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Guinivrit
Date Added: 13th Aug 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Would like to visit
Guinivrit submitted by thecaptain on 25th Mar 2006. Guinivrit allée couverte.
The remains of this allée couverte clearly show the rise in sea level over the past 4000 odd years. Twice a day it gets a wash.
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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.
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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Cyfannedd Fawr erratic
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2011
Cyfannedd Fawr erratic submitted by pab on 15th Jan 2011. Cyfannedd Fawr. Massive erratic south of Cyfannedd Fawr, hidden in the conifer forest on the slopes overlooking the Mawddach estuary.
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Silbury Hill
Date Added: 21st Sep 2011
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011
Silbury Hill submitted by pab on 2nd Apr 2011. Silbury Hill, from the path up to West Kennet Long Barrow. The dark sky delivered what it promised - hail stones by the time we got to West Kennet. All this really needed was a rainbow....
Photo taken 28 August 2009
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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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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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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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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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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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Maiden Castle (Dorset)
Date Added: 17th Oct 2011
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2011
Maiden Castle (Dorset) submitted by baz on 13th Jul 2002. Part of the southern defences.
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Log Text: To help us enjoy both an evening visit and be close enough to just walk up for a dawn attempt at the sunrise/moonset double, we used the Camping & Caravan site just at the foot of Maiden Castle itself.
This meant a fairly easy & short walk up to the western entrance - what a delight to have somewhere to leave the campervan & just walk up to such a magnificent location..
For information, the sunrise was about 7.30, with the moon not setting until just after 9am - not often you can catch 2 such lovely times with such a short interval between them. Checking the great Photographers Ephemeris website helps to make me decide whether it might be worth putting an early alarm on - highly recommend it as a source of timing information..
Ffynnon Pedr
Date Added: 31st Dec 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ffynnon Pedr submitted by hiraeth on 29th Dec 2011. Site in South Glamorgan Wales
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Ffynnon Gyffyr
Date Added: 31st Dec 2011
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ffynnon Gyffyr submitted by hiraeth on 29th Dec 2011. Site in South Glamorgan Wales
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Roques de Teneguia
Date Added: 15th Jan 2012
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Spain (Canary Isles)
Visited: Would like to visit
Roques de Teneguia submitted by Klingon on 19th Jun 2009.
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St Gredifael's Holy Well (Penmynydd)
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2010
submitted by on .
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Hesselbjerg Jættestue
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 10th Feb 2011
Hesselbjerg Jættestue submitted by pab on 10th Feb 2011. Praeceptor asked if anyone could see something odd in his photo - doesn't anyone else see the shark-head? If not, anyone able to recommend a good optician?
(original image copyright praeceptor)
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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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Craig Rhosyfelin
Date Added: 9th Feb 2012
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2011
Craig Rhosyfelin submitted by PAB on 27th Feb 2011. Runemage commented that a map might be useful to help people understand what the 'new' discovery means, so I popped up there at lunchtime to try and get a picture to show the connections.
This is one of our favourite spots for Sunday lunch, so no great hardship!
The Carn Meini outcrop is to the left of this shot - which is basically looking along the northern flank of the Preseli Hills towards Carn Ingli and the coast at Newport.
It is certainly true that no-one would take any ston...
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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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