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Thornwell Farm
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Thornwell Round Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2006. About 100 metres to the east of the chambered tomb, the remains of a bronze age round barrow can be found in another green grassy area left between the houses.
The large oak tree growing in the chambered tomb can be seen above the rooftops to the left of centre.
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Log Text: On a housing estate to the south of Chepstow, right beside the Severn Bridge motorway junction from where it can be seen, are to be found the sad remains of a once major neolithic chambered tomb. It is to be found on a green space between the houses of Fountains Way and the back of a shopping area, and has a very large old oak tree growing on top of it. Under the tree can be seen remains of a large mound with various rocks sticking out, particularly on the northern side. Closer inspection of the high ground beside the tree reveals what looks to be the remains of a tomb chamber. Several edge set stones are to be seen sticking out of the ground, forming a rectangular structure about 3 metres by 2 metres, with a right angle incorporated – perhaps remains of an entrance and side chamber ? Below the tree the ground drops away quite steeply, and indeed may be the remains of the edge of the tomb, which has been shown to have once consisted of a large drystone wall surrounded structure. Within the rubble in this bank are several large stone slabs, which may once have been part of a side chamber. The stones are the local hard puddingstone type conglomerate of sandstone with gravel in it. When I was visiting, I was not sure whether this was the right place for this tomb, and so asked a local lady. She told me that although she did not know what was there, she had been told that her views would never be spoiled because no new building would ever be allowed on the green space because of some historical site. Excavations here in the past have revealed drystone walling, one main and two side chambers (one with a porthole) plus human bones, pottery, flints etc.
Thornwell Farm
Date Added: 31st Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Thornwell Farm submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2006. On a housing estate to the south of Chepstow, are to be found the sad remains of a once major neolithic chambered tomb.
It is on a green space between the houses of Fountains Way, and has a very large old oak tree growing on top of it.
Under the tree can be seen remains of a large mound with various rocks sticking out, particularly on the northern side.
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Log Text: Walking the Welsh Coast Path from Chepstow to Caldicot. Remains of a chambered longbarrow on a green area in the housing estate of Thornwell, near to the motorway junction south of Chepstow. Remains of two slab sided chambers can still be seen when the undergrowth is low.
Thorncombe Hill Cairns
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th Nov 2017
Thorncombe Hill Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Nov 2017. Remains of several barrows on Thorncombe Hill, part of the Quantock Hills ridge
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Thorncombe Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th Nov 2017
Thorncombe Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Nov 2017. Large 17m diameter bowl barrow on Thorncombe Hill high above the Trendle Ring at the top of the Quantock Hills ridge.
There was a freezing cold wind, and some heavy showers, so we did not delay our walk by detouring to look at this barrow.
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Thornborough S
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Thornborough S submitted by JJ on 23rd Aug 2004. Thornborough south henge
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Log Text: Travelling home from Northumberland, and the weather forecast was good, so I decided to go the eastern route and break my journey to have a look at the Thornborough Henges. After a drive around several small roads, I found a place to park with access to the fields between the southern and central henges. I decided to go walk around the henges, and started with the southern one, a fair walk on a blowy day, but nice when the sun came out. The large henge is not so well formed as I had expected, no doubt worn down over the centuries, and not much to see other than the circular bank; the internal ditch is barely noticeable.
Thornborough N
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Thornborough N submitted by SumDoood on 24th Apr 2017. (Arriving only just in time, I had cut down the four Roman soldiers and told them to get their sorry European arses back to Boroughbridge, and not to bother my henge again. Meanwhile...) I was very impressed by this henge and the fact that it is still so complete, the ditch being on average 3.0m deep and the bank an average of 3.0m high.
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Log Text: Back to the car for the small drive round to the woodland at the western side of the northern henge, and there was room to park, and then follow one of several paths into the woodland. This northern henge is much more like it, very well preserved, both the banks and internal ditch. The atmosphere in this woodland is much more pleasant than the open fields of the other two. Time to look for a pub and a pint.
Thornborough Central
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Thornborough Central submitted by Iain_P on 8th Sep 2016. This is an image taken from stitched together frames from a drone video, taken at sunrise a month ago (early August, 2016) For scale, you can just see our car in the bottom right.
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Log Text: Crossing back across the roadway, I go in for a look and walk around the central henge. This banks of this one are more substantial, but in places are very damaged by badgers or rabbits. The internal ditch is again slight, but can be made out here. I walked north to try to get to the northern henge, but it was not possible to get across the northern road and in to see it.
Thiemblais menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.597 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Thiemblais menhir submitted by thecaptain on 16th May 2007. Thiemblais, or St-Samson, menhir, near to Dinan. The signpost.
From what I saw of the carvings on the south side of the menhir in reality, the drawings on the signboard do not do it justice.
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Log Text: This is a truly wonderful 8 metre long granite menhir, which can be found signposted along a little track just to the east of the village of St Samson.
Although it leans at about 45°, it is beautifully shaped and has multitudes of carvings and engravings all over it. Apparently those on the flat western face are easy to see at mid day, but when I was here at 7:00pm, I could barely make anything out. I could, however, clearly see some of the carvings on the two sides, with the shadows being cast in just the right direction. All of the usual neolithic symbols are here, crosses, axes, squares, palettes and serpents.
A nice legend of the stone is that any young girl who wants to get married should climb to the top of the stone, and side down in their "birth knickers", and they will become wed within the year. It is also supposed to be one of the three menhirs that block the entrance to hell. A real fantastic find.
