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Harolds Stones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Aug 2004
Harolds Stones submitted by thecaptain on 12th Aug 2004. Harolds Stones, one evening several years ago.
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Hart Tor North circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor North circle submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor North Stone Circle, Dartmoor, Devon SX577717
The cairn at the top of the northern rows is about 9m in diameter, and is surrounded by a lovely ring of 15 stone slabs. It is possible that there is another ring of stones still present within the cairn.
This is the view to the northwest towards Black Tor.
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Hart Tor north rows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor north rows submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor North Stone Rows, Dartmoor, Devon SX577717
The northern of the Hart Tor rows is a double row avenue which has its lower end at the river Meavy and progresses up the hillside in an easterly direction to a nice cairn at the upper end, 125 metres distant.
This is a view looking up at the two cairns from near the upper end of the avenue.
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Hart Tor south row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2004
Hart Tor south row submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Jun 2004. Hart Tor South Stone Row, Dartmoor, Devon SX577716
The southern cairn is slightly smaller, with a remaining circle of only small stones. The southern row leads downhill from here for about 60 metres.
This is a view of the southern cairn and the top of the stone row looking towards Hart Tor.
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Hauts-de-Bretagne Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.293 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 9th Mar 2012. This was once an Angevin dolmen with a 3.5 metre by 2 metre rectangular chamber, and its entrance porchway at the east.
Unfortunately it was dynamited at the end of the 19th century, and so is not much more than a large pile of stones now.
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Log Text: On a west facing slope in the middle of a field, a kilometre or so to the north of the village of Huisseau-en-Beauce, can be found the remains of this dolmen. It is reached by finding the Rue des Dolmens, and then a difficult kilometre walk along farmtracks, across streams and fields.
It was once an Angevin type dolmen with a 3.5 metre by 2 metre rectangular chamber, with its entrance porchway at the east. Unfortunately it was dynamited at the end of the 19th century, and so is not much more than a large pile of stones now. However, the basic ground plan can be made out.
Hauts-de-Bretagne Polissoir
Trip No.204 Entry No.294 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Centre:Loire-et-Cher (41))
Visited: Yes on 9th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hauts-de-Bretagne Polissoir submitted by theCaptain on 10th Mar 2012. Just outside the Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen can be found a polissoir stone.
I do not know whether this slab was once part of the blown up dolmen or not.
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Log Text: Just outside the Hauts-de-Bretagne dolmen, at the northwest side, can be found a polissoir stone, with one groove, 5 basins and a flat area for polishing work. These are on a slab about one metre square. I do not know whether this slab was once part of the blown up dolmen or not.
Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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Hawkesbury Knoll
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 7th Aug 2020
Hawkesbury Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2004. Hawksbury Knoll, Chambered Tomb, South Gloucestershire, ST768872.
The view of the barrow atop Hawkesbury Knoll from the Somerset Monument.
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Log Text: Seen up on the top of the Cotswold Edge during a hot and humid Friday afternoon 11k walk, north from Hawkesbury Upton to the monument, then down the Cotswold Edge to Inglestone Common, south to Hawkesbury Common and on to Horton Court before going back up the Cotswold Edge and along the Cotswold Way andd "Yellow Brick Road" to Hawkesbury and a pint at the Beaufort Arms afterwards.
Hazleton North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton North submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Now completely destroyed after the excavations, all that there is to be seen of this ex longbarrow is a very slight raise in the middle of a ploughed field.
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Hazleton South
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jan 2007
Hazleton South submitted by thecaptain on 7th Jan 2007. Hazleton South longbarrow is left clear in the field and is not currently ploughed up, although I would think it has been in the past. I would estimate the slight mound, maximum one metre in height, to be about 50 metres in length by 25 metres wide.
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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Date Added: 9th Sep 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Canada
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 1989. My rating: Access 5
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump submitted by thecaptain on 24th May 2009. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The welcome sign with logo.
