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Kit's Coty.
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kit's Coty. submitted by enkidu41 on 8th Apr 2004. The H-shaped chamber of a 180' long chambered long barrow the mound of which has disappeared. The tallest upright is 8' and the huge capstone is 13' x 9'. TQ 745 609
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Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Milfield Reconstructed Henge at Maelmin Heritage Centre submitted by Modern-Neolithic on 15th Oct 2013. Milfield Reconstructed Henge in Northumberland.
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Slaggyford Stone Rows
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Slaggyford Stone Rows submitted by David on 1st Feb 2022. Stone row 1 looking south - but a different time of year and standing a bit further back. It's a fair length and has a carved stone down at the end, this way.
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Slaggyford Stones
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Slaggyford cup-marked stone submitted by David on 6th May 2002.
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Tot's Four-Poster
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Tot's Four-Poster submitted by David on 26th Jan 2022. Three stones here - the fourth under the adjacent fieldwall.
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Kirkhaugh Stone Circle
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kirkhaugh Stone Circle submitted by David on 1st Feb 2022. Some bits are very well preserved. The outer ditch imay be debateable but this is what looks like a southern entrance.
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The Hanging Stone (Haydon)
Date Added: 15th May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Hanging Stone (Haydon) submitted by Anne T on 7th May 2019. Standing just behind the stone looking north east. The stone is in a slight dip in the landscape and a (water?) channel runs almost from the base of the stone to the north east, where it joins another small stream. I wondered if at some point the stone marked the location of a spring, although this is not shown on the early OS maps. From here, it looks as if the top half of the stone is 'hooked'
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St Bartholomew's Church (Newbiggin by the Sea)
Date Added: 17th May 2024
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
St Bartholomew's Church (Newbiggin by the Sea) submitted by Anne T on 26th Sep 2018. This unusual fragment is built into the southern end of the east wall, near the altar (inside). It has been interpreted as "a net with entangled fishes" (the fishes head can just be seen towards the top of the stone). This fragment is dated to the 12th century and is said to have been part of a column capital.
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Three Kings
Date Added: 31st May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Three Kings submitted by cosmic on 29th Aug 2004. Three Kings from East
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Westbury White Horse
Date Added: 11th May 2024
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 1986. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Westbury White Horse submitted by dodomad on 26th Jul 2021. Westbury Horse - one of a set of illustrations by Eric Ravilious, featuring hill figures from the south-east and south-west of England, all painted in 1939, and intended to illustrate a children’s book he was working on for Puffin.
Now available as a set of postcards from Rather Good Art.
The book got as far as the mock-up stage by 1942, but sadly never reached completion. Ravilious was recorded as missing in that year (‘death presumed’), after a patrol searching for a missing L...
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Log Text: I grew up in Warminster so the horse was a fairly easy walk away, but rather a more challenging one if you wanted to take a closer look. I remember sitting in the turf eyeball one time. Sitting at the summit of the hill and looking down gives you a real sense of what an immense hill figure this is.
Stonehenge.
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 1987. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 3
Stonehenge. submitted by Bladup on 9th Jan 2024. The Heel Stone Quietly Watching The Winter Solstice Setting Sun at Stonehenge, 2023
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Log Text: I haven't been to Stonehenge for a very long time now, the last visit I recall at all clearly was in the company of a newish girlfriend on an absolutely freezing day. But I visited often as a child, in the days when you could wander around anywhere and even - gasp - touch the stones. I believe my ex-wife and I visited with our son (only child, at the time) when we went camping in the area which would have been about 2000-ish. I guess I might go back sometime but to be honest it is always anticlimactic.
Stanton Drew - The Cove
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 1993. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Stanton Drew - The Cove submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. The Cove 01/04/09
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Log Text: I guess there aren't that many megalithic monuments in pub gardens. Nice to sit in the sun in the shade of the two upright cove stones, especially given that (at the time) the Druids Arms was a right manky dump (smelly).
Addington Long Barrow
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1995. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Addington Long Barrow submitted by bec-zog on 9th Oct 2003. Addington Park Chambered Long Barrow
TQ 653,591
Beside road from Wrotham Heath to Addington
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Log Text: I visited the barrow on the same afternoon as visiting the Chestnuts nearby. Could only view from the roadside and to be honest mot much was visible in the long grass but a couple of stones which were on the tomb's kerb. Disappointing.
