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Stonehenge.
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1983. My rating: Ambience 4
Stonehenge. submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Dec 2006. This was at the Winter Solstice.
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Log Text: Spent a week at the Stonehenge free festival in 1983 (had to go 250 miles home & back midway through to cash my giro!).
Creswell Crags
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Creswell Crags submitted by dodomad on 15th Feb 2019. The biggest concentration of protective marks ever found in British caves has been discovered at Creswell Crags in the East Midlands. The caves are home to the only Ice Age Rock art in Britain.
The marks, known as apotropaic marks or witches’ marks, are scribed in the walls and ceilings of the caves to ward off evil spirits. Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the Nottinghamshire/ Derbyshire border with history dating back 60,000 years. Enthusiasts, Hayley Clark and Ed Waters from the ...
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Log Text: I was part of the Manpower Services Scheme employed here in 1987-88. I excavated in Pin Hole Cave (1cm spits)
La Table des Marchands
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1988
La Table des Marchands submitted by JJ on 9th Nov 2002. La Table des Marchands
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Log Text: Visited in 1988 as part of the Brittany Project.
Irthlingborough and Stanwick Barrows
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Northamptonshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1990
Irthlingborough and Stanwick Barrows submitted by AngieLake on 20th Dec 2009. These two old photos of Irthlingborough were found in a 1993 edition of E.H.'s 'Bronze Age Britain', by Michael Parker Pearson. [P.79]
Captions: (top) - "The round barrow at Irthlingborough (Northamptonshire) under excavation." [In 1986]
(bottom) - "The deposit of cattle skulls and other bones at Irthlingborough."
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Khufu's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4
Khufu's Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Largest of the pyramids with a height of 146 Meters, sides of 230 Meters and an angle of 51.5 degrees. It is the only surviving 7 wonders of the world.
There are 3 chambers and a grand Gallery angled passage.
4th Dynasty Pharao Khufu was the son of Sneferu who finally mastered the art and logistics of building pyramids.
There is only one small ivory statue of Khufu in existance, which is exhibited in the Cairo museum.
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Khafre's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009
Khafre's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The most awesome experience is to enter the Pyramid of Khafre at Giza. Is it just a coincidence that Giza is located exactly 30 degrees and zero minutes from the equator? (Cairo is 30 degrees 1 minute North) Just think about it - some time before 2,500 BC, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom placed the Sphinx and the great pyramids exactly one third of the way up from the equator and two thirds of the way down from the north pole. With all that space to go at - it must have been deliberate and pro...
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Great Sphinx
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Great Sphinx submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Egyptologists generally claim that the Sphinx has the face of Khafre, while others claim the rock formation is much older.
The Egyptian authorities are about to start a refurbishment of the neck, shoulder and breast area, hence the scaffolding.
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Giza Valley Temple
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Giza Valley Temple submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. 4th Dynasty Temple next to Great Sphinx and leading up to Khafra's Pyramid via a causeway.
The core of the temple is limestone, but the inner and outer blocks are Aswan granite. The hypostyle hall has 16 Collumns.
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Menkaure's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Menkaure's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The romance and mystery of the Pyramids at Giza. Get there at dawn - this scene will be heaving with tourists and coaches within an hour or two. Go back to our main Khufu's Pyramid page for more on this location.
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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Andy B on 17th May 2016. Some artifacts repatriated from the UK, part of the Repatriated objects exhibition held in 2015
Photo credit: Riham Mahmoud
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Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2009
Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan submitted by Swinside on 21st Nov 2017. One of the pink granite tombs in the Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
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Log Text: viewed from across the Nile
Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Saw from a distance
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2005. Temple of Khnum
Aswan, Elephantine Island.
N24.08419, E32.88660
Built about 1490 BC during the new kingdom.
Khnum (aka: Chem, Kemu, Khem) was the Ram Headed god of Nile Flooding, and husband of Satet with the same functin who has a temple 100 meters to the north.
The picture shows the massive courtyard which originally had a colonnade. The entrance would have had pylons on either side. This site also survived relatively unscathed until about 1830 when Mohamed Ali leveled the place in o...
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Log Text: Viewed from the Nile
Aswan Museum, Elephantine Island
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009
Aswan Museum, Elephantine Island submitted by Orcinus on 18th Jan 2021. Pharaoh in Aswan Museum, 2009
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Tulum
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Mexico (Quintana Roo)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2002
Tulum submitted by davidmorgan on 28th May 2007. The Temple of the Frescoes.
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Newgrange
Date Added: 19th Jan 2021
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Meath)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1991
Newgrange submitted by McDeil on 8th Jan 2002. Entry at Newgrange showing massive carved stone which once blocked the entry. Not shown are the tourists who in Summer would queue for up to an hour to be taken through the tomb!
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Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Date Added: 19th Jan 2021
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by geoffstickland on 5th Jun 2019. these roots would have been several feet underground when the tree was in its prime
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Log Text: The submerged forest and peat beds extend a little further north and can also be seen at low winter tides in Tywyn on the north side of the Dyfi Estuary
Salt Knowe
Date Added: 20th Jan 2021
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2018
Salt Knowe submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. View from north east. (9th June 2015).
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Beacon Hill (Leicestershire)
Date Added: 20th Jan 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2015
Beacon Hill (Leicestershire) submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2013. An outcrop on Beacon hill, A good natural defence on this side for the iron age fort and/or a much older stone axe factory?
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Log Text: Visited frequently 2015-2019
Charnwood Museum
Date Added: 20th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2017
Log Text: None
Waun Fach
Date Added: 22nd Jan 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jan 2021. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 4
Waun Fach submitted by Postman on 13th Oct 2012. Zooming by the stone to Birds rock and Cader Idris
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Log Text: The stone is in a field just off the B road that leads from the A493, west of Llanegryn to Tonfanau. Located slightly east of the foopath, it stands proud on a naturally raised platform on the north side of the Dysynni river valley. The stone is smooth and black in places and has a large crack or fissure on its east side.