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Les Grises Pierres
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2010
Les Grises Pierres submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Oct 2010. The second of Les Grises Pierres at Montaigu-la-Brisette.
This one is more well hidden and buried than its partner.
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Bois du Mont
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2010
Bois du Mont submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2010. Remains of an Allée Couverte can be found in the private woodlands of Bois du Mont which is to the southwest of the village of Lithaire.
Info and picture from the site board at Bois de la Plesse.
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Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue de Saint-Jouan submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Oct 2010. Despite the menhir being so big, it still manages to play a game of hide and seek before finding it along chestnut lined trackways through fields of maize!
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Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2010
Pierre Longue (Noyal-sous-Bazouges) submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Oct 2010. This is a more than 5 metre tall menhir, which leans slightly towards the south, which stands beside the D796 roadside a kilometre or so to the west of Bazouges-la-Pérouse.
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Mont-Dol
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2010
Mont-Dol submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Oct 2010. Mont Dol is a large granite rock outcrop, dramatically jutting up through the flat coastal marshlands of the Baie de Mont St-Michel to the north of the ancient city of Dol-de-Bretagne, and in some ways is rather like Mont St-Michel itself, although nowadays completely enclosed within farmed lands.
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Holne Moor
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Holne Moor submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. At the southeastern end, in a lowpoint before the ground rises again, there seems to be a single, fairly large triangular shaped stone placed across the central or northern row, which may once have been a blocking stone marking the proper end of the monument.
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Siward's Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Siward's Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. The northern side and western face of this nice old cross, believed to date back to late Saxon, early medieval times.
On the western face are the words “Boc Lond” which presumably relate to Buckland, or Book Land, connected to the monks of Buckland Abbey.
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Narrator Brookhead Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Narrator Brookhead Enclosure submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. This is an oval shaped enclosure, approximately 50m by 30m which is defined by large stone walls, which nowadays make up a fallen structure about 3 metres wide by up to a metre high. Many upright stones can be seen within the walled structure.
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Down Tor cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Down Tor cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. About 50 metres to the northwest of the beautiful cairn circle, around the edge of the hillside, is the remains of another cairn, 14 metre diameter and more than a metre high. There are no signs of any kerb stones or structure within the cairn.
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Narrator Brookhead Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Nov 2010
Narrator Brookhead Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Nov 2010. There are two much smaller cairns at its base on the southwest side, both only a couple of metres diameter, but both showing signs of side set slabs.
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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.