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Dinas Head (Trevose)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2014
Dinas Head (Trevose) submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2014. Photo of Dinas Head, Trevose, taken during the recent storms, showing the waves washing over the height of the headland. Borrowed from Gregg Painter and Cornwall Holiday guide.
I thought this photo would be useful to compare with my recent notes from here, but it looks like I have yet to upload them and my pictures!
Have to say that only yesterday I was wishing I was here to check on my theory, that this whole headland may have been washed clear by the waves, now I know that it is in...
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Cheddar Museum of Prehistory
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2014
Cheddar Museum of Prehistory submitted by theCaptain on 5th Jan 2014. Cheddar Museum of Prehistory seen within is setting at the lower end of Cheddar Gorge.
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Goughs Cave (Cheddar)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2014
Goughs Cave (Cheddar) submitted by theCaptain on 5th Jan 2014. The entrance to Goughs Cave seen within it's setting at the lower end of Cheddar Gorge.
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Menhir de la Grurie
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jan 2014
Menhir de la Grurie submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Jan 2014. This stone can be found in a field to the west of the village of Villiers Canivet, to the south of the big water tower between here and the village of Ussy.
A strange rectangular section stone, is it a fallen (but on edge) menhir, or perhaps a backstone or fallen capstone from a burial chamber?
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Pierre du Pôt
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2014
Pierre du Pôt submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Jan 2014. I found this remarkably easily, travelling thriugh Ussy past the school, and I pulled off the road into a large parking area to look at the village map on the street nearby. Lo and behold, I had pulled into the sports centre, and the stone was standing there right in front of the car!
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Domaine de Castillon
Date Added: 30th Dec 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 27th Dec 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Domaine de Castillon submitted by theCaptain on 30th Dec 2013. View across the swollen river to the northern end of the hill where the C17th Chateau has been built on top of the ancient site.
It was such horrible wet weather, I wasn't going to explore away from the road.
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Log Text: Stopped off for a quick look while travelling home after Christmas at my sisters. The weather was foul and everything completely sodden, so didn't spend any time exploring other than driving around the local roads. One to come back to sometime, for a better look for some of the ramparts, and a look round the chateau gardens.
Redland Park
Date Added: 20th Dec 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Dec 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Redland Park submitted by theCaptain on 20th Dec 2013. This stone of great antiquity sits near the southeastern corner of Redland Green, not far away from the entrance to the church.
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Log Text: I can't believe that in 35 years of living in the Bristol area, that I have never visited this stone before. Although I have once or twice spent time looking for it on the wrong Green in Redland!
Ingatestone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 30th Nov 2013
Ingatestone submitted by theCaptain on 30th Nov 2013. Two of the large sarsens now flank the entrance to Fryerning Road from the High Street.
This is the southern stone.
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London Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 24th Nov 2013
London Stone submitted by theCaptain on 24th Nov 2013. I struggled to find The London Stone at first, not helped by looking for it at No 110, instead of No 111, and asked several people of its whereabouts, but nobody knew... Then by looking where I was expecting to find it, and walking the street a couple of times, my Dad said "whats this, is this it?"
Have to say its not quite what I was expecting, and is very disappointing, and not only just about impossile to see from outside, covered off from inside now.
Still, its still there, and I...
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statue-menhir du Lac de la Raviège
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2013
statue-menhir du Lac de la Raviège submitted by theCaptain on 20th Nov 2013. A superb condition statue menhir recently found on a beach of the Lac de la Raviège.
Photo © Claude Barthélemy. La statue menhir découverte sur la plage du lac de La Raviège.
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Cerne Abbas Giant
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Nov 2013
Cerne Abbas Giant submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Nov 2013. The Cerne Abbas Giant in his latest disguise - having grown his own Movember facial hair.
Thanks to BBC for this picture
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The Hurlers causeway
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2013
The Hurlers causeway submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Sep 2013. the "quartz pavement" starting to become visible on a vile wet and windy moorland day, Saturday morning, 21 Sept 2013.
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Pawton Quoit
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
Pawton Quoit submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Mar 2014. Been sorting through some old photos, and heres one I found of Pawton Quoit back in 1986.
All nicely clear back then, unlike my visit last year (2013) when it was all totally overgrown.
