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Le Billard
Trip No.200 Entry No.83 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Le Billard submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Apr 2016. celebrated rock formation thought to represent a billiard ball on the extremely flat billiard table.
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Log Text: Celebrated rock formation thought to represent a billiard ball on the extremely flat billiard table, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres.
Les Trois Fromages
Trip No.200 Entry No.82 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2000. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Les Trois Fromages submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Apr 2016. celebrated rock formation to the east of Castres.
Note all of the sticks and stones thrown onto the top. I cannot remember the story surrounding this.
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Log Text: Celebrated rock formation thought to represent a pile of three cheeses, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres. There are many sticks and stones thrown onto the top of the rocks, but I cannot at present remember the folklore behind it.
L'Eléphant
Trip No.200 Entry No.84 Date Added: 18th Jun 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: France (Midi:Tarn (81))
Visited: Yes on 24th Sep 2000. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
L'Eléphant submitted by johnstone on 22nd Nov 2018. In front of the granite elephant on Sep.12, 2018
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Log Text: Celebrated rock formation thought to represent an elephant, in the Sidobre region to the east of Castres.
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
Oliver's Castle
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Oliver's Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 31st Aug 2003. Accessible by footpath from Bromham or Roundway, this Iron Age promontory fort of 1.2 hectares is at SU 001646.
It has a single ditch and bank with post holes for gates in the eastern entrance.
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Log Text: Part of a days off road cycling from Devizes. Lovely place, people flying radio controlled planes and gliders from up there. Horrifically muddy on the way down from the hills to the north.
Marden Henge
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Marden Henge submitted by Jansold on 24th Jul 2015. View of excavations during summer 2015.
Marden Henge is the biggest henge in England but because it did not have a stone circle associated with it, has tended to be overlooked. A huge mound, like a smaller version of Silbury Hill, named Hatfield Barrow, once existed within the henge, but it was levelled in the 19th C.
Foundations have been excavated within the henge that could have been a Neolithic sauna, containing a sunken hearth that would have given out intense heat.
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Adam's Grave (Alton Barnes)
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Adam's Grave (Alton Barnes) submitted by twentytrees on 29th Jul 2006. View from the south-west. The people in the picture are stood above the now ruined chambers where some stones remain.
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Knap Hill
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Knap Hill submitted by Wolfie on 19th Sep 2003. Knap Hill.
Hill fort or settlement
Nearest Town: Marlborough (9km NE)
Ordnance Survey: SU121636
Landranger Sheet: 173
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Lockeridge Grey Wethers
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Lockeridge Grey Wethers submitted by Wolfie on 19th Sep 2003. Natural sarsen stones
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East Kennett garden feature
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
East Kennett garden feature submitted by JJ on 24th Dec 2005. A view of the East Kennet avenue and circle. These must be modern stones, does anyone have more information?
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Devils Den
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Devils Den submitted by Schofe on 22nd Sep 2014. Taken 21st Sept 2014. My first visit to the Devil's Den on a night organised through friends at Devizes Camera Club. Image made from forty-eight, 30sec exposures merged in Photoshop to create the star trail effect.
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Coate circle
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2002. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Coate circle submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Nov 2007. Coate Circle, wedged between Swindon and the M4 Motorway, visited with permission of the landowner 25/11/07. 5 Stones remain in an arc; 1 additional stone is to the SE towards a tree, and a further stone to the S. There is another stone to the W in a field in front of a barn, visible from the main circle.
An attempt to get something atmospheric from the ruinous circle...
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Log Text: None
Rempstone
Date Added: 20th Oct 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2002
Rempstone submitted by Postman on 24th Mar 2020. The tree stump bottom left has some..... erm equinox gifting, shiny stones some with fossils.
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Log Text: Visit after a cycling weekend in Purbeck. I remember it being difficult to get into the wood to look at the stones, but once in there seeing a lot of stones seemingly littered around, with a few standing making a part of a small circle near to the road. Once known where it was, seeing one or two stones from the road as passing was possible, with one nice large stone stood at the edge of the woodland. Some of the stones had coins inserted into crevices.
Iasos
Date Added: 1st Dec 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2002. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Iasos submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Nov 2010. Turbintorium ruins at Ancient Iasos
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Halicarnassus Mausoleum
Date Added: 10th Nov 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2002. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Halicarnassus Mausoleum submitted by thecaptain on 28th Mar 2007. The modern day remains of Halicarnassus Mausoleum in Bodrum Turkey.
Most of the stones originally used in the building of this "one of the seven wonders" are now built into the walls of Bodrum castle.
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Log Text: The wind has got up overnight and is apparently too strong out at sea for us to go out for the day. This is only the third day that’s been cancelled all season. Still, it’s no problem, as we can go to Bodrum for the day and do the tourist thing. I never knew before that Bodrum was the ancient city of Halicarnassos, and home to one of the seven ancient wonders. What an amazing history the place has. The Dolmus takes about 20 minutes and costs about 30p each. Brilliant.
First off, we head for the remains of the Halicarnassos Mausoleum, the ancient wonder of the world. It was built by Queen Artemesia for her brother and husband, King Mausolus in 355BC.
What an amazing place it must have been, about 7 storeys high. But when the Knights of St John got there in 1494, they decided it was nothing more than a fantastic pile of stone with which to build their castle. So now there’s almost nothing left.
There is remains of an amazing drainage system and robber tunnels where ancient people tried to get in for treasure, and a few bits of massive column, but not much else.
Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Date Added: 10th Nov 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2002. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology submitted by davidmorgan on 10th Nov 2010. A view across Bodrum harbour to the early 15th century CE castle of the Knights of St John which houses the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
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Log Text: My notes from my sailing log book of my visit.
The wind has got up overnight again, and is W 6-7 out in the main sea area, with 2m swell. We are going nowhere today. Catch the Dolmus to Bodrum to do the tourist thing, spend the morning visiting the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, and afternoon in the Bodrum Castle and shipwrecks museum. A good day to be stuck in harbour. The Dolmus takes about 20 minutes and costs about 30p each. Brilliant.
After lunch, its to the castle, which includes the Museum of Underwater Archaeology. This is all absolutely brilliant, with shipwrecks and their finds found round the local coast dating back to the bronze age. In various castle rooms are different shipwrecks, arranged as they were found, and as the ships would have been. I particularly liked the 12th Century BC wreck with its ingots of copper, and there is some amazing glass ware from the 11th century “Glass ship”. And masses and masses of amphorae from throughout the millenia.
Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2003
Boscawen un submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jan 2004. Boscawen un circle, Penwith, Cornwall in July 2003. I just love the place. Interested to see Ocifants picture from march with the circle cleared, I thought I'd send this picture showing how rapidly it had overgrown again.
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Log Text: Visited during a day in Penzance before catching a train to Plymouth for a sailing trip to the Scilly Isles
Buzza Hill
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Buzza Hill submitted by paulcall on 17th Oct 2006. There are two pairs of stones facing the chamber, one pair in the foreground and one pair to the left. They seem rather far away to be part of the original structure.
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Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Peninnis Head Boundary
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.
Peninnis Head
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jul 2003
Peninnis Head submitted by Bladup on 11th Jun 2022. Peninnis Head Outcrop
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Log Text: Sailing trip from Plymouth over to the Scilly Isles. While ashore, have a walk around Peninnis Head.