Contributory members are able to log private notes and comments about each site
Sites bishop_pam has logged. View this log as a table or view the most recent logs from everyone
Caer Leb
Trip No.12 Entry No.19 Date Added: 31st May 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Caer Leb submitted by TimPrevett on 14th Apr 2004. Caer Leb is a rectilinear settlement enclosure, with double ditches and banks defining an area 200 feet by 160 feet. Some have interpreted it as a mediaeval homestead with moat (indeed, some of the ditches get very water logged). However, finds of a 3rd Century AD brooch, a 4th Century denarius of Postumus, and Roman pottery and quernstones date the site much earlier than mediaeval. Like the Din Lligwy Settlement, the CADW guidebook says it possibly has its origins earlier than the 3rd Century, ...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Brothers' Stones
Trip No.2 Entry No.8 Date Added: 22nd Aug 2017
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Scottish Borders)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Brothers' Stones submitted by cosmic on 11th Aug 2004. The Brothers.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Five Stanes A
Trip No.2 Entry No.9 Date Added: 24th Aug 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Scottish Borders)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Five Stanes A submitted by Andy B on 27th Feb 2003. Part of the Burnham family trip to Northumberland, August 2002
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Trestle Cairn
Trip No.2 Entry No.10 Date Added: 24th Aug 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Scottish Borders)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Trestle Cairn submitted by minteddy on 4th Dec 2006. NT752162
Looking north over Trestle Cairn
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Grave of Diarmid
Trip No.5 Entry No.1 Date Added: 11th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 10th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Grave of Diarmid submitted by cosmic on 23rd Jun 2006. View of the mound on which the four poster sits.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: From Spittal of Glenshee walk along the Cateran Trail, over one cattle grid, past one bothy. Just before the second cattle grid/bothy take the grass trail forking up to the left and steeply up. The grave is a mound with four stones at the top.
Stenness
Trip No.6 Entry No.1 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Barnhouse Settlement
Trip No.6 Entry No.2 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Watch Stone (Orkney)
Trip No.6 Entry No.3 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
OS HY306125
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Ring of Brodgar
Trip No.6 Entry No.4 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: Access to the stones was restricted as the path close to them had been heavily worn, so we had to use a path slightly further away.
Maes Howe
Trip No.6 Entry No.5 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by howar on 24th Sep 2013. distant Maes Howe ablaze with sun, viewed from the bird hut near the Barnhouse settlement
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Brockan
Trip No.6 Entry No.6 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Brockan submitted by howar on 23rd May 2004. Brockan settlement
Even on CANMAP this is still down as a chambered tomb. Understandable for the size. But a partial excavation found two chambers each with a short passage leading to a common paved stone-walled enclosure (I am reminded that at least one beehive structure used to reside in Breck Farm's stackyard). So CANMORE says present thinking is a secondary broch settlement or a small Skara Brae type village. Despite, or perhaps because of, the proximity of both Warebeth and Breckness I don...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Unstan
Trip No.6 Entry No.7 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Skara Brae
Trip No.6 Entry No.8 Date Added: 19th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Skara Brae submitted by paulinelen on 30th Apr 2012. Hut 1 looking out over the sea - such beautiful colour contrasts creates a fantastic atmosphere.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Gurness
Trip No.6 Entry No.9 Date Added: 20th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Gurness submitted by SueS on 16th Jul 2013. The Broch of Gurness aerial photo from the west showing its position in relation to the sea
Taken at 20-30 hrs on 6 June 2013
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Cuween Hill
Trip No.6 Entry No.10 Date Added: 22nd Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Cuween Hill submitted by ShamrockStone on 2nd Apr 2018. Cuween Hill
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Rennibister Souterrain
Trip No.6 Entry No.11 Date Added: 25th Apr 2018
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rennibister Souterrain submitted by enkidu41 on 5th May 2004. HY 397125
Acces to the 8' x 11' hexagonal chamber to this earth-house is by a trapdoor although originally it wa a sloping passage. The walls are of drystone masonry and upright slabs, its roof of overlapping lintels supported on four heavy pillars.
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Ring of Brodgar
Trip No.6 Entry No.12 Date Added: 25th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: New turf had been laid since our last visit, so we were able to walk close to the stones and to touch them.
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Trip No.6 Entry No.13 Date Added: 24th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Midhowe Chambered Cairn submitted by SandyG on 30th Sep 2015. Looking north along the chamber. (3rd June 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Midhowe Broch
Trip No.6 Entry No.14 Date Added: 24th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Midhowe Broch submitted by SandyG on 20th Sep 2015. Broch interior looking towards the entrance showing internal compartments denoted by large slabs. (3rd June 2015).
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None
Taversoe Tuick
Trip No.6 Entry No.15 Date Added: 24th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Taversoe Tuick submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 426276
On Rousay this is a two-storied stalled cairn, one of only two known. The round cairn is about 30' in diameter. The lower chamber, reached by a 19' passage, is about 12' long x 5' wide x 5' high, and is divided into 4 cells by upright slabs. The upper chamber, whose floor is the celing of the lower chamber, is reached by an 11' long passage, and is divided into 2 compartments. The cairn is built on a hill so each passage is at ground level, one on the uphill side, the other on the dow...
(View photo, vote or add a comment)
Log Text: None