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Log Text: This really is a bit of a devil to get to, and it makes me wonder whether I really have been to it twice before, or just looked for it! I'm 99% sure I visited once in the 1970s with Mum and Dad, and then again in the 1980s, but perhaps not right to the stones that time. Taking the little lane southeast from the valley below Nanscow, the lane is signposted to some kennels, and after a short distance turns to the right and climbs uphill, getting narrower and more overgrown, but it is still easily driveable all the way up and over the hill to Haycrock farm (I dont know if it is private at this point). The trouble is there is almost nowhere to park or turn round, and no obvious place to get into the right field for the quoit. I ended up turning and then driving almost right back down to the bottom to park and then walk back up to a place where many people obviously climb over the wall to visit the quoit. Its a bit of a tricky wall to get over with a fair drop down into the field, so I told Dad not to come and stay outside the field till I returned. The field had no crop in it, so I decided I was OK for a visit to the dolmen, which could be seen as an overgrown mess several hundred yards across the field. When I got to it, it at first looked like there would be no way through to the stones, as the whole thing was surrounded by masses of gorse, brambles, ferns, stinging nettles etc, but around the far side there was a trampled down way in. The stones are all very angular and sharp cornered, and of a very pale stone. The capstone is a delight, perched above its chamber on several smaller stones, in some respects giving the impression of teeth below it! The capstone has broken, and about a third of it lies flat to the ground at one end, amongst a bit of a jumble of stone and a tree now happily growing in amongst it all. With all the jungle growing here, its difficult to make out what the arrangement really was, but it is a bit of a delight, and has some spectacular views to the north over the Camel Estuary and east to the heights of Bodmin Moor and Wadebridge down in the valley below. I never really felt at ease here, possibly because of leaving Dad and the car so far off, so after taking several photos from all angles, trudged back to the field wall where the way over was, only to find that Dad was no longer there. Where is he? whats he doing? I cant get out of this field without some help. Hmmm, still no sign of Dad, and he clearly can't hear me yelling, so need a plan B. Looking around, a bit further up along the wall, and there is a lower section with a tree nearby which I can use to hold and climb up onto the top, before making my way along to the gap and then down off the wall and onto the lane. Theres Dad way down the lane looking for blackberries and whacking things with a stick, oblivious to my plight! No doubt I had some sharp words on the walk back down to the car, before jokingly suggesting looking for the Nanscow inscribed stone, and then heading off to The Ring O'Bells at St Issey for a well deserved pint.
Trowlesworthy East circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2013
Trowlesworthy East circle submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Sep 2013. "The Pulpit" at the head of the Trowlesworthy East stone rows.
Viewed here in April 2013 looking in a south of easterly direction
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Cil ifor Top
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2013
Cil ifor Top submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jul 2013. Cil ifor Top seen here looking south from the B4295
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Museo Vasco
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Pais Vasco)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2013
Museo Vasco submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jul 2013. Devoted to Basque archaeology, ethnology, and history, this museum opened to the public in 1921, and is located in a Baroque-style building in Bilbao's old quarter.
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Arkeologi Museoa - Bizkaia
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: Spain (Pais Vasco)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2013
Arkeologi Museoa - Bizkaia submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jul 2013. Just off Plaza de Miguel de Unamuno, up the obvious staircase at Calzadas de Mallona 2, the museum has two floors for exhibits in a very modern building.
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Ty'r-Coed
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2013
Ty'r-Coed submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jun 2013. View northwest from near the trigpoint on the top of Cefn-Bryn, overlooking the northwest coast of the Gower peninsula towards Burry Port on the far side of the River Loughor estuary.
And down the bottom of the hill, hiding from the road behind the large barn, can be seen the Ty'r-Coed standing stone.
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Cefn Bryn SW Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2013
Cefn Bryn SW Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Jun 2013. A few hundred metres to the northwest of the Trig Point on top of Cefn-Bryn can be found what looked to me to be the remains of a ring cairn, but may in fact be a denuded platform or round cairn.
Viewed here looking northwest across the northwest coast of the Gower peninsula towards Burry Port on the far side of the River Loughor estuary.
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Burry Lesser
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2013
Burry Lesser submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jun 2013. Burry Lesser standing stone, seen here approaching from the north along the field edge, viewed looking southwest.
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