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The King's Stone (Coldstream)
Date Added: 11th Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 3
The King's Stone (Coldstream) submitted by bishop_pam on 22nd Aug 2017. The King's Stone, near Coldstream.
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Inveryne Stone Row
Date Added: 23rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Cowal)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Inveryne Stone Row submitted by postman on 25th May 2013. 28th April, spring takes its time getting up here.
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Castell Bach (Pen y Graig)
Date Added: 27th Dec 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castell Bach (Pen y Graig) submitted by pab on 13th Apr 2008. Castell Bach, near Pen y Graig Farm, as seen from the coastal path between New Quay and Llangranog, Ceredigion.
RCAHMW lists the site as having an 'enclosure complex' with a 90m stretch of rampart & ditch at the edge of a plain, about 100-130m across.
The severe coastal erosion has destroyed much of the original area, but it has left a unique cross section across the ditch which is visible over the bay.
RCAHMW also reports the complex to have included circular features identifia...
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Ynys Lochtyn
Date Added: 26th Dec 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ynys Lochtyn submitted by pab on 20th Sep 2007. Ynys Lochtyn, looking north across cardigan Bay, with the clouds on the horizon marking the line of Snowdonia and the Lyn Peninsula.
COFLEIN records there being rectangular structural remains on the lefthand edge of this islet.
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Pendinas Lochtyn
Date Added: 26th Dec 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Pendinas Lochtyn submitted by pab on 16th Sep 2007. North flank of Pen Dinas, from Ynys Lochtyn.
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Corbalengi Stone
Date Added: 25th Dec 2022
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (Ceredigion)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Corbalengi Stone submitted by sgking on 7th Mar 2005. 'Here Lies Corbalengi The Ordovician'
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Log Text: This stone can be seen from the road side in a couple of places.
Garn Fawr (Pembrokeshire)
Date Added: 10th Dec 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Garn Fawr (Pembrokeshire) submitted by pab on 1st Dec 2007. Garn Fawr, Pembrokeshire. Taken 11 Nov 07, Strumble Head lighthouse can be seen below.
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Log Text: Car parking is available nearby. Spectacular views from the fort.
Castell Coch, Trefin
Date Added: 9th Dec 2021
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castell Coch, Trefin submitted by h_fenton on 5th Feb 2008. the ramparts of the promontory fort shown in some detail in the top photo, main photo showing height of promontory above water. the interior of the fort it to the left.
Site visited: 2 April 2005
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Log Text: Access is via the coastal footpath.
St Elvis Farm
Date Added: 9th Dec 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
St Elvis Farm submitted by Adam Stanford on 18th Nov 2004. Located on a N-W facing slope, the tomb is one of three coastal burial sites in south-west Wales which appear to have been purposely concealed from the sea. A ‘double cromlech’ with 2 capstones is supported by two uprights. There are traces of a mound between both chambers and on the western side of the western chamber. However, both structures are today badly damaged. During the latter years of the 19th century, a tenant farmer from nearby St Elvis Farm was asked to stop ‘blasting’ bits...
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Log Text: Looking rather overgrown compared to the other photographs on here.
Castell Henif
Date Added: 9th Dec 2021
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castell Henif submitted by SandyG on 9th Dec 2021. View from north east. The fort is built on top of a sea arch.
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Log Text: The Pembrokeshire Coast Path leads through the ditch.
Ligger Point Barrows
Date Added: 15th Mar 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ligger Point Barrows submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2014. Ligger Point Barrows.
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Newmill souterrain
Date Added: 24th Feb 2020
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1977. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 1
Newmill souterrain submitted by SandyG on 17th Feb 2020. The north western end viewed from the south east.
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Log Text: The souterrain and associated archaeological remains were removed during the up-grading of the A9.
Fowlis Wester 2
Date Added: 19th Feb 2020
Site Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1978. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Fowlis Wester 2 submitted by SandyG on 19th Feb 2020. Quality is not great, but this is what the stone looked like in 1978.
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Fowlis Wester 1
Date Added: 19th Feb 2020
Site Type: Class II Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1978. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Fowlis Wester 1 submitted by cosmic on 19th Jun 2006. Viewed from West - Yes the sign does say replica but the images on it are better (more visible) than on original
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Westerton (Aberlemno)
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Angus)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1976. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Westerton (Aberlemno) submitted by Nick on 5th Nov 2002. From Forfar head easton the A932 Friockeim road. Turn north onto the un-numbered Aberlemno road by Balgavies Loch, until a small crossroads is reached. Just north of this junction you will see the stone in a field on your left (west side of the road.) This is an unassuming stone, no marks, standing about 1.2m high. Flat-faced, with the faces approximately due south-east/north-west.
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Nevern Churchyard
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Nevern Churchyard Cross submitted by vicky on 10th Dec 2003. The Nevern Great Cross, often described as ‘one of the most perfect specimens of its kind’. It stands in the churchyard at Nevern in Pembrokeshire, not far from the famous tomb of Pentre Ifan. It is believed to date to the 10th or 11th century. Close by is an avenue of ancient yew trees, one of which is said to bleed.
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King's Quoit, Manorbier
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
King's Quoit, Manorbier submitted by sem on 25th Aug 2004. Looking SW,the view here is outstanding.This must have been a very sought after plot of Neolithic real-estate.It is set in a hollow on the cliffside lined with stones bigger than any but the capstone.Children & Nash suggest "no covering mound would have existed because the ledge.....is far too narrow." (Logaston Press 2002)
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Gors Fawr Stone Circle
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gors Fawr Stone Circle submitted by Horatio on 22nd Jun 2019. Summer Solstice sunrise at Gors Fawr 2019. Taken on my phone.
As I stood behind everyone I thought 'just how many people over the thousands of years have stood in my place and watched this and how many more to come in the following years to replace me'
It was a truly moving, 'spiritual' experience.
It was a long day yesterday (not just because the hours of sunlight) as sunrise here, then work (in east Carmarthenshire) and then back to N Pembs for the sunset at Pentre Ifan burial ch...
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Gors Fawr Outliers
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Feb 2016. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gors Fawr Outliers submitted by Postman on 6th Sep 2015. Warm lichen cold ground
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Carreg y Big (Arthog)
Date Added: 18th Feb 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2016. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Carreg y Big (Arthog) submitted by Ogham on 20th Mar 2018. A lonely place in the winter.
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