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Overton Down
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020
Overton Down submitted by Ogham on 16th Apr 2017. Winters day up on the ridgeway.
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Log Text: Walking up Green Street to the ridgeway, there are good view of the plentiful barrows dotted about on the hillsides. I am passed several times by a chap who is walking quicker than me, but stops for lots of photos.
Overton Down Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Overton Down Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Sep 2019. Seen from the Ridgeway, the remains of the Barrow at SU12607104
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Log Text: North up the Ridgeway past more barrows. The chap in the black fleece with all sorts of badges etc has also turned this way. I get the feeling he is off to the Polisher!
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.
Avebury Down barrow cemetery
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Avebury Down barrow cemetery submitted by JimChampion on 10th Jan 2009. November 2006. Dusk telephoto shot of one of the beech-planted round barrows on Avebury Down. Taken from the West Kennet avenue.
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Log Text: Good views of the barrows on Avebury Down from the Ridgeway, but I don’t take any photos. Get my hand scratched and stung as I try to get some decent blackberries, because the wind is blowing so strongly.
Overton Hill barrow cemetery
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Overton Hill barrow cemetery submitted by Humbucker on 26th Dec 2017. Overton Hill Barrow Cemetery. A fantastically atmospheric place to visit, especially during the winter months when most other visitors tend to stick to Avebury or The Ridgeway itself.
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Log Text: Good views of the barrows on Avebury Down from the Ridgeway, but I don’t take any photos. Get my hand scratched and stung as I try to get some decent blackberries, because the wind is blowing so strongly.
The Sanctuary Barrows
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
The Sanctuary Barrows submitted by vicky on 26th Apr 2002. The linear barrow cemetery on the opposite side of the road to the Sanctuary in Avebury.
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Log Text: The plan was to stop here to eat my lunch but the field was full of bullocks, the wind was blowing strong and there was too much noise from the traffic on the A4.
The Sanctuary.
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
The Sanctuary. submitted by JJ on 4th Nov 2003. Aerial Photograph copyright JJ Evendon
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Log Text: Over the A4 to the Sanctuary, perhaps I can sit and have lunch here, but the circle of concrete breezeblocks has a couple of alternative types sat in the centre and dinging little bells. Couple of photos and move on.
East Kennett longbarrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020
East Kennett longbarrow submitted by Humbucker on 21st Nov 2017. East Kennet Longbarrow. Without the leaves on the trees you can appreciate just how big this longbarrow is!
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Log Text: I should have gone a bit further up the road from East Kennet to get a view of the long barrow on the hillside. However, good views over to East Kennet longbarrow from the hills near West Kennet barrow.
Silbaby
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020
Silbaby submitted by marcgreenman on 21st Sep 2020. Approaching waden hill, tree and nettle coverage can be clearly seen from here this also gives an approximate idea of the mound's size
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Log Text: Walking along the fields beside the stream, get clear views of Silbaby mound, recently declared to be not prehistoric but medieval, and officially named The Waden Mound. There is a dead tree in front of it with a large hollow near the top which makes it look like an owl from a distance.
West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 4
West Kennett Long Barrow submitted by jackdaw1 on 16th Oct 2007. A shot taken inside West kennet long barrow nr. Avebury on 25 sec exposure at f16-conjuring spooky feels.
A small child called jake was happily playing and respectfully enjoying the atmosphere in there.
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Log Text: Up the hill across the fields to West Kennet longbarrow. Its bright and clear but very windy up here, which gives good views all around. A steady stream of people are coming up here for a look, but not enough to get in the way. As I suspect is often the case, there is quite a bit of tat and suchlike inside, put there by people who should know better.
Silbury Hill
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Silbury Hill submitted by Scanner on 27th Sep 2019. Silbury Hill by Simon Ferguson
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Log Text: Good views of Silbury today, so I decide to walk to it along the path in the fields north of the busy A4 road. It looks lovely in this light, sometimes in the sunshine and sometimes in the shade. With the bright green grass of the fields blowing around in the wind, it looks to be floating in a sea of green. Beautiful, and strangely compelling. From here I walk towards Avebury along the stream, but see people walking over Waden Hill, so decide to go over that and down to the Avenue, so as to approach Avebury along the West Kennet Avenue. There are fabulous views of Silbury Hill in its plain from up here, probably the best views of it there are to be had.
