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High Banks Farm
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2020
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Would like to visit
High Banks Farm submitted by Greengirl on 22nd Jan 2020. the low winter sun helped with photographing this amazing rock art.
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Machrie Moor 2
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Arran)
Visited: Would like to visit
Machrie Moor 2 submitted by DrewParsons on 12th Dec 2009. October 2006
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Masonbrook
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Galway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Masonbrook submitted by macd on 16th Jul 2019. Looking along the eastern side, from the north
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La Hougue Bie
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
La Hougue Bie, Equinox Rock Art submitted by Adam Stanford on 16th Apr 2006. On the morning of the Spring Equinox on Jersey in the magnificent passage grave called La Hougue Bie. Cupmarks on the right of the main chamber with the west (back) and north side chambers beautifully lit by fairly lights. AS
Category A
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Log Text: Fabulous site - a Neolithic Passage Tomb, topped by medieval chapels and with a German Bunker inserted in the side! Terrific museum onsite and lots of other items of interest in the grounds. I see the Neolithic house has been completed. Well done! I saw it under construction last September and look forward to seeing it all again this September.
Le Pinacle
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Access 3
Le Pinacle submitted by daved on 11th Mar 2004. Le Pinacle is a huge natural outcrop of red granite under which runs a 300mm seam of Dolerite. The Dolerite was mined in the Neolithic & Bronze Age for making polished stone axeheads which have turned up all over western Europe. In front you can just make out 2 Bronze Age parallel walls and a Romano Celtic temple incorporated in a Neolithic eclosure. You can pick up worked Neolithic flints incl. transverse arrow heads on the nearby excavation spoil heap.
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Log Text: Very steep, slippery descent to this site! It can be viewed perfectly well from the top of the very steep slope at Les Landes, but take extreme care if you want to go down. I did - on my a$$. A very unusual site, utilised over a very long period. Perhaps more ritual in nature, though evidence for hearths and at least temporary habitation. Remains of a strange little Gallo-Roman fanum here too. Traces of hearths seen on the path at the top of the slope too.
The Ossuary
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Ossuary submitted by attlebax on 28th Sep 2014. The Ossary, Jersey with the Broken Menhir in the background. Taken September 2014.
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Log Text: Chalcolithic period (c 2850-2250 BC) cist consisting of five blocks within the slight remnants of a low mound with a diameter of 9m. The chamber 1.8m x 7.6m x 0.9m contained the remains of at least 20 individuals. It is believed that the bones were deposited after the flesh had been removed or had rotted away. Pottery (2 Jersey Bowls)and flint scrapers were also found during the excavation in 1922 by the Societe Jersiaise.
See http://www.prehistoricjersey.net/The_Ossuary_archive.shtml for old photos and a plan.
Condition seemed to be much the same (in Sep 2018) as in attlebax's photo of 2014, so not sure when it was vandalised, but it must have been restored.
Broken Menhir, The
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Broken Menhir, The submitted by Adam Stanford on 3rd Mar 2005. One of a series of standing stones, perhaps forming part of a processional route, in St Ouen's Bay on the west coast of Jersey. At Grid: UTM 572500. The site was excavated in 1922 and the base was found to be packed in place with smaller stones, it is thought that the Menhir was broken during Prehistory, but is now supported upright with a cement and stone buttress. Within 20 metres or so is the Ossuary, which is the remnants of a cist and mound that once contained the remains of at least 20 peo...
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Log Text: Visited as part of a guided tour which was very helpful. Without a guide or a good map, it might be a little difficult to find this and the associated sites amongst the sand, but follow the paths and you'll get there eventually! An interesting area, but do some research first. No information boards that I could see.
Great Menhir, The
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Great Menhir, The submitted by Adam Stanford on 3rd Mar 2005. Another Menhir in a series of standing stones, perhaps forming part of a processional route, in St Ouen's Bay on the west coast of Jersey. A short walk from the Broken Menhir (approx 400m south of) at Grid: UTM 572496 is a 2m high granite block re-erected by The Société Jersaise in 1922 and known as the Great Menhir. It stands in a 0.75m pit and is supported by other smaller stones packed in around the base, (also known as Trig stones) on a northwest facing slope. Photographed on an Archaeolog...
