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Bratton Long Barrow
Trip No.33 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Jun 2024
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bratton Long Barrow submitted by DavidCWoods on 26th Sep 2004. Some spectacular views from up here - there is a car park next to the hillfort, and the area is used for kite flying and hang gliding.
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Bratton Camp
Trip No.33 Entry No.2 Date Added: 9th Jun 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Bratton Camp submitted by DavidCWoods on 26th Sep 2004. Also known as Bratton Camp. This is surrounded by a double earthwork wall with a deep ditch.
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Westbury White Horse
Trip No.33 Entry No.3 Date Added: 9th Jun 2024
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Westbury White Horse submitted by dodomad on 26th Jul 2021. Westbury Horse - one of a set of illustrations by Eric Ravilious, featuring hill figures from the south-east and south-west of England, all painted in 1939, and intended to illustrate a children’s book he was working on for Puffin.
Now available as a set of postcards from Rather Good Art.
The book got as far as the mock-up stage by 1942, but sadly never reached completion. Ravilious was recorded as missing in that year (‘death presumed’), after a patrol searching for a missing L...
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Stoney Littleton
Trip No.33 Entry No.4 Date Added: 10th Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Stoney Littleton submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Mar 2005. Stoney Littleton barrow viewed from the west.
Its a cracking little barrow, with the most wonderful passage and chambers inside, and the powers that be have even left a decent sized area around it free of any farming activity. A lovely sunny day, but some of the walk to the barrow was horrendously muddy.
The fields around the barrow had recently been ploughed, a crop of beet of some sort having been the last grown. While walking back after my visit, I found a bit of the lovely golden colou...
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Avebury
Trip No.33 Entry No.5 Date Added: 10th Jun 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Avebury submitted by dodomad on 30th Jun 2017. The reconstructed ground plan of the Southern Inner Circle combining the results of the current survey with the 1939 excavation
Image Credit: University of Leicester
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Log Text: Earlier visit was 15 October 2017
Stonehenge Visitor Centre
Trip No.33 Entry No.6 Date Added: 11th Jun 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Stonehenge Visitor Centre submitted by dodomad on 17th Dec 2013. A forensically reconstructed head of an Early Neolithic Man.
Image Credit: James Davies/English Heritage
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Stonehenge.
Trip No.33 Entry No.7 Date Added: 11th Jun 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Stonehenge. submitted by Bladup on 9th Jan 2024. The Heel Stone Quietly Watching The Winter Solstice Setting Sun at Stonehenge, 2023
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