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Headless Cross (Moretonhampstead)
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Headless Cross (Moretonhampstead) submitted by AngieLake on 23rd Nov 2008. The Headless Cross, or Maximajor Stone (of Dartmoor Legend) marks the start of the NE end of the ridgeway track over Mardon Down.
Thought to be a replacement for a pre-existing ancient menhir.
(See site page for more.)
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Log Text: Beautiful sunny week in February, the hottest on record with 21 degrees recorded at Kew. So I decided a day on Dartmoor was required, and that I should visit Mardon Down to see the stone circle and other monuments in the vicinity, plus visit a couple of pubs. Two hours to drive down, and I was out on the moors before 12:00, having parked in a car parking area opposite what is marked as the Headless Cross. Turns out that the stone here now is a fairly modern replacement for the original stone, which was broken by either a car accident or an act of vandalism, depending on what story you see. It also seems to state that this never was a cross in the traditional sense, but probably a menhir (known as the Maximajor Stone), which acted as a guide stone in more recent times, much like many of the moorland crosses.
Heel Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Dec 2018
Heel Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Dec 2018. I have been sorting through the old family slides, and found these of Stonehenge from I believe 1969. I thought I would share them here.
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Hembury Castle
Date Added: 5th Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hembury Castle submitted by caradoc68 on 15th May 2008. Site in Devon:
Hembury castle (the danish camp), just north of Buckfast "devon" SX 725 684. Good little hillfort hiddern away way in Hembury wood, a site worth visiting>. Has very steep rampart bank, 20 feet in some places, a scrape the other side of the ditch. Inside the fort there is a small motte & bailey in the south west corner.
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Log Text: A nice sunny afternoon, after Sunday lunch at Scorriton and a walk out to Bench Tor, I decide to go and have a look at Hembury Castle before heading home. What a lovely place, old woodland with a hilltop iron age fort, modified and updated with a Norman Motte. In places the ramparts are huge, presumably increased for the Motte & Bailey castle. Lovely.
Hendersick Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2018
Hendersick Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Apr 2018. Screenshot of the urn
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Hendraburnick Quoit
Date Added: 14th Sep 2014
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup on 9th Sep 2013. The remains of Hendraburnick Quoit, The source of the river Camel is just to the South east [In the background].
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Log Text: Visited this site yesterday, and remarkably found it very easily, although an episode with a gate caused much amusement. Other than seeing details here, could only find notes which call it a disputed site. First thoughts are blimey, its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, mch of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, probably as a support to the capstone. So, my thoughts are this is a true ancient site, using what was naturally available as a starting point. I have since read that there are many cupmarks in the capstone - always good to have reason for another visit.
Hertubise dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.269 Date Added: 11th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Centre:Eure-et-Loire (28))
Visited: Couldn't find on 8th Aug 2005
Log Text: On my ign map, there is a dolmen symbol just to the south of the village of Alluyes, but its on the opposite side of the river to where I could drive to. Between the road and the river are houses and gardens, with lots of trees and high hedges, which prevented me from seeing anything of the Hertubise dolmen. There was a farm here with the right name though, so the dolmen probably exists somewhere.
Heston Brake
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2004
Heston Brake submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Apr 2004. Heston Brake, Chambered Tomb in Monmouthshire, ST505887
View of the remains from the rear of the chamber
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Hetty Pegler's Tump
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hetty Pegler's Tump submitted by thecaptain on 15th Mar 2009. The closure notice.
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Log Text: March 2009 and Hetty Pegler`s Tump was closed and sealed off to the public, due to concerns over its safety, with the internal drystone walling collapsing due to vandalism and the weight of the capstones resting on these walls since the 19th century reconstruction. Scaffolding has been used to prop up the chambers, and the entrance passage and courtyard sealed and filled with earth.
Hexham Abbey
Date Added: 10th Apr 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Hexham Abbey submitted by Thorgrim on 18th Sep 2004. Roman tombstone now in Hexham Abbey NY773684
Memorial to Flavinus a Roman Standard hero
(see same design in Colchester Castle)
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Log Text: A morning looking round Hexham Abbey with some wonderful old carved stone things in there.