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The Rumps
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014
The Rumps submitted by theCaptain on 23rd Mar 2014. The wonderful Rumps Point as seen from the cliffs to the west in 1986. It probably hasn't changed much since then!
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The Round Pound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2004
The Round Pound submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Oct 2004. The Round Pound, looking northwest from across the road which has been curved to pass around it.
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The Ring (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 20th Jun 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2021. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
The Ring (Gloucestershire) submitted by h_fenton on 19th Nov 2011. The Ring, enclosure on Cleeve Hill (Cleeve Common) Gloucestershire.
Kite Aerial Photograph from the north west.
13 November 2011 @ 2.35pm
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk from Seven Springs to Cleeve Hill. After visiting the trig point, dropped down to the carpark and golf club for a beer. Walked right by The Ring and forgot to have a look and take note. Beer was needed!
The Ridge Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Dec 2010
The Ridge Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Dec 2010. Approaching the cairn along the top of the hill from the southwest.
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The Queen Stone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Herefordshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Nov 2006
The Queen Stone submitted by thecaptain on 13th Nov 2006. The Queen Stone, Symonds Yat, seen from across the River Wye to the north at the Old Forge.
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The Polisher (Fyfield Down)
Date Added: 28th Oct 2019
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
The Polisher (Fyfield Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Sep 2019. At long last, I have been to visit this fabulous stone.
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Log Text: At long last, I have been to visit this fabulous stone. On this beautiful September fay, I sat and had lunch with the Polisher. I must have been here best part of an hour, watching the Red Kites circling, and didn't see another soul. It's really moving sat here, just where people would have been sat 5000 years ago.
The Polisher (Fyfield Down)
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
The Polisher (Fyfield Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Sep 2019. At long last, I have been to visit this fabulous stone.
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Log Text: Yes indeed, the chap in the black fleece has gone to the polisher, and is taking all sorts of photos. I sit and wait halfway down the hill, but may still be in some of his pictures. He moves on downhill, and I see him busily taking lots of pictures of some of the stones. I take my chance and go have a good look at the polisher. Fabulous. After my 5 minutes here I walk back up to the Ridgeway and stop for a sit down and to collect my thoughts etc. noticing that the bloke in the black fleece has moved back up to the Polisher. He must have moved away to let me have my visit. As I walk on south I notice he is following behind me, but heads back towards Avebury, so was obviously only on a mission to the Polisher.
The Longstone (Shovel Down)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
The Longstone (Shovel Down) submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. The awesome 3 metre tall Shovel Down Longstone.
Seen here looking southeast towards Thornworthy Tor
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The Longstone (Piles Hill)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2004
The Longstone (Piles Hill) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Aug 2004. This large stone just below the summit of Piles Hill, over 2 metres in height, leans at an angle although it has been only recently re-erected. It probably marked the northern end of the Butterdon Hill stone row.
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The Long Stone (Minions)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
The Long Stone (Minions) submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. Long Tom, near Minions.
Picture from about 1980.
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The Langstone
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2007
The Langstone submitted by TheCaptain on 1st Oct 2007. The Langstone, with Great Mis Tor in the background.
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The Langstane
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2018
The Langstane submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. The Long Stone thought to have once been part of a stone circle, now presented in an alcove behind Burger King just off the main Aberdeen thoroughfare of Union Street, at the junction of Dee Street and Langstone Place.
The poor thing seems neglected amongst the bins and street signs, but at least it is still here.
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The Hurlers North
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2014
The Hurlers North submitted by theCaptain on 25th Jan 2014. Possible newly recognised fourth stone circle to the north of the three well known Hurlers circles.
A few stones slightly poke through the turf, with others hidden, and with an "eye of faith" a circle can be made out.
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The Hurlers causeway
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2013
The Hurlers causeway submitted by theCaptain on 22nd Sep 2013. the "quartz pavement" starting to become visible on a vile wet and windy moorland day, Saturday morning, 21 Sept 2013.
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The Hurlers Avenue
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2014
The Hurlers Avenue submitted by theCaptain on 25th Jan 2014. Possible remains of a newly discovered stone avenue, running in an approximately north to south direction, on the moor to the north of the Hurlers stone circles.
From what I saw the two approx parallel lines of stones are about 15 metres from each other, and stones can be found at about 10 metre spacings.
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The Horestone (Lower Swell)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jan 2007
The Horestone (Lower Swell) submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jan 2007. The Horestone stands in a field to the southwest of the village of Lower Swell.
Almost certainly once part of a burial chamber from within a longbarrow, it's about 2 metres long, less than a metre in height and varies in thickness.
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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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The Harp Stone
Date Added: 19th Oct 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 17th Oct 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Harp Stone submitted by JimChampion on 19th Apr 2008. The Harp Stone stands on a bank that divided the medieval manorial estates of Herpston and Hyde. On the far side of the stone is a hollow way, an old route down the hill from Kimmeridge that eventually led to Creech on the far side of the chalk ridge.
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Log Text: Walking with friends from Swyre head to Kimmeridge. Up to the ridge again after lunch, where I went down the other side to look for the Harp Stone before returning to the ridge to join with the others who had waited. I was expecting to see the stone in the hedge at the far side of the field like the pictures on the portal, but no such luck, as the hedge was very overgrown. At first I found a tree stump, then a shiny pile of bracken but no sign of the stone. Up and down the hedge a couple of times, but before I gave up I got the gps out and the detailed OS map, giving me the best info I could have to find the stone. Eventually I saw it in the hedge, all overgrown and hiding behing a couple of vicious blackthorn bushes, which made me bleed as I was trying to get a picture of the stone between them. Only the top few feet of it could be seen, but it was still there. I had a very satisfied walk back across the field and up to the ridge to meet the others I was out walking with before returning to Swyre Head.
The Grickstone
Date Added: 6th Mar 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2004. My rating: Access 4
The Grickstone submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Apr 2004. Nice standing stone to the south of Grickstone farm, beside a footpath at the corner of a small wood. The stone has about 6 foot in length above ground, but due to the angle at which it leans, is only about 4 feet high. Nicely decorated with lichens. South Gloucestershire, ST777828.
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Log Text: Nice standing stone to the south of Grickstone farm, beside a footpath at the corner of a wood. The stone is about 6 foot in height, but due to the angle at which it leans, is only about 4 feet high. Nicely decorated with lichens.
The Giant's Grave Mardon Down
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Giant's Grave Mardon Down submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Mar 2019. At the top of Mardon Down is a fairly large cleared area, but the Giant's Grave cairn is very disappointing, being not much more than a large bumpy area of ground of about 20m diameter. It certainly doesn't live up to its name.
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Log Text: At the top of the hill, and there is a fairly large cleared green area, but the Giant's Grave cairn is very disappointing, being not much more than a large bumpy area of ground, of about 20m diameter. It certainly doesn't live up to its name.