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Nether Largie North
Trip No.6 Entry No.4 Date Added: 2nd Mar 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nether Largie North submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. Nether Largie Cairn North, Kilmartin Glen.
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Log Text: Neil shows the axe head carvings inside this huge tomb on Episode Four of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.6 Entry No.1 Date Added: 2nd Mar 2011
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Would like to visit
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by Thorgrim on 8th Jun 2004. Galleries radiate out from the bottom of the mine shaft in search of the top quality "floorstone" flint. They are only two or three feet high and would have been a tight squeeze
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Log Text: Flint mines seen in Episode Four of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Watch Stone (Orkney)
Trip No.5 Entry No.13 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
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Log Text: Shown briefly in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Newgrange
Trip No.5 Entry No.11 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Would like to visit
Newgrange submitted by McDeil on 8th Jan 2002. Entry at Newgrange showing massive carved stone which once blocked the entry. Not shown are the tourists who in Summer would queue for up to an hour to be taken through the tomb!
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Log Text: Reconstructed in the style of "Stalin visits the stone age" says Neil Oliver and we agree. Featured in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Durrington Walls
Trip No.5 Entry No.9 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Durrington Walls submitted by TimPrevett on 10th Oct 2006. A composite image of half of Durrington Walls (the western side); compare scale of house to the left with the ring left in the landscape.
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Log Text: Evidence of feasting from pig bones, see Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Carn Meini
Trip No.5 Entry No.8 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Carn Meini submitted by vicky on 7th Jun 2004. The Bluestones outcrop of Carn Meini as viewed from the top.
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Log Text: The outcrops of rock that are the most likely source of the Stonehenge bluestones, featured in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Maes Howe
Trip No.5 Entry No.4 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Maes Howe submitted by Victor Reijs on 9th Jun 2002. Winter solstice sunset at Maes Howe
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Log Text: Shown first from the air in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Swinside
Trip No.5 Entry No.3 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Would like to visit
Swinside submitted by rldixon on 15th Jan 2006. Swinside well worth the walk
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Log Text: Sunkenkirk stone circle (alternative name) - Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Langdale Axe Factory
Trip No.5 Entry No.1 Date Added: 23rd Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Would like to visit
Langdale Axe Factory submitted by Thorgrim on 15th Nov 2003. The Langdale Pikes in Great Langdale.
(see article on Langdale Axes)
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Log Text: Offcuts of stone axes in the mountains - featured in Episode Three of BBC's History of Ancient Britain
Windmill Hill (Avebury)
Trip No.4 Entry No.12 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Windmill Hill (Avebury) submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Oct 2003. One of the concentric causewayed ditches of Windmill Hill.
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Great Cursus, Stonehenge
Trip No.4 Entry No.11 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Great Cursus, Stonehenge submitted by TimPrevett on 27th Dec 2010. Winter Solstice 2010 - The camber of the cursus can be made out well here, north side.
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Log Text: We have a huge database of cursuses on the Megalithic Portal
Crickley Hill
Trip No.4 Entry No.9 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Crickley Hill General submitted by vicky on 10th Sep 2002. Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire - Neolithic enclosure and Iron Age Hillfort.
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Log Text: The Battle of Crickley Hill - featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Coldrum
Trip No.4 Entry No.5 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Would like to visit
Coldrum submitted by enkidu41 on 8th Apr 2004. The surviving sarsens of the chamber of large oval-shaped mound tomb, now virtually disappeared. This is the rear of the east-facing chamber. TQ 654 607
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Kermario Alignements
Trip No.4 Entry No.3 Date Added: 16th Feb 2011
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Would like to visit
Kermario alignements submitted by rw1 on 20th Jan 2008. 09/2007
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Log Text: Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Fiskary Bay Mesolithic Settlement
Trip No.3 Entry No.7 Date Added: 15th Feb 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Isle of Coll)
Visited: Would like to visit
Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Creswell Crags
Trip No.3 Entry No.5 Date Added: 14th Feb 2011
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Creswell Crags submitted by stu on 10th Dec 2005. Looking down the limestone gorge of Creswell Crags...the cliffs and caves almost completely hidden by the trees.
Even if you don't go for any of the cave tours on offer....Creswell is a great place to spend an afternoon.
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Goat's Cave, Paviland
Trip No.3 Entry No.4 Date Added: 14th Feb 2011
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Goat's Cave, Paviland submitted by nahwah on 6th Apr 2010. View inside cave to sea (note small person seen in entrance this is my son who was seven at time, gives an idea of scale).
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Log Text: Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
Tregeseal East
Date Added: 18th Jan 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 2010. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tregeseal East submitted by Andy B on 24th Mar 2010. Photo from June 2009. The cattle were supposed to trample down the bracken but only ate the grass within the circle, destabilising several stones that, after we reported it to the Historic Environment Service in Truro, had to be secured. The HES then organised a manual cutting of surrounding bracken to give the cattle more space away from the circle!
So far this is the only major site to be affected, others not yet being grazed although it is planned to do this at Men-an-Tol and Lanyon Quoit.
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Uruk.
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Iraq
Visited: Would like to visit
Uruk. submitted by AlexHunger on 4th Nov 2006. Excavated remains of the Inana Temple (Ishtar Temple) dating to ca 1400 BCE from Uruk at the Berlin Pergamum museum.
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Log Text: Featured in the BBC programme, Ancient Worlds with Richard Miles
Castell Allt-Goch
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 17th Jan 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2010
Castell Allt-Goch submitted by Andy B on 12th Oct 2010. This Iron Age hill fort occupies high ground in the south-west of the square and is used as pasture for sheep. A more detailed description is included at
http://www.cambria.org.uk/projects/prehistdefenc/SN54AND55GAZETTEER.pdf
Copyright Dan Gregory and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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