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Medieval Gates of Hay Castle
The oak gates of Hay Castle in Wales are believed to be the oldest working defensive gates in Britain. Each gate is of a different construction, one dating to around the 14th century and the other around the 17th century. The castle was originally constructed as part of the Norman invasion of Wales, as a…
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Maen Llia Standing Stone
Situated in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park in Powys, Wales is this 3.7m tall stone named Maen Llia. It sits on a stone and earth mound and is thought to have been erected in the late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. There is a legend that the stone will sometimes go down to…
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Drizzlecombe Bronze Age remains
Drizzlecombe is a complex of Bronze Age monuments located on the western side of Dartmoor in Devon, England. It consists of an extensive group of stone rows, standing stones (menhirs), cairns, as well as enclosed settlement sites which mainly spread across the slopes of Hartor Hill near the River Plym. The most striking features of…
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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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