Chestnuts
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 1995. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Chestnuts submitted by enkidu41 on 8th Apr 2004. The stones are massive (the 2 capstones and some uprights weigh up to 10 tons) and once formed a rectangular chamber 12' long and 7' high entered through a facade of sarsen stones. The owner will suggest you try dowsing rods. Do so, because you will be able to trace out the full extent of the chamber and long gone mound. TQ 652 592
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Log Text: Having telephone Rose Alba to make an appointment I turned up the appointed hour and what a treat.Imagine having this in your back garden!
The owner of the property was very generous with her time, and had a clearly well rehearsed spiel all typed up on laminated sheets. This was very helpful indeed in interpreting the site. Before heading off to cook her tea, leaving me to explore on my own for a bit, she offered me some dowsing rods, demonstrated the art, and then I had a go. Uncanny. With no intervention from me the rods went spinning about ninety degrees and then back when crossing certain parts of the site. Less movement but still noticeable at other points. You'd gladly pay a tenner or more if it was a National Trust property.
Oldbury Castle
Date Added: 11th May 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 1997. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Oldbury Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 23rd Oct 2003. Oldbury Castle and Cherhill Down
Nominated by Andy B
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Log Text: Stumbled across the ramparts while making the trudge up to the Cherhill white horse. You feel a real sense of achievement when you make it to the top and look back over the route you came. One thing is for sure: you would not have much energy left for acts of aggression against the occupiers.
Cherhill White Horse
Date Added: 11th May 2024
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 1997. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Cherhill White Horse submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Cherhill White Horse - the 18th century hill figure located below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on June 2010).
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Log Text: Mainly glimpsed as driving by towards Avebury but I did make the climb up the hill for a closer look the one time. It's a bit smaller than Westbury WH and doesn't seem quite so well rendered but an impressive gee gee nonetheless.
West Kennett Long Barrow
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 1997. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 2
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: The only time we visited the West Kennet Long Barrow we were just about to leave when a bunch of folks turned up and held some kind of a sing-song inside. We hung about a while marvelling at the booming then made our way down the hill just in case some sacrificial rite might be about to unfold.
Prior to that, we'd had about thirty minutes to recover from the uphill walk, have a smoke, and admire the Avebury sacred landscape as it unfolds below you. The view of Silbury Hill from up there is second-to-none. The Barrow itself is reconstructed quite substantially but if you ignore the little bits of mortar here and there it is possible to imagine yourself many many hundreds of years before, literally in the bowels of the Earth. A magic place and I have to visit again.
Figsbury Rings
Date Added: 11th May 2024
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 1999. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Figsbury Rings submitted by Bladup on 14th Apr 2024. Figsbury Rings, Looking West over the Northern part of the fort
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Log Text: You can drive, slowly, up to a car park very near the rings. It's a popular dog-walker site so if you meet someone on the way to or from the site it can get a bit fraught. The outer ring has henge-like banks though quite some distance from the ditches if I recall correctly. There's a wide flat causeway and then another ring roughly concentric with the outer one. A double causeway leads to a central platform. Almost like an amphitheatre in some ways. There are great views of the Salisbury district.
Four Stones (Powys)
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2000. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Four Stones (Powys) submitted by vicky on 13th Sep 2002. The Four Stones Stone Circle in Powys. Photo taken by Cassian Hall.
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Log Text: Compact and intense, the four stones stand at the edge of a field, the tallest is just high enough to peep over the wall at the edge of the lane. Judging by photos of my then wife next to the stones three of the four are above five feet, the tallest nearer six. The fourth stone is somewhat stumpier but still a boulder of some stature. They appear to be arranged in more a square than a circle.
Stoney Littleton
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2001. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Stoney Littleton submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Mar 2005. Stoney Littleton barrow viewed from the west.
Its a cracking little barrow, with the most wonderful passage and chambers inside, and the powers that be have even left a decent sized area around it free of any farming activity. A lovely sunny day, but some of the walk to the barrow was horrendously muddy.
The fields around the barrow had recently been ploughed, a crop of beet of some sort having been the last grown. While walking back after my visit, I found a bit of the lovely golden colou...
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Log Text: Bit of a trek up, along, then up some more, while dodging the cows etc. But worth it, even if those corbelled kerb stones look a bit sus. The ammonite fossil on the left-hand side portal stone is pretty special.