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Log Text: Visited here on a field trip after the excellent Channel Islands Archaeology Conference last year. This whole area - though covered with sand - is chock full of archaeology. Need a local guide to really make sense of it all, bur well worth a pleasant walk around the dunes.
See also the Little Menhir, Broken Menhir, the Ossuary, Les Banques Blanches dunes, and more. Really interesting sites, but a bit of pre-reading or a guide needed to interpret everything that is going on.
Ville ès Nouaux
Date Added: 16th Jul 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Channel Islands and Isle of Man (Jersey)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Ville ès Nouaux submitted by Adam Stanford on 25th Nov 2004. Ville ès Nouaux which consisits of a Cist-in-circle and a Gallery grave on the outskirts of St Helier. Situated in St Andrews Park a fenced off circular area contains two tombs; the first is a gallery grave which is 11.5m long, 1.2m wide and lm high. Seven capstones are in place on the roof, but unfortunately two were lost in the 19th century when sand that covered it was excavated. Damage had also occurred before the sand built up over it, in about 1000BC this then formed a protective layer, b...
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Log Text: In a public park, so very easy to find.(Not so easy to park!) Enclosed by railings, but can see everything quite well. They are much restored, but good examples of allés couverte and cist-in-circle monuments.
Giants Leap Wedge Tomb
Date Added: 5th Nov 2017
Site Type: Wedge Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Cavan)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Giants Leap Wedge Tomb submitted by Anthony_Weir on 14th Mar 2013. Photo by Anthony Weir
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Log Text: Incredible area, but you really need a guided tour to understand what is going on, or at least download Gaby and Jim's amazing book - .pdf link on this website. The area is littered with modified boulders, field systems, hut sites etc in a wild and beautiful location, so get your walking boots on, take a picnic and explore. There's a small visitor centre and parking but no toilets, cafe or anything. Don't let that put you off - it's an enchanting area with so much to see and a credit to the local people (Gaby & Jim in particular) who noticed and recorded features hitherto unrecognised by the archaeological community. It pays to keep your eyes - and minds - open!
Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb
Date Added: 1st Sep 2016
Site Type: Wedge Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb submitted by jeffrep on 9th Aug 2009. Rathfranpark Wedge Tomb, County Mayo, Ireland.
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Carbad More
Date Added: 1st Sep 2016
Site Type: Court Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Carbad More submitted by jeffrep on 13th Aug 2009. Court Stones of the Eastern Tomb, Carbad More Double Court Tomb, County Mayo, Ireland.
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Log Text: In desperate need of protection and removal of vegetation which is overwhelming the site. Apart from the lane which goes through the NE court, another track is now going between the two back-to-back galleries of this dual court tomb. No signage or anything but it's easy to find with the 1:50000 map, sheet 24. Access on grass track by gate set back from road beside a small, overgrown ruined building.
Dolmen Of The Four Maols
Date Added: 31st Aug 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Mayo)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Dolmen Of The Four Maols submitted by Runemage on 21st Mar 2011. Maols means friends/companions if memory serves, but I've forgotten the legend that the stone is named after.
Taken in 1999
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Log Text: If you can ignore its surroundings (an industrial estate and a road with telegraph poles running alongside) this is a nice site, though I suspect it was once a great deal finer. There is easy access from the road via a grassy path into a small field between the industrial estate and the road (Primrose Hill). Although it is known as the Dolmen of the Four Maols (Brothers) because of a local legend, I think this is the last remains of a larger structure, perhaps just the back of a chamber which would have faced roughly to the SE. Another large stone sits a few metres away in this direction and another can be seen a bit further away, flat in the grass. Walking over the site I could feel other stones. Could this once have been a court tomb? Geophys would help categorise the monument.
The drill holes in the capstone in a hexagon pattern and drill holes on the separate stone suggest someone has dried to blow this megalith apart, and the damaged single stone suggests they were partly successful. Nevertheless, on a sunny afternoon this site was still impressive. There is an information panel at the end of the path.
