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Cille Bhrianain
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: Scotland (Barra and Vatersay)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2011
Cille Bhrianain submitted by pab on 26th Sep 2011. Cille Bhrianain, May 2011
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Tobar Bharra
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Scotland (Barra and Vatersay)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2011
Tobar Bharra submitted by pab on 25th Sep 2011. Supposedly one of the most important & famous wells in the Western Isles, but virtually obliterated.
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Pollachar
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2011
Pollachar submitted by pab on 24th Sep 2011. Strangely low in ambiance - perhaps knowing that it had been re-erected made it seem less 'authentic'?
Grossly unfair of course!
Date of visit: 12 May 2011
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Clach Mhic Leoid
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Harris)
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2011
Clach Mhic Leoid submitted by pab on 24th Sep 2011. The location of Clach Mhic Leoid as seen from the Sacrista Stone. As can be seen, it is by no means on the top of the hillside.
Date of visit: 8 May 2011
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Tobar Bhrìghde
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011
Tobar Bhrìghde submitted by pab on 23rd Sep 2011. Photo of Tobar Bhrìghde copied from "The Healing Wells of the Western Isles"
© Photograph Donald John Campbell,
Published by Acair Ltd 2000. Reproduced with written permission from the publishers
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Steinacleit
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2011
Steinacleit submitted by pab on 22nd Sep 2011. Central cairn looking NW to the sea.
The stones encircling this cairn define a significant area on this exposed hilltop.
The Interpretation Panel at the car park area reports that the area has not been fully investigated or excavated, so its original usage is unclear but it offers the following suggestion:
"An Ancient Farm: Are the stones the remains of a burial cairn or a stone circle? Using the limited evidence, Stenacleit is probably best interpreted as a prehistoric settlem...
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Borvemore
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Isle of Harris)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2011
Borvemore submitted by pab on 22nd Sep 2011. Looking north, across the water separating Taransay from Isle of Harris.
NB - no changes made in these colours in preparation or posting! On the odd occasion we had sun, the Western Isles really did look superb.
Date of visit: 8 May 2011
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St Cybi's Well
Date Added: 18th Sep 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
St Cybi's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy on 11th Dec 2004. St Cybi was a 6th century Cornishman who is said to have created this spring by striking a rock with his staff.
Climb the stone stile in the corner of the graveyard of the Parish Church in Langybi and then follow the fence line that runs at right angles to the graveyard wall. Once through the gorse at the far side of the field, a bridge will take you over a stream to the substantial ruins of St Cybi’s Wellhouse and the custodian’s house next to it. The well basin is in the centre of t...
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Log Text: 2nd time lucky.... When we first visited, we had the same problem as Angie - following a sign for the well which seemed to point instead to a rather poor construction.
How fortunate we were to have had another chance while in the area this month - this is a very special place. In terms of access, it might be difficult to visit the well if you are anxious about livestock. There were some rather frisky young cattle in the field across which the fingerpost directs you. We went instead through the cemetery, but this still involves crossing their field a short distance.
Craig Cwmbychan Cairn
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2011
Craig Cwmbychan Cairn submitted by pab on 3rd Sep 2011. Viewed from the cairn on Mynydd Mawr (SH540546), nicely aligned with Moel Eilio (SH555577) - which also has a cairn on its peak.
Photo taken 16.00hrs 16 May 2010.
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Mynydd Mawr Cairn
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2011
Mynydd Mawr Cairn submitted by pab on 3rd Sep 2011. Mynydd Mawr Cairn.
A panorama looking over the largest of the 3 'shelters' which are now located within the cairn.
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Beuno's Well (Clynnog Fawr)
Date Added: 19th Apr 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Beuno's Well (Clynnog Fawr) submitted by AngieLake on 11th Jul 2006. St Beuno's Well, or Fynnon Beuno, at Clynnog Fawr. This was once very popular with pilgrims and looked very inviting from the road. (Beware when visiting, as this road is lethal - the traffic whizzes past about an inch from your nose; and, fool that I am, I was there at leaving work time! There are no pavements and it's quite narrow, with no verge. I walked along it trying to catch a glimpse of the dolmen, as well as the well!)
