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Black Hill Tumuli
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th Nov 2017
Black Hill Tumuli submitted by TheCaptain on 17th Nov 2017. Remains of several barrows on Black Hill, part of the Quantock Hills ridge
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Black Tor (Meavy)
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Black Tor (Meavy) submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002.
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Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down) submitted by davep on 14th Aug 2019. The Blackaton Down North Cairn, from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (site 586). Photograph taken 19th August 2017.
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Log Text: From the field wall corner can be seen the next large barrow, a bit further to the south, but within the enclosed field on the western side of the wall. I didn’t cross into the field for a closer look.
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2023. Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
Blackhall Stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Feb 2019
Blackhall Stones submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Feb 2019. There are several standing stones and other stone settings positioned at the junctions of the new housing estate roads with the road running west from Inverurie.
I am not sure whether these are real old stones moved and positioned here during the construction of the housing estate.
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Blackquarries Hill
Date Added: 13th Sep 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2004. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Blackquarries Hill submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2004. Blackquarries Hill Long Barrow, seen here in front of the wood in the November evening sunlight. Picture taken from the Cotswold Way to the northwest.
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Log Text: The remains of this long barrow can be seen in a field at the southern end of the ridge between Tyley Bottom and Ozleworth Bottom near Wotton-under-Edge. There is a track which is part of the Cotswold Way which runs round the hill and passes close to the barrow, but I could find no way in for a closer look, although the field was empty and being used by some people flying model aircraft. The barrow remains have been fenced off, and are becoming grown over. I could see a shadowy shape sticking out of the mound, which was probably an old tree stump, but just could have been a bit of old stone.
Blackquarries Hill
Date Added: 13th Sep 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Blackquarries Hill submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2004. Blackquarries Hill Long Barrow, seen here in the November evening sunlight from the northeast.
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Log Text: Revisiting this part of the Cotswold Way, and the field around the long barrow has been opened up to the public with a stile, and an information board has been placed in front of the barrow. The fence and old tree stumps have been removed, although it is all still a very untidy heap!
Blaise Castle
Date Added: 6th Nov 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Aug 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Blaise Castle submitted by theCaptain on 1st Dec 2011. Some of the remaining ramparts on the northern side of the hill
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Blakey Topping
Date Added: 27th Nov 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blakey Topping submitted by DavidRaven on 16th Apr 2007. The stones that sit in the shadow of Blakey Topping.
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Log Text: Walk from Saltergate layby above the Hole of Horcum along Old Wife's Way to Newgate Foot and up to Blakey Topping and it's stone circle. One six foot standing stone and a stump in the field, with another stone standing at the gate, a flat stone in the field, and a couple of wooden posts. Is that another stone in the hedge I see?
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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Blisland Millennium Stone
Date Added: 7th Jul 2022
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Blisland Millennium Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2022. A large granite standing stone in the village of Blisland commemorating the Millennium
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Log Text: A large granite standing stone in the village of Blisland commemorating the Millennium
Blorenge Cairn
Date Added: 5th Sep 2024
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Blorenge Cairn submitted by Annwfn_deCym23 on 25th Feb 2023. Y Blorens / The Blorenge Cairn
Photo looking north.
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Log Text: Day trip to do the strenuous walk around and over Blorenge; having all the up at the end of the day cannot be recommended! Once up to the summit, there is a large circular cairn structure right on top, with the trig point just to the south. I didn't climb onto the cairn, and missed seeing any internal structure, although I now read that a cist can be seen. A bit further to the south, I saw a couple of stones sticking up, and closer inspection suggested another round cairn and these stones gave me the impression that they were three upright slabs in a line, possibly once the sides to an internal chamber.
Boarhills
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Yes on 12th Mar 2017
Boarhills submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Mar 2017. Boarhills standing stone, seen after falling in 2008.
Photo © Copyright Jim Bain and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence
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Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Date Added: 10th Nov 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2002. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology submitted by davidmorgan on 10th Nov 2010. A view across Bodrum harbour to the early 15th century CE castle of the Knights of St John which houses the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
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Log Text: My notes from my sailing log book of my visit.
The wind has got up overnight again, and is W 6-7 out in the main sea area, with 2m swell. We are going nowhere today. Catch the Dolmus to Bodrum to do the tourist thing, spend the morning visiting the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, and afternoon in the Bodrum Castle and shipwrecks museum. A good day to be stuck in harbour. The Dolmus takes about 20 minutes and costs about 30p each. Brilliant.
