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Lower Neuadd Reservoir Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2017
Lower Neuadd Reservoir Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Jun 2017. The fallen and broken stone by the track (possible)
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Lower Swell barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2007
Lower Swell barrow submitted by thecaptain on 5th Jan 2007. The barrow can be seen under the bushes in its little enclosure at the far side of the cropped field - strangely well down the hillside.
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Luc-sur-Mer menhir
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2006
Luc-sur-Mer menhir submitted by thecaptain on 29th Dec 2006. Remains of a menhir about a metre tall, which can be found beside a garden hedge at the eastern end of Rue du Menhir.
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Luckington II
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Luckington II submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Mar 2022. On the southern side of the lane opposite the Giant's Caves longbarrow is the large unkempt raise of the Luckington 2 longbarrow. I didn't go for a root around, and sitisfied myself with a few pics from over the hedge.
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Log Text: Windy grey walk round Badminton estate, then a look at the Luckington long barrows, finishing with a pint at the Old Royal Ship. On the southern side of the lane opposite the Giant's Caves longbarrow is the large unkempt raise of the Luckington 2 longbarrow. I didn't go for a root around, and sitisfied myself with a few pics from over the hedge.
Luffang Allée Couverte
Trip No.203 Entry No.346 Date Added: 10th May 2020
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Luffang Allée Couverte submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. 47.61309N 3.024552W
This passage-grave contained unique artwork on the end stone, now preserved in Carnac museum. Signposted at the site as Allee Couverte
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Log Text: Easily found in woodland near Luffang, just to the west of Crac'h, this is the remains of a long allée-couverte type structure, but with no coverstones remaining. The allée is not straight, but turns to the left about 45° after 6 metres of the entrance, before another 14 metres of stonelined passageway takes you to the end. Although there are no capstones, many of the sidestones remain in position, and its in nice cool woodland on this hot afternoon.
I understand that there was once a particularly nicely carved stone making up a part of this monument, but I did not spot it on my visit. I wonder whether this site was once within a large mound, rather like the Kernourze tumulus ?
Lugbury
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2004. My rating: Access 4
Lugbury submitted by thecaptain on 18th Sep 2007. What a disappointment this 60 metre length long barrow has become, with its remaining large stone portal structure completely overgrown.
The rest of the barrow doesn't fare much better, with large tree trunks and other stuff just dumped on it, while it also looks like it has been ploughed up to a bit closer than I remember.
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Log Text: This large long barrow, which lies on an east west axis, is in a field just to the west of the Fosse Way. The remains of the barrow can clearly still be made out, and although the mound is now mostly gone, it is still clearly raised above the level of the field. The main remains of this tomb are however a large chamber at the eastern end, consisting of two large (2m) upright stones, with a fallen capstone leaning on them from behind. This capstone has a strange notch in it, which is now at the ground edge, nearer to the northern upright. It is said that this barrow once had four side chambers, which were found to have the remains of many skeletons in them.
Luguenez menhir
Trip No.203 Entry No.483 Date Added: 26th May 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Luguenez menhir submitted by theCaptain on 25th Jan 2010. About three metres in height, this nicely shaped menhir is getting lost in the hedges.
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Log Text: More than three metres in height, this nicely shaped menhir is getting lost in the hedges of the little lane which runs to the coast behind and to the north of the farm. Not far from here are superb views over the Baie de Duarnenez and the wonderful cliffs all around, including the cliff castle of Kastell Koz just to the east.
Lydney Harbour
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 17th Feb 2019
Lydney Harbour submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Feb 2019. A modern circle of standing stones, with outliers, constructed between Lydney Harbour and the Severn Estuary.
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Macellum of Pompeii
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Italy (Marche)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2012
Macellum of Pompeii submitted by theCaptain on 15th Jun 2012. A circle of 12 volcanic tuff stones erected in the central Macellum of the ancient city of Pompeii.
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Madacombe
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2006
Madacombe submitted by thecaptain on 27th Sep 2006. Madacombe stone row, Exmoor. Its in there somewhere.
Could I find anything ? No chance !!!! I found nothing at all, wading around in waist deep wet grass and heather. If there are any stones to be found here, they are well hidden under the wet moorland growth. I did however, get soaking wet and a twisted ankle for my efforts !
