Andy Burnham's Blog, page 35

Propped Stone at Eastern Tor

A propped stone, newly identified by author and tour leader Peter Knight, on Dartmoor's Eastern Tor. It overlooks stone rows, cairns, menhirs, and enclosures of the Drizzlecombe complex. The site contains a capstone 5 ft across, held up by a smaller stone, which rests freely on a 10 ft long, earth-fast grounder. Listed as a glacial or geo-erratic, the Propped Stone may have been human engineered as part of the Drizzlecombe Complex of megalithic stone structures.

Dolmen de Pen-Hap

Dolmen on the Île aux Moines, in the Gulf of Morbihan, Some of the stones have carvings on them.

Pentre Farm Stone Head

Sculptured Stone in A Romano-Celtic stone head (Middle Iron Age to Medieval period) in the 1980s excavated from a pond at Pentre Farm, Bronygarth, Shropshire. The stone head is now set in a wall by the entrance to the farm. Two Celtic stone heads were found at nearby Well Cottage, Bronygarth in the 1960s and are now in the British Museum. http://www.britishmuseum.org/collecti...

Hill o'Many Stanes

Hill o'Many Stanes, also known rather matter-of-factly as Mid Clyth Stone Rows. This unique arrangement of tiny stones (all less than 1m tall) is fascinating to see, if not as impressive as some of the megaliths in Orkney just across the sea to the north. Originally there were 250 uprights arranged in 22 rows aligned approximately north-south.

Ildbjerg Langdysse

A double chambered and kerbed long-barrow, measuring 27m by 8m, oriented NNW – SSE. The large northern dolmen chamber has lost its capstone. Height would have been about 1.80m. The similar sized southern chamber is almost perfectly preserved.

Swallowhead Spring

The chalky water of the River Kennet in full flood as it flows away from The Swallowhead Springs near East Kennet village. There are at least two spring outlets a few metres from each other. One has been decorated at some time since 1979 by the addition of small sarsen stones. More photos in all seasons, wet and dry on our page.

Dun Ban (Loch Hornaraigh)

An ancient fort in Loch Hornaraigh, Isle of Grimsay (between North Uist and Benbecula). The causeway can be seen to the front right of the Dun, intact along all of its length, rising some 8 feet from the loch's floor.

Havängsdösen

A long dolmen in Skåne wonderfully sited near the sea. Sized 11 x 5 x 0.7 meters, the chamber is 2.7 x 0.7 meters with 16 kerbstones and 5 orthostats supporting a single capstone.

Dolmen de Poulliot

A pleasant dolmen towering high in a field. The capstone is sitting on three support stones (orthostats). At least some sort of passage must have gone missing. In a field of crops about 200 metres from the road, but with a signpost.

Carreg Pen y Clogwyn

Situated at the edge of an upland marsh the stone stands on high ground and may have acted as a marker stone. A now ruined/obsolete dry stone wall lies a little higher up, itself surpassed by a more modern wall a few metres away. The stone stands at 1.10m tall. It has an irregular shape with a 0.8m base tapering to an 0.3m top. The ruins of the deserted settlement of Pen y Clogwyn lies to the NW and the more ancient settlement of Cil Drygwr lies to the SW.