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Clogwyn Arllef Hillfort and Field System
Date Added: 11th Apr 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Clogwyn Arllef Hillfort and Field System submitted by Maffro on 7th Feb 2024. This ridgeline stone is south of the hut circles and seems to have the Ysgyrfarnogod to Graig Ddrwg ridge line accross the top.
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Log Text: Simple but very steep 30 minute walk along a waymarked footpath from Gwern Einion. Excellent 360 views from the top. The footpath has been repaired since my unsuccessful attempt two years ago!
The instructions and detailed archaeology plan of the hillfort are in this leaflet -
https://www.walesher1974.org/her/groups/GAT/media/GAT_Reports/GATreport_839_compressed.pdf
Cors Uchaf E Hut Group
Date Added: 10th Apr 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Cors Uchaf E Hut Group submitted by w650marion on 6th Mar 2019. Enclosure wall and hut circle
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Log Text: Hunting the six hut circles in the field is good fun. Best time of year when the bracken is low.
Castle Ring (Stiperstones)
Date Added: 9th Apr 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castle Ring (Stiperstones) submitted by w650marion on 13th Nov 2019. Castle Ring Hillfort, surrounded by steep precipitous slopes on all sides apart from a saddle just visible in the distance. It's a long walk to it!
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Log Text: Relatively easy walk up from Snailbeach car park (compared with the ankle breaking southern Stiperstones path!) Excellent views down into the dingles and across the Shropshire plain.
Cors y Gedol Round House Settlement
Date Added: 3rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2025. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Cors y Gedol Round House Settlement submitted by w650marion on 2nd Mar 2025. Close to the footpath, another ring of stones appears in early spring when the brambles and bracken have died back. It was something important once, quite substantial and there is a very welcoming atmosphere. I always say hello and we have a little chat.
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Log Text: It's an old friend that appears only in early spring. We chat. I hear -
"Allo! Come inside and meet the missus. Have a nice cup of tea......."
These woods are a labyrinth.
Coed Cors y Gedol Round House
Date Added: 3rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2025. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Coed Cors y Gedol Round House submitted by w650marion on 2nd Mar 2025. It appears in the early spring. The substantial ring of green stones that once was a round house. I like to go and say hello every year, it looks very welcoming. By early summer it will disappear, hidden by brambles and bracken.
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Log Text: A happy day. An old friend appears out of the undergrowth.
Caer Din Hillfort
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 28th Feb 2025
Caer Din Hillfort submitted by w650marion on 28th Feb 2025. Entrance on the eastern side of the Hillfort, more excellent views.
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Log Text: It's very close and visible from the Kerry Ridgeway single track road. If the grass verge was dry you could possibly park close to the gate of the field. But everywhere in Shropshire is permanently wet and boggy these days so it's best to park securely in a lay-by closer to Bishops Castle and enjoy the walk in along the Ridgeway.
Hoarstones
Date Added: 27th Feb 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
Hoarstones submitted by Postman on 1st Apr 2018. The sun came out at last and made the whole scene far too bright, it was almost painful to look.
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Log Text: It's a sad unloved stone circle in a very boggy large field marked "private keep out". Not one I visit very often, I do remember it having official access with an info board 30 years ago. It looked better then but I can't find any photos (it was pre digital camera days)
Castle Ring (Rorrington)
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Castle Ring (Rorrington) submitted by TimPrevett on 12th Jul 2005. One of a number of monuments called Castle Ring; this one near Rorrington just north west of Stapeley Hill.
Just one ring surrounds this hilltop, with glorious views. Access is not obvious, so follow the route on the map, and when going through the wood, mind your footing. Tripping hazards abound.
A lovely remote place. Even though, while I was here on midsummer eve, a man on a quad bike came riding on a track to the south. If I recall correct, he was the brother of the landowner. We discuss...
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Log Text: We frequently visit this modest hillfort - it has fantastic views and a lovely peacefull ambience. It's the start of an interesting walk of natural springs, cairns and stone circles....
Holywell Brook (Rorrington)
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Holywell Brook (Rorrington) submitted by TimPrevett on 12th Jul 2005. On the far north end of Stapeley Hill, two springs close to each other emanate from the hillside, converging into one brook.
For centuries these springs were venerated, even as late as the 19th Century. On Holy Thursday, there would be a procession here, and the springs decorated and dressed. Ritual dropping of pins into the water, drinking of a brew made from water and sugar, and eating of cakes were observed. All this followed by a fair in Rorrington village itself.
Source: Stapeley Hill H...
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Log Text: I love to come here and see the water issuing out of the green hillside. The two springs always make a gentle tinkle and trickling sound, so peaceful. Always here no matter what the time of year. A sort of magical place.
Stapeley Hill Cairn
Date Added: 30th Dec 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Stapeley Hill Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. A cairn on Stapeley Hill; see main entry for full details - click on blue text link to the left of the picture.
A composite shot looking towards Corndon Hill, and Mitchell's Fold (out of view).
It was snowing hard at this point on Midwinter Solstice Eve, and even I was questioning my sanity about being in this exposed, beautiful and dramatic landscape.
