Radnor Church, flanked by much later memorials. Looking north.
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Log Text: Standing stone unconvincing. Interesting stone head above S facing end of church. Useful info boards and panorama map on grassed area between pub and church.
Anta de Cas-Freires
Date Added: 20th May 2017
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Viseu)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Anta de Cas-Freires submitted by Alta-Falisa on 6th Apr 2015. Very ruined dolmen. I am inclined to say that it is a good idea to leave some dolmens as they have come down all those centuries towards the present time.
Photo : March 2015.
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Log Text: Very much overgrown by broom and seedling oak. Take your secateurs!
A fine site with apparent carvings not apparently recorded elsewhere.
Bleasdale
Date Added: 6th May 2017
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: England (Lancashire)
Visited: Yes on 5th May 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bleasdale submitted by AngieLake on 14th Sep 2004. This is the (north?)western half of Bleasdale wooden circle. My brother is 6'1" tall, for comparison.
This is a rare timber circle, where the posts have been replaced by concrete markers.
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Log Text: It's better at dawn or dusk, of course. I don't think I've been anywhere else where the circle is offset within an ellipse. The overall position where the circle is cupped inside a combe with two mountains backing it up is impressive, though not particularly unusual, but the fact that the land occupied by the circle is slightly but significantly higher than the wider surroundings, yet receives the sunlight last, is quite exceptional.
The circle is (exactly enough) equidistant to north and south from the headwaters of two rivers both known as the River Brock which combine at 53.895482, -2.662299.
The views to the west are very wide, and long. Watching the sun coming down onto the treetops before slicing on down into the circle was such a thrill. I'd like to be there on one of those misty mornings when you can only just see the sun so as to try and record its alignment. I guess that at midsummer it might rise out of, or become completely visible in one particular notch on the ridge, "Nick's Chair", which is exactly due east of the circle.
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.
Southside Mount
Date Added: 8th Apr 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 3
Southside Mount submitted by SumDoood on 8th Apr 2017. You'll notice it because you're looking for it.
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Log Text: Sad.
Wold Newton
Date Added: 8th Apr 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (East))
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Wold Newton submitted by SumDoood on 8th Apr 2017. Viewed from the SSW. See it?
1/3 in and 1/3 up.
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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.
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.
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.
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.