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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 Fiddler
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
The Fiddler submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Jan 2013. Nowadays not much more than a large lump of stone laying in a field to the east of the A39 on the highpoint of land as the road passes over St Breock downs. It is positioned at a point where the line of the 9 Maidens would cross the top of the ridge.
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Log Text: Nowadays not much more than a large lump of stone laying in a field to the east of the A39 on the highpoint of land as the road passes over St Breock downs. It is positioned at a point where the line of the 9 Maidens would cross the top of the ridge.
It is lovely light up here this afternoon, but the stone is across a fence from where I can walk to up the farm track, and the field full of livestock. It doesn't look that exciting, so I'll satisfy myself with taking pictures from the edge of the field. There is so much other large stone all around up here, that it is impossible to really tell what would be megalithic and what is field clearance.
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!
Men Gurta
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Men Gurta submitted by TheCaptain on 25th Mar 2013. There is a useful littel noticeboard up here, describing the stone and the local areas other prehistoric monuments
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Log Text: Near the top of St Breock Down, this stone is easily reached along the little lanes to the south of Wadebridge. Men Gurta is the largest and heaviest standing stone in Cornwall. It is very nice up here in the sinking sun, with some terriffic views out to sea over the Camel estuary. I think the wind turbines add to the scene up here, other than their constant whining.
Nine Maidens Stone Row
Date Added: 5th Nov 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nine Maidens Stone Row submitted by rldixon on 26th Oct 2010. Nine Maidens stone row
taken about 8pm
29-5-2008
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Log Text: A second trip to the 9 Maidens this week, the field was still absolutely sodden, and we were over our ankles in places, which seemed strange as it is all on a reasonable slope and looked like it should drain reasonably well. At the far side of the field are the Maidens, 9 evenly spaced stones, a couple of which are now only stumps. However, the field and hedges around here are littered with large stones, and there is no doubt that there once could have been many more in this row.
Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Boscawen Un submitted by BazCross on 30th Mar 2012. Boscawen Un photographed March 2012.
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Log Text: Took Dad here, and made sure he knew it is one of my favourite places. Dad thought it was great too. Low sun, shining on the stones, sparkling on the quartz, just terriffic. I love it here. So beautiful and quiet and calm. Just perfect.
Westmoorgate cairn
Date Added: 8th Oct 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2012
Westmoorgate cairn submitted by theCaptain on 8th Oct 2012. The gps track of my walking to the north of Westmoorgate stone circle, firstly to the cairn (WP17) and then around some significant stones, which have indeed made a rather nice circle.
Plotted onto Google Earth.
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Westmoorgate circle
Date Added: 8th Oct 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2012
Westmoorgate circle submitted by theCaptain on 6th Oct 2012. I walked around the circle and made a waypoint on my gps for each of the stones.
I have plotted these onto Google Earth
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Hadleigh Roundhouse
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2012
Hadleigh Roundhouse submitted by theCaptain on 27th Aug 2012. Hadleigh Country Park in Essex, has built a replica Iron Age roundhouse to
provide a sheltered working environment forschool groups.
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Macellum of Pompeii
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2012
Macellum of Pompeii submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jun 2012. A circle of 12 volcanic tuff stones erected in the central Macellum of the ancient city of Pompeii.
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Menhir de Soulangy
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2012
Menhir de Soulangy submitted by theCaptain on 15th May 2012. Menhir discovered during the construction of the RN 158 near to Soulangy. It has now been re-erected in the parking area of the Soulangy rest area, on the western (southbound) side.
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Chew Stoke
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2012
Chew Stoke submitted by theCaptain on 12th May 2012. Destroyed stone circle once supposed to have stood near where the Methodist church is now built. Some stones were to be found laying in the hedge nearby in the last century.
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Leigh Down
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2012
Leigh Down submitted by theCaptain on 12th May 2012. Description of Leigh Down stone circle from "The Lost Stone Circles of North Somerset" by EK Tratman.
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Langrais menhirs
Trip No.212 Entry No.6 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Langrais menhirs submitted by Rida on 27th Feb 2011. Site in Normandie:Calvados (14) France
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Log Text: Having had a good look at the IGN 1:25000 map, I saw that there is a trackway running east from the road south of Mont Joly, which runs from the bottom of the hill diagonally up to the approximate position of the stones. Even better, when arriving there for a look, the trackway was open and easily driveable, and so I took this option on this showery afternoon, and when emerging from below the wood at the top of the hill, there was plenty of space to park amongst a large composting area! Left Dad in the car while I went out into the wind and drizzle to find the stones, and there they were, just round the back of the big pile of manure!
The two stones stand at the edge of an open rocky outcrop at the top of the hill, covered in wildflowers at this time of year, but I learned that the stones are not in their original positions, having been moved there by the farmer at some point in the past. The two stones are very different, the larger stone being a whitish quartz type stone, between 3.5 nd 4 metres tall, while its shorter neighbour is a reddish colour, and only about 1.6 metres tall. There are plently of other large lumps of stone laying about here, which may have been broken from the two menhirs, or just other examples of field clearance.
On the way down from the stones, through a gateway into the wood I could see another rocky outcrop with various large stones standing around, a couple of them probably at least 2 metres tall. This was all now made into a nice garden feature, but is there any ancient significance to the stones? Back onto the road, and I noticed it was called Route des Menhirs, and up towards the top of the hill there was another garden with some large rocks standing in it.
Onto the top of Mont Joly, and it is clear that there are large rocks all over the place, and it is easy to imagine that thee was once an alignement of large stones running along the top of the hill into the ancient settlement. Walking along the edge of the field, and then the pathway to the end of the promontary, and large stones can be seen laying around everywhere, many clearly not just a local outcropping of rock, but various shapes, sizes and types of stone. Many of these rocks were now incorporated into garden features, but many more are just laying there, slowly getting buried by the undergrowth. It really is a fascinating area, and I do wonder what a proper survey of this ancient hilltop would turn up.
Mont Joly
Trip No.212 Entry No.8 Date Added: 26th Mar 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Mont Joly submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jan 2014. This promontory site is surrounded on three sides by the steep gorge of the river Laizon, and the eastern end has been defended by ramparts, a little of which can now be seen between the church and water tower.
In this picture a raise in the land can be seen to the left of my Dad.
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Log Text: What an intriguing place this is, and deserving of much more thorough exploration.
Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 4th May 2012
Menhir Couché Lieu Gobin submitted by TheCaptain on 4th May 2012. at the corner of the wet and rough trackway, the stone can be seen in the field by the fence.
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Stanton Drew - Avenue
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Stanton Drew - Avenue submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2012. Sem tried to connect with the repulsive stone at the end of the avenue, but either his batteries were flat, or being from Wales his connections were of the wrong kind.
Whatever, he was not thrown into the next field.
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Stanton Drew SSW
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Stanton Drew SSW submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2012. Terence Meaden telling us of the only excavations done here in living memory - by a badger.
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Felton Common Suck Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Felton Common Suck Stone submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2012. Hamish F giving the remaining overgrowth a seeing to, after finding what we thought was probably the Suck Stone
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Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2012
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by theCaptain on 29th Apr 2012. Uh Oh, what is that popped out from behind the stones when you are not looking? Some sort of troll from Malreward? or just a hoody wearing chav from the other side of Maes Knoll?
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