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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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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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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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Log Text: There are no public footpaths to the site, and so access is limited.
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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Stonehenge Visitor Centre
Date Added: 31st Jan 2014
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Stonehenge Visitor Centre submitted by dodomad on 17th Dec 2013. The new Stonehenge exhibition and visitor centre, a sensitively designed modern building, is located 1.5 miles away from Stonehenge. It was designed by leading architects Denton Corker Marshall.
Image Credit: James O. Davies/English Heritage.
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Marden Henge
Date Added: 24th Jul 2015
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Marden Henge submitted by vicky on 10th Sep 2002. The surviving earthworks of Marden Henge in Wiltshire.
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St Mary the Virgin (East Knoyle)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2016
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Mary the Virgin (East Knoyle) submitted by Jansold on 26th Feb 2016. Roughly worked Saxon Cross, in grave yard, dated to early Saxon period (7-9th C). Probably pre-dates the existing church.
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Teffont Magna - St. Edwards Church
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2016
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Teffont Magna - St. Edwards Church submitted by Jansold on 26th Feb 2016. Teffont Magna Saxon Cross
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Hazelbury Manor Menhirs
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2016. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Hazelbury Manor Menhirs submitted by Jansold on 25th May 2016. Modern circle of menhirs
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Windmill Hill (Avebury)
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Windmill Hill (Avebury) submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Oct 2003. One of the concentric causewayed ditches of Windmill Hill.
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Avebury
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Avebury submitted by JJ on 15th Nov 2015. Photograph taken nearly 10 years ago, recently scanned.
I got there before dawn to capture the wonderful images of the sun rising when there was freezing fog.
[With many thanks to Runemage for processing JJ's photos for publication]
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Great Cursus, Stonehenge
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2016. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Great Cursus, Stonehenge submitted by TimPrevett on 10th Jun 2011. See the first comment on the Great Cursus page HERE for June 10th 2011 for more information.
Image copyright Mark Anstee - also much more on his website HERE
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Woodhenge (Wiltshire)
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Woodhenge (Wiltshire) submitted by sem on 7th Sep 2015. Woodhenge -The Model
One picture taken of a 3D model conceived during a wet weekend. Projects like this can reveal previously unseen features.
I would point out that the henge itself is now thought to have been built after the timbers decayed.
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Cuckoo Stone (Wiltshire)
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cuckoo Stone (Wiltshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 8th Oct 2006. Cuckoo Stone looking north; see main entry for details.
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Durrington Walls
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2016. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
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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Old King Barrows
Date Added: 25th May 2016
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old King Barrows submitted by TimPrevett on 10th Oct 2006. Old King Barrows are a more sparsely grouped cluster than the New, and as typical of most of them, either closed in by, or topped by Beech Trees.
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Sherrington Long Barrow
Date Added: 1st Sep 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Sherrington Long Barrow submitted by Jansold on 1st Sep 2016. Sherrington Long Barrow, taken from the footpath. The barrow is heavily overgrown, and not immediately recognisable.
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Park Hill Camp
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2016
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Park Hill Camp submitted by JimChampion on 19th Sep 2010. Iron age fort on the Stourhead estate, on Park Hill (ridge to the west of Six Wells Bottom). Interior of the camp is to the right, on the far side of the bank. There has been some recent clearance of beech trees from this part of the earthworks.
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Bush Barrow
Date Added: 25th Feb 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bush Barrow submitted by Creative Commons on 17th Feb 2010. "In the 1720s William Stukeley had called it “the bush barrow” after trees planted on the top (though the “county people” knew it as “the green barrow”)"
"This very large bowl barrow in the Normanton Down barrow group, just south of Stonehenge, measures over 40m in diameter and stands today 3m high. It was excavated in 1808 by William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare. The primary burial was of a tall, stout, adult man, buried lying on his back. The grave goods placed with h...
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