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Pistyll Chapel Font
Date Added: 7th Jun 2012
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2012
Pistyll Chapel Font submitted by pab on 18th Apr 2012. Pistyll Chapel font
10 Sept 2011
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Chwarel Fawr Stones
Date Added: 7th Jun 2012
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2012
Chwarel Fawr Stones submitted by pab on 18th Apr 2012. Chwarel Fawr Stones.
Sept 2011
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Ffynnon Faglan
Date Added: 7th Jun 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2012
Ffynnon Faglan submitted by pab on 19th Apr 2012. The expected location - with cultivation having extended right over the probable surroundings and up the adjacent slope.
Sept 2011
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Druidston Stones
Date Added: 7th Jun 2012
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2012
Druidston Stones submitted by pab on 4th Jun 2012. Standing about 6ft high, this magnificent stone is surrounded by numerous small stones - but they do not give the impression of being packing etc.
The impression is more one of them giving some protection to the stone - which would be odd if it had been placed their in recent times as a rubbing stone for cattle.
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Stonehenge Aotearoa
Date Added: 7th Jun 2012
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: New Zealand
Visited: Yes on 25th Nov 2011. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 5
Stonehenge Aotearoa submitted by pab on 7th Jun 2012. November 2011
This is the 'Avenue' entrance to the main circle, with my 5ft marker (aka Mrs PAB) standing at the entrance for scale.
There is plenty of information about the purpose and layout - but basically the various monoliths are markers of the limits of events such as the solstice or equinox. It is definitely worth visiting the website to understand the location more fully.
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St Gwenfaens Well
Date Added: 21st Apr 2012
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Would like to visit
St Gwenfaens Well submitted by guile on 3rd May 2010. St. Gwenfaen's Well.
According to legend St. Gwenfaen was pursued by Vikings, she ran from her cell in Rhoscolyn Church to the well, ascended the nearby rock stack and was carried to heaven and safety by angels right before the reavers eyes.
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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.
Garn fawr (Carmarthenshire)
Date Added: 12th Mar 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Mar 2012
Garn fawr (Carmarthenshire) submitted by pab on 11th Mar 2012. Image taken 8 March 2012
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Bodø Standing Stone
Date Added: 11th Mar 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Norway (Nordland)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2012
Bodø Standing Stone submitted by pab on 4th Mar 2012. Reported by kentha88, and on the nearby information sign, as being surrounded by smaller stones - no chance of seeing them when we managed to visit during brief stop at Bodø in the snow!
February 2012.
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Nordland Museum, Bodø
Date Added: 11th Mar 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Norway (Nordland)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2012
Nordland Museum, Bodø submitted by PAB on 4th Mar 2012. Collection of Silver items from the Viking Age on display in Nordland Museum, Bodø.
This is described in the museum's brochure as being one of the biggest treasures from the Viking Age found in Northern Norway.
It was found by chance in 1919, hidden in a scree and wrapped in birch bark. The coins / money are a mixture of both Anglo-Saxon (5) and Arabic (47) origin.
February 2012.
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Garreg Garn Fair
Date Added: 11th Mar 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Carmarthenshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Mar 2012
Garreg Garn Fair submitted by pab on 11th Mar 2012. Photo taken on 8th of March 2012.
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Cerrig Arthur
Date Added: 25th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cerrig Arthur submitted by LivingRocks on 30th Aug 2005. These three large stones stand in the centre of the circle.
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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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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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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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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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