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Thornborough S
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Thornborough S submitted by JJ on 23rd Aug 2004. Thornborough south henge
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Log Text: Travelling home from Northumberland, and the weather forecast was good, so I decided to go the eastern route and break my journey to have a look at the Thornborough Henges. After a drive around several small roads, I found a place to park with access to the fields between the southern and central henges. I decided to go walk around the henges, and started with the southern one, a fair walk on a blowy day, but nice when the sun came out. The large henge is not so well formed as I had expected, no doubt worn down over the centuries, and not much to see other than the circular bank; the internal ditch is barely noticeable.
Thornborough Central
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Thornborough Central submitted by Iain_P on 8th Sep 2016. This is an image taken from stitched together frames from a drone video, taken at sunrise a month ago (early August, 2016) For scale, you can just see our car in the bottom right.
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Log Text: Crossing back across the roadway, I go in for a look and walk around the central henge. This banks of this one are more substantial, but in places are very damaged by badgers or rabbits. The internal ditch is again slight, but can be made out here. I walked north to try to get to the northern henge, but it was not possible to get across the northern road and in to see it.
Thornborough N
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Thornborough N submitted by SumDoood on 24th Apr 2017. (Arriving only just in time, I had cut down the four Roman soldiers and told them to get their sorry European arses back to Boroughbridge, and not to bother my henge again. Meanwhile...) I was very impressed by this henge and the fact that it is still so complete, the ditch being on average 3.0m deep and the bank an average of 3.0m high.
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Log Text: Back to the car for the small drive round to the woodland at the western side of the northern henge, and there was room to park, and then follow one of several paths into the woodland. This northern henge is much more like it, very well preserved, both the banks and internal ditch. The atmosphere in this woodland is much more pleasant than the open fields of the other two. Time to look for a pub and a pint.
Corbridge Crosses
Date Added: 10th Apr 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2022. My rating: Access 5
Corbridge Crosses submitted by Anne T on 12th Sep 2019. The old market cross, which stood upon steps and a Roman altar, was removed from it's original place in 1807, and stood outside the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle. It was returned to Corbridge in the 20th century, but now sits 2m to the east of the door into the Pele Tower. Very worn, it once had an inscription, plus dog tooth ornament.
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Log Text: After a visit to Coria in September 2022, was looking to get a pint in the Pele Tower, but it was unfortunately temporarily closed.
Hexham Abbey
Date Added: 10th Apr 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Hexham Abbey submitted by Thorgrim on 18th Sep 2004. Roman tombstone now in Hexham Abbey NY773684
Memorial to Flavinus a Roman Standard hero
(see same design in Colchester Castle)
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Log Text: A morning looking round Hexham Abbey with some wonderful old carved stone things in there.
Hadrian's Wall (Coria)
Date Added: 10th Apr 2023
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Hadrian's Wall (Coria) submitted by Anne T on 3rd Aug 2019. Some of the granary structures in the north western part of the site.
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Log Text: Afternoon visit to Corbridge and a look round the tremendous old Roman town remains of Coria. Excellent museum and information centre.
Dunstanburgh Castle
Date Added: 8th May 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dunstanburgh Castle submitted by SolarMegalith on 21st Aug 2017. A general view of the promontory with Dunstanburgh Castle and site of an Iron Age settlement (photo taken on July 2017).
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Log Text: Day up to Dunstanburgh castle. Park at Craster, buy sandwiches then walk along the coast northwards to the castle. Excellent.
Hadrian's Wall - Milecastle 37
Date Added: 22nd Apr 2023
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hadrian's Wall - Milecastle 37 submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Apr 2023. Milecastle 37 is one of the best preserved Milecastles along Hadrian’s Wall, immediately to the west of Housesteads Roman Fort. T
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Log Text: Day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking back eastwards along Hadrians wall to Housesteads Fort, having lunch at Sycamore Gap. This is a splendid milecastle and place, with a nice almost completely arched gateway north through the wall.
The Sill
Date Added: 22nd Apr 2023
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Sill submitted by Anne T on 25th Jun 2019. The Sill building, as seen from its north eastern corner. It is located in Once Brewed, immediately next to the B6318 (Old Military Road).
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Log Text: Day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, cup of coffee, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking back eastwards along Hadrians wall to Housesteads Fort
Housesteads Tumulus
Date Added: 22nd Apr 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Housesteads Tumulus submitted by SolarMegalith on 21st Jul 2016. The mound seen from the S-SE (photo taken on July 2016).
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Log Text: A day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads to park, and before catching the bus to The Sill, have a look at the prominent barrow just the other side of the road. The fog is starting to lift now, thank goodness.
Hadrian's Wall
Date Added: 16th May 2023
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hadrian's Wall submitted by johndhunter on 23rd Jun 2019. Hadrian's Wall – Looking East towards Sewingshields Crags, May 2012
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Log Text: A day exploring Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking eastwards along Hadrian's wall back to Housesteads Fort, having lunch at Sycamore Gap.
Hadrian's Wall - Milecastle 39
Date Added: 26th Apr 2023
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hadrian's Wall - Milecastle 39 submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Apr 2023. Milecastle 39 on Hadrian’s Wall, immediately to the west of the extremely scenic Sycamore Gap.
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Log Text: Day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking back eastwards along Hadrians wall to Housesteads Fort, having lunch at Sycamore Gap. This well presented milecastle is immediately to the west of the extremely scenic Sycamore Gap.
White Raise Cairn
Date Added: 15th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
White Raise Cairn submitted by baz on 3rd May 2003. White Raise Cairn (NY489224). This 20m. long cairn has an exposed central cist.
