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Castle Farm Long Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011
Castle Farm Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Jun 2011. Looking south from the busy B3134 to the strip of trees within which the remains of Castle Farm Long Barrow are.
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Pool Farm Cist
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011
Pool Farm Cist submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Jun 2011. I was walking through the field with the public footpath through it, when I heard a commotion and looked around to see about 50 bullocks running over to me, snorting and grunting as they ran.
Rather quickly, I legged it to the nearest gate, and fairly quickly vaulted it (remarkably so for a 50 year old with a still damaged shoulder)!
I guess they were only curious, but as I walked along the adjoining field they kept following me, and would not go away. Trip to Pool Farm Cist abandoned...
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Barrow House Farm Long Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2011
Barrow House Farm Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2011. Just to the west of the A39, on the top of the hill just before it descends southwards into Chewton Mendip, there are some lumps and bumps which can be seen in the field.
It looks to be two or three round barrows with a fairly large long barrow in between them.
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Lime House Long Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2011
Lime House Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2011. Just to the southwest of central Chewton Mendip, up onto the higher meadows, there is a large and overgrown lumpy and bumpy area, which was once a fairly large long barrow.
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Priddy Circles Unfinished N
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2011
Priddy Circles Unfinished N submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Jul 2011. The eastern arc of the fourth Priddy Circle, seen over the top of the hedge from the roadside, June 2011.
The fence helps to give a good idea off the size of the remaining bank and external ditch.
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Stokeleigh Camp
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stokeleigh Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Aug 2011. Plan of Stokeleigh Camp from
Notes on the Clifton, Burwalls and Stokeleigh Camps
by Professor C. Lloyd Morgan,
Clifton Antiquarian Club 1900.
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Log Text: Iron age promontary hillfort on a spur overlooking the Avon Gorge from the high plateau at the western side of the Gorge, now a part of the large Leigh Woods nature reserve. This is one of three iron age forts here probably guarding a ford crossing of the river Avon at the bottom of the Avon Gorge, below where is now the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The promontary points towards the east, with the steep sided Nightingale valley marking the southern edge, where the hillside has been sculpted, with another smaller steep sided valley making the northeastern edges of the camp. The camp is completed around its northwestern sides by a double arc of massive ditch and bank ramparts, both once topped with stone walling. The main entrance was probably at the northern edge of the plateau, beside the steep cliff edge, where there is a third row of ditch and bank to help gaurd. I decided on a walk round Leigh Woods and to take in Stokeleigh Camp, on a showery bank holiday afternoon. Several things took my notice since my last visit here many years ago, firstly that it has all been tidied up by National Trust and much of the woodland cleared around the ramparts, making them very visible (I wasn't expecting to really be able to see them or get any decent pictures at all). I was most impressed with the massive size of the main ramparts, the inner bank being about 5 metres above the ground level inside, while the ditch outside must be almost of equal depth, making a top to bottom height of between 8 and 10 metres! Massive! Outside the inner bank and ditch is a second ring of bank and ditch, this time the relative heights and depth being about +/- 2 metres. At places around the top of the major rampart, there are places where stretches of vertical stone walling can be seen. In order to keep the vegetation down, NT and English Nature have decided to graze half a dozen Devon Red cattle around the camp.
Burwalls Camp
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 28th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Burwalls Camp submitted by theCaptain on 15th Sep 2011. View of the site of Burwalls Camp, as seen from Clifton Down Camp across the Avon Gorge.
In the woods to the right, the steep sided Nightingale Valley, which separates Burwalls Camp from Stokeleigh Camp.
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Log Text: The Burwalls Camp hillfort is one of three iron age forts here probably guarding a ford crossing of the river Avon at the bottom of the Avon Gorge, below where is now the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Now mostly destroyed, with the western end of the Clifton Bridge and massive houses built all over it, a few remnants of the original ramparts can still be seen among the gardens of Burwalls. The neighbouring forts are Stokeleigh camp, just across Nightingale Valley, also on the western side of the Avon Gorge, and Clifton Down Camp on the eastern, Clifton side.
Priddy Circles C
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2011
Priddy Circles C submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Oct 2011. Priddy Central circle, June 2011.
Looking north at the eastern edge where the wall cuts the circle
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Priddy Circles N
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 25th Oct 2011
Priddy Circles N submitted by theCaptain on 25th Oct 2011. Priddy Northern circle, June 2011.
Seen here looking west from the B3134, it is quite difficult to make the circle out, but it is mostly to be seen. Look over the three foreground fences, then you see lumps and bumps of the eastern arc. The next wall and fence cut the circle pretty much in half, and the western arc is quite clear beyond that as it is where all the dark bushes are growing.
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Portbury
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2011
Portbury submitted by theCaptain on 1st Nov 2011. The little plaque mounted near the top of the stone, telling its recent history.
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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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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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Cheddar Museum of Prehistory
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2014
Cheddar Museum of Prehistory submitted by theCaptain on 5th Jan 2014. Cheddar Museum of Prehistory seen within is setting at the lower end of Cheddar Gorge.
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Goughs Cave (Cheddar)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2014
Goughs Cave (Cheddar) submitted by theCaptain on 5th Jan 2014. The entrance to Goughs Cave seen within it's setting at the lower end of Cheddar Gorge.
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Battlegore
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2014
Battlegore submitted by theCaptain on 3rd Apr 2014. The furthest north barrow, in the field just to the south of the stream, is around 18 metres diameter and 1 metre high. It is partially surrounded by a ditch.
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North Stoke Promontory Fort
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
North Stoke Promontory Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2015. Panorama from the north western slopes of the promontory fort. The fort itself on the top of the plateau behind. The scarp of the hill has been shaped.
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Log Text: Having a walk round Lansdown, passed through this hillfort. Didn't notice too much of the internal banks and ditches, but must have walked alongside them for a while! The hilltop edge is very steep, and the views to south and west are supreme. A lovely place to stand and stare!