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Yockenthwaite
Date Added: 12th Sep 2021
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Yockenthwaite submitted by DavidRaven on 24th Jan 2004. Stormy weather coming from Langstrothdale Chase in the west.
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Log Text: a lovely little kerb cairn/ring. a delightful walk along the Upper Wharfe, with its water-carved limestone. About 70 metres upstream from the ring is Yockenthwaite 'cave' a small fissure, from which some water issues, and also the eerie sound of an underground waterfall deep in the hillside. I wonder if this was there in the Bronze Age and had something to do with the siting of this ring. and what did they think the sound was? The river here is a disappearing/appearing one, as it discharges into several holes into underground aquifers, leaving downstream a dry bed, until a new water source enters it.
Yetnasteen
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Yetnasteen submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 447327
An over 7' high standing stone on Rousay. The name comes from Old Norse "Jotunna-steinn" meaning Giant Stone.
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Yarnbury Henge
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Yarnbury Henge submitted by drolaf on 3rd Oct 2018. view SW to Pendle hill
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Woodchester Beaker Barrow
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Woodchester Beaker Barrow submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 10th Aug 2011. Viewed from the NW; at the E end of the Gliding Club airfield.
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Log Text: you can get to it but it is on aircraft land. parking is at woodchester NT carpark (charges). the barrows at nymphsfield and uley are much better.
Wideford Hill
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Wideford Hill submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn HY409121. Externally and internally very like Isbister Tomb of the Eagles.
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Log Text: looking west from Wideford, you see its mirror twin at Cuween and the cairns past Finstown at Binscarth (Harper howe). From the top of Wideford hill you can see most of Orkney.
White Moss SW
Date Added: 29th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
White Moss SW submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2017. White Moss SW viewed looking in a northeasterly direction, with its NE partner just beyond.
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Log Text: there is an additional cairn immediately (1 or 2 metres) sw of this stone circle and cairn set.
White Moss NE
Date Added: 24th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2020. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
White Moss NE submitted by LivingRocks on 23rd May 2005. Under a threatening sky.
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White Hag Round cairn
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
White Hag Round cairn submitted by postman on 24th Jun 2013. Looking over the wall
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Log Text: please do not climb the farmer's stone wall as it is precarious, dangerous and they have enough to do without mending walls all the time. there is a gate just along the way and another gate into the field where the round barrow is.
White Hag
Date Added: 6th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2020. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
White Hag submitted by nicoladidsbury on 29th Mar 2004.
White Hag Hill Stone Circle
The circle has eleven stones, and an outlier. It sits on the hillside above an enclosed area containing earth banks, looking very much like an abandoned hillfort, although there is nothing marked on the OS map. Also a fantastic ancient spring called "Kings Well".
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Log Text: when is a circle not a circle that is the question.
White Cow Wood
Date Added: 13th Aug 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
White Cow Wood submitted by cosmic on 19th Oct 2005. Another view of the kerb
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Log Text: a fair bit more overgrown now than the photos. its a banked kerbed cairn with a central cist. basically the centre of a recumbent stone circle without the stone circle.
West Tump
Date Added: 17th Jun 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
West Tump submitted by drolaf on 27th Jan 2017. West Tump (Cranham) long barrow is about 60 metres long, and faces east. It lies in quiet mixed and beech woodland, so is in good condition and is not hard to find, up the hill but not on the crest. There is also what might be a ww2 bunker nearby.
Trees on the barrow have been felled and brushwood marks the barrow borders, and acts as a barrier to off road bicycles. The barrow's future seems secure.
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Log Text: access can be from road, park near old timber yard.
Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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.
OS HY306125
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Vinquoy
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn submitted by shogbits on 24th Feb 2006. External view of Vinquoy chambered cairn - not far from the Stone of Setter.
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Log Text: a prominent position on the hill with a superb views over the islands, and it lines up with the Setter stone and Mill loch cairn down the hill. it was very damp and there was a fine mist or dust in the chambers. The corbelled side cells are quite large compared to Wideford and Cuween. One side cell had water in.
Unstan
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Tyrebagger
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 3
Tyrebagger submitted by Suncircle49 on 15th Aug 2022. Collection of photos of the recumbent 16-21/6/19: Canmore describes Tyrebagger with ‘a fallen recumbent’, but my first impressions, it’s a ‘Dolmen’. The recumbent and its flanker’s are very different to any existing RSC in Aberdeenshire. Its alternative name DYCE which is very similar to DYSSE meaning ‘Dolmen’. A recumbent on stone mounts…. a Dolmen?
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Twelve Apostles (Yorks)
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Twelve Apostles (Yorks) submitted by DavidRaven on 2nd Nov 2003. A stunning location! 12 apostles taken 25 October 2003. It looked like someone had lent a helping hand; several of the stones are propped up by smaller rocks at the base.
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Twelve Apostles (Dumfries)
Date Added: 22nd Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Twelve Apostles (Dumfries) submitted by kelpie on 4th Jul 2002. Some of the Twelve Apostles, the circle is too big to include them all
NX947794
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Log Text: apparently the largest circle in Scotland according to the plaque by the gate. some large gaps? so maybe originally up to 19 stones? A pleasant enough place for a picnic stop.
Trusty's Hill
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2018
Trusty's Hill submitted by drolaf on 27th Sep 2018. Trusty's hillfort from the near west
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Log Text: None
Torrylin
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Torrylin submitted by cosmic on 11th Feb 2005. View from side
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Log Text: chambers align with Ailsa Craig/north south . sits on the old cliff, like the cairrn at the limekiln to the west across Torrylinn beck
Tormore 2
Date Added: 13th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Yes on 10th May 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Tormore 2 submitted by AngieLake on 9th Sep 2008. Going by my sketch on the day, this view is looking towards a gap in the hills to the NE.
[Checked this site grid ref on www.danu.co.uk/gallery/info/stones/mosscairn.html. Calling it "Moss Farm Cairn", "grid ref NR 90590 32367", they say that it is: "An excavated cairn circle which lies in a field south of trackway to Machrie Moor just west of Moss Farm."
It was definitely between Moss Farm Road Circle and the main Machrie Moor circles.]
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Log Text: this looks like it was a sizable cairn originally, east facing facade. It is located on a low hill overlooking the Machrie valley, and intervisible with the possible cursus on the hill to the SW.