PS It's in much better surroundings now, in a nice grassy paddock.
Din Lligwy
Date Added: 5th Jan 2016
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Would like to visit
Din Lligwy submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Jul 2002. Lligwy Ancient Settlement SH497861
This settlement, NW from Moelfre and not far from the Lligwy burial chamber is huge! A short walk from parking space for maybe 3 cars, through woodland, this location can occupy a considerable amount of time exploring the nooks & crannies of this probable 4th century AD settlement.
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Brenig 8
Date Added: 5th Jan 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Would like to visit
Brenig 8 submitted by TimPrevett on 20th Feb 2006. The prominent knoll position of Brenig 8, AKA Waen Ddafad, looking SE across Llyn Brenig. In viewing any pictures of the Brenig Cairns, it must be rememered that the lake is a recent addition.
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Brenig 46
Date Added: 5th Jan 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Would like to visit
Brenig 46 submitted by TimPrevett on 20th Feb 2006. The more ruinous Brenig 46 Cairn, looking SW, with Portal user whatisthat in the background. Many of the cairns here have been reconstructed in situ. Obviously, this one has not been! Nonetheless, I'll often walk miles to see something like this, so still worthwhile. This cairn is situated north of a mediaeval Hafod - a summer grazing base, called Sion Lwyd. We kept wanting to call it Sian Lloyd!
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Brenig 51
Date Added: 5th Jan 2016
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Would like to visit
Brenig 51 submitted by TimPrevett on 13th Feb 2006. The reconstructed Platform Cairn, aka Brenig 51. This magnificent monument was a complete surprise - 26 small stones in a perfect circle, with a 7 metre wide flat cairn ring around, raised a couple feet above the ground. The most unusual cairn I have seen to date. Wonderful. This is a composite of 3 shots, looking to the S over Llyn Brenig.
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Dolmen de Dombate
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dolmen de Dombate submitted by ernar on 20th Sep 2004. Picture of the main chamber of the "Modern Dombate" passage grave from the location of the "Old Dombate" portal tomb. Currently this site is difficult to view due to the excavations in progress.
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Log Text: I had read so much about this site I was prepared to be disappointed but I wasn't. It really is magnificent and has finally been opened to the public again. Ok, so it would be preferable to see it in the open air but it would have to be partly reburied to protect it and the truly massive proportions would have been hidden again. The visitor centre has yet to be completed internally and hopefully the finds will be returned from the museum in A Coruna including the 20 "idolinos" found at the entrance to the passage. There are many more megaliths in the area - mostly off the beaten track and not as huge as this....and loads more fantastic sites in Galicia. Highly recommended!
Doagh
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2011
Site Type: Holed Stone
Country: Ireland (Northern) (Co. Antrim)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Doagh Hole Stone 1 submitted by stonesavant on 27th Jul 2011. Recently cleared Gorse reveals the Doagh Hole Stone on its Plateau. This is the view from the road to Doagh.
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Log Text: The brown signposts in the area didn't currently point to the site - not sure if they have swung round in the wind or whether it is deliberate on behalf of some numpty. Anyway, it's easy to find with an OS map. No parking as such on this narrow road but there is a wide lane opposite which does the job without blocking access. There is a new gate into the field (as well as the old rusty one) but beware the hinge is missing so open it carefully. There is a new South Antrim Heritage Trail sign beside the rocky outcrop as well as the toppled old sign. Great views all round!
Craigarogan
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Ireland (Northern) (Co. Antrim)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Craigarogan submitted by MacD on 3rd Aug 2011. Granny's chamber
A nice little polygonal chamber topped with a big capstone. The passage is completely blocked by one of the chamber's orthostats....so is it a passage?
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Log Text: Now on the South Antrim Heritage Trail and marked on the OS map it's easy to find. No parking place as such but it's a quiet road and there is a grass verge. Sitting in a grassy field it looks a bit unloved but at least it's still there although not in its original state. The stone circle (more likely the kerb) referred to in earlier accounts has long gone. Excavations in early 20thc revealed an intact cremation urn, which disintegrated but has been restored and is now in the Ulster museum.