Thiemblais menhir
Trip No.208 Entry No.3 Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 20th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Thiemblais menhir submitted by neolithique02 on 21st Feb 2014. Le menhir de Saint-Samson sur Rance (Côtes d'Armor) Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D''Armor (22) France
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Log Text: My second visit to this most wonderful menhir, about 1:30pm, late March 2008, in a hazy sun, and some of the carvings on the front face can be seen. An hour or two earlier would have been better, as would a stronger sun. After a while, you "get your eye in" and more and more wonderful carvings come into view. I can see on here (with the eye of the knowing, and the full def picture) the animal (mid left, just above the quartz vein) and a couple of crosses and other bits and pieces.
Having got hold of a new book about the megalithes around Dinan, I can report that a revised picture of the carvings has been published in the last year or so, after various techniques have been used to make the carvings more prominent. These seem to agree more with what I saw several years ago and have been recorded in my photographs. Mind you, it seems that the "animal" on the mid left of the stone may have turned around, and its legs almost doubled in length !!! Now it is perhaps running to the right, rather than grazing to the left....
But to be serious for a while, this really is one of the most magnificent megalithic sites I have visited, and it has the capability of bringing emotions to the surface. Here is plain evidence of the cross symbol being used at important places 2500 years or more BC. And the importance of the animals....
And the shaping of the stone - look how flat the main face is, and how straight the upright edges are, even after about 5000 years of erosion. And this surely couldn't have been a one off ? Surely many more of these wonderful menhirs would have been carved and patterned ? Damn all those girls and floozies who have climbed and slid down the stone in their birth knickers in the hope of getting wed. The front face is almost polished smooth, with the carvings almost rubbed smooth.
Thedes Menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.192 Date Added: 24th Aug 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Auvergne:Puy-de-Dôme (63))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Jul 2005
Thedes menhir submitted by ocdolmen on 20th Sep 2009. Site in Auvergne: Puy-de-Dôme (63) France: Thedes menhir
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Log Text: Approximately 2 metre tall menhir with an iron cross mounted on the top of it. It is to be found at the D.5 and D.90 road junction just to the west of the hamlet of Theddes, and is marked as a cross on the ign map. I must have driven right by it, perhaps twice.
The Toots (Oldbury)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2009
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Apr 2009. The Toots - seen on the skyline of Selsley common above the church. Viewed here from Stroud
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The Toots (Oldbury)
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Toots (Oldbury) submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 4th Jul 2011. The best evidence of the Fort - the NNE rampart looking SE
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Log Text: At the end of a walk along the Severn estuary and all round the old Oldbury Nuclear Powerstation, I walked back to Oldbury-on-Severn right through the Toots camp. Nice roadsign leading to it, and some information boards have now been put up in the village.
The Toots (King's Stanley)
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Mar 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Apr 2009. The Toots - seen on the skyline of Selsley common above the church. Viewed here from Stroud
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Log Text: Remains of a large unexcavated Long Barrow on the Cotswold escarpment slopes of Selsley Common, just to the south of Stroud in Gloucestershire. Possibly called 'The Toots' because of a hollow in the middle which makes it look as if it is composed of two mounds. The views on a good day from here are terrific, and the common is a favourite place for dogwalkers, kite flyers and model plane flying.
The Toots (King's Stanley)
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Toots (King's Stanley) submitted by AngieLake on 21st Oct 2015. Facing WSW on 22nd Sept with the glare of the setting sun at Equinox highlighting the dips and bumps on top of The Toots. The River Severn is glimpsed in the distance, top right. Views are spectacular up here!
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Log Text: Walking "The Selsey Circuit" of the Cotswold Way with San, and passed over the Toots. Snow on the hilltops!
The Stones, Tresallyn Cross
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Stones, Tresallyn Cross submitted by theCaptain on 20th Dec 2012. The stone circle at Tresallyn Cross
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Log Text: The garden of author and artist Ed Prynn's bungalow at Tresallyn Cross, St Merryn, just a few miles from the Padstow to Wadebridge road, is a site to be seen. All sorts of megalithic monuments have been recreated here using roughly hewn modern Cornish granite. There is a stone circle, a men-an-tol, a rocking stone, a triangular Tolvan stone (the Wedding Stone) and a large Lanyon quoit style construction (the Angels Runway), and there is even a fougou constructed under the lawn. Many other stones and and artefacts are to be seen, including wishing well, maze and suchlike.
The Stiperstones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2018
The Stiperstones submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Nov 2018. The large cairn on the top of the Stiperstones ridge, between Manstone Rock and the Devil's Chair.
Its over 500m above sealevel, and we were in the clouds on this November day.
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The Sill
Date Added: 22nd Apr 2023
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Sill submitted by Anne T on 25th Jun 2019. The Sill building, as seen from its north eastern corner. It is located in Once Brewed, immediately next to the B6318 (Old Military Road).
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Log Text: Day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, cup of coffee, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking back eastwards along Hadrians wall to Housesteads Fort
The Sanctuary.
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
The Sanctuary. submitted by JJ on 4th Nov 2003. Aerial Photograph copyright JJ Evendon
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Log Text: Over the A4 to the Sanctuary, perhaps I can sit and have lunch here, but the circle of concrete breezeblocks has a couple of alternative types sat in the centre and dinging little bells. Couple of photos and move on.
The Sanctuary.
Date Added: 8th Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 1998
The Sanctuary. submitted by JJ on 4th Nov 2003. Aerial Photograph copyright JJ Evendon
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Log Text: Visit lots of ancient sites on a long off road cycle tour from Avebury to Windmill Hill, along the Wansdyke and back up Kennet Avenue
The Sanctuary Barrows
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Sanctuary Barrows submitted by vicky on 26th Apr 2002. The linear barrow cemetery on the opposite side of the road to the Sanctuary in Avebury.
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Log Text: The plan was to stop here to eat my lunch but the field was full of bullocks, the wind was blowing strong and there was too much noise from the traffic on the A4.