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Castle Ring (Rorrington)
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castle Ring (Rorrington) submitted by TimPrevett on 12th Jul 2005. One of a number of monuments called Castle Ring; this one near Rorrington just north west of Stapeley Hill.
Just one ring surrounds this hilltop, with glorious views. Access is not obvious, so follow the route on the map, and when going through the wood, mind your footing. Tripping hazards abound.
A lovely remote place. Even though, while I was here on midsummer eve, a man on a quad bike came riding on a track to the south. If I recall correct, he was the brother of the landowner. We discuss...
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Log Text: We frequently visit this modest hillfort - it has fantastic views and a lovely peacefull ambience. It's the start of an interesting walk of natural springs, cairns and stone circles....
Holywell Brook (Rorrington)
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Holywell Brook (Rorrington) submitted by TimPrevett on 12th Jul 2005. On the far north end of Stapeley Hill, two springs close to each other emanate from the hillside, converging into one brook.
For centuries these springs were venerated, even as late as the 19th Century. On Holy Thursday, there would be a procession here, and the springs decorated and dressed. Ritual dropping of pins into the water, drinking of a brew made from water and sugar, and eating of cakes were observed. All this followed by a fair in Rorrington village itself.
Source: Stapeley Hill H...
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Log Text: I love to come here and see the water issuing out of the green hillside. The two springs always make a gentle tinkle and trickling sound, so peaceful. Always here no matter what the time of year. A sort of magical place.
Stapeley Hill Cairn
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Stapeley Hill Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. A cairn on Stapeley Hill; see main entry for full details - click on blue text link to the left of the picture.
A composite shot looking towards Corndon Hill, and Mitchell's Fold (out of view).
It was snowing hard at this point on Midwinter Solstice Eve, and even I was questioning my sanity about being in this exposed, beautiful and dramatic landscape.
A biting wind meant I did not stay here for any longer than necessary to get a shot, but on subsequent trips, it will be worth spending tim...
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Log Text: Why here, on the mid point of the saddle, between the two highest points? A carefully chosen placement for its location. Always a lovely walk.
Mynydd Egryn Settlement
Date Added: 21st Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Egryn Abbey, Hengwm, Round Hut Excavated By Ardudwy Early Landscapes Project submitted by pab on 21st Jun 2008. Mynydd Egryn (Mount Egryn). Midway between the 2 tombs of Carneddau Hengwm and the crown-effect cairn circle of Hengwm on the slopes of Mynydd Egryn. A series of circles seem to have been recently excavated. This picture looks over the circle towards NE (the top of Moelfre bearing 11' if that helps locate it)
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Log Text: Absolute pleasure to visit here on a sunny day. We usually make it at least once a year and are getting to know the layout of the sites quite well. There are more hut circles to be found in this enormous field and the field next door, but the gorse is getting quite high so it takes a bit of detective work to match them up with the records. Something to look forward to next year.
Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 21st Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Dec 2024
Mitchell's Fold submitted by w650marion on 21st Dec 2022. Mitchell’s Fold Circle for the setting sun on the winter solstice of 2022.
25 minutes before the event we had torrential rain and dark skies!
But then it cleared and it was quite lovely.
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Log Text: Winter Solstice sunset, a glimpse of the sun for a few minutes before it disappeared behind clouds and below the horizon. Four friendly strangers in attendance on the very cold and windy site.
Hengwm Ring Cairn
Date Added: 14th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Hengwm Ring Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Sep 2007. This is a delight not to be missed. If you visit the tombs at Carneddau Hengwm, this is just a few minutes walk away. Take it in, or you'll be kicking yourself. A small ring cairn, with outward leaning stones, and an internal ring recognisable in most of the monument. It appears also to be sited so as to give an impression of being on a ridge. Comparisons with Bryn Cader Faner, which is to the north on another good long, walk, are easy to make.
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Log Text: Beautiful. So stunning that everyone ignores the Mynydd Egryn Settlement 15meters away!
Old Oswestry Fort
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Oswestry Fort submitted by Bladup on 16th Jan 2016. Old Oswestry, western side looking north.
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Log Text: Extensive views for miles from the ramparts, despite being a low hill. Enjoyable walk on a well cared for Hillfort. The southern half and large central area is being grazed by black soay/hebridean sheep (Iron Age sheep) to keep the bracken away - it can damage the archaeology.
Cerrig Arthur
Date Added: 20th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cerrig Arthur submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2018. The remaining large stones of Cerrig Arthur, with Cadair Idris beyond in the distance
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Log Text: Significant views over the Mawddach estuary and then looking up to the Bwlch y Rhiwgyr ancient trackway as you reach the platform of the circle. Always a pleasure to do this walk and to visit the circle location.
