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Glastonbury Lake Village Museum
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2006
Glastonbury Lake Village Museum submitted by JimChampion on 9th Aug 2006. The rear courtyard at The Tribunal building - the Lake Village museum is upstairs and a preserved dugout canoe is just through the doorway on the left.
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Peat Moors Centre
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2006
Peat Moors Centre submitted by JimChampion on 9th Aug 2006. This is as far as we got - its not open on Wednesdays :( As compensation you can turn a handle on the blue box and hear someone tell their memories of cider drinking and peat cutting.
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Glastonbury Lake Village
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2006
Glastonbury Lake Village submitted by JimChampion on 9th Aug 2006. A view across the field that is the site of the Glastonbury Lake Village (or Godney Lake Village as it was called during the original excavation). Not much to see these days, a few small bumps in a lush grassy field, surrounded by the ubiquitous drainage ditches.
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Sweet Track
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2006
Sweet Track submitted by JimChampion on 9th Aug 2006. The southern half of the course of the Sweet Track runs through Shapwick Heath NNR, which is open to the public - leaflets and maps are available from the English Nature office next to the Peat Moors Centre. This photo shows one of the interpretative boards (with braille) explaining what the track was, how it was discovered and how its remains are being protected today. A modern-day track runs alongside (visible bottom right) - it is made from recycled plastic bottles.
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Glastonbury Tor
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2006
Glastonbury Tor submitted by JimChampion on 11th Aug 2006. Panorama of the Tor bathed in summer evening sunlight. The concrete path isn't pretty, but necessary given the huge numbers of visitors to the summit. Archaeological excavations on the Tor (imagine having to carry the equipment up here every day) have not found evidence of settlement before the Dark Ages, but flint tools and a Neolithic polished axe (an offering?) were discovered.
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St Joseph's Well
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2006
St Joseph's Well submitted by JimChampion on 12th Aug 2006. Just to show that there really is no other angle on this well... I now realise that if I'd turned the camera the other way the flash would have been less intense on the near (left) portion of the arch. Live and learn. Apparently when the well was baled out during an investigation in 1991 they found hundreds of coins dated 1960 and later, which presumably shows when tourist numbers increased dramatically.
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Big Tree Long Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2007
Big Tree Long Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 18th Apr 2007. Hamish on the ploughed-out barrow mound, which now appears to have been left alone by recent ploughing. There are a few small broken stones protruding from the mound. (Portal Meet 15 April 2007)
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Orchardleigh Stones
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2007
Orchardleigh Stones submitted by JimChampion on 18th Apr 2007. The two impressively large stones at Orchardleigh. As seen on the Portal meet 15 April 2007.
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The Devil's Bed and Bolster
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2007
The Devil's Bed and Bolster submitted by JimChampion on 18th Apr 2007. Stones at what was presumably the entrance to the chambered tomb. They seem to have a faintly pink hue in this photo - they were partially illuminated by camera flash in the shade of the trees. Seen on the Portal meet 15 April 2007, thanks to Hamish's directions and TheCaptain's keen observations.
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Stoney Littleton
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2007
Stoney Littleton submitted by JimChampion on 18th Apr 2007. The famous ammonite cast, on the left-hand lintel of the entrance. Seen on the Portal meet 15 April 2007.
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Faulkland
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2007
Faulkland submitted by JimChampion on 28th May 2007. A large stone by the pavement on the south side of the A366 road, beneath a willow tree alongside the village pond. Grid reference ST7388954534.
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Wookey Hole Caves
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 26th Aug 2008
Wookey Hole Caves submitted by JimChampion on 26th Aug 2008. Fairly standard picture from one of the first caverns (The so-called Witch's Kitchen) at Wookey Hole caves. The water is the River Axe, which soon after this point emerges into the open. Bear in mind that the water level in the caves was raised by the construction of Wookey Hole mill in the 17th century (and even further back with the mill recorded in the Domesday Book). The caves were used by palaeolithic humans and again by people in the Iron Age. In the past hundred years they have been devel...
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Wookey Hole Caves Museum
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 26th Aug 2008
Wookey Hole Caves Museum submitted by JimChampion on 26th Aug 2008. I encountered this palaeolithic hunter-gatherer in the "Dinosaur Valley" at Wookey Hole. Hopefully it doesn't reinforce the idea that 'cavemen' co-existed with dinosaurs. His beard is looking a little green.
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Devil's Humps Barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (West Sussex)
Visited: Yes on 26th Apr 2008
Devil's Humps Barrows submitted by JimChampion on 26th Apr 2008. View north-east along the ridge of Bow Hill from the cross dyke, showing the Devil's Humps barrows. The two barrows on the left are bell barrows, and those further on are bowl barrows.
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Avebury - The Cove
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005
Avebury - The Cove submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2005. August 2004. Lichen on one of the tremendous Cove stones.
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Avebury
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005
Avebury submitted by JimChampion on 1st Jan 2005. August 2004. North-east portion of the ditch, looking towards the causeway where the road enters the site. There are lots of colourful small flowers on the embankment.
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Figsbury Rings
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jan 2005
Figsbury Rings submitted by JimChampion on 23rd Jan 2005. January 2005. Looking at the NE section of the ramparts from within the rings. The highest portion of the rampart is visible behind the ash trees growing in the inner ditch. These are the only significant trees within the rings, which are now grazed to conserve the chalk grassland habitat. The red flag is a warning that the neighbouring MOD range is in use. From the ring you get an amazing view of the MOD's impact on the modern landscape north-east of Salisbury.
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Old Sarum
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jan 2005
Old Sarum submitted by JimChampion on 26th Jan 2005. January 2005. Eastern side of Old Sarum hillfort, viewed from the earthworks at Figsbury Rings, 5km to the east.
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Apr 2005
Stonehenge. submitted by JimChampion on 4th Apr 2005. 4 April 2005: like something from "The Birds" huge numbers of starlings swoop around Stonehenge and settle on the stones. Some birds of the crow family (not sure which ones) are busy making their nests in holes in the trilithons.
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West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2005
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by JimChampion on 5th Apr 2005. April 2005. A long picture of a long barrow: composite of three photos showing the West Kennet Long Barrow in silhouette against the spring sunshine.
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