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Dibden Bottom
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2008
Dibden Bottom submitted by JimChampion on 16th Jul 2008. Looking east towards the barrows, with the heath of Dibden Bottom beyond. The barrows are very low, but noticeable due to their location on a low promontory and the bracken that covers them (with nothing but heather surrounding them).
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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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Creeg Tol
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Creeg Tol submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. View south-west from Creeg Tol, with the rock outcrop and basin(?) in the foreground. The dip in the horizon to the left is at Lamorna, the tower on the horizon to the right is St Buryan. The Boscawen-Un stone circle is a short distance to the south-east, just off to the left of this photo. This is a composite image from two photographs.
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St Levan's Well
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
St Levan's Well submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. The back of St Levan's Well, in its spectacular setting above Porthchapel cove.
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Trewern menhir
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Trewern menhir submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. The Trewern standing stone is just below centre in this photograph. Apologies for the quality, but it was taken at full zoom from a very windy Trengwainton Carn.
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Trewern Round
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Trewern Round submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. An oval Iron Age enclosure, about 50 metres in diameter. The stone wall still survives under the hedge, and the whole thing is quite obvious from some distance away. Apologies for the quality of this picture, it was taken from some distance at full zoom, and it was very windy (no tripod!).
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Churchyard Cross St Levan
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Churchyard Cross St Levan submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. On the right, the tall churchyard cross; beyond and to the left the split St Levan Stone. I have read suggestions that the stone represents the female form and the cross represents the male form, or that the proximity of the Christian cross neutralises the pagan influence of the stone.
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Trink Hill
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Trink Hill submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. The triangulation pillar on Trink Hill, which stands on top of the remains of a tumulus. The hill in the middle distance, beyond the farm buildings, is Trencrom Hill - topped with the remains of an Iron Age hillfort/settlement.
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Carn Lês Boel
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2008
Carn Lês Boel submitted by JimChampion on 29th Aug 2008. View across Mill Bay to the Carn Lês Boel headland, from Carn Boel. The headland is a 'cliff castle', although the remains are very slight. On the left is Nanjizal beach.
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St Levan's Stone
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 30th Aug 2008
St Levan's Stone submitted by JimChampion on 30th Aug 2008. Not wide enough for a packhorse with panniers astride, so the world's not done just yet. Demonstration by the other Dr Champion.
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Trengwainton Cross
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Trengwainton Cross submitted by JimChampion on 31st Aug 2008. The front of Trengwainton Cross, after the brambles and bracken had been moved out of the way!
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Maen Castle
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Maen Castle submitted by JimChampion on 31st Aug 2008. The name "Maen" Castle is from the Cornish for 'stone', and that describes it quite well. This exposed granite headland has many boulders and outcrops, and the promontory fort has little room for occupation. It is thought to be associated with field systems on the slope immediately to the east.
The headland in the distance is Dr Syntax's Head at Land's End, with the Longships rocks and lighthouse offshore.
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Boskednan Menhir 2
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Boskednan Menhir 2 submitted by JimChampion on 31st Aug 2008. This triangular stone stands on the tumulus at grid reference SW43263530, to the north-west of the Nine Maidens stone circle. The ruin on the hill in the distance is the Greenburrow engine house at the Ding Dong mine.
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Lescudjack Castle
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Lescudjack Castle submitted by JimChampion on 31st Aug 2008. From Trengwainton Carn there are splendid views across Mounts Bay. I took this photo, ostensibly of St Michael's Mount, using my camera's maximum zoom from the sunny but windy summit of Trengwainton Carn. Upon closer inspection later on, I found that I had inadvertently photographed Lescudjack Castle in Penzance - it lies roughly half way between The Mount and Trengwainton Carn. In this photo the hillfort is the area lit by direct sunlight in the centre left of the photo. For a version of this p...
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Mayon Cliff cairn
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Mayon Cliff cairn submitted by JimChampion on 31st Aug 2008. The cairn on Mayon Cliff, not listed as a scheduled monument by English Heritage. It is in fairly bad condition, but still recognisable on this exposed headland where the elements and visitor pressure keep the vegetation right down. The island in the distance is the Brisons and Cape Cornwall can be seen poking in from the right.
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Trevilley Cliff Tumuli
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2008
Trevilley Cliff tumuli submitted by JimChampion on 1st Sep 2008. At the top of the slope, the cairn on Trevilley Cliff, at grid reference SW34682417. The path cuts through the left side of the cairn. In the distance on the right are the Land's End buildings (in white).
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Boskednan A
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2008
Boskednan A submitted by JimChampion on 1st Sep 2008. Kerb stones, I think, at the cairn at grid reference SW43263530, to the north-west of the Nine Maidens stone circle.
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Alexander Keiller Museum
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Dec 2008
Alexander Keiller Museum submitted by JimChampion on 31st Dec 2008. The door to the Barn Gallery at Avebury. The barn is kept very cool in order to preserve the structure of the 17th century building, so it only houses a few archaeological exhibits - according to the NT leaflet it 'tells the story of the landscape through a fully interactive display'. Most of the archaeology collection is in the nearby Stables Gallery. Both are covered by the same admission ticket, unless you are a member of the National Trust (in which case both galleries are free).
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Bottlebush Down barrows
Date Added: 19th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jan 2009
Bottlebush Down barrows submitted by JimChampion on 11th Jan 2009. Round barrows on Bottlebush Down, viewed from the agger of the Ackling Dyke Roman road, towards Handley Cross.
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