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Leigh Down
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2012
Leigh Down submitted by theCaptain on 12th May 2012. Description of Leigh Down stone circle from "The Lost Stone Circles of North Somerset" by EK Tratman.
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Menhir de Soulangy
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2012
Menhir de Soulangy submitted by theCaptain on 15th May 2012. Menhir discovered during the construction of the RN 158 near to Soulangy. It has now been re-erected in the parking area of the Soulangy rest area, on the western (southbound) side.
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Macellum of Pompeii
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2012
Macellum of Pompeii submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jun 2012. A circle of 12 volcanic tuff stones erected in the central Macellum of the ancient city of Pompeii.
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Hadleigh Roundhouse
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2012
Hadleigh Roundhouse submitted by theCaptain on 27th Aug 2012. Hadleigh Country Park in Essex, has built a replica Iron Age roundhouse to
provide a sheltered working environment forschool groups.
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Westmoorgate cairn
Date Added: 8th Oct 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2012
Westmoorgate cairn submitted by theCaptain on 8th Oct 2012. The gps track of my walking to the north of Westmoorgate stone circle, firstly to the cairn (WP17) and then around some significant stones, which have indeed made a rather nice circle.
Plotted onto Google Earth.
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Westmoorgate circle
Date Added: 8th Oct 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2012
Westmoorgate circle submitted by theCaptain on 6th Oct 2012. I walked around the circle and made a waypoint on my gps for each of the stones.
I have plotted these onto Google Earth
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Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Boscawen Un submitted by BazCross on 30th Mar 2012. Boscawen Un photographed March 2012.
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Log Text: Took Dad here, and made sure he knew it is one of my favourite places. Dad thought it was great too. Low sun, shining on the stones, sparkling on the quartz, just terriffic. I love it here. So beautiful and quiet and calm. Just perfect.
St Breock Beacon Kistvaen
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
St Breock Beacon Kistvaen submitted by theCaptain on 17th Dec 2012. Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta. It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other.
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Log Text: Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta, this monument was first recorded by William Borlase in his 1872 work Naenia Cornubiae.
It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other. I found it by walking in a southwesterly direction from Men Gurta across scrubland and then down a track towards the trigpoint. Just after crossing a farmtrack, there is an area of very overgrown gorse bushes, which seem to nowadays be used for dumping and tipping waste and junk. From on top of one of the piles of rubble, I had a good look around, and saw the large stones not far away, but impossible to reach from my position. Having another attempt from a more easterly position, I managed to get through the waist high gorse and brambles, while at times I found myself in water almost up to my knees! The things we stonehunters put ourselves through.
When I eventually got to the stones, I couldn't see much, as the surrounding area was so waterlogged and they are so overgrown, but it is clear they are a megalithic construction. With this now back on the megalithic map, I am sure others will be able to get better pictures and descriptions of this during better conditions, and before it becomes totally covered in the rubble and junk tipped up here.
The Stones, Tresallyn Cross
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Stones, Tresallyn Cross submitted by theCaptain on 20th Dec 2012. The stone circle at Tresallyn Cross
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Log Text: The garden of author and artist Ed Prynn's bungalow at Tresallyn Cross, St Merryn, just a few miles from the Padstow to Wadebridge road, is a site to be seen. All sorts of megalithic monuments have been recreated here using roughly hewn modern Cornish granite. There is a stone circle, a men-an-tol, a rocking stone, a triangular Tolvan stone (the Wedding Stone) and a large Lanyon quoit style construction (the Angels Runway), and there is even a fougou constructed under the lawn. Many other stones and and artefacts are to be seen, including wishing well, maze and suchlike.
The Fiddler
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Fiddler submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Jan 2013. Nowadays not much more than a large lump of stone laying in a field to the east of the A39 on the highpoint of land as the road passes over St Breock downs. It is positioned at a point where the line of the 9 Maidens would cross the top of the ridge.
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Log Text: Nowadays not much more than a large lump of stone laying in a field to the east of the A39 on the highpoint of land as the road passes over St Breock downs. It is positioned at a point where the line of the 9 Maidens would cross the top of the ridge.
It is lovely light up here this afternoon, but the stone is across a fence from where I can walk to up the farm track, and the field full of livestock. It doesn't look that exciting, so I'll satisfy myself with taking pictures from the edge of the field. There is so much other large stone all around up here, that it is impossible to really tell what would be megalithic and what is field clearance.
St Breock Downs Menhir
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Breock Downs Menhir submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2013. Splendidly positioned and lit up when the sun goes down, but was too late with my photos.
