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Stenness
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Maes Howe
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by Victor Reijs on 9th Jun 2002. Winter solstice sunset at Maes Howe
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Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 4th Jun 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
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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Barnhouse Stone
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 2
Barnhouse Stone submitted by howar on 30th Jul 2010. stone with Maes Howe aligned, Setter tumuli on Syra Dale behind Maes Howe continuing line
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Tomb of Cyrus
Date Added: 27th Sep 2014
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2013
Tomb of Cyrus submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. The six tiered Tomb of King Cyrus.
Site in Iran
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Oldbury Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Oldbury Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 23rd Oct 2003. Oldbury Castle and Cherhill Down
Nominated by Andy B
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Cherhill White Horse
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cherhill White Horse submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Cherhill White Horse - the 18th century hill figure located below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on June 2010).
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Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. Stanton Drew Great Circle 01/04/09
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Stanton Drew NE Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew NE Circle submitted by ogham on 12th Mar 2013. Interesting site to wander round and usually there no others with you.
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Stanton Drew SSW
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew SSW submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Aug 2006. View towards the church from the South West Circle.
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Date Added: 1st Sep 2016
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2013. My rating: Ambience 2 Access 5
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum submitted by JimChampion on 30th Apr 2005. March 2005: the front of Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum. The noticeboard features a recommendation from one of Bill Bryson's books: "Salisbury museum is outstanding and I urge you to go there at once."
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East Kennett longbarrow
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 30th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
East Kennett longbarrow submitted by Thorgrim on 6th Mar 2004. No public access, but clearly visible from the byway that goes uphill to the south of East Kennet village. Unexcavated, the barrow is 105m long and 6m high.
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Oliver's Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Oliver's Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 31st Aug 2003. Accessible by footpath from Bromham or Roundway, this Iron Age promontory fort of 1.2 hectares is at SU 001646.
It has a single ditch and bank with post holes for gates in the eastern entrance.
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Knossos
Date Added: 28th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Greece (Crete)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Knossos submitted by Thorgrim on 12th Nov 2004. The Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete. Dating from the Minoan Bronze Age, the first palace was built around 2000BC and subsequently destroyed by earthquake. This later palace from the Neopalatial period had 1,200 rooms on five levels. In 1450 BC, it too was destroyed in a disaster caused by the volcanic eruption on Thera (Santorini) which destroyed that island and the Minoan civilisation. The restoration is by Sir Arthur Evans who commenced excavation in 1900.
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Arsameia
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Arsameia submitted by h_fenton on 16th Jan 2011. The largest Greek inscription in Anatolia, at Arsameia, the inscription covers the flat area of rock above the tunnel/shaft entrance.
The shaft/tunnel descends 158metres at an angle into the hillside.
12 May 2003
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Nemrut Dag
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Nemrut Dag submitted by davidmorgan on 30th Nov 2006. Figures on the west terrace.
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Cendere Bridge
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cendere Bridge submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Mar 2008. A really nice 1800-year-old bridge. Only three columns now since the disgrace of Septimius Severus' son.
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Karakus Tumulus
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Karakus Tumulus submitted by davidmorgan on 12th Jan 2007. Mt. Nemrut is in the distance on the right.
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Göbekli Tepe
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Göbekli Tepe submitted by AlexHunger on 1st Aug 2006. Segment D is one of the near circular shaped pillared areas in the best condition of Göbekli Tepe.
There are 5 more, usually smaller such pillared areas on this site, many of the pillars having elaborate carvings.
Göbekli Tepe is apparently a Pre Pottery Neolithic Temple dating back to about 9,000 BCE near the Euphrates in South Eastern Turkey.
With kind permission from Dr. Klaus Schmidt, of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
Original text provided: Anlage D ist die bes...
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