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Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers)
Trip No.202 Entry No.3 Date Added: 25th Mar 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Calvados (14))
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Dec 2005
Menhir dit Pierre Debout (Reviers) submitted by thecaptain on 29th Dec 2005. Reviers menhir.
Just inland from the D-Day beaches can be found (when the crops are down) the sad remains of this menhir.
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Log Text: Despite being marked on the ign map and having a good look all around I could find no sign of any menhir here. Perhaps it is fallen and somewhere within a field of oilseed Rape.
Later note. Having seen the 1:25000 ign map of the area the menhir is marked fairly close to the corner of the road and farm track right where I was looking originally. As I suspected the menhir must be fallen and hidden within the crop.
King Henry's Mound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2006
King Henry's Mound submitted by thecaptain on 1st Jan 2006. King Henry's Mound is a much modified large mound in Richmond Park.
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Starveall
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2006
Starveall submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jun 2021. Now all shorn of the trees a decade ago, all we have now is an elongated mound in the field, but it is at least fenced off for protection.
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Log Text: I revisited this barrow March 2006. The field it is in has now been fenced, and a gate with parking area situated near to the barrow. The field is no longer ploughed, and looks to be made ready for livestock. The rubbish which was piled on top of the barrow has been cleared and it all looks nicely tidied up. Pity that so much of it has been recently lost to the surrounding field, but things look less bleak for the barrow. I saw no signs of any chambers.
Belas Knap
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2006
Belas Knap submitted by Adam Stanford on 19th Jul 2006. Taken with Aerial-Cam, at aprox 10M above ground level on a telescopic mast with remote control Nikon D70s camera system. This image shows the tapering of the mound from front to back (left to right). The camera was pointing in an Easterly direction. Cheers AS.
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Log Text: A visit to Belas Knap after a day with megalithic portal people starting at Rollright
Adlestrop Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2006
Adlestrop Hill submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Apr 2006. Adlestrop Hill long barrow.
Just about found and identified after a long search by about a dozen hardened stonehunters, and a couple of full time archaeologists.
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Ibsley Common barrows
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2006
Ibsley Common barrows submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2006. On the western edge of the New Forest plateau above the river Avon is this fine disc barrow with splendid views in all directions.
This is the view towards the northeast.
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Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2006
Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. The Moustoir tumulus has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, about 2.1 metres high and quite slender, and of a sort of circular section.
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Grim’s Grave
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jul 2006
Grim’s Grave submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jul 2006. What a lovely find this is, miles from anywhere across the middle of Southern Dartmoor, and well worth a visit.
This cairn is surrounded by 9 large upright slabs making a full circle, some of which are over a metre in height. In the centre is a large rectangular kist, about 1.5 by 1 metre, and almost 1 metre deep
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Langcombe Brook 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jul 2006
Langcombe Brook 4 submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jul 2006. Langcombe Brook Cairn 4.
Three slabs of the central kist are in place, and a capstone covering half of it is still in place.
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The Heath Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2006
The Heath Stone submitted by thecaptain on 29th Jul 2006. The Heath Stone can be found not far from the road on the way to Fernworthy Reservoir, on the open moor just before you get to the forest.
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Dry Lake North Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2006
Dry Lake North Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 29th Jul 2006. Fairly well preserved ancient settlement on the eastern flanks of the Erme valley, consisting of several large walled enclosures, each containing several huts.
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Blatchford Brook Foot Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2006
Blatchford Brook Foot Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 29th Jul 2006. Blatchford Brook Foot Settlement is a well preserved bronze age settlement on the eastern flanks of the Erme valley.
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Crock of Gold
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2006
Crock of Gold submitted by thecaptain on 1st Aug 2006. The Crock of Gold is a fine cairn and cist which can be found just to the south of the track which runs east from Princetown as part of the Dartmoor way, and is named no doubt after a lucky find here by somebody in the past.
This is the view looking northeast.
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Bennet's Cross
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Bennet's Cross submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. This is a lovely cross, believed to have been carved from a prehistoric menhir.
It stands about 1.7 metres tall, and is just beside the B3212 road near its high point as it crosses the moor between Moretonhampstead and Postbridge.
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Royal Hill Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. Royal Hill Cairn 4
In the centre is a large cist, about 1 metre square, with its capstone displaced to the edge of the cairn.
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Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. Royal Hill Cairn 4
In the centre is a large cist, about 1 metre square, with its capstone displaced to the edge of the cairn.
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Royal Hill Cairns (SX621724)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Royal Hill Cairns (SX621724) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. Royal Hill Cairn 5
Cairn 5 is easily found to the north of cairn 4, and about 100 metres distant from it.
This is a cute little thing with a complete stone ring around a central cist, but there is little remaining in the way of a cairn.
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Ranny Brookhead Cist
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2006
Ranny Brookhead Cist submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Aug 2006. Ranny Brookhead cist is in the middle of a featureless bit of moor near the bottom of the dip between Stall Moor and Stalldown Barrow, in amongst the damp ground surrounding the Ranny Brook.
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Hurston Ridge
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Aug 2006
Hurston Ridge submitted by thecaptain on 11th Aug 2006. The top half of the lovely Hurston Ridge double stone row.
Viewed here looking towards the southeast.
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Hook Lake Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2006
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 13th Aug 2006. Well preserved ancient settlement on the eastern flanks of the Erme valley, consisting of two large walled enclosures, the one to the north a circular shape, with a sort of triangular one to the south. Each enclosure contains several huts.
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