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Sae Breck
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sae Breck submitted by SolarMegalith on 29th Jun 2015. Sae Breck broch - view from the east (photo taken on June 2015).
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Loch of Breckon Burnt Mound
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Loch of Breckon Burnt Mound submitted by SolarMegalith on 29th Jun 2015. Burnt mound at Loch of Breckon - view from the north (photo taken on June 2015).
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Loch of Houlland
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Loch of Houlland submitted by pab on 28th Oct 2006. The broch at the Loch of Houlland is one of about 120 around the coast of Shetland. It is very close to the lighthouse at Echaness, which must have some of the most spectacular sea scenery in the UK. It would be hard to improve on the description given in the very informative guide I used in Shetland (written by Peter Guy: Walking the Coastline of Shetland, ISBN:1904746179) - "The broch dominates a small promontory which juts out from the NW into the loch. It is an impressive ruin with walls on ...
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Gateside Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2015
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Gateside Chambered Cairn submitted by SolarMegalith on 3rd Jul 2015. Gateside chambered cairn and view towards the coast as seen from the E-NE (photo taken on June 2015).
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Burnside Burnt Mound
Date Added: 3rd Jul 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Burnside Burnt Mound submitted by SolarMegalith on 3rd Jul 2015. Burnside burnt mound - view from the east (photo taken on June 2015).
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Mousa Broch
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mousa Broch submitted by h_fenton on 18th Dec 2010. Mousa Broch, Photographed August 1967.
U. Fenton
Uploaded with my mothers permission
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Mousa Burnt Mounds
Date Added: 6th Jul 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Mousa Burnt Mounds submitted by SolarMegalith on 6th Jul 2015. Western burnt mound near the lake at Mousa (photo taken on June 2015).
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Burraland
Date Added: 6th Jul 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Burraland submitted by SolarMegalith on 6th Jul 2015. Broch of Burraland is one of the best preserved brochs on the eastern coast of Shetland (photo taken on June 2015).
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Ness of Burgi
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ness of Burgi submitted by PAB on 22nd Oct 2006. The Fort on the Ness of Burgi, looking west from the coastline. This Fort faces across the bay to Jarsloff and the ramparts of Tonga Fort.
The Royal Commission for Ancient & Historical Monuments in Scotland (RCAHMS) describes the Fort as: "A gatehouse fort, probably datable to about 100 BC, isolated by a rampart, with a ditch on either side, cutting across the neck of the peninsula on which it stands."
It notes that the site was excavated in 1935, and again in 1983 when 'a single cutt...
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Tonga Fort, Scatness
Date Added: 29th Jun 2015
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Tonga Fort, Scatness submitted by PAB on 22nd Oct 2006. Ramparts of the fort known as Tonga Fort, Scatness, looking south towards the Ness of Burgi.
Full description of the ramparts as examined by the RCAHMS is given on the main Tonga Fort site.
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Jarlshof
Date Added: 30th Jun 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Jarlshof submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. This picture of Jarlshof shows the beautiful setting of the site, and I think the foreground is the bronze age buildings!
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Clickhimin
Date Added: 1st Jul 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Clickhimin submitted by jbamps on 12th Sep 2005. Remain of a broch near Lerwik (Shetland).
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Sumburgh Airport Broch
Date Added: 6th Jul 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Sumburgh Airport Broch submitted by cosmic on 24th Jan 2005. Hearth reconstruction. Photo taken in 1998.
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Silver Well 01
Date Added: 26th Apr 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Silver Well 01 submitted by SolarMegalith on 26th Apr 2019. Silver Well 1 and view towards Ilkley (photo taken on May 2015).
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Hanging Stone Rock
Date Added: 27th Apr 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hanging Stones Rock submitted by rockartuk on 18th Aug 2001. Rombalds Moor, South of Ilkley, is a very rich Rock Art area. This is a detail of one of the best known rocks: the Hanging Stone (SE 128 467) showing an interresting deviation of the usual motifs.
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Piper's Crag Stone
Date Added: 27th Apr 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Piper's Crag Stone submitted by andy_h on 17th May 2003. A prominent outcrop featuring deep Cup and Ring markings.
The Northern Edge of Ilkley Moor is strewn with marked rocks. Between the Swastika Stone and Piper's Crag Stone are The Anvil and The Sepulchre Stone, who's markings were unfortunately too worn to photograph well. This also applies to the nearby Neb Stone. A large upended rock with 'possible' cup marks, laying on other cup marked stones now built into a wall.
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Black Beck Hole 04
Date Added: 30th Apr 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Black Beck Hole 04 submitted by Rich32 on 2nd Feb 2018. Black Beck Hole 04 on ERA, showing it's broad grooves and fairly deep cups. Image captured in July 2009, looking north down the Wharfe valley.
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Black Beck Hole 05
Date Added: 30th Apr 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Black Beck Hole 05 submitted by Rich32 on 2nd Feb 2018. This complex carved rock is recorded as Black Beck Hole 05 on ERA.
Image captured in April 2011.
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Pancake Rock
Date Added: 3rd May 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Pancake Stone, Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire submitted by andy_h on 15th May 2003. The Pancake Stone is a weathered outcrop, perched ominously overlooking the Cow & Calf Hotel. The top is covered in Cup and Ring marks, but is now very worn.
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Pancake Ridge 02
Date Added: 3rd May 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pancake Ridge 02 submitted by Rich32 on 18th Apr 2019. Rock referenced 297 in Boughey & Vickerman's 2003 publication 'Prehistoric Rock Art of the West Riding'. Subsequently recorded by the CSI:Rombalds Moor Project and added to ERA as Pancake Ridge 02.
This stone has several cup marks scattered about the upper surface. A couple of them may be best described as 'cup-like depressions', because it's difficult to be 100% about their artificiality.
Image captured 22/1/2012.
Image Credit: Mike Short / Carved Stone Investigations: Rombalds ...
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