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The Ridge Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Dec 2010
The Ridge Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Dec 2010. Approaching the cairn along the top of the hill from the southwest.
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Clitters Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Dec 2010
Clitters Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Dec 2010. Clitters Cairn on the edge of Bodmin Moor, seen here looking north-ish.
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Carn Pica
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Carn Pica submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. Carn Pica. The splendid "modern" cairn probably sits on the position of an ancient cairn.
View east down the valley of the River Usk. Black Mountains in the distance
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Log Text: A splendid "modern" cairn at the top of the most easterly tip of the main Brecon Beacons ridge, just to the east of the summit of Waun Rydd, probably built at the position of an ancient cairn.
Fan y Big
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Fan y Big submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. Very slight remains of a burial cairn can be found at the top of Fan y Big, one of the ridge peaks of the Brecon Beacons.
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Log Text: Very slight remains of a burial cairn can be found at the top of Fan y Big, one of the ridge peaks of the Brecon Beacons.
Absolutely stunning views are to be had from here, possibly the best in all of the Brecon Beacons, with the large glacial valleys below on two sides, and the high peaks of Cribyn, Pen y Fan and Corn Ddu looming up to the west. If here, don't forget the photo opportunity on the diving board!
Garn Fawr (Brecon)
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 20th Aug 2019
Garn Fawr (Brecon) submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Aug 2019. View south with the Pontsticill Reservoirs in the distance
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Log Text: Marked as Cairn and "Pile of Stones" on the various OS maps, this is a stone cairn on a rock outcrop, part of a low craggy outcrop at the southern end of the flat plateau of Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion. The cairn is 3m in diameter and 0.75m high. The area of the rock outcrop is called Garn Fawr but this appears to be a large marker cairn rather than a burial monument.
Maen Llia
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 14th Aug 2018. Maen Llia and a Perseid meteorite. I used my influence to book this particular one specially for the Megalithic Portal.
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Log Text: Beautiful day out doing the 4 waterfalls walk to the south of Ystradfellte. After dinner at the New Inn, popped up to visit Maen Llia where we amazingly meet Cerrig, out doing some surveying, but the sun is hidden from him. He takes great pride in showing us some amazing features of Maen Llia, such as the flattened platform with a stone where a shadow would fall, and the place where the stones shadow (or toungue) would reach on solstice sunset. Brilliant!
Ogmore Cross Shaft
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Ogmore Cross Shaft submitted by coin on 26th Apr 2015. An early 11th C. incomplete shaft of a cross-slab, with inscriptions on both faces (enclosed by triple-moulded borders) Supposedly, the inscription reads:
EST / QUOD.DED[IT] / ARTHMAIL /AGRUM DO / ET GLIGUIS. / ET NERTAT ET FILIE : SU[A]
The slab was discovered at the castle in 1929 and built into the base.
Source: GGAT
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. On the way back, stop off at Ogmore Castle, gleaming orange in the setting sun. Within the castle is mounted a stone which clearly has carvings on it, but in the dark shadow of the castle walls, it was impossible to make anything out clearly.
Nash Point Barrows
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Nash Point Barrows submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. Thank the wall
If it were not for the wall these barrows would merge into the background. Even with it there, they only appear as green lumps against it's grey stones.
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. Walk from Monknash down to the beach and then along the clifftop to Nash Point. The poor remains of three cairns along the field wall just inland can just about be made out against the wall.
Nash Point
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Nash Point submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. One I made earlier
Just found this pic I took last year. Looking west the outer bank can be seen as the highest yet least defendable.
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. Walk from Monknash down to the beach and then along the clifftop to Nash Point. Several rows of banks and ditches remain in good condition defending what is left of this clifftop promontary, now well eroded by the sea into a fairly narrow area.
Cae'r-Eglwys Long Cairn
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2019
Cae'r-Eglwys Long Cairn submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. Looking from Nash Point Promontary Fort, the cairn is directly behind the two walkers - under the gorse.
Nash Point lighthouse is in the background.
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Log Text: Lumpy bumpy ground on a slight slope in the car park at Nash Point, thought to be the remains of a long cairn.
Andover Museum of the Iron Age
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2019
Andover Museum of the Iron Age submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Aug 2019. Lego model of an Iron Age hillfort in the entrance to the Andover Museum of the Iron Age.