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Log Text: The Well is no longer alongside the busy A499 because of the new Clynnog by-pass. The Well is now in a cul-de-sac formed by the by-pass - it must have been awful to walk to it before!
There seems to have been significant damage to the structure of the wall at some point during or prior to 2010, and the well was still locked in Sept 2011.
South Yarrows Broch
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 18th Aug 2011
South Yarrows Broch submitted by pab on 18th Aug 2011. SolarMegalith's photo PID80083 - being of curious temperament, I just had to see what was in the dark patch of SolarMegalith's photo, so I opened it on my PC.
I was very surprised to be able to get this amount of additional detail from the image on the Portal: apparently able to see what was under the water!
Closer look - especially at the lower lines of stone - showed an excellent reflection instead. I found it interesting though how much more detail could be seen, even in a compress...
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Top Castle, Eglwyscummin
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2011
Top Castle, Eglwyscummin submitted by pab on 5th Aug 2011. Top Castle. Photo taken 14 Aug 2010
Iron Age Hillfort located above Marros Sands, on the border between Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
The access path can be seen zig-zagging its way up the hillside, looking from the west.
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Carn Fadog
Date Added: 24th Jul 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2011
Carn Fadog submitted by pab on 23rd Jul 2011. Carn Fadog, described by COFLEIN as being damaged and hollowed out.
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Log Text: Visited on 23rd July while on a 'field visit' walk organised by the South Wales Geologists' Association, led by Alan Bowring.
Focus for the walk was the local geology and industrial archaeology, so we didn't get up to the cairn itself and I cannot therefore report how damaged its centre now is. Definitely worth a walk though - we started from car park next to playground in Ystradowen SN752124 and did a circular 9 mile route via Bryn-henllys Bridge, mainly using the routes of old tramways once used in local quarrying activities.
There are some very boggy stretches - expect many little diversions to avoid!
Derlwyn Isaf
Date Added: 24th Jul 2011
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2011
Derlwyn Isaf submitted by pab on 24th Jul 2011. Derlwyn Isaf Cairn.
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Log Text: Visited on 23rd July while on a 'field visit' walk organised by the South Wales Geologists' Association, led by Alan Bowring.
We got to this towards the end of a 9 mile circular walk, but it could be reached fairly easily without doing all that - we started from car park next to playground in Ystradowen SN752124. The area around the hillock on which the cairn sits was (and probably is normally) very boggy.
Thurba Fort
Date Added: 9th Mar 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Thurba Fort submitted by pab on 9th Mar 2013. View from the Thurba Head hillfort - looking eastwards along the Gower coastline and cliffs
Photo, July 2011
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Barpa Langais
Date Added: 24th Sep 2011
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 9th May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barpa Langais submitted by pab on 24th Sep 2011. The imaginative & interesting interpretive panel at the site - part of the text reads:
"Earth, sky and ancestors.
The path before you leads uphill to the chambered cairn of Barpa Langais. Tombs like this were built all over the islands by Neolithic farming communities, but this is the best preserved example in the Outer hebrides. It has never been investigaed by modern archaeologists, but it belongs to a group of monuments built about 5000 years ago, thus it is one of the earliest st...
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Clach An Truishal
Date Added: 22nd Sep 2011
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 8th May 2011
Clach An Truishal submitted by JJ on 25th Sep 2002.
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Dun Carloway
Date Added: 24th Sep 2011
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2011
Dun Carloway submitted by swatson on 28th Aug 2004. This impressive Broch is near Carloway in the west of the Island of Lewis. Sadly time did not permit detailed exploration but that's something to look forward to at a later date. There is enough of this tower standing to indicate the method and the superb workmanship involved in it's construction.
OS NB 192 413
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Achmore
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Achmore submitted by Tom_Bullock on 8th Dec 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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