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Lakehead Hill Cairn 8
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill Cairn 8 submitted by AngieLake on 8th Dec 2009. The remaining cist from Cairn 8 on Lakehead Hill.
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Log Text: North to Lakehead Hill, and my first target is on the right of the forest track and marked as "Cist" on the map. It does what it says on the tin, and a decent cist is found within a large circular cairn.
Lakehead Hill Cairn 7
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill Cairn 7 submitted by simonsworn on 7th Apr 2005. Facing south
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Log Text: Further north along the forest track and across the Lich Way, this next target is marked as "Cairn Circle & Cist" on the map. Down a little open trackway into a clearing in the forest, I find the remnants of a large cist in a large round cairn, but the remnants of a cairn circle elude me. Possibly once had a stone row associated, although that perhaps is for another cairn yet to be found within the forest.
Lakehead Hill 6
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 6 submitted by AngieLake on 4th Dec 2009. Looking NW up the slope from the cairn circle with cist towards the empty cairn circle (or Butler's site 5 on Lakehead Hill) .
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Log Text: I now wander out onto the open hilltop and head soutwest towards carins 5 and 6 marked as "Cairn Circle and Cist" on the OS map, but am initially mislead by a large post which does not mark them before finding the pair of cairns with their small marker! The southern of the two cairn circles consists of 10 pale stones standing in a circle of about 6m diameter surrounding a fairly large flat stone, probably a capstone for a cist, but I can see nothing underneath. It once supposedly had a stone row leading away to the southeast.
Lakehead Hill 5
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 5 submitted by Bladup on 12th May 2017. Lakehead Hill South Cairn Circle [5].
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Log Text: Just to the north of Cairn 6 is Cairn 5, again a nice circle of 10 pale slabs with a diameter about 7m, slightly larger than cairn 6, as are the stones. There is no signs of a cist within the circle, but a few slabs to the southeast which may have made up part of a row to the cairn.
Lakehead Hill 2
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 2 submitted by davep on 14th Jul 2011. Lakehead Hill Cairn 2 (Cist)
There are numerous sites in close proximity on Lakehead Hill. These are covered in detail in Butler's Atlas of Antiquities Vol 2. Map 27 Site 19 (see pp. 48-52). This cist is Butler's Cairn 2 marked with a Dartmoor National Park post 9A. The precise location is SX64267770
What follows is a description of how to locate it.
A short way southwards up the hill from Kraps Ring can be found cairn 1 which has a clear retaining circle of diameter 6m formed by...
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Log Text: Head west from the stone row, and right at the edge of the forest is found Cairn 2, marked by the OS as "Cist". What I find is a fairly large cist box standing proud of the ground, with nothing too obvious of a cairn or circle surrounding it.
Lakehead Hill
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill E submitted by postman on 31st May 2013. Stone row, stone circle and big cist, I never told my wife our weekend away was just so I could come here, don't think she would've been dead impressed.
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Log Text: Day to Dartmoor for a lovely and sunny but tiring walk from Dunnabridge finding several cairns and cists on the way up and over Bellever Tor and on to Lakehead Hill with all its prehistoric remains. Down through Kraps Ring and the forest to Bellever, then up past Laughter Hole to the stone rows on the slopes of Laughter Tor then back to Dunnabridge. Pint at the Warren House Inn after. Lovely.
Lakehead Cairn Circle 1
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Cairn Circle 1 submitted by simonsworn on 30th Mar 2005. Lakehead Cairn Circle 1. Earlier photo, facing southwest with 2m scale
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Log Text: Heading back northeast, and after disturbing something fairly large within the forest edge, I proceed to what is marked as "Cairn Circle". I find a ring of 13 small pale stones, about 6 m in diameter. Nothing much to be found within the circle except for one other flat slab.
Lagatjar alignements
Trip No.203 Entry No.498 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lagatjar Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Lagatjar Alignements.
West of the fishing town of Camaret, in the far west of the Crozon Peninsula, Finisterre Brittany.
If memory serves me right, these stones form part of a sort of large stone square.
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Log Text: The Lagatjar alignements are an intriguing arrangement of stones, mostly consisting of large white quartz blocks on open common land, just to the east of the fishing town of Camaret. There are probably over a hundred stones, mostly aligned into three lines, but there are some outliers as well.
The longest line is over 200 metres in length and has an orientation of 037°. From this line are two rows of larger blocks, heading off at right angles on bearing 317° for the northern row, which is approximately straight and 60 metres in length. The southern row is about 50 metres away, and heads off at 315°, but curves towards the west away from the baseline. Perhaps these two rows once joined up to form a horseshoe ?
