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Devil's Arrows
Date Added: 8th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Devil's Arrows submitted by Humbucker on 27th Apr 2019. All three Devils Arrows looking from the north. The light improved for a brief few minutes & the sun made a brief appearance while I was there before turning into a flat, grey evening.
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Log Text: On a day when it never stopped raining it was still worth trudging (trespassing) through the farmer's knee-high crops of I don't know what, rather than gazing at the two smaller arrows from afar. The biggest arrow is across the road and mighty impressive.
Easy parking at the roadside: the site is now perched on the edge of a modern "little boxes" housing estate.
Grey Wethers.
Date Added: 8th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Couldn't find on 3rd Jul 2023
Grey Wethers. submitted by Bladup on 23rd Oct 2014. The Grey Wethers.
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Log Text: I found Fernworthy S.C. easily enough but just couldn't seem to find Greywethers. A young woman in a Renault was also driving around lost (or perhaps taking driving lessons!) and we coincided three times during my meanders around the reservoir and adjacent area. It was fun waving and grinning as kept passing one another.
Next time I'll try harder but the incessant rain and cold was a powerful disincentive to exploring more fully on foot. Some of the paths through the forest were barred and gated and I suspect if I'd guessed the right one, parked then walked, it would have been a cinch.
Cerne Abbas Giant
Date Added: 8th May 2024
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Cerne Abbas Giant submitted by theCaptain on 2nd Nov 2013. The Cerne Abbas Giant in his latest disguise - having grown his own Movember facial hair.
Thanks to BBC for this picture
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Log Text: Viewed from the tourist car park it is a bit disappointing: you can't necessarily make out the whole outline of this chalk giant. When I get my helicopter license I'll have a better look. But if you're nearby it's worth a quick look-see.
Stenness
Date Added: 8th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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Log Text: In the summer of 2015 I drove from Kent to Orkney in two or three long hops, staying several nights at the Standing Stone Hotel which is (was?) about a mile from the Stones of Stenness. I'd wanted to visit here for soooo long, in particular these stones, ever since seeing them on that Julian Cope album. I can't remember the name right now. Impressive stones, even though the site is probably a shadow of what it once was.
Tomb of the Eagles Museum
Date Added: 8th May 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Log Text: Marvellous museum displaying relics from the Tomb Of the Eagles and one of those rare places that encourages you to handle some of the exhibits. Various stone implements, an eagle's talon, and so on. The inevitable gift shop is not half bad.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Coldrum
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Kent)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2003. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Coldrum submitted by Eric Jones on 16th Jun 2002. View of remains of Coldrum neolithic burial chamber, Kent. Shame there's no crop circle in the background to finish the pic off.
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Log Text: An amazing site: a really steeply banked mound with the chambered tomb about two-thirds the way up - I've never seen anything quite like it. There are a number of decent sized kerb stones around the front part of the mound which a nearby sign describes as a stone circle. The mound kind of merges with the landscape at the back so you can walk around the gentler slope to the left and sit up top looking down upon the tomb.
Uffington White Horse
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 4
Uffington White Horse submitted by SteveC on 15th Jun 2020. Unable to be seen in it's entirety from the ground, this is an image taken from a drone.
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Log Text: You don't get much of an impression of the horse, if it is a horse, when you're up close, especially on a mid-summer day when the site is absolutely crawling with visitors, ice-cream vans etc. As you approach the site the figure is much more distinct though and it's very worth the trip, especially if you follow the footpath along the Ridgeway to Wayland's Smithy. Liable to be very busy too. Not long after we visited some arseholes from the Countryside Alliance or some similar bunch of Tarquins created a red-coated 'rider' as some kind of celebration of fox hunting. Turds.
Wayland's Smithy
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Oxfordshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2002. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 2
Wayland's Smithy submitted by StoneLee on 11th Jun 2015. Wayland's Smithy
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Log Text: Absolutely crawling with visitors on the day we walked along the Ridgway to see this marvellous tomb. If there had been maybe one-third as many kids hooting and yelling as they clambered all over the monument it might have been bearable, but their simian behaviour seemed calculated to annoy. Despite that it was possible to appreciate the tomb for what it is, substantially reconstructed I should think, and to hope for a repeat visit on some colder day outside of the school holidays!
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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Housesteads Roman Fort
Date Added: 9th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Housesteads Roman Fort submitted by jeffrep on 6th Apr 2020. Housesteads was a Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland near the border with Scotland constructed around 124 A.D.
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Log Text: Last stop in England on my way up to Orkney, and well worth it. It's not a long walk from the car park but it's pretty steep. Terribly scenic, and quite well preserved, and I enjoyed the "beware of the ferrets" sign. Apparently they are quite rife and apt to bite. Didn't see any though.
If I had known at the time about the Sycamore Gap, not far away, I'd've made the trek for sure... but too late now.
Arbor Low 1
Date Added: 10th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Arbor Low 1 submitted by wildtalents on 9th May 2024. On a freezing Peak District morning, blowing a gale, the clouds finally parted and there on the horizon was the faint beginnings of a rainbow. Arbor Low is beautiful and that really was the cherry on the cake.
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Log Text: Oh this is a magnificent place, for scenery it is second only to Castlerigg I would say. The day I visited was blowing an absolute gale but just as I was deciding to abandon ship, completely chilled to the bone, a gap appeared in the clouds and a rainbow on the horizon. I absolutely have to go back, in better weather, and explore properly.
Silbury Hill
Date Added: 10th May 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Silbury Hill submitted by MikeyB on 26th Nov 2012. Reflections of Silbury Hill
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Log Text: Passed by many times, stopped for a while quite a few, dating back to the 1960s. Silbury is timeless, commanding the landscape. I like that it is so enigmatic, I love how at certain points within the southern circle at Avebury the very top of Silbury is just visible above the henge bank. At moments like those it is easier to imagine yourself back in the distant past when some sudden flash of a mirror in the sun, or a fire on the twilight horizon, alerts you to a world beyond the ceremonial complex, yet a part of it.
Flag Fen Visitors Centre
Date Added: 10th May 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Flag Fen Visitors Centre submitted by wildtalents on 10th May 2024. Preserved timbers from the causeway at Flag Fen
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Log Text: It's a little bit disappointing to be honest, though I liked the replica huts and the actual causeway remains, constantly kept wet to try and slow down the rot. Although the painted walls are a bit crudely rendered they do a good job of showing how the preserved wooden stakes would have intersected with the remainder of the site. So sad that there's so little to show for it, but I'm glad I visited and picked up quite a nice quartz geode in the shop (and a signed Franny Prior book).