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Boscawen Un
Date Added: 7th Aug 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2008. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Boscawen Un submitted by BazCross on 30th Mar 2012. Boscawen Un photographed March 2012.
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Log Text: The easiest way to find this circle is to park in a small pull in beside the A30 just to the east of the stream crossing at Lower Leha farm, at SW410277. There is now a marked path running south from here, looked after by CASPN, as is the circle itself. Unlike when I last visited, the paths and circles were nicely cleared of gorse and bracken, and it was a pleasure to walk to it, unlike the fight through jungle I had a few years ago. The circle itself lies within a circular enclosure which has been built around it at some time in the past, no doubt to protect it from the farming, or to keep it special. What a wonderful circle this is, now looking beautiful in the morning sunlight, all cleared of the overgrowth. Nineteen stones, averaging just over a metre in height, make up a slightly squashed circle with diameter between 22 and 24 metres. There is an “entrance” gap at the west of the circle, and this space is too small for there to be a missing stone here. Near the centre of the circle is the beautifully leaning gnomon stone, about 2.5 metres in length, and leaning towards the northeast. This stone has obviously been shaped, and appears to have been deliberately set at this leaning angle. All except one of the stones of the circle are a pale granite, which sparkles in this low sunshine. There is however, one stone which is a large block of white quartz, which is positioned at the southwest of the circle. At the northeast of the circle are several other slabs of granite, which are thought to be the remains of a burial cist. It is thought that this circle was in full use right up until the Dark Ages, with references to it in ancient Welsh literature. It is beautiful. I love it here. And such a big improvement over the disappointment of my last visit when it was so overgrown. This really is a special place.
Zennor Quoit
Date Added: 22nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Portal Tomb
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Zennor Quoit submitted by thecaptain on 13th Oct 2008. Zennor Quoit looking southwest on a sunny late September afternoon.
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Log Text: I don’t quite know how I have never been to visit this before, and it takes a bit of finding, despite the fact it can be seen from a long way away on the hilltop, the problem is finding a path through the chest high gorse and brambles which takes you to it. I eventually got to it from Sperris Quoit via several long zig zag pathways, probably walking three times the distance to it as would be how the chough flies ! Wow, this is a big old thing, far bigger than I was expecting. Makes me wonder what it was all like originally, before part of it was destroyed, the capstone fell and the other alterations. This is a lovely spot up here, lots of blue scabious? flowering all around, birds singing and insects buzzing. I try a few “arty” pictures using the shadows and gaps in the stones.
Sperris Quoit
Date Added: 22nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Sperris Quoit submitted by Raze66 on 17th Dec 2022. Photo taken 17/12/22
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Log Text: I parked in a little lay-by near to the Eagles Nest house, and then took the footpath up onto the moors from there. After a while the path was fairly enclosed within tall bracken and gorse, and near the top of the hill, became fairly difficult to proceed along. Once at the top of the hill, I turned left at the remains of a mine building, and took a “path” towards the natural granite outcropping, from the southern end of which the single standing stone of Sperris Quoit could be seen. However, getting to the stones from here was a bit of a bugger, with chest high gorse, brambles and bracken. Good luck to anyone wishing to visit. The remains which can be found today include a single standing stone, 6 feet high, with a few other slabs laying around the remnants of the chamber. There are also traces of an oval mound, but the whole place was very overgrown when I visited.
Terramara di Montale
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Italy (Emilia-Romagna)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2008
Terramara di Montale submitted by thecaptain on 20th Sep 2008. In a little park area outside the church, faint remains of the ancient ditch and embankment can be seen, and there is an enclosed area where excavations were carried out in the 1990s, and many of the finds are displayed in here. However, it has a glass front, and so something of what is inside can be seen at all times.
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Winterbourne Stoke
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2008
Winterbourne Stoke submitted by thecaptain on 6th Sep 2008. Other than the large bowl barrow in this picture, much harder to make out is the pond barrow in the foreground of this picture.
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Trethevy Quoit
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2008
Trethevy Quoit submitted by thecaptain on 31st Aug 2008. helping to prevent Trethevy quoit from falling down, back in the early 1980s.
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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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Shaugh Moor Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor circle submitted by thecaptain on 25th Aug 2008. At the upper end of the stone row, not much remains of the cairn, but a few stones can be identified of its surrounding circle.
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Shaugh Moor row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor row submitted by thecaptain on 25th Aug 2008. It seems like most of the stones are still here, but they are not very big, and many of them are quite difficult to see under the grass and in the undergrowth.
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Shaugh Moor Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 25th Aug 2008. Several hut circles in various states of repair can be found just uphill from the Shaugh Moor stone row and cairn.
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Shaugh Moor South Cairn Circle
Date Added: 24th Apr 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor row submitted by thecaptain on 25th Aug 2008. This stone row is about 180 metres long, running uphill to a cairn with remnants of a surrounding circle.
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Colchester Castle Museum
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2008
Valence House submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2008. The Dagenham Idol while on display at Colchester Castle Museum in 2008.
Found in the Thames mud when the Ford factory was built in the 1930's, and dated to 2250BC.
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Valence House
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2008
Valence House submitted by thecaptain on 24th Aug 2008. The Dagenham Idol while on display at Colchester Castle Museum in 2008.
Found in the Thames mud when the Ford factory was built in the 1930's, and dated to 2250BC.
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Erme Pound
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2008
Erme Pound submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2008. The faint remains of one of the hut circles within the Erme Pound settlement.
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Shaugh Moor Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2008
Shaugh Moor Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2008. Downhill from the Shaugh Moor stone row and cairn, is a cairn which is in surprisingly good condition considering its position.
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Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2008
Maiden Castle Barrow Cemetery submitted by thecaptain on 8th Jul 2008. Inspired by Jim's recent pictures, I just had to search out and find this picture I had taken of a barrow cemetery at Maiden Castle, back in 1985 or 6.
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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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Trout Hill 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2008
Trout Hill 1 submitted by thecaptain on 20th Jun 2008. Trout Hill 1. Looking uphill towards the south showing stones 2 and 1.
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Whittenknowles Rocks
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2008
Whittenknowles Rocks submitted by thecaptain on 15th Jun 2008. To the west of the Drizzlecombe sites, on a southern facing hillside, can be found the remains of the very large Whittenknowles Rocks ancient settlement.
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