South of the main line are three large grey stones, a single one at the west and a pair to the east. These three stones are aligned with each other. There are lots of orchids flowering here, which seems a bit late in the year.
Lagatjar alignements
Trip No.187 Entry No.71 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lagatjar Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Lagatjar Alignements.
West of the fishing town of Camaret, in the far west of the Crozon Peninsula, Finisterre Brittany.
If memory serves me right, these stones form part of a sort of large stone square.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 9. Cycle from Telgruc all around Crozon peninsula.
Ladle Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2007
Ladle Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jul 2007. Ladle Hill hillfort seen here looking in a westerly direction along the top of the ridge of Watership Down.
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Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut
Date Added: 5th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut submitted by AngieLake on 25th Aug 2008. Lade Hill Brook Beehive Hut is situated on the east bank of the East Dart river. This photo was taken in the mid-1980s.
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Log Text: Getting down from White Ridge to the river and Beehive Hut is a bit tricky finding the way through the gorse here where it is very rough and largely overgrown, but once down it was easy to find. A splendid little construction and seeing it makes me think I have been here before, possibly on one of those mega expeditions in the 1980's, or perhaps I am confusing it with some of the similar orries in the Ariege Pyrénées. I see my only other person out here on the moors today, well camouflaged and fishing in the Dart, no doubt illegally as he looks very sheepish and hesitant to say hello.
Lacra
Date Added: 17th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2002. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lacra submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Nov 2017. Plan of the Lacra site.
From "Some Bronze Age burial circles at Lacra, near Kirksanton". By J. A. DIXON, with an excavation report by CLARE I. FELL.
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Log Text: Visit after a week at Crossthwaite in the Lake District, before driving back to Bristol
Lacam de Rogues 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.175 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Lacam de Rogues 2 submitted by thecaptain on 6th Dec 2009. The central pillar is the only stone of this circle still standing, and it is not much more than a metre high.
The circle of stones around it is about 90 metres in diameter, and there are many stones remaining, but all fallen and crumbling, as is the wont of this fragile pale limestone.
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Log Text: From the main road passing the village of Rogues, take the dirt track leading northwest from near the electrical transformer, opposite the road to the village. Walk about 600 metres along this track, always keeping to the right when there is a choice. There is then a little cultivated field in the valley to the right, go around this and to the top of the higher ground beyond it, and continue for another 300 metres.
At the highest point is a little tree growing, with the central pillar for this cromlech standing beside it. This central pillar is the only stone of this circle still standing, and it is not much more than a metre high. The circle of stones around it is about 90 metres in diameter, and there are many stones remaining, but all fallen and crumbling, as is the wont of this fragile pale limestone. I would imagine there to be bits of at least 30 stones still in evidence, most of them being in the northern half of the circle. The southern half is practically barren, and there has been a wall, or field clearance line of stones created where a big one of the circle would have been.
Apart from the cold wind blowing across this plateau, the clouds have now mostly cleared, and it is becoming a clear blue sky with great visibility. It really is special up here, with magnificent views all around over the Causse, with hills and mountains in the distance all around. The Cevennes to the north look particularly enchanting in the low golden sunlight.
Lacam de Rogues 1
Trip No.205 Entry No.174 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4
Lacam de Rogues 1 submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Dec 2009. The first Cromlech de Rogues.
There is not much here to be seen, but there are a few large lumps of stone laying around, and with an eye of faith, an arc can possibly be made out with some of them.
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Log Text: From the main road passing the village of Rogues, take the dirt track leading northwest from near the electrical transformer, opposite the road to the village. After 300 metres walking down this track, there is a little mound on the right side, of which the centre has been dug out. To the other side of the track here are the remains of the first Cromlech de Rogues. There is not much here to be seen, but there are a few larger lumps of stone laying around, and with an eye of faith, an arc can possibly be made out with some of them.
Lacam de Peyrarines
Trip No.205 Entry No.162 Date Added: 15th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Lacam de Peyrarines submitted by thecaptain on 6th Oct 2005. Lacam de Peyrarines. A fantastic proper stone circle in France.
The stones arcing away in the southwest sector
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Log Text: Take the road towards Blandas from Montdardier, and after a few kilometres there is a big junction of ways. About 600 metres down the road towards Blandas from the junction, and in the field to the right can be seen this tremendous cromlech.
This is a proper circle of stones, with 52 standing stones up to about 1.8 metres high making a circle of about 120 metres diameter. At the centre is a large menhir, well over two metres high. There are gaps in the circle, and several more stones which were possibly part of the circle are laying down. The stones which make up the circle are all different shapes and sizes, of this fragile and pockmarked limestone. There are tall thin ones, big rectangular stumps, short squat blocks, diamonds, triangles, slanted top stones and a few almonds.
