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Randwick Long Barrow
Date Added: 27th Sep 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Randwick Long Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 13th Apr 2009. On the left of the picture here, at the northeastern end of the barrow, are the remains of a horned entrance with forecourt and a single stone lined chamber.
Remains of this chamber are supposedly still to be seen, but the barrow is heavily overgrown here, making any stone remains invisible to me when I visited.
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Log Text: This massive Long Barrow is to be found within Standish Wood, at the top of the hills to the north of Stroud. The remaining mound is about 55 metres in length, up to half as wide, and still 4 metres in height. At the northeastern end are the remains of a horned entrance with forecourt and a single stone lined chamber. Remains of this chamber are supposedly still to be seen, but the barrow is heavily overgrown, making any stone remains invisible to me when I visited.
The barrow is set right on the hilltop, and almost surrounded by various quarrying and pits, some of which may date back almost as long as the barrow itself. Positioned within this thick Cotswold woodland, the place is very atmospheric, and supposedly a much more authentic setting than those barrows in open fields.
A bit further on in the woods to the northeast are a couple of other round barrows, and a crossdyke.
From Stroud, take the road north towards Randwick, and follow it up the hill, taking the little lane to the left when almost at the hilltop. There is a small parking area here, and a well maintained trackway north into the woods, from where the barrow is only a few hundred metres distant.
The Toots (King's Stanley)
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Apr 2009. The Toots - seen on the skyline of Selsley common above the church. Viewed here from Stroud
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Log Text: Remains of a large unexcavated Long Barrow on the Cotswold escarpment slopes of Selsley Common, just to the south of Stroud in Gloucestershire. Possibly called 'The Toots' because of a hollow in the middle which makes it look as if it is composed of two mounds. The views on a good day from here are terrific, and the common is a favourite place for dogwalkers, kite flyers and model plane flying.
Avening burial chambers
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Avening burial chambers submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. The view of where the burial chambers are from the road.
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Gatcombe Lodge
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2009
Gatcombe Lodge submitted by thecaptain on 24th Mar 2009. Having read several tales of people being stopped and questioned by rapidly arriving police here, I didn’t spend long, and just took a photo from the entry to the estate.
It looks to be the regular shapeless lumpy bumpy mess covered in trees.
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Table des Fées (Rocheville)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2009
Table des Fées (Rocheville) submitted by thecaptain on 5th Apr 2009. La Table des Fées.
My Dad can be seen in the lane, with the gap through to the stone seen.
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Hetty Pegler's Tump
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hetty Pegler's Tump submitted by thecaptain on 15th Mar 2009. The closure notice.
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Log Text: March 2009 and Hetty Pegler`s Tump was closed and sealed off to the public, due to concerns over its safety, with the internal drystone walling collapsing due to vandalism and the weight of the capstones resting on these walls since the 19th century reconstruction. Scaffolding has been used to prop up the chambers, and the entrance passage and courtyard sealed and filled with earth.
The Toots (Oldbury)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2009
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Apr 2009. The Toots - seen on the skyline of Selsley common above the church. Viewed here from Stroud
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Whitefield's Tump
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2009
Whitefield's Tump submitted by thecaptain on 9th May 2009. Whitefield's Tump is a largely shapeless remains of a Long Barrow on the northwestern part of Minchinhampton Common.
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Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2009
Murat-sur-Vèbre Centre d'Interprétation submitted by thecaptain on 12th May 2009. I believe the real Favarels statue menhir has been taken inside the museum at Murat-sur-Vèbre, but a replica has been made and put in the place of the real one outside the information office.
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Newspaper Rock (Petrified Forest)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2009
Newspaper Rock (Petrified Forest) submitted by thecaptain on 20th May 2009. I believe that this is Newspaper Rock, its certainly in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
From a visit in November 1990.
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Puerco Pueblo Petroglyphs
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2009
Puerco Pueblo Petroglyphs submitted by thecaptain on 20th May 2009. Bird and Frog petroglyph, possibly part of Newspaper Rock, its certainly in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
From a visit in November 1990.
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Montezuma Castle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2009
Montezuma Castle submitted by thecaptain on 25th May 2009. Montezuma Castle, on a hot day in November 1990.
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Tuzigoot Monument
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2009
Tuzigoot Monument submitted by thecaptain on 26th May 2009. Tuzigoot Monument, pueblo built by the Sinagua culture.
Nov 1990.
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Puerco Pueblo.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2009
Puerco Pueblo. submitted by thecaptain on 28th May 2009. I believe these must be the Puerco Pueblo ancient ruins.
They are definitely somewhere in Petrified Forest national park, and the old photo is in my album on the same page as the petroglyph pictures!
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Agate House
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2009
Agate House submitted by thecaptain on 28th May 2009. Agate House in Petrified Forest National Park.
picture from November 1990.
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Four-És-Feins
Trip No.209 Entry No.10 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Four-És-Feins submitted by karolus on 12th Jan 2018. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Log Text: I went and had another look for this while in the area last weekend, now knowing to look nearby to the Beillac farm. I could see nothing obvious when driving slowly down the lane past the farm, but there was an old couple out tending their wonderful vegetable garden, so I stopped and asked them if they could tell me where the dolmen was. They were interested to know what an Englishman was doing looking for the remnants of the dolmen, but were happy to help.