After lunch, its to the castle, which includes the Museum of Underwater Archaeology. This is all absolutely brilliant, with shipwrecks and their finds found round the local coast dating back to the bronze age. In various castle rooms are different shipwrecks, arranged as they were found, and as the ships would have been. I particularly liked the 12th Century BC wreck with its ingots of copper, and there is some amazing glass ware from the 11th century “Glass ship”. And masses and masses of amphorae from throughout the millenia.
Bois de la Roche dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.541 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bois de la Roche dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 19th Apr 2011. I am not quite sure exactly what I found here - the pile of rocks I found looked decidedly natural, yet in a very distinctive pile.
Site in Bretagne: Finistère (29) France
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Log Text: I am not quite sure exactly what I found here - the pile of rocks I found looked decidedly natural, yet in a very distinctive pile with one set on top of three and a large space underneath, and its in exactly the right place compared to the map. I guess its one of those dolmens made using the best locally available materials. In dense woodland, but right at the junction of two country lanes about 3 km north of the village of Commana.
Bois du Mont
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2010
Bois du Mont submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2010. Remains of an Allée Couverte can be found in the private woodlands of Bois du Mont which is to the southwest of the village of Lithaire.
Info and picture from the site board at Bois de la Plesse.
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Bois-Grand Dolmen
Trip No.205 Entry No.257 Date Added: 13th Dec 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Auvergne:Cantal (15))
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bois-Grand dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 5th Nov 2008. Seen here in its position right at the edge of the cutting for the new road.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the village of Les Ternes, the new D.921 road goes up a fairly steep hill. On the right, halfway up the hill is a little layby and picnic table, with a sign to this dolmen, which can then be found less than 50 metres up the trackway from the layby. It is right beside the road, and part of its mound of stones has been cut away. The dolmen has a large and thick capstone, 3.5 metres by 2.5 metres, sitting on top of a little chamber, 2m by 1m, which has two side slabs and a back stone still nicely in place. The capstone looks much too large for the rest of the dolmen ! Around the dolmen are lots of loose basalt stones, obviously one a part of its cairn.
Bolatherick
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bolatherick submitted by DrNickLeB on 8th Sep 2016. Bolatherick menhir.
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Log Text: Despite looking for this and not being able to find it the other year due to a wrong grid ref given, this stone is very easy to find, and I must have seen it many times. Not a large stone, it is engraved on one side with Newmans Corner.
Bonarme Dolmen
Trip No.203 Entry No.96 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bonarme dolmen submitted by theCaptain on 28th Jan 2011. This was a pleasant find northwest of Belvès where there is a nicely arranged forest park area with a waymarked and signposted walk.
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Log Text: This was a pleasant find northwest of Belvès where there is a nicely arranged forest park area with a waymarked and signposted walk. The dolmen is still partially buried in its tumulus with remains of a stone circle or perhaps two still surviving around its outside. The capstone is about 3 m by 2.5 m and still covering a rectangular chamber which is completely dry which can be seen down below the level of the surrounding ground.
It has been dated to 3000 BC and the capstone has several markings in the top of it which are probably natural and caused by freezing and thawing action. However there is a legend surrounding the dolmen about the marks in the top being the imprints of cows feet on the stone. To me a couple at the north end could well have been cows feet but at the other end of the capstone there are most definitely two imprints of a giant’s feet.
Bonarme polissoirs
Trip No.203 Entry No.97 Date Added: 6th Apr 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bonarme polissoirs submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jan 2011. There's a little signpost telling about the stones which reckons that the sort of polished axes found around here would have taken about 70 hours each to have polished properly into shape. Too much like hard work !
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Log Text: Further into the forest from the Bonarme dolmen are two polissoir stones dated to about 3000 BC which can also be found by following the marked and signposted forest walk for a kilometre or so. It’s a nice little spot on a hillside with an ancient spring below and some hut circles above. While I was there it was very humid and buzzing with insects.
One of the two stones has about 6 grooves in it with a natural basin for holding water a necessity for the polishing action. The other stone is superb and has about 10 grooves and flat polishing areas on it all of different sizes and in different parts of the stone almost a complete toolkit. Unfortunately the end of the stone has been broken off which may have had more grooves. I was not the first person here to rub a bit of stone up and down in the grooves as some are still well polished.
Its quite moving sitting rubbing a stone up and down in a groove thinking people were doing exactly this thousands of years ago. There's a little signpost telling about the stones which reckons that the sort of polished axes found around here would have taken about 70 hours each to have polished properly into shape. Too much like hard work !