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Maesoglan 3
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2004
Maesoglan 3 submitted by TimPrevett on 14th Apr 2004. This shows the eastern stone looking to the western stone.
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Maesoglan 2
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2004
Maesoglan 2 submitted by TimPrevett on 14th Apr 2004. This shows the western stone SH453673 looking south towards Snowdonia.
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Holywell Racecourse
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Flintshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Holywell Racecourse submitted by TimPrevett on 15th Apr 2004. The CADW guidebook lists this as cursus, henge and barrow.
From the back of the picture 1) in front of the hay bales in black 'bin bags', can be seen the raised mound of the barrow; 2) across the centre of the picture, left to right, is a dark line, indicating the henge ditch, and 3) the raised ground coming into the bottom left corner shows the remains of the cursus.
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Penycloddiau
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Flintshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2004
Penycloddiau submitted by TimPrevett on 15th Apr 2004. The enormous Penycloddiau Hillfort, as seen from north west, from The Gop.
It covers some 52 acres, and forms part of a chain of hillforts in the
Clwydian Range of Mountains. A line of earthwork defences can be made out
running across the central mountain.
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Circle 275
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 16th Apr 2004
Circle 275 submitted by TimPrevett on 16th Apr 2004. This picture shows the ring of the five stones which make up Circle 275, just behind is the outlier stone, and on the horizon is Druids Circle.
This area is a veritable wonder for the megarak; well worth the visit.
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Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2004
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Apr 2004. Former Location of Shrewsbury Museum
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It boasts a small but captivating prehistory collection dating back to
12,000 BC; microliths, neolithic axe heads from Graig Lwyd (North Wales),
Corndon Hill (Shropshire, near Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle) and Langdale
Pike (Cumbria); Bronze Age metalwork and 'primitive log boats' also feature.
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Grosvenor Museum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Cheshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Apr 2004
Grosvenor Museum submitted by TimPrevett on 17th Apr 2004. The Grosvenor Museum in Chester; as per Vicky's comment, do not expect lots of prehistory here. If you come solely with that interest, you will be disappointed.
The Roman collection is, not surprisingly, considerable; the period house is also fascinating, and some natural history is informative. It provided us with a good afternoon's family visit.
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Bodbury Ring
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2004
Bodbury Ring submitted by TimPrevett on 24th Apr 2004. A small univallate hillfort, survivng from the Iron Age as a ring with a commanding view across the area. It possibly incorporates an earlier cross dyke.
The Ring immediately overlooks Carding Mill Valley, cared for by the National Trust, on the eastern edge of The Long Mynd, also under the NT's care.
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton) and The Lawley are to its east, and The Wrekin is obvious on the skyline to the north-east. All these are also the sites of hillforts and settlements.
In the...
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The Devil's Mouth Cross Dyke
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2004
The Devil's Mouth Cross Dyke submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2004. The Devil's Mouth Cross Dyke is the shortest and most accessible cross dyke on the archaeologically rich Long Mynd. It is over 400 feet long, with a 100 feet section missing where the Burway Road cuts through the feature as the road moves away from the precipitous drop into Carding Mill Valley. The whole area is under the management of The National Trust.
It is important to point out that the road is very narrow, with many passing places. In peak season it can take some time to make a journey...
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Robin Hood's Butts (Shropshire)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2004
Robin Hood's Butts (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2004. A pair of round barrows 150 feet apart on the northern edge of The Long Mynd, bearing the same name of many other pairs of barrows throughout England.
The best preserved barrow is 110 feet in diameter, and 12 feet high, and fairly accessible, though a trouser clad trek through the heather is necessary. Its northern edge is bisected by a field boundary. Though now defined by a barbed wire fence, the boundary is thought likely to be of prehistoric origin.
The other barrow is some 60 feet acr...
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Shooting Box Disc Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Apr 2004
Shooting Box Disc Barrow submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2004. The best, most obvious barrow remaining on The Long Mynd, and the sole known example of a disc barrow in Shropshire.
It covers a circular area some 170 feet in diameter, with an outer raised heather-covered ring circa 15 feet wide, and the inner green mound 60 feet across and up to 8 feet high.
It is so named due a grouse shooting box that was on its northern side until 1992; it now leaves a large depression in the green mound, with a similar depression on the east side, suggesting another...