Just sat at the centre of this circle looking at all the stones around me it feels wonderful. One of the stones has like a giant finger pointing upwards. One of them is full of holes (number 35 in my counting !). Most of them are very evenly spaced, but it is not all that way. This really is a special place. Most of the stones are of the local crumbly flaky pale limestone, but not all, as a few of the large stones are a dark brown gritty sort of rock.
Lacam de la Rigalderie 2
Trip No.205 Entry No.169 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 1 Access 3
Lacam de la Rigalderie 2 submitted by thecaptain on 10th Dec 2009. There is supposedly another stone circle near to the top of the hill, but in a ruinous state.
I had a good look around, but with all the bushes and undergrowth growing near the top of the hill, there was nothing that I could find which could be said to be the remains of a stone circle.
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Log Text: There is supposedly another stone circle near to the top of the hill, but in a ruinous state. I had a good look around, but with all the bushes and undergrowth growing here near the top of the hill, there was nothing that I could find which could be said to be the remains of a stone circle.
Lacam de la Rigalderie
Trip No.205 Entry No.168 Date Added: 24th Nov 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Languedoc:Gard (30))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Lacam de la Rigalderie submitted by theCaptain on 20th Dec 2009. The stones are mostly pillar shaped, but there are one or two triangles and pointy topped stones.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the D.843 road between Blandas and Rigalderie, slightly to the west of what looks like a little airstrip, the remains of this lovely cromlech can be found on the slopes rising to a little hilltop. Unlike Lacam de Peyrarines, this one has a little parking area and a gated path to the cromlech, which is about 200 metres from the road across a field.
The circle is about 90 metres in diameter, and I counted 36 stones, either standing or fallen, with 20 or so properly standing upright. There are probably a few more stones in the lower part of the circle which is enveloped in bushes and undergrowth, where the circle seems to be embanked. Most of the stones are of the pale local limestone, but again as with Lacam de Peyrarines, one or two are of a brownish coloured stone. The height varies from half a metre to about 1.8 metres, except for a beautiful stone at the uppermost part of the circle which is about 2.5 metres in height, and a lovely shape.
The stones are mostly pillar shaped, but there are one or two triangles and pointy topped stones. The spacing is pretty even, at about 6 metres between stones, similar to Peyrarines. There is no evidence of a central pillar here.
La Verrie menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.10 Date Added: 4th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
La Verrie menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Jun 2007. The stone is nearly 5 metres tall and 4.5 metres in width, but is less than 0.5 metre thick.
It resembles the comb of a cockerel from some angles the way the top edge has become serrated.
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Log Text: This is a nice stone, fairly easily found near to the farm of La Verrie a kilometre or so to the northeast of Monteneuf. The stone is nearly 5 metres tall and 4.5 metres in width, but is less than 0.5 metre thick. It resembles the comb of a cockerel the way the top edge has become serrated. The stone is near to the corner of a field, only 20 metres from the lane, but also only 30 metres from the farm, with all sorts of buildings and machinery around, which detracts from the atmosphere of the stone.
La Vacherie Dolmen
Trip No.204 Entry No.97 Date Added: 20th Jul 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Maine-et-Loire 49)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
La Vacherie dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 16th Jul 2014. This is a nice little site, and easy to find to the south of Distré, as it is signposted. The dolmen is in a little woodland clearing in a marshy area, which makes it nice and green and shady on this hot afternoon.
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Log Text: This is a nice little site, and easy to find to the south of Distré, as it is signposted. The dolmenis in a little woodland clearing in a marshy area, which makes it nice and green and shady on this hot afternoon. The dolmen is what I am now taking to be a standard Angevine dolmen, with a 4m by 3m rectangular chamber, with a 2 metre long entranceway at the eastern end. The main chamber is capped by a single capstone which rests on two side slabs each side, one of which on the northern side has collapsed. The cover slab for the entranceway has unfortunately fallen. It's a shame, but as is often the case, the dolmen is used for beer drinking, smoking and fires, by I assume the local youths, and the pleasant green grassy area is littered with broken bottles and other rubbish.
La Tête de Mort
Trip No.193 Entry No.8 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 30th May 1993. My rating: Access 4
La Tête de Mort submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2020. Death warmed up
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 2. Tregastel, Ile Grande, Tel Star Satellite place. Snake! Lots of ancient stones. At the northern end of Coz Pors beach is a large granite outcrop which viewed from some angles resembles a giant skull, known as La Tête de Mort.