Andy Burnham's Blog, page 88

Gurranes

Three slender pillars in Co. Cork known as The Three Fingers rise dramatically against the sky. Up to 4.2m tall, evenly spaced and set into joints in the exposed rock surface. A fourth stone lies prostrate nearby, out of line. A fifth stone was removed in the 19th century and now stands in the Somerville Estate at Castletownshend.

Trellsborg hillfort

The hillfort at Trellsborg is one of the most well preserved and fascinating hillforts I have visited! It has the most well preserved walls and layout of most Norwegian and Scandinavian hillforts.
From the small farm of Skogheim there is a parking lot and a marked 1,5 kilometres long footpath leading up the hills and trough the forest to the hillfort.

Seaureaugh standing Stone

Seaureaugh standing stone is one of Cornwall's lesser known standing stones, It is also one of it's newest as it was only officially listed as a prehistoric standing stone in 2007. I had a feeling upon seeing it that it may even be (because of it's size and shape, it's around the 5 foot mark) a last remaining stone circle stone and would be a great site for investigation by a ground-penetrating radar.

Carn Urnan

Stone Circle and kerb cairn in Highland. Carn Urnan, a kerb cairn within a stone circle, lies in the corner of a garden of a croft house. Seven stones remain of the outer circle, three of which have fallen. All are well over a metre in height. There are gaps to the south-west and north-north-west indicating there may have been more originally.

Cefn-Henllan Stone Circle

Modern Stone Circle in Monmouthshire. On top of a long low lying ridge in the Usk Vale, a few miles North of the M4 (Newport, South Wales).
The circle itself consists of twelve stones, two inside are aligned SW-NE, the North Eastern stone being approx 8ft. The South Western being a small chamber.

Pyntelund/Bjørnstadskipet

This site is well known to contain Norway's largest single rock carving figure, it is called Bjørnstadskipet and is a 4.5 metre long single ship carving with some smaller carvings next to it. The ship itself is an impressive sight complete with several lines probably representing crew and some taller figures at the front and the end.

Smørbergåsen hillfort

The hillfort is located on a elongated North-East to South-West oriented hill with a thick fir forest. The walls have largely collapsed over the years and become overgrown and can be difficult to see although still possible to make out.

Guhyeon-wang nun

Like Eunhyeonni-ni cairn, it is not clear if this cairn is a chambered cairn or a Buddhist pyramid. It is called in Korea generally, “‘So-called’ mausoleum of King Guheong”. King Guhyeong was the last king of Geumgwan Gaya which was a member of the Gaya confederacy i.e. small kingdoms on the southern shore of the Korean peninsula,annexed by United Silla Kingdom.

Newbeggin Stone Row (Possible)

This page is intended to capture photographs and locations for other stones/standing stones/erratics that may once originally have made up part of the Newbeggin Stone Row (near Penrith) but which are now incorporated into stone walls or moved to the edges of fields. Please see the photos on this page for individual grid references and an overview map.

Hünenpforte

The Hünenpforte is a limestone rock in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name, which means "Giant`s Gate", is derived from its appearance - a natural, free-standing round arch. It is the former entrance of a cave and is up to 7m high. Tools from the Upper Palaeolithic were discovered in the remains of the former cave. Several legends are also attached to the Hünenpforte.