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St Winefrides Well
Date Added: 13th Jan 2015
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Flintshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Winefrides Well submitted by KiwiBetsy on 26th Nov 2004. Outdoor rectangular bathing pool containing the submerged St Beuno’s Stone which can be seen in the photo nearer to the front of the pool than the steps and hand rail in the rear left corner. The well chamber behind the pool is a fine example of late perpendicular architecture creating an almost square crypt covering the wellhead. Around the well, graceful columns rise to support an elaborate vaulted roof which in turn supports St Winifrede’s Chapel above. Once, steps led from the well up...
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New York Cleopatra's Needle
Date Added: 11th Jan 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
New York Cleopatra's Needle submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Apr 2006. The New Yorkers also call this Obelisk Cleopatra's Needle.
It was errected at On, otherwise known as Heliopolis a suburb of modern Cairo, around 1600 BCE by Thutmose I. This is the same location the London Obelisk comes from while only one remains in situ.
The Romans took it to Alexandria in 12 BCE.
The Egyptian government donated it to NYC in 1881 and the move was paid for by the Vanderbilts.
It is now in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum.
I trid to get a GPS position, ...
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Taormina
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Sicily (Sicilia))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Taormina submitted by KaiHofmann on 3rd Mar 2011. The Taormina Greek theatre.
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Macellum of Pompeii
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Macellum of Pompeii submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jun 2012. A circle of 12 volcanic tuff stones erected in the central Macellum of the ancient city of Pompeii.
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Pompeii
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pompeii submitted by raythemapman on 24th Oct 2009. Vesuvius and Amphitheatre. 1944.
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Rome.
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Rome. Pantheon submitted by Bjorn on 5th Jun 2007. The Pantheon in Piazza della Rotonda in central Rome.
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Tarquinia
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Lazio/Roma)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tarquinia Etruscan Necropolis submitted by AlexHunger on 13th Apr 2009. Site in Toscana, Italy: Stone Sarcophagus from the Tarquinia Etruscan Necropolis now in the Vila Giulia Nazionale Museum. Many of the other sarcophogi from Etruscan tombs that are displayed in Museum were made of ceramics.
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Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Italy
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Heliopolis Seti I Piazza del Popolo Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 12th Apr 2009. Site in Rome: Obelisk from the temple of Heliopolis made under the reign of Seti I . It was brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BCE and erected on the spina of the Circus Maximus. It is now in the Piazza del Popolo.
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Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Date Added: 10th Jan 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Ile-de-France:Paris (75))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 1 Access 5
Place de la Concorde Obelisk submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jul 2005. Place de la Concorde Obelisk
Taken from Egypt and placed in the center of Paris. It originaly stood in front of the temple of Luxor, where its twin remains. Similar to Cleopatra's needle in London, there are more captured obelisks of this kind in Central Park New York or Rome etc. It received a Gold cap on the Pyramidon tip for the year 2000.
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Miller's Grave
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Miller's Grave submitted by DavidRaven on 26th Feb 2004. The remains of a bronze-age burial mound on the windswept Midgeley Moor,
near Hebden Bridge. The outer stones surround a huge curious rock with a
crack down it's middle.
Looking north; the distinctive boulder called 'Robin Hood's Penny Stone' visible on the horizon.
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Log Text: Nice peaceful place to visit. Whilst not confirmed, it is likely to be a cairn of some kind as the nearby Robin Hood's Pennystone, the cairn and a nearby hilltop all line up.
Mount Cross (Todmorden)
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mount Cross (Todmorden) submitted by Sunny100 on 21st Jun 2010. Mount Cross Nr Todmorden, W.Yorkshire, at SD.915272.
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Log Text: Lovely cross with great views.
Bridestones (above Cliviger Gorge)
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bridestones (above Cliviger Gorge) submitted by DavidShepherd on 5th Apr 2013. Another view.
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The Frying Pan 1
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2014. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
The Frying Pan 1 submitted by Sunny100 on 31st May 2010. The Frying Pan, Stone Circle/ Ring Cairn, W.Yorkshire, at SD.943253. Detailed illustration of the site.
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Log Text: Can only really be made out from satellite.
Foster Clough
Date Added: 14th Jan 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Foster Clough submitted by NorthernerInLondon on 9th Jan 2015. In the centre of the picture, one can make out the circular earthworks. The ditch is clearly visible when walking.
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Wicken Hill
Date Added: 14th Jan 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Wicken Hill submitted by Creative Commons on 20th Jan 2015. Circular feature, Midgely Moor
Urnfield enclosure which looks like a large ring cairn seen in centre of photograph.
Copyright LDBrown and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Buckstones Edge
Date Added: 4th May 2015
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Buckstones Edge submitted by DavidShepherd on 5th Apr 2013. Not the best examples of South Pennine cups, but it isn't a natural pattern of erosion.
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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 1 Access 5
Stonehenge. submitted by Feanor on 23rd Jun 2011. Inside the Ring
26 October 2010, ~9.30 AM
Shot inside the Eastern edge of the Circle, looking due north.
We have the NorthEast Trilithon on the left with the morning-shadow of Stones 6/7/107 falling across it.
Bluestone 32-C is in the shadow of Stone 6.
It was a lovely morning!
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Silbury Hill
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Silbury Hill submitted by MikeyB on 26th Nov 2012. Reflections of Silbury Hill
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West Kennet Avenue
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
West Kennet Avenue submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Nov 2007. Sunrise on the West Kennet Ave 25/11/07.
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West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 9th Jan 2015
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by song on 23rd Nov 2006. west kennet, sundown, november 2006
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