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Middle Moor Cross
Date Added: 24th Aug 2024
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Middle Moor Cross submitted by Bladup on 19th Dec 2019. Middle Moor Cross with Alex Tor behind
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Log Text: From the top of Alex Tor I decide to head down then out for a look at Middle Moor Cross, which I could not decide whether it had turned since the last time I visited. It is said to turn on hearing the St Breward church bells. I then returned to the car and going to the Blisland Inn for crab sandwich and pint.
Alex Tor Kerbed Cairn
Date Added: 28th Aug 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Alex Tor Kerbed Cairn submitted by Bladup on 19th Dec 2019. Alex Tor Kerbed Cairn, It's well worth a visit
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Log Text: I still have plenty of time, so head over for a walk up to the top of Alex Tor to check out the magnificent cairn with its surrounding circle of slabs. I've not seen anything like this one before, it's marvellous. What a super surrounding kerb of large, leaning and contiguous stones. Is that some sort of chamber remnants within, or just a sort of slotting in the original tor structure? While climbing up onto the nearby tor top highest point, I realise that I have walked into a Bees nest in a gap in the tor rocks which prevented me from getting the best picture looking down on the cairn. Down then out for a look at Middle Moor Cross, before returning to the car and going to the Blisland Inn for crab sandwich and pint.
Tubby´s Head
Date Added: 5th Oct 2024
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Tubby´s Head submitted by Bladup on 9th Oct 2020. Tubby's Head (mid distance) from the South
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Log Text: A walk along the coast path from Chapel Porth around St Agnes Head to Trevaunance Cove, meeting up with family for lunch at Schooners bar. A lovely walk with lots of old mine remains, from where we can see Tubby's Head jutting out into the ocean below, just about able to make out some of the defensive ramparts.
New Downs
Date Added: 5th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
New Downs submitted by Bladup on 9th Oct 2020. New Downs, looking over the Cairn with the two stones behind
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Log Text: A walk along the coast path from Chapel Porth around St Agnes Head to Trevaunance Cove, meeting up with family for lunch at Schooners bar. A lovely walk with lots of old mine remains, I realise that I am near to where the remains of New Downs stone circle are to be found. There are several large boulders spread across the heath in the region and as I head to where I think the circle should be, I see a lovely grass snake romping across the ground. What a thrill. It is hard to be sure that this was once a circle, but there is certainly a stony cairn, with two large stones set about equal distance radially from he centre. Several other stones nearby may well once been a part of a circle around the cairn here.
Bray Down Cairns
Date Added: 8th Oct 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 10th Aug 2024
Bray Down Cairns submitted by dooclay on 16th Jul 2022. The larger Cairn to the West
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Log Text: On the way home from Padstow on a grey mizzley day, park at Bowithick for a walk to the top of Buttern Hill to see its cairns and the stone row. I am feeling weary, and the weather is not good, so rule out a climb to the top of Bray Down as well, but can clearly see one or two cairns on the top.
Cross Shaft and Base at St Petroc's, Padstow.
Date Added: 8th Oct 2024
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cross Shaft and Base at St Petroc's, Padstow. submitted by AngieLake on 5th Mar 2019. The cross shaft taken on May Day in 2013.
(What happened to Sunny100s photo?)
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Log Text: On my daily (for the week) walk down into town, I noticed this obviously old stone placed near the lower churchyard gate. How had I not obviously noticed this before? I must have passed right by it many times over the last 50 years!
Buttern Hill NE row ?
Date Added: 11th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Buttern Hill NE row ? submitted by TheCaptain on 9th Oct 2024. Part way up the northeastern slopes of Buttern Hill from Bowithick, I think there is possibly remains of a stone row heading down the hill. There are several large edge set slabs about 50 yards in length, seemingly regularly spaced, particularly noticeable where they cross a leat. I can find no reference to anything being here at all, but have noticed that others mention them. It is possibly remains of an ancient wall or boundary, perhaps to do with the old mineworkings here, but I was intrig...
