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Bindon Hill Barrows
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2018
Bindon Hill Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Oct 2018. Near the eastern end of the Bndon Hill ridge, just away from the actual summit, are the ruined remains of a couple of barrows.
What a spectacular place, Bit windy and chilly up here today, but got away from all the crowds, and the views are spectacular, over the tank ranges to Poole Harbour to the north, Lulworth Cove and the beautiful Purbeck coastline to the south.
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Hambury Tout Barrows
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2018
Hambury Tout Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Oct 2018. View of Hambury Tout Hill, from the car park at Lulworth Cove, Easter 2017.
There are a couple of barrows on top of Hambury Tout, near the busy coast path on top of the steep hill between Lulworth Cove and Durdle Dor. Absolutely beautiful here, but can get very crowded, and was on a sunny Good Friday.
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Dolmen de Monval
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Dolmen de Monval submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Le dolmen de Monval. Autrefois, implanté au cœur de la propriété de Monval, ce dolmen est aujourd'hui au cœur du centre Caplypso, un centre de plein air pour les enfants de l'agglomération de Pornic.
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Menhir de la Boutinardière
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Menhir de la Boutinardière submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Ce menhir a été arraché de son emplacement en 1940 par les villageois de la Rogère, commune de la Bernerie. Il a été implanté au carrefour du Poteau, mais a été déplacé une seconde fois, pour l'ériger près du moulin Burlot, près de la propriété de la Jarrie. Il a été "christiannisé" en 1959 avec l'implantation d'une croix de granit à son sommet.
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Menhir du Poteau
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Pays de la Loire:Loire-Atlantique)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Menhir du Poteau submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. From Michel Baconnais.
Ce menhir est celui que l'on trouvait avant 1940 au village de la Boutinardière.
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Dane John Mound
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Dane John Mound submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. At the southern corner of the Canterbury city walls is a large mound, known as the Dane John Mound.
When the Romans built the Canterbury City walls, they were arranged to incorporate an ancient mound, thought to be a large burial mound within a barrow cemetary.
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Brandsbutt stone circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Brandsbutt stone circle submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. A circle is marked out on the green where the original circle was thought to be, and there are a couple of the remaining stones positioned within the border at the edge of the green.
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Bourtie Pictish Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
Bourtie Pictish Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. The chapel is easy to find and there is room to park and just a short walk from there through a wooded area. High up on the south side of the Bourtie chapel, near the eastern end, is this pictish stone built into its wall. Symbols are hard to see, but parts of the carvings can be made out.
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The Langstane
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
The Langstane submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. The Long Stone thought to have once been part of a stone circle, now presented in an alcove behind Burger King just off the main Aberdeen thoroughfare of Union Street, at the junction of Dee Street and Langstone Place.
The poor thing seems neglected amongst the bins and street signs, but at least it is still here.
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Barry Island Cairns
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2018
Barry Island Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2018. The cairn at the end of Friar's Point, Barrybados.
Difficult to get much more of it in from this angle without falling off the cliff edge !
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New Mill Farm Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2018
New Mill Farm Enclosure submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2018. From Bing Maps.
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Nash Point
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Nash Point submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. One I made earlier
Just found this pic I took last year. Looking west the outer bank can be seen as the highest yet least defendable.
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. Walk from Monknash down to the beach and then along the clifftop to Nash Point. Several rows of banks and ditches remain in good condition defending what is left of this clifftop promontary, now well eroded by the sea into a fairly narrow area.
Nash Point Barrows
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Mid Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Nash Point Barrows submitted by sem on 5th Nov 2012. Thank the wall
If it were not for the wall these barrows would merge into the background. Even with it there, they only appear as green lumps against it's grey stones.
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. Walk from Monknash down to the beach and then along the clifftop to Nash Point. The poor remains of three cairns along the field wall just inland can just about be made out against the wall.
Ogmore Cross Shaft
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2018
Ogmore Cross Shaft submitted by coin on 26th Apr 2015. An early 11th C. incomplete shaft of a cross-slab, with inscriptions on both faces (enclosed by triple-moulded borders) Supposedly, the inscription reads:
EST / QUOD.DED[IT] / ARTHMAIL /AGRUM DO / ET GLIGUIS. / ET NERTAT ET FILIE : SU[A]
The slab was discovered at the castle in 1929 and built into the base.
Source: GGAT
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Log Text: Day out exploring the south Wales coast. On the way back, stop off at Ogmore Castle, gleaming orange in the setting sun. Within the castle is mounted a stone which clearly has carvings on it, but in the dark shadow of the castle walls, it was impossible to make anything out clearly.
Maen Llia
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 14th Aug 2018. Maen Llia and a Perseid meteorite. I used my influence to book this particular one specially for the Megalithic Portal.
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Log Text: Beautiful day out doing the 4 waterfalls walk to the south of Ystradfellte. After dinner at the New Inn, popped up to visit Maen Llia where we amazingly meet Cerrig, out doing some surveying, but the sun is hidden from him. He takes great pride in showing us some amazing features of Maen Llia, such as the flattened platform with a stone where a shadow would fall, and the place where the stones shadow (or toungue) would reach on solstice sunset. Brilliant!
Amesbury Cursus (W)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cursus
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2018
Amesbury Cursus (W) submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Aug 2018. The western end of the Great Cursus at Stonehenge.
Slight remains of the ditches and banks, plus the terminal tump and round barrow can be made out.
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Essich Moor
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2018
Essich Moor submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jun 2018. From the Prehistoric Explorers Club Facebook page today.
If anyone has any information on who is behind this please report!
This is from the NOSAS Facebook page: "We were very sorry to learn today that one of the cists at Carn Glas long cairn, Achvraid, Essich, south of Inverness has been deliberately damaged. Apparently turf has been cut and and stones have been removed to create a makeshift structure. This is a scheduled monument and the police, HES and Highland Council are aware....
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Plainsfield Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2018
Plainsfield Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 25th May 2018. Plainsfield Camp. View south along the east bank from the entrance to the southeast corner.
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Triscombe Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2018
Triscombe Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 21st May 2018. noticeboard in the car park
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Fire Beacon Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2018
Fire Beacon Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 21st May 2018. Fire Beacon Cairn seen from the Drove Road along the top of the Quantock ridge
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