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Castle Ditches (Glamorgan)
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 21st Sep 2019
Castle Ditches (Glamorgan) submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Sep 2019. The wooded remnants of the Castle Ditches promotary fort near Llantwit Major.
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Log Text: Wooded remnants of the Castle Ditches promotary fort near Llantwit Major.
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.
Overton Down Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Overton Down Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Sep 2019. Seen from the Ridgeway, the remains of the Barrow at SU12607104
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Log Text: Remains of a Barrow at SU12607104 just to the side of the Ridgeway.
Avebury Down Stone Circle
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 18th Sep 2019
Avebury Down Stone Circle submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Sep 2019. I was foiled in my attempt to get to visit this on my way back from the polisher due to a herd of boisterous bullocks blocking my way through the gate into the field. I chickened out and went back and around the long way.
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Log Text: I was foiled in my attempt to get to visit this due to a herd of boisterous bullocks blocking my way through the gate into the field. I chickened out and went back and around the long way.
Avebury
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Avebury - The Cove submitted by HarryTwenty on 13th May 2019. Another view of the Cove stones.
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Log Text: Decided to go find The Polisher on a wonderful sunny day to see if my legs were working again. Parked at Avebury, then walked up the Herepath to The Ridgeway, and turned north. Found the polisher too easily, and had lunch sat on it. Legs working well after the first chiro session, so continued north up the Ridgeway before turning to drop down off the hills and back to Avebury via some tumuli, but had to go a longer way due to a field of inquisitive bullocks. Back to Avebury and walked around the henge and stones before a pint in the Red Lion. Still fairly early and legs feeling good, so walked down the route of the Beckhampton Avenue to Adam and Eve and a huge longbarrow before going back To Avebury and the car. Drove via Silbury to the Kennet Avenue, and walked up and down that, finding the second polisher stone. Beautiful day ouy.
Avebury - The Cove
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Avebury - The Cove submitted by Wolfie on 19th Sep 2003. Avebury - The Cove
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Log Text: Decided to go find The Polisher on a wonderful sunny day to see if my legs were working again after the first chiro session. Back to Avebury and walked around the henge and stones before a pint in the Red Lion.
Silbury Hill
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Silbury Hill submitted by Scanner on 27th Sep 2019. Silbury Hill by Simon Ferguson
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Log Text: A quick look on the way after day at Avebury before going home.
West Kennet Avenue
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
West Kennet Avenue submitted by Humbucker on 12th Jan 2019. West Kennet Avenue in the summer. Looking south towards West Kennet.
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Log Text: Before going home, still feeling good and time to visit the Kennet Avenue, so walked up and down that, finding the second polisher stone. Beautiful day out.
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.
Winterbourne Monkton
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Access 4
Winterbourne Monkton submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Sep 2019. Large sarsen stone in the churchyard thought to be removed from the Neolithic Millbarrow
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Log Text: Large sarsen stone in the churchyard thought to be removed from the Neolithic Millbarrow
West Kennet Avenue polisher
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
West Kennet Avenue polisher submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Sep 2019. Down near the bottom of the stone, facing the fence and road, can be seen one fairly large polishing dish and some smaller grooves, perhaps arrow sharpening grooves.
The polishing surfaces are unfortunately in the shadows of this lovely sunny evening.
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Log Text: One of the West Kennet Avenue stones on the eastern side near to the road about mid way along the remaining avenue, has evidence of being used as a polisher stone. Down near the bottom of the stone, facing the fence and road, can be seen one fairly large polishing dish and some smaller grooves, perhaps arrow sharpening grooves. As the polishing bowl would have probably been used flat so that water could be kept in the bowl to aid the polishing process, this would suggest that the stone was raised at a later date to become part of the Avenue.
Longstones Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Longstones Barrow submitted by SumDoood on 6th Sep 2019. 040919: From the WSW.
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Log Text: Remains of a big longbarrow just to the north of Beckhampton roundabout, roughly in line with the Avebury western Avenue. I wonder how much this has been altered over the years, as the land around it is slightly raised making a much longer shape, perhaps double the remaining length. It also looks like the northeastern end has a horned courtyard entrance feature, but this is well within the yaised ground, and also looks too good to be original, as it is not slumped down enough to my eyes. Looking at historical records, and it is stated that "the mound has been severely mutilated and its terminals ploughed", and had been "much damaged by the digging chalk out of it and perhaps stones"
Longstone Cove
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Longstone Cove submitted by Humbucker on 5th Jan 2019. Longstones Cove basking in the sunlight on one of the last bright days of late Autumn 2018. The Ridgeway looms if the background.
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Log Text: Legs working well after the first chiro session. Back to Avebury and walked around the henge and stones before a pint in the Red Lion. Still fairly early and legs feeling good, so walked down the route of the Beckhampton Avenue to Adam and Eve and a huge longbarrow before going back To Avebury and the car.
Butte de Goassec'h
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2019
Butte de Goassec'h submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Aug 2019. The Butte de Goassec'h is a newly discovered large chambered cairn to the south of Carhaix-Plouguer. Currently (2019) being excavated, it has been rich in discoveries with the update in the butte of a large megalithic architecture containing 3 Dolmens that have not been open for 4000 years!
The archeologist in charge of the excavations is Florian Cousseau. "The results are beyond what we could expect, can't wait for the next few years!"
Picture from france3-regions
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Log Text: None
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.
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.
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!
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.
Druid Stoke
Date Added: 16th Aug 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Druid Stoke submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Aug 2019. A few large stones remain in the parking area outside a large house near the top of Druid Hill, in the leafy suburb od Stoke Bishop, north of Bristol. The stones can be seen from the road through the gateway. (August 2019)
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Log Text: How on Earth can I never have been to visit this before, as 43 years ago I lived only half a mile away! So, on a sunny day, after a visit to the expensive dentist, I stopped by for a look. A few large stones remain in the parking area outside a large house near the top of Druid Hill, in the leafy suburb od Stoke Bishop, north of Bristol. The stones can be seen from the road through the gateway.
West Hill Fort, Portishead
Date Added: 16th Aug 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
West Hill Fort, Portishead submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Aug 2019. Possible remnants of the ramparts remain in the little wooded area below Wood Hill Park
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Log Text: Possible remnants of the ramparts remain in the little wooded area below Wood Hill Park