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Headless Cross (Moretonhampstead)
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Headless Cross (Moretonhampstead) submitted by AngieLake on 23rd Nov 2008. The Headless Cross, or Maximajor Stone (of Dartmoor Legend) marks the start of the NE end of the ridgeway track over Mardon Down.
Thought to be a replacement for a pre-existing ancient menhir.
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Log Text: Beautiful sunny week in February, the hottest on record with 21 degrees recorded at Kew. So I decided a day on Dartmoor was required, and that I should visit Mardon Down to see the stone circle and other monuments in the vicinity, plus visit a couple of pubs. Two hours to drive down, and I was out on the moors before 12:00, having parked in a car parking area opposite what is marked as the Headless Cross. Turns out that the stone here now is a fairly modern replacement for the original stone, which was broken by either a car accident or an act of vandalism, depending on what story you see. It also seems to state that this never was a cross in the traditional sense, but probably a menhir (known as the Maximajor Stone), which acted as a guide stone in more recent times, much like many of the moorland crosses.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Date Added: 9th Sep 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Canada
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 1989. My rating: Access 5
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump submitted by thecaptain on 24th May 2009. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The welcome sign with logo.
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Hazleton South
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton South submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Hazleton South longbarrow is left clear in the field and is not currently ploughed up, although I would think it has been in the past. I would estimate the slight mound, maximum one metre in height, to be about 50 metres in length by 25 metres wide.
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Hazleton North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton North submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.
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Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 7th Aug 2020
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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Log Text: Seen up on the top of the Cotswold Edge during a hot and humid Friday afternoon 11k walk, north from Hawkesbury Upton to the monument, then down the Cotswold Edge to Inglestone Common, south to Hawkesbury Common and on to Horton Court before going back up the Cotswold Edge and along the Cotswold Way andd "Yellow Brick Road" to Hawkesbury and a pint at the Beaufort Arms afterwards.
Hauts-de-Bretagne Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.294 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hauts-de-Bretagne Polissoir submitted by theCaptain on 10th Mar 2012. Just outside the Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen can be found a polissoir stone.
I do not know whether this slab was once part of the blown up dolmen or not.
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Log Text: Just outside the Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen, at the northwest side, can be found a polissoir stone, with one groove, 5 basins and a flat area for polishing work. These are on a slab about one metre square. I do not know whether this slab was once part of the blown up dolmen or not.
Hauts-de-Bretagne Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.293 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 9th Mar 2012. This was once an Angevin dolmen with a 3.5 metre by 2 metre rectangular chamber, and its entrance porchway at the east.
Unfortunately it was dynamited at the end of the 19th century, and so is not much more than a large pile of stones now.
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Log Text: On a west facing slope in the middle of a field, a kilometre or so to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen. It is reached by finding the Rue des Dolmens, and then a difficult kilometre walk along farmtracks, across streams and fields.
It was once an Angevin type dolmen with a 3.5 metre by 2 metre rectangular chamber, with its entrance porchway at the east. Unfortunately it was dynamited at the end of the 19th century, and so is not much more than a large pile of stones now. However, the basic ground plan can be made out.
Hart Tor south row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor south row submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor South Stone Row, Dartmoor, Devon SX577716
The southern cairn is slightly smaller, with a remaining circle of only small stones. The southern row leads downhill from here for about 60 metres.
This is a view of the southern cairn and the top of the stone row looking towards Hart Tor.
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Hart Tor north rows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor north rows submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor North Stone Rows, Dartmoor, Devon SX577717
The northern of the Hart Tor rows is a double row avenue which has its lower end at the river Meavy and progresses up the hillside in an easterly direction to a nice cairn at the upper end, 125 metres distant.
This is a view looking up at the two cairns from near the upper end of the avenue.
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Hart Tor North circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor North circle submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor North Stone Circle, Dartmoor, Devon SX577717
The cairn at the top of the northern rows is about 9m in diameter, and is surrounded by a lovely ring of 15 stone slabs. It is possible that there is another ring of stones still present within the cairn.
This is the view to the northwest towards Black Tor.
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Harolds Stones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2004
Harolds Stones submitted by thecaptain on 12th Aug 2004. Harolds Stones, one evening several years ago.
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Harlyn Bay
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2022
Harlyn Bay submitted by mikeaitch on 10th Jul 2009. Harlyn Bay is my favorite place to be in the world, a view which appears to have been shared by our ancestors since ancient times.
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Log Text: Walk all the way around the coast to Harlyn, where I think I pass the ancient burial grounds. Now desperate for a pint I am expecting to find the pub once up off the beach by the bridge. I found no signs of what I remember as a little museum with remains, or indeed, more annoyingly at the time after a long hot walk, the pub, as everything is all being rebuilt into lots of expensive appartments, so a good thing I did carry a pasty, but I really could haver done with a pint. Very tempting to gatecrash in on a large wedding event at marquees in the fields nearby!
Harford S.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Harford S. submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Harford Moor South, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
On Harford Moor, near to the upper reaches of Butter Brook, are the remains of a couple of stone alignments, which are very close together.
The southern of the two is a short double row, which extends in a northeasterly direction away from a small cairn. There are a several pairs of very closely set stones remaining, including what is probably the end pair, which are slightly larger than the others, about 25m distant from the cairn.
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Harford Moor N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Harford Moor N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Harford Moor North, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
At the upper reaches of Butterbrook are a double and a single row of stones, on a similar alignment. The northern single row crosses beyond the end of the double row. The stones are smaller than those of the double row, some hardly showing above the ground, and not easy to see in all the loose natural stone of the area. There is no obvious western end to the row, and the furthest stones here are more or less adjacent to the cairn of the double row...
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Haresfield Beacon tumulus
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Haresfield Beacon tumulus submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Sep 2020. The tumulus with trig point on top, at the western end of Haresfield Beacon.
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Log Text: Walk around the Bruce Friendship Trail, which takes in the superb Haresfield Beacon with its remnants of promontory hillfort with a round tumulus at the western point, with a trig point on the top. Superb views over the Severn Vale
Haresfield Beacon and Ring
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Haresfield Beacon and Ring submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 24th Jun 2011. From the same spot looking NNW over the inside of the Fort
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Log Text: Walk around the Bruce Friendship Trail, which takes in the superb Haresfield Beacon with its remnants of promontory hillfort with a round tumulus at the western point, with a trig point on the top. Superb views over the Severn Vale
Hardings Down West
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015
Hardings Down West submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2015. The shape of Hardings Down West hillfort can be seen here on the northwestern slopes of Hardings Down, as seen here from Rhossili Down.
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Hardings Down East
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015
Hardings Down East submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2015. Some of the embankments of Hardings Down East hillfort can be seen atop Hardings Down, as seen here from Rhossili Down.
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Harbourne Head Standing Stone
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head Standing Stone submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. Harbourne Head Standing Stone.
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Log Text: A cold grey February afternoon walk out onto the moor to visit the Harbourne Head menhir. It’s a nice pointy topped stone, slightly taller than me and leaning to one side. Some swaling going on nearby, but not close to the stone and doesn't prevent me getting a visit.