A biting wind meant I did not stay here for any longer than necessary to get a shot, but on subsequent trips, it will be worth spending tim...
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Log Text: Why here, on the mid point of the saddle, between the two highest points? A carefully chosen placement for its location. Always a lovely walk.
Mynydd Egryn Settlement
Date Added: 21st Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Egryn Abbey, Hengwm, Round Hut Excavated By Ardudwy Early Landscapes Project submitted by pab on 21st Jun 2008. Mynydd Egryn (Mount Egryn). Midway between the 2 tombs of Carneddau Hengwm and the crown-effect cairn circle of Hengwm on the slopes of Mynydd Egryn. A series of circles seem to have been recently excavated. This picture looks over the circle towards NE (the top of Moelfre bearing 11' if that helps locate it)
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Log Text: Absolute pleasure to visit here on a sunny day. We usually make it at least once a year and are getting to know the layout of the sites quite well. There are more hut circles to be found in this enormous field and the field next door, but the gorse is getting quite high so it takes a bit of detective work to match them up with the records. Something to look forward to next year.
Mitchell's Fold
Date Added: 21st Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Dec 2024
Mitchell's Fold submitted by w650marion on 21st Dec 2022. Mitchell’s Fold Circle for the setting sun on the winter solstice of 2022.
25 minutes before the event we had torrential rain and dark skies!
But then it cleared and it was quite lovely.
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Log Text: Winter Solstice sunset, a glimpse of the sun for a few minutes before it disappeared behind clouds and below the horizon. Four friendly strangers in attendance on the very cold and windy site.
Hengwm Ring Cairn
Date Added: 14th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Hengwm Ring Cairn submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Sep 2007. This is a delight not to be missed. If you visit the tombs at Carneddau Hengwm, this is just a few minutes walk away. Take it in, or you'll be kicking yourself. A small ring cairn, with outward leaning stones, and an internal ring recognisable in most of the monument. It appears also to be sited so as to give an impression of being on a ridge. Comparisons with Bryn Cader Faner, which is to the north on another good long, walk, are easy to make.
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Log Text: Beautiful. So stunning that everyone ignores the Mynydd Egryn Settlement 15meters away!
Old Oswestry Fort
Date Added: 23rd Oct 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Old Oswestry Fort submitted by Bladup on 16th Jan 2016. Old Oswestry, western side looking north.
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Log Text: Extensive views for miles from the ramparts, despite being a low hill. Enjoyable walk on a well cared for Hillfort. The southern half and large central area is being grazed by black soay/hebridean sheep (Iron Age sheep) to keep the bracken away - it can damage the archaeology.
Cerrig Arthur
Date Added: 20th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cerrig Arthur submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2018. The remaining large stones of Cerrig Arthur, with Cadair Idris beyond in the distance
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Log Text: Significant views over the Mawddach estuary and then looking up to the Bwlch y Rhiwgyr ancient trackway as you reach the platform of the circle. Always a pleasure to do this walk and to visit the circle location.
Nesscliffe
Date Added: 11th Oct 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 10th Oct 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Nesscliffe submitted by Dodomad on 26th Jul 2024. Lisa one of the excavators drawing a patch of ancient pavement. From the dig at this year’s Nesscliffe Hillfort Project
@NesscliffeHill1 on Twitter - more here: x.com/NesscliffeHill1
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Log Text: Archaeologists reconstruction of the guard chamber and entrance passage (with a Drystone veneer) in place - very nice, but the rest of the Hillfort is more difficult to see now due to tree clearance in progress and heavy summer overgrowth.
Llecheiddior
Date Added: 22nd Sep 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 19th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Llecheiddior submitted by JohnnyP on 23rd Feb 2007. The largest & more interesting stone at Llecheiddior
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Log Text: Centre point of a favourite walk past burial chambers, cairns, Hillforts, burnt mounds..... always something to enjoy, whatever the weather.....
Corndon Hill 7
Date Added: 31st Aug 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 24th Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Corndon Hill 7 submitted by TimPrevett on 29th Dec 2004. Corndon Hill 7 - see the main entry for a full write up - click blue text link to the left of the picture.
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Log Text: Started here to walk all the Corndon cairns, then returned to walk the track back to Mitchell's Fold stone circle. People walked this thousands of years ago 😀
Corndon Hill 6
Date Added: 31st Aug 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2024. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 2
Corndon Hill 6 submitted by TimPrevett on 30th Dec 2004. Looking south west, with Corndon Hill 6 cairn in the foreground, and Roundton Hillfort sticking up noticeably in the middle distance.
Crisp big blue sky on Midwinter Solstice 2004. Made me feel very euphoric; wonderful day for visiting this location.
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Log Text: My favourite of all the Corndon Hill cairns! Being slightly lower on its spur, it connects with the landscape below in a beautiful way.
Burrow Hill Camp (Shropshire)
Date Added: 21st Aug 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Burrow Hill Camp (Shropshire) submitted by harleygreyhound on 15th Dec 2022. A different view on the Burrow Hill Fort in the South Shropshire Hills
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Log Text: Centre overgrown but rampart walk clear, lovely views, able to see far into the distance today.