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Plainsfield Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2018
Plainsfield Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2018. Plainsfield Camp. View south along the east bank from the entrance to the southeast corner.
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Legis Tor Cairns
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2013
Legis Tor Cairns submitted by theCaptain on 27th May 2013. Legis Tor Cairn 2 has its cist still well defined by two side stones; its capstone offset to the south, and much of its encircling kerb still present.
View here north of west
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Essich Moor
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2018
Essich Moor submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jun 2018. From the Prehistoric Explorers Club Facebook page today.
If anyone has any information on who is behind this please report!
This is from the NOSAS Facebook page: "We were very sorry to learn today that one of the cists at Carn Glas long cairn, Achvraid, Essich, south of Inverness has been deliberately damaged. Apparently turf has been cut and and stones have been removed to create a makeshift structure. This is a scheduled monument and the police, HES and Highland Council are aware....
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 28th May 2013. The splendid Ringmoor Down Cairn 2 and its cist looking in a southeasterly direction across to Legis and Trowlesworthy tors
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Amesbury Cursus (W)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2018
Amesbury Cursus (W) submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Aug 2018. The western end of the Great Cursus at Stonehenge.
Slight remains of the ditches and banks, plus the terminal tump and round barrow can be made out.
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 29th May 2013. The 10 metre diameter Cairn 1 is about 100m east of Brisworthy stone circle.
Not much is to be seen these days, just 4 or 5 dark stones of its surrounding kerb seemingly laying around the egde of a darker patch of grass.
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Barry Island Cairns
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2018
Barry Island Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2018. The cairn at the end of Friar's Point, Barrybados.
Difficult to get much more of it in from this angle without falling off the cliff edge !
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Ringmoor Down Cairn 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2013
Ringmoor Down Cairn 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 30th May 2013. marked on the OS map as enclosure, is likely the remains of a fairly large ring cairn of 35 metres diameter.
It is not easy to find, although given the right conditions, the central area can be seen to be flattened off from the basic moor.
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New Mill Farm Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2018
New Mill Farm Enclosure submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2018. From Bing Maps.
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Ringmoor Down stone circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2013
Ringmoor Down stone circle submitted by TheCaptain on 31st May 2013. "restored" in 1909, supposedly not very accurately, some of the stones used were probably not original, and just found nearby.
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Knelston standing stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2013
Knelston standing stone submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Jun 2013. A big triangular slab of stone standing 2.2 m tall.
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Dolmen de Monval
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Dolmen de Monval submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Le dolmen de Monval. Autrefois, implanté au cœur de la propriété de Monval, ce dolmen est aujourd'hui au cœur du centre Caplypso, un centre de plein air pour les enfants de l'agglomération de Pornic.
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Llanrhidian Upper Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2013
Llanrhidian Upper Stone submitted by theCaptain on 9th Jun 2013. Tall stone standing high up on the village green at Llanrhidian, above the track to the church.
It stands about 2 m tall, and is quite wide, but very thin. I'ts downhill companion seems much more "real"!
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Menhir de la Boutinardière
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Menhir de la Boutinardière submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Ce menhir a été arraché de son emplacement en 1940 par les villageois de la Rogère, commune de la Bernerie. Il a été implanté au carrefour du Poteau, mais a été déplacé une seconde fois, pour l'ériger près du moulin Burlot, près de la propriété de la Jarrie. Il a été "christiannisé" en 1959 avec l'implantation d'une croix de granit à son sommet.
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Llanrhidian Lower Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2013
Llanrhidian Lower Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jun 2013. Llanrhidian Lower Stone showing its position on the village green.
Site in West Glamorgan Wales
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Menhir du Poteau
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Menhir du Poteau submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Ce menhir est celui que l'on trouvait avant 1940 au village de la Boutinardière.
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Oldwalls (E) Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2013
Oldwalls (E) Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jun 2013. Well hidden in the hedge surrounding a paddock opposite the Greyhound Inn.
The top of this stone was just visible poking out of the top of the hedge.
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Dane John Mound
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Dane John Mound submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. At the southern corner of the Canterbury city walls is a large mound, known as the Dane John Mound.
When the Romans built the Canterbury City walls, they were arranged to incorporate an ancient mound, thought to be a large burial mound within a barrow cemetary.
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Reynoldston Millennium Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2013
Reynoldston Millennium Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jun 2013. On the village green at Reynoldston, on the slopes of Cefn Bryn, is a nice stone standing, erected as part of the millennium celebrations.
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Brandsbutt stone circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Brandsbutt stone circle submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. A circle is marked out on the green where the original circle was thought to be, and there are a couple of the remaining stones positioned within the border at the edge of the green.
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