This stone seems to have a guardian
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Log Text: As we arrived, this ridgetop stone was lit up by the falling sun, on the top of the ridge below the wind turbines, and looked absolutely splendid. However, didn't stop, as Men Gurta and the newly refound kistvaen were more pressing in the light. Returned after visiting those, and the sun had gone down, making this stone look much less impressive. A full visit would have required crossing a fence into a field of sheep, so again I satisfied myself with taking a few photos from the edge of the field. Wish I'd spent a minute on the way up to quickly take a picture of it lit up in the sun!
Men Gurta
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Men Gurta submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Mar 2013. There is a useful littel noticeboard up here, describing the stone and the local areas other prehistoric monuments
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Log Text: Near the top of St Breock Down, this stone is easily reached along the little lanes to the south of Wadebridge. Men Gurta is the largest and heaviest standing stone in Cornwall. It is very nice up here in the sinking sun, with some terriffic views out to sea over the Camel estuary. I think the wind turbines add to the scene up here, other than their constant whining.
Nine Maidens Stone Row
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nine Maidens Stone Row submitted by rldixon on 26th Oct 2010. Nine Maidens stone row
taken about 8pm
29-5-2008
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Log Text: A second trip to the 9 Maidens this week, the field was still absolutely sodden, and we were over our ankles in places, which seemed strange as it is all on a reasonable slope and looked like it should drain reasonably well. At the far side of the field are the Maidens, 9 evenly spaced stones, a couple of which are now only stumps. However, the field and hedges around here are littered with large stones, and there is no doubt that there once could have been many more in this row.
Roche Buquet
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012
Roche Buquet submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Site in Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35) France
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Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
Date Added: 12th Oct 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Menhir de la Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais) submitted by thereddragon on 9th Oct 2012. Pierre Fichée (La Pinelais)
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Log Text: A bit like busses, this menhir has been ignored by the megalithic portal's stonehunters for many years, and then 2 come along in 2 days!
Mont St Michel
Trip No.212 Entry No.13 Date Added: 13th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2012. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mont St Michel submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2013. They are trying to cut off the Mont again, to get the sea to surround it once more, and this involves removing the old causeway which prevented the tide clearing the silts etc, and just have a bridge going out to the Mont. This and alterations to the river should then mean the silts get washed away, and the sea once more claims the Mont at each high tide.
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Log Text: Getting a late lunch at Plein Fougeres, it is now much too late to go to Fougeres and have a proper look round, so we decide to go to Mont St Michel for a quick look around. Shouldn't be too busy at this time of year. It has all changed since either myself or Dad was last there, and you now have to park miles away, at what is becoming a sort of holiday village resort. Many huge car parks, some hotels and restaurants etc, and a 40 min walk to the Mont, but free shuttle busses are provided. At this point I was ready to give up and drive away, but Dad still wanted to persevere, so we got the shuttle bus 10 mins out to the Mont.
Theres a hell of a lot of work going on here, both to the walls and the surroundings. Turns out they are trying to cut off the Mont again, to get the sea to surround it once more, and this involves removing the old causeway etc, and just have a sort of bridge going out to the Mont. This and alterations to the river should then mean the silts get washed away, and the sea once more claims the Mont at each high tide. I read at the new controlling dam on the river that the land has risen 4.9 metres since the 1960s. Much of these new grassy marshes is being dug up and pushed into the river, hopefully to get washed away.
The place is not too crowded, although many Japanese here, so we walk up to the abbey along the main street, no time to do the tour. Walk down around the outer walls, watching the tide coming in, and theres a group of people out walking over the sands and mud with the water coming in. Just as we leave the Mont, the sun starts to come out, making a few pictures much better.
Cup of tea, then on to Sara's, much later than we ought to be, but this time its not all my doing! Must visit here properly sometime, October Thursday mornings might be OK, but need the whole day.
Leskernick cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2012
Leskernick cairn submitted by theCaptain on 27th Oct 2012. Looking westwards towards the cairn from the tin worked stream.
A couple of stones from the stone row can be seen
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Montchauvet Alignements
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2012
Montchauvet alignements submitted by theCaptain on 29th Oct 2012. I found nine large stones in the field, mostly flat to the ground, but one or two upright.
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St George's Well (Padstow)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2012
St George's Well (Padstow) submitted by theCaptain on 5th Nov 2012. St George's Cove is a sandy inlet on the western side of the Camel Estuary, about a kilometre or so north of Padstow.
A little stream runs down from the fields here onto the beach at the cove, and sometimes makes a pool or sometimes just dries up in the sands without directly reaching the sea.
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Roche Rock
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2012
Roche Rock submitted by theCaptain on 6th Nov 2012. Passing on the way to visit the Eden Project, the rock and chapel were lit up by the most amazing silvery sunlight against a dark grey sky.
By the time I had stopped the car and got out, it had gone. I waited a while, and took a couple of pictures, some of which have it fairly well lit, but not so good as the initial view!
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