Andy Burnham's Blog, page 39

Merrivale Menhir

A large Standing Stone making up part of the Merrivale complex on western Dartmoor in Devon. The menhir is 42 metres south of the centre of the stone circle, and is 3.1 metres high. Several other small stones stand in the vicinity, and there are also the remains of several cairns and pits.

Clitters Cairn

A round cairn on East Moor, 15 metres in diameter. There is a central hollow in the cairn, created by antiquarian digging, which now makes it a convenient shelter for sheep out on the moor. It is a fairly prominent landmark on the edge of the moor, on a local high point with a small tree growing from its bank. An ancient field boundary changes direction at the cairn.

Afon Lliw Hut Circle

Situated on an elevated platform within a narrow flat marshy valley between a crescent shaped ridge to the west and the higher ridge of Bancian Duon to the east. The hut circle lies close to the Afon Lliw as it meanders down the valley. This is a sheltered site with the crescent ridge protecting the hut from the west and south whilst the hillock Bancian Duon shelters it from the east. The hut has been constructed upon a platform that raises it about a metre above the valley floor possibly to avoid flooding.

Advent Ring Cairn

The remains of a ring cairn robbed of most of its stones. Still an impressive site with the even more impressive Rough Tor in the background. Bladup writes: I liked it here, It was a nice surprise to find such a nice ring cairn in a mucky farmers field.

Menhirs de Crolaie

Standing stones in Bretagne:Morbihan. There are several other stones here as well as this unusually shaped one.

Louden Hill chamber

Hundreds more sites in the area, see our nearby sites list and map on this page. The remains of a likely Burial Chamber on the western slopes of Louden Hill, northwestern Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall. Two of the stones are still standing, one long one on its edge and a smaller one standing at right angles to this at the northern end. At the southern end is another slab, which is flat to the ground, but which appears to have made another end of the chamber at one time. The fourth stone is the largest, and is leaning up against the outside of the standing side stone. Could this be a dislodged capstone ?

Diévet Dolmen

Now completely surrounded by cultivated fields, the remains of this allée couverte are easily found to the west of the hamlet of Diévet. What remains are two parallel rows of orthostats (12 in total), between 10 and 11 metres in length by 1.5 metres wide, and with a single large capstone remaining in the middle.

Karahoonj

Stone Circle in Armenia. 223 basalt stones of up to 3 meters tall, 84 of them have holes. According to archaeologists from the University of Munich who surveyed it in 2000, Karahoonj was mainly a necropolis dating from the Middle Bronze Age into the Iron Age (1500 BCE - 300 BCE).

Maes-y-Castell

A small oval enclosure situated on the top of a dome-shaped hill that reaches 250m above sea
level in Carmarthenshire. It is defended by a double bank and ditch system that is strongest on the south side, and weaker on the east side where the ground slopes away more steeply. There are two
entrances; a simple entrance on the east that appears to have been disturbed in the past, and an entrance on the south-west that has overlapping terminals with some in-turning of the inner bank, perhaps forming a small annexe between the ramparts.

Kergonan Cromlech

On the Île aux Moines, in the Gulf of Morbihan is found the largest cromlech in France, diameter 101 metres. This cromlech has a northern branch called "Le Moine" (5 stones at 47.59099N 2.85060W) and a southern part, starting near the information panel at 47.59030N 2.85160W. The top photo shows the Moine (Monk) himself, turned to stone.