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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2004. My rating: Access 4
St Lythans submitted by thecaptain on 9th Aug 2004. A picture of this massive structure with my Dad beside it for scale. They sure must have been big dogs who lived in here !
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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Lythans submitted by Mark_in_Wales on 22nd Jun 2022. Photo Competition 2022 WINNING ENTRY. This light beam was photographed at 21:14 BST on the 20th of June 2022. St Lythans Burial Chamber is a highly accurate tool for determining the Winter Calendar and making this stunning Arrowhead light-beam at Midsummer. The arrowhead shape (known as an oblique arrowhead in academic circles) is extremely precise, with a straight back, curved cutting surface and hooked single tang. The light-beam is formed by only three stones and the angle of the wall it is b...
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Log Text: Time for another visit to St Lythams and Tinkinswood. Very nice in the lush springtime
St Levan's Well
Date Added: 17th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
St Levan's Well submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. The well from the south.
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Log Text: After lunch I head back to Porthgwarra for a drink at the café, then on around the cliffs to Porth Chapel, where St Levan's well sits prominently above the beach. This used to be the way down past the chapel, but the path is falling down into the sea, so is no longer the through route. There is a little chapel building beside the little well, with water in it even after a hot dry month. I head round and then down to Porth Chapel beach, where I clearly remember having heatstroke back in the 1960s when I was about 7. I still remember that hurt and my brainfog, in my red hat with my plastic boat in the rock pool fed by the stream. Its still there, exactly as I remember it, despite having never been back since then. Up above the beach can be seen the remains of the chapel, which has recently been stabilised and excavated, with a little exhibition in St Levan's church. Its not easy to get down onto this beautiful beach, having to clamber down the cliffs. Quite how we did this all those years ago as a family with all the stuff we would have taken is beyond me!
St Levan's Stone
Date Added: 14th Jul 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Levan's Stone submitted by enkidu41 on 16th Nov 2004. View from the south showing the narrowness of the gap and the matching contour lines of each half of the stone.
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Log Text: At St Levan's church, have a good look around the churchyard, with the split St Levan's stone in pride of place. The split is not wide enough to get a comfortable sit down, let alone to ride a loaded packhorse through, so the world is safe for the while.
St Jean-Brévelay stèle
Trip No.204 Entry No.33 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
St Jean-Brévelay stèle submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2011. Right out the back of the church, is the remains of an iron age stele, almost used as a roadsign.
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Log Text: Right out the back of the church, is the remains of an iron age stele, almost used as a roadsign.
St Jean-Brévelay menhir
Trip No.204 Entry No.32 Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Jean-Brévelay menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd May 2011. Right outside the church is a splendid 4 to 5 metre tall menhir. It looks like an original, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in any of my books.
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Log Text: Right outside the church is a splendid 4 to 5 metre tall menhir. It looks like an original, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in any of my books.
St Ives Head Fort
Date Added: 30th Jul 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Ives Head Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2023. St Ives Head seen across Porthmeor beach
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Log Text: A day visit to St Ives, which I start with a walk around Clodgy point and then back into St Ives town, making a full walk around the coastline to the harbour, passing over and around all of the fort headland.
St Grouanec well
Trip No.203 Entry No.522 Date Added: 28th May 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
St Grouanec well submitted by theCaptain on 21st Jun 2012. One of several little well houses at the site of the St Groanec chapel, where there are many wells and springs gushing forth.
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Log Text: At the site of the St Groanec chapel there are many wells and springs gushing forth. The water is just flowing out of the ground here. It is no wonder the ancient chapel was built here.
St George's Well (Padstow)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2012
St George's Well (Padstow) submitted by theCaptain on 5th Nov 2012. St George's Cove is a sandy inlet on the western side of the Camel Estuary, about a kilometre or so north of Padstow.
A little stream runs down from the fields here onto the beach at the cove, and sometimes makes a pool or sometimes just dries up in the sands without directly reaching the sea.
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St Eval Church Stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Nov 2012
St Eval Church Stones submitted by theCaptain on 29th Nov 2012. St Eval churchyard supposedly has several large standing stones within it and the wall surrounding it, but I was unprepared and didn't know how many or where to look; as a result I only found one of the 3 or more standing stones in its surrounding wall.
