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Doon Castle (Broch)
Date Added: 5th Aug 2023
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2023
Doon Castle (Broch) submitted by Andy B on 18th Apr 2010. A much better view of the landmark on a pleasant February day as promised after my first photo of this.
Copyright Colin McDonald and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: It has been tidied up quite a bit since my last visit in 2014 and the interior has been emptied out and levelled off with hardcore. It's a bit neat now! I'm not sure how much is original and how much has been rebuilt recently.
Droughduil Mote
Date Added: 4th Aug 2023
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Droughduil Mote submitted by andyturner on 9th Apr 2004. NX148567
Dunragit, by Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway.
Originally thought to be the earth mound of a 12th century castle, recent excavation has now shown the Mote to be contemporary with an adjacent system of three massive concentric timber circles dated approx 2500 BC.
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Log Text: Annual visit - no change!
Clonmore
Date Added: 28th Mar 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Carlow)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Clonmore submitted by TheLaoisCyclist on 10th Aug 2022. A stunning collection of early Christian crosses and cross slabs n Co. Carlow, plus more dotted about the area including large multiple Bullaun, Ogham stone and more.
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Log Text: Beautifully kept old graveyard with an abundance of early Christian cross-slabs, and other artefacts in the immediate vicinity. Easy access (up a few steps, so no disabled access though).
See Peter Harbison's paper for full details:
Early Christian Antiquities at Clonmore, Co. Carlow
Author(s): Peter Harbison
Source: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History,
Literature , 1991, Vol. 91C (1991), pp. 177-200
Published by: Royal Irish Academy
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25516081
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.
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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Log Text: None
Browne’s Hill
Date Added: 2nd May 2022
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Carlow)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Browne’s Hill submitted by ainsloch on 23rd Dec 2016. The immense Brownshill dolmen on a very chilly winter solstice evening
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Log Text: Truly megalithic! It really is a stunning monument, easy to find on the edge of Carlow town, though a little lacking in ambience.
Haroldstown
Date Added: 2nd May 2022
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Carlow)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Haroldstown submitted by KenWilliams on 27th Aug 2005. Taken 26th August 2005, just after nightfall. Using flash on the outside and torchlight on the inside, I took quite anumber of shots with this combination and also with single light sources. Not entirely sure which ones worked and which are OTT but I liked this one in particular because my dog managed to sneak into the frame when I was otherwise busy!
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Log Text: On private land, no parking as such. As others have said, pull up on roadside but take care. Over gate into field. Get the feeling visitors are not actively encouraged. Worth a look though, even from roadside.
Broadleas
Date Added: 2nd May 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Kildare)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Broadleas Stone Circle submitted by Jim Dempsey on 3rd Nov 2002. Broadleas Stone Circle in Co.Kildare.
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Log Text: I've been here many, many times and love this site. Polite to ask at farmhouse immediately opposite gate. Owner generally doesn't mind visitors so long as gate is closed, as there are often sheep in the field. (No footpath, just walk up field). Very similar to the Piper Stones (Athgreaney) a few miles away, in fact this site is also referred to as the Piper Stones
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Barsalloch
Date Added: 2nd May 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Barsalloch submitted by h_fenton on 29th Nov 2010. Barsalloch Promontory Fort viewed from roughly north.
Kite Aerial Photograph
17 September 2010
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Log Text: Well worth the climb up the steep steps, especially just before sunset. the views are spectacular. Well maintained site, parking available.
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.
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.
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!
Cromeleque do Xarez
Date Added: 27th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Portugal (Évora)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2013. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 5
Cromeleque do Xarez submitted by Bak_teria on 29th Feb 2016. Xerez stone circle (or square) in 2016.
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Log Text: Dubious reconstruction, but interesting all the same. Central stone is huge.
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.
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!