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Site Type | Country (A/D) |
County/ Region | Visited? (A/D) |
Date (A/D) |
Cond | Amb | Acc | Comments | Trip Number (A/D) |
Trip Order |
| Rollright Stones | Stone Circle | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 24th Jan 2023 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Not my first visit and hopefully not my last. A clear, bright January day with "see for miles" visibility. The right sort of day to visit this place, I think. Had some time to myself, which was a bonus, but some chaterers arrived and that was my cue to leave - in truth, I never feel inclined to stay long at The Rollrights.
Lots of - what is it called now? - "ritual litter". Persumably from the Winter Solstice. It's interesting (to me) to wond... Read More |
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| Bicester Burial Mounds | Barrow Cemetery | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 21st Sep 2022 | -1 | 3 | 4 | I visited primarily to take a photograph of the location, for uploading, but not expecting to see anything. In that, I wasn't disappointed: nothing to be seen *at all*, not even an information board or marker, which I had half-hoped for.
Checked location from available archaeological reports online - looks to be correct, albeit part of a larger area of excavations which have now totally disappeared under a massive housing estate which seemed ... Read More |
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| Asthall Barrow | Barrow Cemetery | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 16th Sep 2022 | 3 | 3 | 4 | A gorgeous autumnal day, out aimlessly trundling on the motorcycle, I remembered this site as having no photographs, surprisingly. I'm sure I remembered this site as having confiers on it, but the single tree is so mature that I must have been imagining that. Footpath across field, and close to the site. Access from the A40 side perhaps unqise - such a fast road, but from the B4047 side one might park relatively easily, and there's a 'stone wall... Read More |
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| Thor Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 23rd Aug 2022 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Having visited the nearby Hoar Stone just a few days previously, I investigated 'nearby sites' only when I got back home. Lesson learned! Back I went to visit The Thor Stone, less than 2 miles down the road from The Hoar Stone (and only a couple of miles again from The Hawk Stone, which I have visited before).
Just me and the stone, which was partially hidden in the hedge it was leaning into.
As when I visited The Hoar Stone at Enstone, c... Read More |
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| Hoar Stone at Enstone | Chambered Tomb | England | Oxfordshire | Visited | 21st Aug 2022 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Somehow, despite living relatively close by (... Read More |