Nesscliffe
Date Added: 11th Oct 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Nesscliffe submitted by Dodomad on 26th Jul 2024. Lisa one of the excavators drawing a patch of ancient pavement. From the dig at this year’s Nesscliffe Hillfort Project
@NesscliffeHill1 on Twitter - more here: x.com/NesscliffeHill1
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Log Text: Archaeologists reconstruction of the guard chamber and entrance passage (with a Drystone veneer) in place - very nice, but the rest of the Hillfort is more difficult to see now due to tree clearance in progress and heavy summer overgrowth.
Llecheiddior
Date Added: 22nd Sep 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Llecheiddior submitted by JohnnyP on 23rd Feb 2007. The largest & more interesting stone at Llecheiddior
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Log Text: Centre point of a favourite walk past burial chambers, cairns, Hillforts, burnt mounds..... always something to enjoy, whatever the weather.....
Corndon Hill 7
Date Added: 31st Aug 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Corndon Hill 7 submitted by TimPrevett on 29th Dec 2004. Corndon Hill 7 - see the main entry for a full write up - click blue text link to the left of the picture.
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Log Text: Started here to walk all the Corndon cairns, then returned to walk the track back to Mitchell's Fold stone circle. People walked this thousands of years ago 😀
Corndon Hill 6
Date Added: 31st Aug 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2024. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 2
Corndon Hill 6 submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. Looking south west, with Corndon Hill 6 cairn in the foreground, and Roundton Hillfort sticking up noticeably in the middle distance.
Crisp big blue sky on Midwinter Solstice 2004. Made me feel very euphoric; wonderful day for visiting this location.
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Log Text: My favourite of all the Corndon Hill cairns! Being slightly lower on its spur, it connects with the landscape below in a beautiful way.
Burrow Hill Camp (Shropshire)
Date Added: 21st Aug 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Burrow Hill Camp (Shropshire) submitted by harleygreyhound on 15th Dec 2022. A different view on the Burrow Hill Fort in the South Shropshire Hills
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Log Text: Centre overgrown but rampart walk clear, lovely views, able to see far into the distance today.
Callow Hill Camp
Date Added: 17th Aug 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Callow Hill Camp submitted by TheWhiteRider on 30th Jul 2005. Part of the Southern Sector.
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Log Text: A narrow path through dense vegetation and trees follows the top of the main rampart; the excellent views to the west and north are now totally hidden by this growth but can be seen on the approach from Poles Coppice.
Cors y Gedol
Date Added: 28th Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Cors y Gedol submitted by w650marion on 24th May 2024. Cors y Gedol in one of the lovely sunsets so frequently seen here.
Photo taken July 2021 and it's hanging on my wall at home to remind me of the good things in the world.
In this photo, the large stone on the right is surrounded by light. This will not not be seen now, since the recent illegal additional stonework.
I have not yet heard back from CADW or Gwynedd Archaeological Trust since I informed them of the damage. I suspect that they do not have the money or manpower as there have ...
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Log Text: Archaeologists surveying the damage here and planning to restore the tomb today. We had a good chat!
Craig-y-Dinas (Dyffryn Ardudwy)
Date Added: 30th May 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Craig-y-Dinas (Dyffryn Ardudwy) submitted by pab on 16th Jun 2008. Craig-y-Dinas. This general view is taken from the south-east.
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Log Text: I love this Hillfort!
Cors y Gedol
Date Added: 21st May 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 5
Cors y Gedol submitted by Postman on 14th Jun 2017. Cors y Gedol
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Log Text: Sad today. Someone has been adding lots of stones to make a shelter or "house".
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton)
Date Added: 18th Apr 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton) submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. Caer Caradoc, taken from a northwest angle on a lovely summer's morning. Indeed, this offers some formidable defense. If this were the place of Caratacus' last stand against the Romans, this would have indeed been something difficult to conquer, even by Roman standards. However, there is no evidence to confirm this suggestion.
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Log Text: Wonderful views all around! The wind was cold and very strong, but you could find good calm shelter between the ramparts and the inner rocks where the ground was level and dry - a place for hut circles?
The Stiperstones
Date Added: 24th Oct 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
The Stiperstones submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. A cairn just north east of Manstone Rock.
"The Stiperstones" is the name for a hill on the far west reaches of Shropshire, well into The Welsh Marches, overlooking the Welsh border. It is the second highest hill in Shropshire, affording superb views in all directions, and having several bronze age cairns along its ridge.
The cairns themselves, excepting the largest, can be quite hard to locate. At a very reductionist level, they are basically piles of stone amidst a whole ridge of piles of...
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Log Text: In the clouds, with only ravens and red grouse for company - perfect!
Crucuno Dolmen
Date Added: 13th Oct 2023
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Crucuno dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Dec 2007. View of the southern side of this massive dolmen, showing clearly its proximity to the farmhouse.
On the right are the last remaining capstone and pair of stones from the long entrance passageway.
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Log Text: Just lovely!