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Leeden Hill
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Leeden Hill submitted by Anne T on 19th Sep 2016. The Leedon Hill Standing stone, submitted on behalf of Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.
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Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist submitted by Bladup on 15th Apr 2013. Trewortha Kerb cairn and cist
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Bosporthennis Quoit
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bosporthennis Quoit submitted by ocifant on 13th Mar 2004. Bosporthennis (pronounced Bosprennis) Quoit
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Pendeen Fogou
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
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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Nine Maidens Stone Row
Date Added: 19th Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 1974
Nine Maidens Stone Row submitted by rldixon on 26th Oct 2010. Nine Maidens stone row
taken about 8pm
29-5-2008
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Carcassonne - La Cité
Date Added: 17th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Languedoc:Aude (11))
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 1978
Carcassonne - La Cité submitted by thecaptain on 19th Feb 2005. La Cité de Carcassonne, seen here from the south.
Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now mediaeval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
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Log Text: Ancient citadel which goes back as far as time. Although the main remains of this fantastic fairy story city are now medieval much of the walls can be seen to date back to Visigoth and Roman times. This is of course, all built upon a citadel which was here long before any of them came here.
Abri de Cro-Magnon
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 17th Sep 1978
Abri de Cro-Magnon submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Sep 2006. Abri de Cro-Magnon UNESCO World Heritage site.
It's nothing much to see, just a little rock shelter in the cliff face shaded by a couple of large chestnut trees, with a little walled and fenced area around it.
It is sadly hidden round the back of the hotel and almost forgotten.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Musée National de Préhistoire
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Museum
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Musée National de Préhistoire submitted by dodomad on 5th Jul 2015. Exhibition: Signs of wealth. Inequalities in the Neolithic, running from 27th June 2015 to 15th November 2015
More details on our site page, in the comments section (click left)
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Font-de-Gaume
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 1978
Font-de-Gaume submitted by ocdolmen on 26th May 2006. Site in Aquitaine: Dordogne (24)
Entrance of Font de Gaume cave, Dordogne, France.
The entrance is on the right on the photo (the cave on the left is a dead end and presents no drawing)
Inside the cave, a great number of buffalos and horses drawings and some engraved drawings.
Magdalenian period (about 20.000 BCE)
One of the rare prehistoric cave with drawings still open to public.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
La Roque-Saint-Christophe
Date Added: 21st Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: France (Aquitaine:Dordogne (24))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1978
La Roque-Saint-Christophe submitted by theCaptain on 6th Jan 2011. In a gigantic cliff face beside the river Vézère is found this World Heritage Site.
It's an entire troglodytic city which was inhabited continuously from 50000 years ago until a few centuries ago.
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Log Text: Hitch Hiking Trip round France in the summer of 1978. Camped for a couple of days at Les Eyzies to visit and wonder at the ancient sites here.
Carn Euny Fogou
Date Added: 11th Aug 2022
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 1986
Carn Euny Fogou submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Carn Euny Fogou, back in the early 1980's.
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Belas Knap
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 1986
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 following a visit to the fledgling Glos Warwicks Railway
Bant's Carn
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Bant's Carn submitted by Postman on 7th Aug 2015. Probably the best burial chamber in the world, pyramids not included.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Halangy Down
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Halangy Down Settlement submitted by Thorgrim on 1st Jul 2003. Iron Age courtyard house settlement similar to Chysauster. Situated on St Marys at SV 90981237, it overlooks the sea and is below the much older Bant's Carn entrance grave.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Nornour
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 8th Sep 1986
Nornour submitted by Thorgrim on 4th Nov 2003. The island of Nornour (SV 944147) is less than four acres in size and is joined to Great Ganilly at low tide. Yet the excavations of the early '70's revealed the remains of a major settlement which was occupied from the middle of the Bronze Age to the Romano-British Iron Age. Nornour clearly reveals the effects of rising sea levels, as this tiny scrap of land could never have supported such a thriving community. Many more houses are doubtless lost beneath the sea and right up until Tudor ...
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Great Arthur
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 8th Sep 1986
Great Arthur submitted by Thorgrim on 14th Aug 2004. Three entrance graves and two cairns joined by a prehistoric wall are located on this tiny island.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Innisidgen Upper
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Innisidgen Upper submitted by enkidu41 on 27th Apr 2004. SV 9220 1265
This entrance grave on St. Mary's comprises a 26' diameter mound and an 18' long entrance passage roofed with 5 large capstones.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Innisidgen Lower
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Innisidgen Lower submitted by enkidu41 on 27th Apr 2004. A poorly preserved entrance grave. Most of the roofing stones have disappeared although the passage is still clearly visible.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Toll's Island
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Toll's Island submitted by hoya105 on 20th Jul 2019. Toll's Island.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.
Normandy Down
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Normandy Down submitted by paulcall on 31st Oct 2006. A view of the delapidated easterly entrance grave looking north towards St Martin's. This grave gets trodden on a lot, as it is not normally covered in scrub like the other two. There are more stones to be seen here, but they are rather a jumble.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.