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St Eval Airport Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 25th Nov 2012
St Eval Airport Stone submitted by theCaptain on 25th Nov 2012. Not far away is another much smaller block of quartz, whether it is of any significance I don't know.
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St Endellion inscribed stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2014
St Endellion inscribed stone submitted by theCaptain on 19th Oct 2014. Inscribed stone recently put back into its original position at a crossroads between St Endellion and Port Quin.
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St Breock Downs Menhir
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Breock Downs Menhir submitted by theCaptain on 7th Jan 2013. Splendidly positioned and lit up when the sun goes down, but was too late with my photos.
This stone seems to have a guardian
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Log Text: As we arrived, this ridgetop stone was lit up by the falling sun, on the top of the ridge below the wind turbines, and looked absolutely splendid. However, didn't stop, as Men Gurta and the newly refound kistvaen were more pressing in the light. Returned after visiting those, and the sun had gone down, making this stone look much less impressive. A full visit would have required crossing a fence into a field of sheep, so again I satisfied myself with taking a few photos from the edge of the field. Wish I'd spent a minute on the way up to quickly take a picture of it lit up in the sun!
St Breock Beacon Kistvaen
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
St Breock Beacon Kistvaen submitted by theCaptain on 17th Dec 2012. Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta. It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other.
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Log Text: Recently rediscovered underneath a heavily overgrown region of scrub, just to the southwest of Men Gurta, this monument was first recorded by William Borlase in his 1872 work Naenia Cornubiae.
It basically consists of two large stone slabs, one leaning on the other. I found it by walking in a southwesterly direction from Men Gurta across scrubland and then down a track towards the trigpoint. Just after crossing a farmtrack, there is an area of very overgrown gorse bushes, which seem to nowadays be used for dumping and tipping waste and junk. From on top of one of the piles of rubble, I had a good look around, and saw the large stones not far away, but impossible to reach from my position. Having another attempt from a more easterly position, I managed to get through the waist high gorse and brambles, while at times I found myself in water almost up to my knees! The things we stonehunters put ourselves through.
When I eventually got to the stones, I couldn't see much, as the surrounding area was so waterlogged and they are so overgrown, but it is clear they are a megalithic construction. With this now back on the megalithic map, I am sure others will be able to get better pictures and descriptions of this during better conditions, and before it becomes totally covered in the rubble and junk tipped up here.
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2016
St Arilda's, Oldbury-on-Severn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th May 2016. Viewed from the graveyard to the north, showing the steep raise then flat top.
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St Anthony's Well (Cinderford)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Nov 2008
St Anthony's Well (Cinderford) submitted by thecaptain on 19th Nov 2008. St Anthony's Well near Cinderford in the Forest of Dean.
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St Anne’s well (Siston)
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
St Anne’s well (Siston) submitted by TheCaptain on 30th May 2020. St Anne’s well (Siston), an open stone trough with a covering grate, right at the edge of the road. On the day of my visit, this was largely dry.
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Log Text: Not to be confused with the hexagonal gothic wellhouse tower to the north of Siston Court, the real St Anne's well is found down by the stream beside the road, just to the north of the old bridge and on a very dangerous bend. Amongst other things, the water was supposed to be good for healing poor eyesight, and people travelled for miles to try the cure, which was still being publicised into the 1930's.
What there is to see today is an open stone trough, about 4 feet by 18 inches with a covering grate, right at the edge of the road rather like a big drain. On the day of my visit, this was largely dry.
Spurrells Cross Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2004
Spurrells Cross Row submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2004. Spurrells Cross Stone Row, Dartmoor, Devon SX658599
Not much remains to be seen of the cairn and double row which lies to the southwest of Spurrells Cross.
This is the view looking southwards up the row to the cairn on a now very nice and sunny solstice eve.
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Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2004
Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle submitted by thecaptain on 14th Jul 2004. Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle, Dartmoor, Devon SX658598
To the southwest of the cairn at the head of the stone row is a much bigger and better preserved cairn. I found about 4 stones which seemed to make a line radiating away from this cairn in a northeasterly direction. Is it possible that this was once part of a row extending downhill from this cairn ?
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Spinsters' Rock
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2004
Spinsters' Rock submitted by thecaptain on 17th Aug 2004. Spinsters Rock in the evening sunlight
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