Unfortunately, I struggled to understand fully all they were saying, a combination of strong accent and using some words I just could not figure out. But I thought I had got enough of a lead to find it easily. Park out of the way of the farm track by the corner of the farm. Cross the field to the south on the newly cut hay at the edge of the field for 200 metres until reaching the other side. Go straight on about another 100 metres (unknown words) until I get to the big trees, and it is on the left, (some more unknown words). Put boots on if you have them. Sounds simple.
Well, it was all very simple simple, until I tried to decide which of all the woodlands were the correct big trees. However, after a few false starts, I found a place in a woodland to the left of the track, with a mound in it, and what looked to be some lumps sticking up, but it was very overgrown. It has to be this, surely. Closer inspection amongst the ivy and brambles, and there were clearly a few side set slabs sticking up through the ground, and I was pretty sure I could determine two rows of slabs about 1.5 metres apart from each other, but with no stone more than 0.5 metres tall, and most substantially lower. I reckoned that what I had found on top of the mound was about 10 metres in length, and had to be the remains of a very ruined allée couverte.
However, walking back to the car, I thought that these poor remains were not really enough to be known by the name Four-es-Feins; the Fairies Oven. Surely something with a name like that must be a grander structure. I also thought it to be too ruined to be what the old couple were explaining to me, although they did say it was just the remains of an allée couverte. I would have thought they would have told me not to bother rather than gladly give me directions.....
Upon returning to the car, I remembered I had book with description in a box in the boot. "Rectangular chamber measuring 10m by 1.5m with 6 orthostats on the south side and 5 on the north. Their length is between 1 and 1.8 metres, height about half a metre and thickness 0.3 metres. Brilliant, this all fits to what I saw. But then, the description goes on. Three cover slabs about half a metre thick, and the backstone are still in place. Around the monument, a dozen or so other stones lie scattered.
Well, I can believe the stones are now more covered by undergrowth and soil than that description, and hence seem smaller. The size, orientation and almost everything seems right, with one major exception; the three cover stones. There was nothing at all which could have been them. Read the description again and realise it has been based upon a plan and writings from 1886 and 1928. Maybe it has become much more wrecked since then, but what of the old couples talk ?
So, was this Four-es-Feins or not? If it wasn't, what had I found ? I am not sure, but like to think I did find it. Certainly until anyone proves otherwise and can show me something better I'll count it.
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
La Roche Longue (St-Marcan) submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jun 2009. View of La Roche Longue seen from the west.
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Log Text: This well shaped menhir is just under 3 metres tall in a field to the east of the St Marcan cemetary. As with my previous visit, the field is planted with maize, and is today sodden wet, which prevents me from being abole to walk right up to the stone. However, this time I can walk up the western edge of the field by the cemetary, and photograph its other side in the afternoon sunshine.
Menhir du Perron (St-Marcan)
Trip No.209 Entry No.14 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition -1
Log Text: A 2 metre tall menhir similar to the Roche Longue of St Marcan, once stood in the fields of Perron, about 800 metres south of La Roche Longue. It somehow disappeared in the 1930's.
Beleven allée couverte
Trip No.209 Entry No.11 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Beleven allée couverte submitted by thecaptain on 24th Jun 2009. There is even a sign here, but unfortunately while holding my camera above my head to get the picture, I have chopped off the bottom and left side a bit.
Still, it shows a plan and good artistic reconstruction of the place.
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Log Text: Remains of a fairly disturbed but mostly complete allée couverte can be found in dark woodland to the northwest of the village of Plouer-sur-Rance, to the north of the magnificent ancient city of Dinan. Although the quartz block stones of this 14 metre long allée couverte are fairly well disturbed, it is in fact mostly complete, with a well defined terminal cella, and even with traces of its mound still to be seen. It is possible that it once had a lateral entrance.
Remarkably, it is stated that this monument was only discovered in 1972, which I find hard to believe, and it was classified as a monument historique as recently as 1981.
The poor thing is very close to a busy express highway, the N176, which runs along this northern edge of Brittany, but although the noise from the traffic is constant, the dense woodlands do a good job of hiding it all.
Despite looking on maps as if it would be very difficult to access, its on a wooded hillside right next to the dual carriageway road , there is in fact an emergency phone and layby nearby on the northbound carriageway, where it is possible to park and visit the monument. From the layby, hop over a little fence and follow a well worn path to the left for about 100 metres, and there it is ! Brilliant, its like the layby is deliberately put there for us stonehunters !
Outre Tombes
Trip No.209 Entry No.12 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Outre Tombes submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jul 2009. There are several information plaques at the site.
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Log Text: This horseshoe of megalithic stones has alternatively been considered as a megalithic enclosure (cromlech) or perhaps the stones once surrounding a dolmenic burial chamber. Seven stones are shaped in a sort of semi circle, of diameter about 7 metres.
This monument was classified as a historical monument in 1966, but by 1977 had disappeared, being the victim of an expansion of the local quarry at Vaujour. When this was discovered, the police were called in, but it was all thought to be too late. However, in 1989 it was found that most of the stones hadn't simply been destroyed, but had been moved and dumped into a nearby field, although one had gone through the stonecrusher. With the help of a plan and photograph of the site taken in 1962, the local people (with the help of the quarrying company) had the site recreated in 1998, just a few hundred metres from its original position.
There is also a small menhir erected at the site, the origins of which I do not know, but the stone does not look modern. Today, the site sits in a little meadow near to the top of the quarry, and can be found beside the little road which runs along the top of the hills to the northeast of the massive Vaujour quarries. There are several information plaques at the site, telling of its history and with diagrams and pictures.