Behind is part of the Fullerton Mosaic, which was found in the main room of a Romano-British villa in the nearby village of Fullerton. The centre piece to the mosaic is the god Mars in his role as protector of agriculture.
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Log Text: I particularly liked the Lego model of an Iron Age hillfort situated in front of the Roman Fullerton Mosaic, which was found in the main room of a Romano-British villa in the nearby village of Fullerton. The centre piece to the mosaic is the god Mars in his role as protector of agriculture.
The Polisher (Fyfield Down)
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
The Polisher (Fyfield Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Sep 2019. At long last, I have been to visit this fabulous stone.
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Log Text: At long last, I have been to visit this fabulous stone. On this beautiful September fay, I sat and had lunch with the Polisher. I must have been here best part of an hour, watching the Red Kites circling, and didn't see another soul. It's really moving sat here, just where people would have been sat 5000 years ago.
Rebala
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: Estonia
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2003
Rebala submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2003. An unexcavated burial mound near Rebala. A few miles to the East of Tallinn, Estonia
There are many hundreds of these in this region
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Jõelähtme
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: Estonia
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2003
Jõelähtme submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2003. Jõelähtme burial mounds. A few miles to the East of Tallinn, Estonia
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Kostivere Sliding Stone
Date Added: 27th Oct 2019
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Estonia
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2003
Kostivere Sliding Stone submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Nov 2003. Kostivere Sliding Stone. A sacred Cult Stone in Estonia, a few miles to the East of Tallinn. The stone is a glacial erratic, but has been used for ceremonial purposes for many thousands of years, and has the remains of a burial mound associated with it, and is covered in ancient cup marks. The legend associated with this stone is that it can cure infertility. Women slide down the rock bare bottomed, and their infertility will be cured.
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Centro Interpretativo dos Almendres
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Centro Interpretativo dos Almendres submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Oct 2019. Interprative trail at Centro Interpretativo dos Almendres
Pic from Google images
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Log Text: Newly built (opened 2019) visitor centre, shop and interpretive trail, at the edge of the village of Guadalupe on the Rue do Cromeleque, before the road turns to a dirt track leading out to the Almendres sites. As well as the Almendres megaliths, the shop and building is heavily influenced by the local cork bark tradition, and features many cork products.
I could have spent much more time here, but we had to get to Evora to check in to the guesthouse.
Anta de Pavia
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Anta de Pavia submitted by Bak_teria on 25th Sep 2014. A view from the left side.
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Log Text: Chapel built into a huge Anta (dolmen) now in a square in the sleepy village of Pavia. The chapel is locked shut, but has a gate of iron railings allowing us to view inside. The nearby Café du Dolmen is also closed, and a few old chaps sit nattering in the shade of a small shelter on the square. Difficult to photograph in the bright sun, as it is mostly in shadow.
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menir do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Oct 2019. Outlying menhir to the northeast of the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open ground surrounded by cork bark oaks.
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Log Text: Outlying menhir to the Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas, standing in open grownd surrounded by cork bark oaks.
Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cromeleque do Monte das Fontaínhas Velhas submitted by Bak_teria on 22nd Sep 2014. A good view of all the 6 megaliths.
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Log Text: Hadn't planned on visiting or knowing of this site before visiting the Mora centre, where we were told of it by the girl there. As it was on the way to Pavia, just off the main road a couple of kilometers outside town, we stopped for a look. Re-erected in recent years, there is a video of this in the Mora centre. There is a single large stone almost 4 metres tall standing in a part circle of half a dozen smoothed and rounded smaller stones. Just nearby across the track is a further smaller stone, and approx a hundred metres distant to the northeast is a further outlier.
Nucleo Regional do Megalitismo
Date Added: 25th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Nucleo Regional do Megalitismo submitted by Alta-Falisa on 26th Mar 2017. Showcase : such decorative plaques have been found in abundance, to the point that nearly every museum in Alto Alentejo (and beyond) has at least one on display, generally in excellent state of préservation. Photo : March 2017.
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Log Text: A fairly new and interesting megalithic interpretation centre in the old railway station in the small town of Mora. The main room has a large wooden interpretation of the local landscape, with various chambers and areas within it containing various finds and information of neolithic life and the the local megaliths. I was particularly taken by the displays of the decorated neolithic plaques, many of which have been found with the local burials. The girl working at the centre was very friendly and helpful when we visited, helping me with suggestions of which local megalithic sites I should be visiting.