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Madron Well
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jan 2004
Madron Well submitted by thecaptain on 21st Jan 2004. Madron Baptistry
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Madron Well
Date Added: 13th Jul 2023
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Madron Well submitted by Bladup on 9th Aug 2016. The elemental Madron Well.
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Log Text: Despite it being very foggy, I decide I have to visit Madron Well, and anyway, it all adds to the atmosphere. When I get to the watery bit by the path, there is not so much tat hanging in the trees as I was expecting, and most of what there is is either real strips of cloth or floral offerings. Despite having a bad foot, and only wearing sandals, I decide I want to try and find the proper well, but soon get beaten with the marshy conditions and my unsteady legs. With nothing to hold on to, at one point I slip, try to adjust my footing onto a duckboard, but that then moves under me and I am down on my ass in the mud and water. Oh well, make the most of it and douse my bad toe in the water. Has to be said that after more than 3 months of not healing, the scar started to turn into a proper scab after this, and was properly healing by the end of the week.
Maen Castle
Date Added: 5th Aug 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Maen Castle submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Jim's mention of Dr Syntax's head prompted me to search though some of my old pictures this dull damp August afternoon, rather than being out searching for the real thing.
This is Dr Syntax's head, which gives its name to that part of Lands End.
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Log Text: From Sennen Cove, I decide to walk up to the coastguard lookout shelter and on to look at the shipwreck of the RMS Mülheim, wrecked March 2003, the path passing right beside the Mayon Cliff cairn, and with the cliff castle clearly visible the other side.
Maen Ceti
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013
Maen Ceti submitted by theCaptain on 14th Jun 2013. I visited Gower for the first time in 30 years recently. A friend found this picture of me at Arthurs stone all those years ago.
Site in West Glamorgan Wales
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Maen Crwn
Date Added: 30th Oct 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Conwy)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Maen Crwn submitted by stu on 16th Oct 2002. Nice standing stone in field outside Red Farm.
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Log Text: A bit further southwest, and now into an open paddock like area below the farm, and this large stone is stood in the open grass below an avenue of trees. It has a scratches T + J on its southern face, along with other graffitti.
Maen Llia
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maen Llia submitted by cerrig on 14th Aug 2018. Maen Llia and a Perseid meteorite. I used my influence to book this particular one specially for the Megalithic Portal.
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Log Text: Beautiful day out doing the 4 waterfalls walk to the south of Ystradfellte. After dinner at the New Inn, popped up to visit Maen Llia where we amazingly meet Cerrig, out doing some surveying, but the sun is hidden from him. He takes great pride in showing us some amazing features of Maen Llia, such as the flattened platform with a stone where a shadow would fall, and the place where the stones shadow (or toungue) would reach on solstice sunset. Brilliant!
Maes Knoll
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2004
Maes Knoll submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Apr 2004. Maes Knoll Hillfort, Norton Malreward, North Somerset, ST600660.
The remains of this Iron age hillfort lie at the eastern end of the Dundry Hill ridge just to the south of Bristol. The hillfort consists of a fairly large flat open area, roughly triangular in shape, that has been fortified by ramparts and shaping of the steep sided hilltop around the northern, eastern and southwestern sides of the hill. The western end of the fort is made across a narrow neck of the ridge of high land, and co...
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Magnez Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.36 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Poitou:Charente (16))
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Magnez dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Dec 2005. Magnez dolmen can be found up a little track behind the hamlet of Magnez.
It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway.
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Log Text: Walk up a little track behind the farmhouse to the south of the road as it passes through the hamlet of Magnez (Magné) for a couple of hundred metres and you will see a large stone to the right of the trackway. This is the capstone to the dolmen which is full of holes with plants and flowers growing in them. It rests on a few supports but is collapsed on the side nearest the trackway. It’s a lovely rockery but not much of a dolmen.
Maiden Castle (Eskdale)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 7th Oct 2017
Maiden Castle (Eskdale) submitted by TheCaptain on 7th Oct 2017. Looking east towards Scafell, from the path running from the west of Burnmoor Tarn towards Wasdale.
The Maiden Castle cairn is pretty much central in this picture.
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Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2008. Inspired by Jim's recent pictures, I just had to search out and find this picture I had taken of a barrow cemetery at Maiden Castle, back in 1985 or 6.
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