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Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2015
Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jul 2015. One of the cairns associated with the larger of the two enclosures.
The top of Roughtor enshrined in mist.
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Showery Tor Northwest Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015
Showery Tor Northwest Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jul 2015. Viewed to the northeast as approaching the stone
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Showery Tor North Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015
Showery Tor North Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jul 2015. Looking around from one of the cairns, I again notice something over towards Davidstow, about halfway to the forest, and wonder what it is, so I decide to walk over and have a look.
This is definitely a standing stone, still stood upright and held in place by a good amount of packing stones.
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North Stoke Promontory Fort
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
North Stoke Promontory Fort submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jul 2015. Panorama from the north western slopes of the promontory fort. The fort itself on the top of the plateau behind. The scarp of the hill has been shaped.
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Log Text: Having a walk round Lansdown, passed through this hillfort. Didn't notice too much of the internal banks and ditches, but must have walked alongside them for a while! The hilltop edge is very steep, and the views to south and west are supreme. A lovely place to stand and stare!
Bessie's Meadow Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2015
Bessie's Meadow Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2015. Viewed here looking east, with Hardings Down behind
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The Beacon (West Glamorgan)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2015
The Beacon (West Glamorgan) submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2015. Approaching the summit cairn from the south, looking north along the ridge of Rhossili Down, Burry Holmes islet in the background.
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Rhossili Down Cairn 3
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2015
Rhossili Down Cairn 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2015. Viewed looking northeast
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Old Castle Camp
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015
Old Castle Camp submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2015. Looking along the banks at the northern side, with the magnificent view of Rhossili Bay beyond.
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Hardings Down East
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015
Hardings Down East submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2015. Some of the embankments of Hardings Down East hillfort can be seen atop Hardings Down, as seen here from Rhossili Down.
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Hardings Down West
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jun 2015
Hardings Down West submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2015. The shape of Hardings Down West hillfort can be seen here on the northwestern slopes of Hardings Down, as seen here from Rhossili Down.
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Roughtor North cairn X
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jun 2015
Roughtor North cairn X submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jun 2015. Remains of a round cairn near to the lower end of the Roughtor Long Cairn, not far from the way onto the open moor from the parking area.
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Sölden menhir
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Austria
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2015
Sölden menhir submitted by theCaptain on 20th Feb 2015. Within central Sölden, there is a large stone of 3 to 4 metres height just standing there.
I have no idea as to whether this is an ancient menhir, but what else would it be doing here?
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Stoanerhof stones
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Austria
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2015
Stoanerhof stones submitted by theCaptain on 20th Feb 2015. To the southern side of the town of Mayrhofen, in the locality of Stoanerhof, a couple of large stones can be seen standing at the sides of various lanes between the farms and chalets. I only have pics of this one.
I have no idea whether they are ancient menhirs, but they don't look natural to me, and look to have been stood in their positions deliberately.
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Pierre Butée
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Normandie:Manche (50))
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2015
Pierre Butée submitted by theCaptain on 18th Jan 2015. Menhir on the Ile de Crosville, in the marais to the southwest of St Sauveur-Le-Vicomte the Cotentin peninsula.
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Showery Tor Northwest Cairn 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jan 2015
Showery Tor Northwest Cairn 1 submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. On the slopes of Showery Tor, above the top end of the long cairn structure, are remains of a few hut and round cairn structures.
I thought this to be the remains of a round cairn with cist.
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Roughtor north
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jan 2015
Roughtor north submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. My memory tells me that there are many round houses and enclosed farmsteads on the northern slopes of roughtor, many in a fine state of conservation, but until we were almost right down at the bottom there was little other than very damaged sites to be seen.
However, down low beside the river and many enclosed farmsteads with their round houses built into the walls can be seen.
I do believe I must have been spoiled by some of the much better preserved hut circles and farmsteads I hav...
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Whitestone (Lee)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2015
Whitestone (Lee) submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2015. I found a place to park and got out for a look, and there was the large white quartz stone, stood in the paddock just above the roadside.
It's probably about 8 to 10 feet tall, and cannot be seen from the nearby roadside due to the thick hedge, but it can be seen (in winter anyway) from further up the hillside
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Woolacombe Memorial
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2015
Woolacombe Memorial submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2015. Closer inspection reveals this to be a memorial to the American soldiers of the second World War who were based in this area in the build up to D-Day, using the beaches of Woolacombe and nearby Saunton to practise their invasion techniques.
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Tintagel Cliff Castle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 21st Dec 2014
Tintagel Cliff Castle submitted by theCaptain on 21st Dec 2014. Enjoying a pleasure flight in an old DH89 Rapide biplane, the spectacular Tintagel Head and castle was clearly visible from my side of the aeroplane as we did a 270 degree turn above it.
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Treburrick menhir
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2014
Treburrick menhir submitted by theCaptain on 6th Dec 2014. On returning from the stone, there was a lovely old chap sat on the farm wall, wanting a chat. He told us that there used to be 5 stones standing around here. Of the other four, he said:
"One (upstream from the remaining stone) was pulled up by the new man in the farm over there when he moved in a few years back, don't know what he did that for, they do no harm, and I think they should be left where they be, its not for us to mess with these old things".
"One of them fell over, it was too b...
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