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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 |
| Woodhenge (Wiltshire) | Henge | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 5th Sep 2013 | This was well-signed from the road, unlike Durrington Walls. Having found a link here for Durrington Walls an information board is shown which appears to be just where we looked for information unsuccessfully. Local walkers and villagers in Durrington also seemed to have no idea where it was! Woodhe... Read More |
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| Windmill Hill Barrows | Round Barrow(s) | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 3rd Sep 2013 | It was a long trek for us to Windmill Hill. We turned back several times as we had been told the metalled road was the best route and it was unmarked and not easy to follow at the village end. Originally my husband pointed us in the wrong direction - I know he can't navigate why did I listen to him?... Read More |
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| Wiltshire Heritage Museum | Museum | England | Wiltshire | Visited | We intended to visit the museum in Salisbury in September 2013 whilst visiting Avebury and Stonehenge. I particularly wanted to see the Amesbury Archer. However when we got to the Devizes museum the Bronze Age display had been removed as a new display is being arranged. The manager of the Devizes mu... Read More |
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| Wilsford Cum Lake Bowl Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 4th Sep 2013 | 4 | Visible from gateway and road. | ||||
| West Kennett Long Barrow | Long Barrow | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 4th Sep 2013 | West Kennet is an impressive long barrow, with huge shielding stones at the entrance end, obscuring the passage leading within. From its top one has a clear view of Silbury Hill to the north.
Glass blocks have been let into the barrow roof to give some light in the barrow rooms, but one has been le... Read More |
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| Stonehenge. | Stone Circle | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 5th Sep 2013 | The audio guide is good, keeps the visitors moving, but I really missed the opportunity to just stand and drink in the landscape and the relationship between the stones. | |||||
| Silbury Hill | Artificial Mound | England | Wiltshire | Visited | This is a most impressive site. I like the theory that it was meant to represent a snail shell, to signify the beauty and impermanence of life, and the transience of this existence. Bone and shell are the same substance, a reminder, in life of death. A superb spot to see Avebury, Windmill Hill, the ... Read More |
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| Ring of Brodgar | Stone Circle | Scotland | Orkney | Visited | 28th May 2014 | 3 | 5 | 4 | We were lucky enough to arrive at the Ring of Brodgar to have our picnic lunch 15 minutes before a scheduled free walk was to begin with one of the two rangers who do walks around both the megalithic sites and the wildlife havens in Orkney mainland.
The Ring of Brodgar is the most impressive site,... Read More |
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| Overton Down | Barrow Cemetery | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 3rd Sep 2013 | Site well marked from road with small off-road parking area. | |||||
| Knap of Howar | Ancient Village or Settlement | Scotland | Orkney | Visited | 31st May 2014 | 4 | 5 | 3 | I thought we had missed the chance to visit the Knap of Howar. We had only 24 hours in Westray and the likelihood of getting to Papa Westray at the weekend seemed impossible. However on the ferry to Westray from Kirkwall I got talking to a local girl who was returning from college in Glasgow to play... Read More |
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| Durrington Walls | Henge | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 5th Sep 2013 | Looking up more details of Durrington Walls I found a reference to it being largely on National Trust land with free access. Wish it had been labelled thus! | |||||
| Durrington 68 | Timber Circle | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 5th Sep 2013 | 5 | Small carpark opposite the Woodhenge site, which is fenced. It can become crowded if a local walk meets there, as it did when we went early in the day, although we had the henge to ourselves. Well marked from the A345 about 2 miles north of Amesbury centre. Large grassed picnic area at roadside. Sta... Read More |
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| Cuween Hill | Chambered Cairn | Scotland | Orkney | Visited | 2nd Jun 2014 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Cuween is a cairn near Finstown where many dog skulls as well as human remains were found. My Spanish author friend links this to the entrance to hell, with the dogs guarding its entrance.
As the darkest mound with the lowest entrance we encountered, that seemed very appropriate. It is situated on... Read More |
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| Comet Stone (Orkney) | Standing Stone (Menhir) | Scotland | Orkney | Visited | 29th May 2014 | Viewed this at the end of the Brodgar walk with Elaine Clark, the ranger. I mislabelled it at first, but AngieLake corrected me. | |||||
| Bluestonehenge | Stone Circle | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 6th Sep 2013 | If the Googlemap image is correct then we were on the wrong side of the Avon, but if the small site map here is right we correctly identified the site on the road leading to Lake and Woodford just out of Stonehenge Road, where this henge was sited. It has variously been called West Amesbury henge, R... Read More |
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| Avebury | Stone Circle | England | Wiltshire | Visited | 3rd Sep 2013 | We stayed in the Manor Farm within the stone circle, with magnificent views from our front and back windows of the stones of the circle. There is masses to see in the area, and a lovely, relaxed feel to the place, very unlike the much more well-known Stonehenge. The stones reflect the earlier date, ... Read More |