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| Kerivin Dolmen | Burial Chamber or Dolmen | France | Bretagne:Finistère (29) | Visited | 28th Jun 2016 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Not far off the busy road between Morlaix and Roscoff, this Tee shaped allee couvetre is becoming very overgrown, and its difficult to make anything out at all now. It is also not far from a field corner where people have decided to dumpstuff, so overall its not a winner. I seem to remember this from many years ago as being a good and interesting place to visit. | 216 | 1 |
| Carnac Plage menhir | Standing Stone (Menhir) | France | Bretagne:Morbihan (56) | Visited | 29th Jun 2016 | 4 | 3 | 5 | In square Leblois in the seaside resort of Carnac plage can be found a dolmen and a menhir. | 216 | 36 |
| Verulamium Museum | Museum | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 5th Oct 2025 | 5 | 4 | 5 | Stop off to have a look at the Verulamium roman city remains, when on my way back from Essex. I haven't been here since primary school, and I still remember the Roman fort I made out of cardboard. What an excellent museum, with some tremendous finds and displays. Genuine roman wall paintings and superb mosaics incorporated into the displays. | 216 | 37 |
| Verulamium Mosaic & Hypercaust | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 5th Oct 2025 | 4 | 3 | 4 | From the museum, walk across Verulamium Park for a look at the covered mosaic floor from a large house, complete with hypercaust flues etc underneath. A feature is the mosaic panel which was built wrongly, at a 45 degrtee rotation to what it should have been! | 216 | 38 |
| Verulamium Town Walls | Ancient Village or Settlement | England | Hertfordshire | Visited | 5th Oct 2025 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Much of the city walls can be traced, and now surround the park. I didn't have time to see much of these, but I did go to look at the main remaining stone section, which somehow survived demolition. Most of the Abbey was built using the roman wall and city stone, brick and tile. | 216 | 39 |
| Twelve Men's Moor Standing Stone | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Stop on the way home for a walk up and around Kilmar Tor, intending to visit multiple ancient cairns and cists. Start from the parking space at the end of the lane up to Trewortha farm, and walk south along the trackway and around the eastern side of Kilmar Tor. Heading south over the open moor, littered with granite blocks and old workings, I find this stone and it certainly looks like an old menhir rather than a relatively recently quarried blo... Read More |
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| Kilmar Tor. | Rock Outcrop | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Kilmar Tor is an excellent tor with multiple granite outcrops, the best of which is no doubt "High Rocks" near the western end. After getting to the top of Kilmar Tor (nearly), with time and weather being what it is, I am not going to do a thorough exploration, one for another time. I did at least get up to the trig point, and am not convinced at all about these so called propped stones. | 216 | 41 |
| Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist | Chambered Cairn | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 5 | 4 | 3 | Back down to the south from Kilmar Tor and find the old quarry railway, with its amazing lines of granite sleepers, and follow this west and around the end of Kilmar tor to the north until it ends, from where I can head down to the northwest towards Trewortha farm, stopping to have my pasty lunch at a convenient block to sit on. There is a lot of shooting going on over at the farm, and the sounds it makes echoing off the newly denuded Smallacomb ... Read More |
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| Trewortha cairn and cist NE | Cairn | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | Once I have had my fill of the main event, I head to the northeast to find its neighbour, which is much less distinct within its surrounding of ferns and bushes. Just a couple of kerbstones stand proud, otherwise it looks not much more than a round stone cairn, but there is almost certainly a cist within and might tidy up quite nicely. | 216 | 43 |
| Trewortha Cairns | Barrow Cemetery | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 3 | 3 | 3 | With the weather getting worse, I now head on northwards and back towards the car passing the "mound" marked on the map (a cairn?) to the Trewortha Cairns which form a sort of line alongside the southern edge of the trackway to Trewortha Farm. I looked at about four of them before deciding that there are too many to look at closely and photograph each of them in this weather. Some are not much more than a grass and stone lump covered with ferns, ... Read More |
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| Twelve men's moor cairn and cist | Cist | England | Cornwall | Visited | 16th Jun 2026 | 4 | 3 | 4 | Heading on northeast I get to the marked cairn with cist. This is quite interesting to see as it looks like it is in two halves, one of them complete and covered, while the other half has been removed to show the cist and the stone construction of the cairn. I wouldn't be surprised if there were several more of these out here. I now head back to the car along the track, and see a cuckoo flying across to the north. Brilliant. Time to get out of my... Read More |
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| Treen standing stone A | Standing Stone (Menhir) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | 3 | 3 | 4 | Park at Treen, then walk down towards Penberth Cove, and after passing through the first field wall, there is a small stone standing in the field. It is possibly just a cattle scratching post, but it seems very old and has been firmly retained in the ground with a lot of packing stones. Like many of the stones around this part of the coast, it could be an ancient stone. | 216 | 46 |
| Treen cliff standing stone | Modern Stone Circle etc | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | 3 | 4 | 3 | From Penberth Cove I walk up and along the coastpath to the west, and in the little valley before Trewyn Dinas headland can be seen a stone standing within all the undergrowth, shining bright amongst all the green. I wasn't going to battle my way through all the growth, so made do with seeing just the top of it from a small distance away. There is a spring right beside it, so it could have been placed there to mark this. | 216 | 47 |
| The Logan Rock (Treen) | Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature | England | Cornwall | Visited | 15th Jun 2026 | As I sit and watch the world from Trewyn Dinas, I try and figure out the route to the logan rock when I realise I cannot see it, wondering if it has been dislodged and fallen again. Much to my relief it is just the viewpoint on the headland, as further around the coast to the west it can clearly be seen. It is here that the old path drops down over the cliffs to the amazing Pedn Vounder (Pednee) beach, which features in so many pictures of the we... Read More |
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| Godrevy Headland Barrow | Round Barrow(s) | England | Cornwall | Visited | 14th Jun 2026 | 2 | 5 | 4 | Today is a circular walk around the Godrevy headland on a very sunny day. Some lovely clifftop views and suchlike including seals in the coves below. Just before I get to the Lighthouse on the Island I stop and eat my pasty near the remains of the large barrow. After lunch a gentle stroll to watch all the goings on on the beaches and have an icecream, before heading over the Red River and the dunes to Gwithian for a pint. | 216 | 49 |