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Ogmore Castle
Ogmore Castle (Castell Ogwr) is located in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The Castle was built by the Normans in the 12th century to guard Glamorgan against attacks from the Welsh in the west. This was part of a trio of castles including Newport and Coity. Construction began around the year 1106, first as an…
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Hingston Hill/Down Tor Stone Circle
A 1145ft long stone row leading to a 36ft cairn circle in Dartmoor, England. There are 157 stones in the row, but may have originally been 174. Some of the stones had fallen and in 1894 were re-erected in their original sockets. This has been described as one of the most magnificent of all the…
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Zennor Quoit
Other names – Senor, Senar Quoit Zennor Quoit is an impressive neolithic monument in the village of Zennor (or Pluw Senar), in Cornwall. Unfortunately the massive cap-stone has fallen, which happened sometime between 1770 and 1765. Legend claims that any stone removed from the Quoit will find its way back overnight. This was put to…
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Mulfra Quoit
Neolithic cromlech on Mulfra Hill, Cornwall. It is unclear when the 5 tonne capstone slipped. There was a local story that the capstone fell during a thunderstorm in 1752. However, in the 19th century, antiquarian William Copeland Borlase confirms his great-great-grandfather, William Borlase had recorded the site in the same state as far back as…
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Devil’s Quoit – Stackpole
Grid Reference: SR9810095060 The Devil’s Quoit is a prehistoric standing stone, 1.7m tall, located in the Stackpole Warren Nature Reserve in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The landscape of Stackpole is rich in prehistoric history, and in the 1970s was subject to extensive excavations which revealed occupation from the Mesolithic Period through to the Romano-British Period and beyond.…
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Dolmen dit la Pierre de Rabelais
The slabs that make up this pseudo-dolmen were once part of a Neolithic Allée couverte, or ‘covered driveway’ type of dolmen commonly found in Brittany, Île-de-France and Aquitaine. John Peek writes in his ‘Inventaire des mégalithes de France’ (1975) that the original monument was discovered in 1845 during work for the great avenue of the…
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Dyffryn Ardudwy Neolithic Monument
On this page we provide historical records and images of the site, as well as archaeological information and excavation details.Grid Reference: SH58862284 Situated in the village of Dyffryn Ardudwy in Gwynedd, Wales are a pair of dolmens, (or cromlechs as they are often called in Wales), estimated to date to around 3500BC. Excavations in the…
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St Lythans Dolmen/Cromlech
Less than 10 miles from Cardiff city centre in Wales is the village of St. Lythans. Here is where we find a neolithic cromlech, otherwise known as Maes y felin (The mill field), named after the field in which it sits. Another name for the monument is Gwal y filiast, a name shared by a…
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Pentre Ifan Old Records & Images
Pentre Ifan is a neolithic Portal Dolmen in Pembrokeshire, Wales. In this post, we’ll be covering the early antiquarian records of the monument, as well as the oldest photographs and illustrations. We will do a more general post regarding Pentre Ifan and its archaeology and legends. We cover the excavations that took place here in…
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The Pilgrim’s Cross
The village of Nevern (Nanhyfer) in Pembrokeshire, Wales is steeped in history and legends. Carved directly into the rock face high above the village, the Pilgrim’s Cross is believed to date back to the early medieval period, when Nevern seems to have been an incredibly important spiritual place. In the medieval period, pilgrimage was a…
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