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Botley Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2004
Botley Stone submitted by TimPrevett on 16th May 2004. Picture shows the ring cairn in the foreground, looking north into the forest.
Botley Stone is classified as the remains of a Bronze Age ring cairn. What is visible now, is a hollowed out grass ring; upon closer inspection a good number of angular rocks are visible under the grass. Ring cairns are very rare in Shropshire, and given that all other burial monuments upon The Long Mynd are barrows comprised of earth (some with varying degrees of stones or kerbing surviving) of, this ring cairn is...
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Barrister's Plain Cross Dyke
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2004
Barrister's Plain Cross Dyke submitted by TimPrevett on 17th May 2004. This picture is to give an idea of the setting of the dyke. It can be seen running across the centre of the picture. This picture is taken from the ascent of Round Hill. There are two tumuli at the top of Grindle Hill, top left.
At just over 500 feet long, the Barrister's Plain Bronze Age Cross Dyke is the middle sized monument of its type on the main part of The Long Mynd. To the southwest it looks down into Barrister's Batch; at the other end, it looks down the very steep sides to Ashes Hol...
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High Park Cross Dyke
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2004
High Park Cross Dyke submitted by TimPrevett on 18th May 2004. This is showing the damage on the eastern flank of the dyke. If you know what is causing the damage, or why this damage might be happening, I would be interested to hear.
At well over 1100 feet long, High Park Cross Dyke is the longest of the main Long Mynd Bronze Age Cross Dykes. It stretches across a northern hill of The Long Mynd, to the edge of Jonathan's Hollow to the south, and across the hillside of High Park to the north. This forms a barrier east - west across the area concerned.
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Norton Camp (Shropshire)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2004
Norton Camp (Shropshire) submitted by TimPrevett on 18th May 2004. Darkness and light. Some parts of the hillfort were very dark, such as at this eastern entrance of the main enclosure where the height of the ramparts bolsters the elevation of the trees and rhododendra. The enclosure beyond is all within the ramparts of the monument.
On a glorious May evening, having already exhausted myself upon The Long Mynd, I pushed myself even further, and hopped on the train with my bike for another journey nine minutes south from Church Stretton. Norton Camp had been ...
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Cefn y Castell
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 24th May 2004
Cefn y Castell submitted by TimPrevett on 24th May 2004. This is how the majority of people will see the Cefn Y Castell hillfort - as the imposing hill, with ramparts visible around the crown of the hill. This is heading west from Shrewsbury to Welshpool along the A458. SJ306134
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Bromfield Barrows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2004
Bromfield Barrows submitted by TimPrevett on 21st Jun 2004. This shows the northernmost survivor - (another) Robin Hood's Butt Barrow at SO489778. This is over 12 feet high, and over 90 in diameter. Parking can be had very nearby on a wide field entrance. A few paces from adjoining the north end Ludlow Golf Course, it is beneath the towering trees and smothering undergrowth. Excavation here in 1884 revealed the cremation of a boy some 9 feet down, along with bronze implements (not specified exactly what in my source).
The incline of the barrow can be ...
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The Stiperstones
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2004
The Stiperstones submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. A cairn just north east of Manstone Rock.
"The Stiperstones" is the name for a hill on the far west reaches of Shropshire, well into The Welsh Marches, overlooking the Welsh border. It is the second highest hill in Shropshire, affording superb views in all directions, and having several bronze age cairns along its ridge.
The cairns themselves, excepting the largest, can be quite hard to locate. At a very reductionist level, they are basically piles of stone amidst a whole ridge of piles of...
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Pontesford Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2004
Pontesford Hill submitted by TimPrevett on 29th Jun 2004. Find a hill in Shropshire, and it likely has a hillfort upon it! In this picture are two hillforts - Earl's Hill Camp (a rampart can be seen upon the right hand side of the top hill), and Pontesford Hill hillfort, covered by trees now. Taken on the move on the A488 looking south.
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Earls Hill Camp
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2004
Earls Hill Camp submitted by TimPrevett on 29th Jun 2004. Find a hill in Shropshire, and it likely has a hillfort upon it! In this picture are two hillforts - Earl's Hill Camp (a rampart can be seen upon the right hand side of the top hill), and Pontesford Hill hillfort, covered by trees now. Taken on the move on the A488 looking south.
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