Falkner's Circle
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 25th Sep 2020
Falkner's Circle submitted by Humbucker on 16th Feb 2019. The last stone of Falkners Circle - taken in the snow earlier in February.
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Log Text: Climbing over Waden Hill before walking up the avenue back to Avebury, got a good view of the site of Falkners Circle with its singular stone glowing in the afternoon sun.
West Kennet Avenue
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
West Kennet Avenue submitted by Humbucker on 12th Jan 2019. West Kennet Avenue in the summer. Looking south towards West Kennet.
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Log Text: Down to the bottom of Waden Hill and now head up the West Kennet Avenue towards Avebury. Its stones are positively glowing in the afternoon sunshine. This is obviously the way to approach Avebury, and even a herd of bullocks in the enclosure couldn't deter me from walking all the way up, although I did divert to the top of the area to avoid most of them, which meant not seeing the stone with the polishing grooves again. At the top of the Avenue, cross the road and enter the enormous henge through the entrance portal with the beautiful trees and enormous Barber Stone, which I make sure I get a sit down on. The stones of the inner circle are glowing in the bright sunshine, as I decide to go for a pint in the Red Lion.
Bellever Tor 9
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 9 submitted by davep on 5th Apr 2020. Photo taken July 23 2019 at SX 63585 75470 (N50.56295 W3.92748). Interesting to contrast with the pics taken by Bladup two years earlier. This pic is shortly after vegetation had burnt back.
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Log Text: Day to Dartmoor for a lovely and sunny but tiring walk from Dunnabridge. Decided to start my walk by searching out the various cairns and cists on the way up to Bellever Tor, for which the ViewRanger with OSMap app helped enormously for those marked on the map. First I found, marked as "Cairn & Cist" was a small cist with a couple of surrounding kerbstones in some open rough ground which had probably been burned fairly recently.
Bellever Tor 10
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 10 submitted by davep on 5th Apr 2020. Photo taken 23/07/2019 at grid reference SX 64086 75691 (N50.56506 W3.92048)
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Log Text: Second cain I looked for first had the challenge of getting across the wall into the eastern area. I found the cairn in what I thought was a most unlikely place on a slope, the remains being largely a single cist sideslab, with a few other stones laying nearby.
Bellever Tor 6
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 6 submitted by caradoc68 on 8th Oct 2013. Great little Kist hidden away in the long grass.
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Log Text: Back into the western area to search for this marked as "Cairn Circle & Cist", hiding in amongst the long grass, which was at times almost waist deep. Nice remains of a cist with several cairn kerbstones encirling it.
Bellever Tor 3
Date Added: 29th Jan 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 3 submitted by Anne T on 13th Oct 2016. The Black Newtake North 1 cist, submitted on behalf of Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.
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Log Text: A long and difficult walk through long grass on very uneven ground to try and find this marked on the map as "Cist", which I only found using the gps. I found a single standing stone which I thought must be it, but then while taking photos I almost fell into the cist nearby!
Bellever Tor 2
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 2 submitted by AngieLake on 25th Nov 2009. This is a possible candidate for the 'circle' at SW of Bellever Tor. It's hard to tell, but this looked as if it was placed upright deliberately, and probably part of a cairn circle or hut circle.
10 Sept 09.
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Log Text: Making it over the northern wall into the area where the forest has recently been cleared, and look for the next "Cairn" marked on my map. Even with gps I struggle to find what could be considered to be a cairn, although there were several contenders. I suspect that what I found as a single standing stone was its last remains.
Bellever Tor Cairn one
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bellever Tor Cairn one submitted by caradoc68 on 6th Oct 2013. This incredible Circle Kist is just on the edge of Bellever plantation facing Bellever Tor, mentioned by both Worth and Butler has being a Kist with three sides and a capstone.
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Log Text: Now on a worn pathway along what was previously the edge of the forested area, and I get to what is marked "Cairn & Cist". A nicely formed cairn is found with a few surrounding kerbstones and a large capstone covering the remnants of a cist underneath.
Bellever Tor N Settlement
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor N Settlement submitted by AngieLake on 5th Nov 2009. Looking up the slope of the eastern border of this settlement towards the south and the summit of Bellever Tor.
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Log Text: Following lunch atop the splendid viewpoint that is Bellever Tor, I walked northwards towards Lakehead Hill along the nice and clear pathway which passes through several ancient settlements, of which various walls and other remains can be seen.