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Porth Hellick Down
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1986
Porth Hellick submitted by Thorgrim on 2nd Jul 2003. Porth Hellick Down entrance grave on St Mary's, Scilly SV 9284 1083. This is the largest and best preserved out of a complex of 8 on the Downs.
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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.
Castle Down, Tresco
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1986
Castle Down, Tresco submitted by Thorgrim on 4th Aug 2004. Entrace grave on the south slope of Tregarthen Hill
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, we spent the day on Tresco, exploring the gardens and walking round most of the island.
Gweal Hill, Bryher
Date Added: 11th Oct 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Isles of Scilly)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1986
Gweal Hill, Bryher submitted by paulcall on 22nd Oct 2007. This view looks south over the southwestern cairn of the three on Gweal Hill.
The central cist can be seen centre-left, and there are two rings of kerbs both of which can just be seen on this photo, although the whole mound is now greatly weathered by its position on the most westernmost point of the inhabited islands on Scilly.
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Log Text: During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, we spent the day on Tresco then in the evening I rowed myself over to Bryher to have a look at the place and watch the sun go down from Gweal Hill
Saint-Michel tumulus
Trip No.187 Entry No.36 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Saint-Michel tumulus submitted by DrewParsons on 7th Nov 2009. The locked south west entrance to the tumulus.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany. Day 4.
Get to visit inside the huge Tumulus St Michel, and see the ancient burial sections within it.
Lagatjar alignements
Trip No.187 Entry No.71 Date Added: 27th May 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 8th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lagatjar Alignements submitted by thecaptain on 18th Oct 2004. Lagatjar Alignements.
West of the fishing town of Camaret, in the far west of the Crozon Peninsula, Finisterre Brittany.
If memory serves me right, these stones form part of a sort of large stone square.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 9. Cycle from Telgruc all around Crozon peninsula.
St-Guinec menhir
Trip No.187 Entry No.82 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 5 Access 5
St-Guinec menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 24th Oct 2010. The 6 metre tall St-Guinec menhir, (Menhir du Cloître) seen in it's garden situation in 2005
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 10. Cycle from Telgruc up over the moors to Huelgoat.
Ty ar Boudiquet Dolmen
Trip No.187 Entry No.81 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 5 Access 5
Ty ar Boudiquet dolmen submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Brennilis Dolmen, an Allee Couvert still partially buried under its mound.
Found just outside the small village of Brennilis, about halfway between Brasparts and Huelgoat in western Brittany
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 10. Cycle from Telgruc up over the moors to Huelgoat.
Kerampeulven Menhir
Trip No.187 Entry No.87 Date Added: 2nd Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 10th Sep 1987. My rating: Access 5
Kerampeulven menhir submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Oct 2010. Kerampeulven menhir is about 5 metres tall, and a lovely shape, set in a little grassy area with some nicely shaded picnic tables.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany 1987 day 11. Day at Huelgoat, cycle to Carhaix to get bike fixed in afternoon. Many strange shaped rocks, and a large menhir with modern ish carvings
Kerivin Dolmen
Trip No.187 Entry No.92 Date Added: 29th May 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 11th Sep 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Kerivin dolmen submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Jun 2011. This Tee shaped allee couverte is supposedly a very good example of the type, but in June 2005it had become very overgrown.
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Brittany day 12. Cycle from Huelgoat, across the Monts Arrée in the pouring rain to St Pol de Leon
Challacombe rows
Date Added: 28th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988
Challacombe rows submitted by thecaptain on 21st Oct 2004. Challacome Multiple Stone Rows.
A fairly old view from Brian Byng looking up the hill along this triple stone row.
This is how I remember the place many years ago - all very overgrown. I must go back sometime to see if its any clearer now.
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Beardown Cairn and Cist
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Beardown Cairn and Cist submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Mar 2017. Beardown Cairn and Cist, near the Lich Way on the heights between the Cowsic and West Dart rivers.
My friend Antony tries out the cist for size, during a memorable walk along the Lich Way across the moor at Easter 1988.