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Log Text: I eventually get to the White Raise cairn, MD10, a large roundish mass of stones on top of a small natural hillock. Its not very round, with a few sticking out arms, and it is clear why this became known as "The Starfish Cairn". Clambering up onto the top of it, and the previous notable cairns can be seen in the distance. There is a hollow containing a large cist, fairly big and much deeper than any I have seen on Dartmoor. Near to this cist, on the eastern side, are a couple of large stones, no doubt once the capstones of the cist. There are other stones which may once have formed a ring around the structure.
The Cockpit
Date Added: 17th Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
The Cockpit submitted by LivingRocks on 18th Mar 2005. A panoramic view of the Cockpit Stone Circle which according to Magicmap ‘includes a circular kerbed stone bank 2.8m -11.2m wide and up to 0.5m high which encloses an area approximately 27m in diameter. There are 27 (?) standing and recumbent stones set largely into the internal face of this bank, thereby creating the stone circle. The tallest standing stone measures about 0.95m high and some of the recumbent stones are up to 1.9m in length. Within the eastern side of the stone circle, abuttin...
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Log Text: I have been meaning to visit The Cockpit for many many years, and I managed to do so in September 2022. From White Raise I head off towards the Cockpit, down to the major crossing of tracks, and then taking the way to the west, on what is now a largely rebuilt and upraised stone trackway across the boggy moorland. This has made what was probably difficult going into a very easy and pleasant walk. Just after a little ford over a stream, and there it is, looking all green inside and splendid. Its a large circular area of flat ground surrounded by a stone lined embankment, with a good set of quite large stones around the inner edge, another not so complete ring around the outside. There are a few little round cairn like structures spaced around its circumference, the largest being at the eastern side. Time for lunch, then I'd better head back. Having looked at the rough and marshy ground to the south, I decide to go back the way I came, and not to make up a loop walk across the open moorland to look for a few other cairns and "piles of stones" marked on the OS map.
Mayburgh
Date Added: 19th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by TerryStaniforth on 10th Jan 2007. Panorama at Mayburgh Henge in frost.
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Log Text: After a fabulous breakfast its time to start my day. Once I have found my way out of Penrith, cross the river and turn right at Eaumont Bridge, right by King Arthur's Round Table henge. Right again before the motorway near a large millennium stone, and theres a parking area. Short walk to Mayburgh Henge, and what a fabulous place it is. Far bigger than I had imagined, the effort it must have taken to create this out of millions of river boulders and pebbles is astounding. I walk all around the henge taking a lot of pictures, none of which do it justice. The large stone standing in the middle really makes the place, along with all the old tree roots growing amongst the boulders. Terrific.
King Arthur's Round Table
Date Added: 20th Oct 2022
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
King Arthur's Round Table submitted by h_fenton on 1st Oct 2010. King Arthur's Round Table.
I tried to fly the kite here but the wind was too inconsistent to safely get the camera high enough. Here instead of a kite I used a carp fishing pole, with a camera attachment on the end to lift my camera higher (6-7 metres).
10 September 2010
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Log Text: From Mayburgh I walk to King Arthur's Round Table, and then pop into its field for a walk around the outside. Much smaller, and more henge like than the nearby Mayburgh, this has the ditch well inside the outer bank. Unfortunately, being so close to the busy roads, it suffers a fair bit in the ambience stakes.
Moor Divock Round Cairn D
Date Added: 13th Feb 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock Round Cairn D submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Nov 2022. Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
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Log Text: Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
Long Meg
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by JanF on 22nd Jun 2010. Long Meg (and her daughters) Stone Circle, Cumbria UK, is a magical place.. I watched the sunset on this special day in memory of my loved one.. Many others were here with me.. Complete strangers, but yet close friends..
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Log Text: Before heading east over the Pennines, I have time to go and visit Long Meg. A new car park has been made which is well signposted, which leaves a 500 metre walk to the stone circle. I start my visit with Long Meg itself, as there are a few other people here who go the other way. What a lovely stone, standing proud overlooking the circle with its spirals and of course the face of Long Meg herself.
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Iain_P on 12th Aug 2017. Another. It was the only sun we saw all week!
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Log Text: Now to walk around the circle. It's huge, much bigger than my memory was telling me and with a little double stoned entrance up near Long Meg. The stones are basically large rounded boulders, like giant pebbles from a riverbed, and its not really accurate to consider them as standing stones. Lots of young cows in and around the stones, some of which seem to be playing hide and seek.
Cop Stone
Date Added: 21st Nov 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cop Stone submitted by nicoladidsbury on 16th Feb 2005. Cop Stone, Moor Divock, Near Askham
OS NY 4959 2160
We approached Moor Divock on bike, setting off from Askham, via Whale, Helton and Heltonhead, so I was a little bit tired....
The bridleway over the moor was smooth, level and firm, excellent for bike riding. We spotted the Cop Stone off to the right and, abandoning the bikes, we walked over springy turf and heather to investigate. The stone is aproximately 1.20m, and leaning to the north. Moor Divock is an exciting place, to the north t...
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Log Text: It’s a simple drive from Mayburgh up through Askham, then on to Helton and up onto the moorland plateau, with plenty of parking beside the road near to the Cop Stone. Boots on, map in pocket, water, sandwiches, camera and raincoat in bag, tracker set, then its off for my exploration of the Moor Divock sites. It's quite busy up here, with a constant stream of people walking and cycling past. First off is the Cop Stone, which is for some reason much smaller than I was expecting. Erosion has made a large depression around the stone, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was to fall over in the not too distant future. Despite thinking I had read that the ring cairn of which the Cop Stone is a part was now largely destroyed, it seemed to be fairly obvious to my eyes, so I took a walk around its circumference, and found plenty more stones sticking up above the heather, particularly in the western arc. I have to say, the Cop Stone does look good perched up here in this splendid place.