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Log Text: On the way home from Padstow on a grey mizzley day, I park at Bowithick, then its a wet and muddy at times climb to the top of Buttern Hill. Part way up I think there is possibly remains of a stone row heading down the hill, with several large edge set slabs about 50 yards in length, seemingly regularly spaced, particularly where they cross an old leat. I suspect its more likely remains of an ancient wall or boundary, but I was intrigued all the same. I can find no reference to anything here at all.
Buttern Hill Cairns
Date Added: 11th Oct 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 10th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Buttern Hill Cairns submitted by LordMureth on 10th Nov 2019. Visited again today, and realised I'd never uploaded a pic....!
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Log Text: On the way home from Padstow on a grey mizzley day, I park at Bowithick, then its a wet and muddy at times climb to the top of Buttern Hill. Once at the top, with the rain a bit heavier and limited views, I visit the 4 obvious cairns, with wild horses in attendance. What a splendid thing the large cist is in the main cairn, which seems a bit like a ring cairn with the chamber in the centre. I am fairly sure there is more up here than just the four cairns, but I'm not staying here exploring for long in this terrible weather. Then in misty drizzly weather I head down the far side through a load of cattle to the source of the river Fowey and the Buttern Hill stone row. Head back skirting much of Buttern Hill on its north side, then down the stream trying to avoid the wet on the way back to the car, but get in knee deep at one place!. Head for a pint at the Rising Sun, Altarnun.
Castlerigg
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2008
Castlerigg submitted by thecaptain on 6th Jul 2008. Removing of the turf at the centre of the circle before some sham "ceremony"
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Kemp Howe
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2008
Kemp Howe submitted by thecaptain on 16th Jul 2008. The remaining arc of Kemp Howe stone circle, looking south westish.
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Swinside
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2017
Swinside submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2017. Sunkenkirk as a stone row !
Stitched together set of photos taken from the middle of the stone circle.
Probably wont get to show too well shrunk to fit the Portal's sitepage!
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Low Longrigg SW
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Low Longrigg SW submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Very hard to find in very long grass on very uneven and boggy ground, amongst many cairns all over the place. I found what I thought was the remnants of a stone circle, but was not 100% convinced.
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Low Longrigg NE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Low Longrigg NE submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Very hard to find in very long grass on very uneven and boggy ground, amongst many cairns all over the place.
Further up the ridge I again found what I thought was the remnants of a stone circle, but was not 100% convinced, but seemed too far from what I thought was the SW circle for them to both be correct.
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Boot cairn circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2017
Boot cairn circle submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Oct 2017. Small circle of stones, probably the remaining kerb circle from a cairn, near the remains of several peat cutters huts just to the right of the path up from Boot to Brat's Hill.
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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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White Moss NE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 11th Oct 2017
White Moss NE submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Oct 2017. White Moss NE stone circle, viewed looking southwest towards the Irish Sea, with the SW circle just beyond.
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White Moss SW
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2017
White Moss SW submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2017. White Moss SW viewed looking in a southwesterly direction towards the Irish Sea
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Lacra
Date Added: 17th May 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2002. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lacra submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Nov 2017. Plan of the Lacra site.
From "Some Bronze Age burial circles at Lacra, near Kirksanton". By J. A. DIXON, with an excavation report by CLARE I. FELL.
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Log Text: Visit after a week at Crossthwaite in the Lake District, before driving back to Bristol
Brat's Hill
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jan 2018
Brat's Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Jan 2018. Once up onto the plateau of Burnmoor, the rock outcrop known as the altar can be seen.From there the Brats Hill circle is just over to the east.
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Shap Avenue
Date Added: 9th Oct 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2022
Shap Avenue submitted by AngieLake on 3rd Jun 2011. These were the most noticeable stones fringing the east side of the road, heading back towards the village after visiting Kemp Howe, that might have possibly come from the ancient monuments.
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Log Text: Driving up to Penrith on the day of the Queen's funeral, the M5 and M6 nicely free of traffic. I turn off at Shap for a look at some of the Shap Avenue stones. After a pint at the Kings Arms I decide I have enough time to have a look for many of the Shap stones.