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Log Text: Visited while on walk across Dartmoor on the Lich Way Easter 1988. Walked right by Beardown Cairn and Cist, on the heights between the Cowsic and West Dart rivers. My friend Antony tries out the cist for size. It certainly was the start of a funny event. It was very damp down the bottom of the cist. Sometime later along the walk towards Wistman's Wood, Antony was bringing up the rear, and it was noticed he was walking along with his trousers round his neck, hoping for them to dry out in the sun, wondering how long it would be until anyone noticed... However, we later all ended trouserless with very wet and mucky lower limbs, due to a bog near the Powder Mills.
Conies Down
Date Added: 25th Sep 2021
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Conies Down submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Conies Down Stone Row @ SX58597905 looking north
This row runs almost NS actual azimuth 10 deg. It is 172m long, difficult to find as the stones are small & only about 22 remain standing. The row runs slightly uphill to to a low mound possibly the remains of a burial - no
finds.
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Log Text: Visited while on walk across Dartmoor on the Lich Way. Being new to Dartmoor Stone Rows, and not knowing how small the stones could be, I thought it to be very overgrown and insignificant. Knowing what I do now, its possibly quite a significant row!
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Date Added: 9th Sep 2012
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: Canada
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 1989. My rating: Access 5
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump submitted by thecaptain on 24th May 2009. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The welcome sign with logo.
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America's Stonehenge
Date Added: 24th Oct 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 1990. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
America's Stonehenge submitted by thecaptain on 14th Dec 2003. One of the chambers at Mystery Hill, also known as America's Stonehenge, near Salem, New Hampshire. There are several of these chambers and other structures at the site as well as the calendar sighting stones
I have to say, despite their best efforts to assure me its 4000 years old, the stones just didnt look weathered enough to me.
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Navajo Nat. Mon. - Betatakin
Date Added: 7th Jan 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 1990
Navajo Nat. Mon. - Betatakin submitted by DrewParsons on 3rd Nov 2008. Betatakin settlement
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Bright Angel Trail
Date Added: 18th Nov 2010
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 1990
Bright Angel Trail submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Jun 2009. The Bright Angel Trail is one of the few trails which cross the Grand Canyon, and descends into the canyon from the Grand Canyon Village on the southern rim. The trail is an ancient one, originally used by the Havasupai Indians to reach their gardens low down in the canyon.
Just beyond the first tunnel on the trail down the side of the canyon can be seen some ancient petroglyphs, where there are animals, hand and footprints, and many enigmatic symbols.
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Tusayan Ruins
Date Added: 18th Nov 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 1990
Tusayan Ruins submitted by bat400 on 6th Aug 2006. Large Kiva at Tusayan Ruins, Coconino County, Arizona.
The Tusayan ruins at the Grand Canyon National Park show two separate circular ruins that may have been ceremonial rooms, or Kivas. The smaller one appeared to have burned, was made into some other sort of space. This is the foundation of the larger Kiva, seemingly built later that the first.
There was a firepit in the center of the room and an airshaft (seen in the rear wall.) This is a common feature of both historic Kivas, and simi...
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Fontaine St Jean-du-Doigt
Trip No.193 Entry No.23 Date Added: 13th Jul 2020
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: France (Bretagne:Finistère (29))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1992. My rating: Access 5
Log Text: Cycling camping trip of north Brittany, day 3. Breton Corniche, Treburden, Lannion, Corniche Armorique to Primel Tregastel.
Ellie of course wanted to see St John the Baptist's finger, but I think the church was closed and we couldn't see it. Wonderful camp-site right on the Pointe de Primel, and meal round the other side of the bay at Le Diben, where I made the waitress laugh because of my Quebec accent and expressions!
Temple de Mars
Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 1992. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Temple de Mars submitted by regina on 21st Nov 2018. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle.
Having cycled to this site with the others, all I got was scorn due to the state of the remains. I think it was here that the phrase HOC was first coined. I thought it was interesting.
Menhir Bois-es-Lucas
Date Added: 10th Jun 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22))
Visited: Couldn't find on 19th Sep 1992
Menhir Bois-es-Lucas submitted by regina on 30th Sep 2018. Site in Bretagne:Côtes-D'Armor (22) France
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Log Text: Cycling camping trip round Emerald Coast, day 2, Dinan, Corseul, St Caste. Roman tower, dolmens, Lunch at Le Guildo castle. Failed to find