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Padstow Cross
Date Added: 3rd Mar 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes
Padstow Cross submitted by Thorgrim on 4th Nov 2004. Like so many ancient crosses, this one has been re-shafted. Cast down after the Reformation, the crosses were broken, tossed into hedges or built into walls. The shafts made excellent gateposts or door lintels.
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Park Vorn
Date Added: 25th Sep 2014
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Park Vorn submitted by Bladup on 24th Aug 2014. The entrance to Park Vorn beehive hut.
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Pendeen Fogou
Date Added: 25th Sep 2014
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Pendeen Fogou submitted by PaulM on 28th Aug 2001. Pendeen Vau Fogou, Manor Farm, Pendeen, West Penwith, Cornwall (SW381356)
An Iron Age fogou situated on a working farm (a great place to stay either in the 17th century converted manor house holiday cottage or the B&B).
This view is the fogou across the farmyard showing the external structure.
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Penmon Priory and Church
Date Added: 26th Apr 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Penmon Priory and Church submitted by TimPrevett on 19th Feb 2005. One of the two Crosses inside Penmon Church.
This is in the nave, and taken in very poorly lit conditions; I did not have my tripod with me, so this was one of a number attempts at getting a decent picture!
See main entry for more details.
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Persepolis
Date Added: 28th Nov 2014
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Iran
Visited: Would like to visit
Persepolis submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Oct 2006. View of Persepolis taken from near one of three rock tombs on a terrace behind the site.
Site known as Takhet Jamshid in Persian
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Pikeing Well
Date Added: 23rd May 2017
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes
Pikeing Well submitted by coin on 23rd May 2017. Pikeing Well.
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Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou
Date Added: 26th Sep 2014
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Nov 2013
Piskey’s Hall – The Fairy’s Fogou submitted by coin on 3rd Nov 2013. So... Getting to this site is a welcome voyage, arriving at the gate (higher than a normal one) I read a friendly sign- warning me of a bull... So the landowner obviously doesn't want people visiting this site. Climbing over the gate I am affronted with another welcoming feature- electric fence. Slipping under the offending wire, and edging around the field keeping an eye out for the bull of terror, I approach the mound if earth and stones. When I reach it, I am presented with another electric f...
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Pitt Rivers Museum
Date Added: 27th Apr 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Pitt Rivers Museum submitted by Creative Commons on 26th Feb 2013. View from the gallery of the Pitt Rivers Museum
Copyright David Hawgood and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence
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Porth Hellick Down
Date Added: 26th Apr 2018
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Would like to visit
Porth Hellick submitted by Thorgrim on 2nd Jul 2003. Porth Hellick Down entrance grave on St Mary's, Scilly SV 9284 1083. This is the largest and best preserved out of a complex of 8 on the Downs.
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Presaddfed
Date Added: 26th Sep 2014
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (Anglesey)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Presaddfed submitted by pab on 25th Sep 2012. Presaddfed, September 2012
Timber support which features in most photos on Portal has now been removed, so the more southerly chamber looks even better.
Delightful location - the walk over the field feels more like a procession, with the chambers looking more impressive all the time.
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Priory Well (Powys)
Date Added: 4th Apr 2017
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes
Priory Well (Powys) submitted by AJHL on 18th Feb 2023. An interesting well. Easy to find and with good access. This well feeds in to the lower pool.
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Quoyness Barrow
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Quoyness submitted by castawaycouple on 15th Oct 2003. Quoyness Barrow, Sanday, Orkney.
Visit Orkneys Megaliths
you choose where you want to go!!!
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Rennibister Souterrain
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
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.
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Rhodos Temple of Apollo
Date Added: 30th May 2015
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Greek Islands)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Rhodos Temple of Apollo submitted by anti_quarian on 8th Jul 2008. Site in Greek Islands
Acropolis
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Rhoslan
Date Added: 28th Nov 2014
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Rhoslan submitted by vagabondnma on 8th Apr 2005. This is the view as you enter the field from the road looking East. A HUGE capstone, the pictures don't do it justice.
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Ri Cruin
Date Added: 25th Sep 2014
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ri Cruin submitted by caradoc68 on 23rd Feb 2012. This lovely cairn dates from the Bronze Age and is pretty new when it comes to the Kilmartin landscape. Hidden away in some trees just of the beaten track with its two kist's, this Cairn has a lot to offer with its large Kist's and its rock art of axeheads and possibly a caving of a boat in one of these kists !!.
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Ri Cruin
Date Added: 25th Sep 2014
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Ri Cruin submitted by andy_h on 6th Mar 2003. Axe head carvings on cist at Ri Cruin Cairn, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll.
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
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Roche Rock
Date Added: 25th Sep 2014
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Roche Rock submitted by h_fenton on 6th Mar 2011. Roche Rock, Photographed from the northeast. There are climbers on the rock which help to indicate scale.
A low level, horizontal kite aerial photograph !
8 April 2010
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Rocky Valley
Date Added: 26th Sep 2014
Site Type: Carving
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rocky Valley submitted by Thorgrim on 2nd Jul 2003. Two labyrinth carvings cut into rock face by a ruined mill. SX 073893 from car park off the B3263 to the north of Tintagel. Bronze Age or possibly later copies.
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