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This trip was designed to visit as many ancient sites as possible allowing time to film at every one in a documentary film making project, it was a great trip and one which inspired the formation of The Modern Explorers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We hired a van with a tent on the roof and started close to London by filming at the Waylands Smithy long barrow before spending a couple of days visiting some stone circles on our way up to the Orkney Islands. We took the ferry to the island and visited some really mysterious sites in the village of Skara brae and the Brodgar ring. Once back on the mainland we drove from one tip of the U.K to the other visiting sites along the way and spent 4 days videoing in the South West of England before finishing back in London. We did a lot of driving, filming, walking, chilling and we saw a great diversity in the megalithic sites.<\/p>\n

Below are details of some of the sites we visited.<\/p>\n

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Stone Circles<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are hundreds and hundreds of stone circles all over the British Isles, we selected some that we considered to have interesting features. We visited from North to South:<\/p>\n

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Brodgar Ring<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a huge stone circle, 104m in diameter, located between two lochs on the beautiful Orkney Islands off the North coast of Scotland.<\/li>\n
East Aquhorthies<\/strong>\u00a0is an example of a recumbent stone circle in the Aberdeenshire area with a 9 ton recumbent stone that is lying on its side.\u00a0There are around 100 other recumbent circles close to this one.<\/li>\n
Long Meg and Her Daughters<\/strong>\u00a0are\u00a0set in Cumbria Long Meg is\u00a0a standing stone (described below) \u00a0and sits next to Her Daughters which form a flattened oval circle (100m x 93m) consisting of around 60 stones.<\/li>\n
Swinside<\/strong> and Castlerigg<\/strong>\u00a0 are\u00a0both in the lake District and interesting because they appear to be on the Belinus ley line and have other features to their structures.<\/li>\n
The Rollright Stones<\/strong>\u00a0consists of a stone circle made from limestone stones and also\u00a0a cairn, some barrows and standing stones close by. Interesting that there are so many stories attached to the Rollright stones.<\/li>\n
The Hurlers<\/strong>\u00a0is a site on Bodmin Moor (South West of England) with 3 stone circles close together, these circles are located directly on the St Michael\u2019s Ley line and\u00a0there have been suggestions also that the circles are astronomically aligned with the Orion\u2019s Belt.<\/li>\n
Stonehenge<\/strong> \u2013 how could we not go to Stonehenge, we paid double the price to be able to visit the circle before it opened and to go within touching distance of the stones.<\/li>\n

The Avebury Complex<\/strong>\u00a0is one of my\u00a0favourite sites for so many reasons.\u00a0Namely the size of the larger stone circle and the stones that make it but also the presence of a corridor, Silbury hill\u00a0and the\u00a0West Kennett Long Barrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Long Barrows<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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West Kennet Long Barrow<\/strong>\u00a0– This is one of Britain’s biggest chambered long barrows about half a mile to the west of Silbury Hill (both part of the Avebury complex). It is more than 100m long and 2.4m high, lying in an East – West orientation, with a 10m long interior made up of a corridor and 5 rooms\/chambers. The largest stone at the front of the long barrow is huge, 3 metres tall and we would guess around 15 tonnes.<\/li>\n
Wayland\u2019s Smithy<\/strong> – A Long Barrow in Oxfordshire, which we visited due to its proximity to the Uffington White Horse. It is 55m in length and ranges from 8m to 15m wide forming a trapezoidal shape. Inside there are three small chambers, one main one and two to the sides, if they were rooms they were built for children or hobbits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Standing Stones<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
We came across many standing stones on our trip but some of those that stood out as interesting to us were:<\/p>\n
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The Stones of Stenness (Orkney islands a few miles from the Brodgar Ring) as they were huge and possible part of a stone circle with the ruins of a dolmen<\/li>\n
Lundin Links – Three tall standing stones situated on the fairway of a Golf course, they stand forming a large triangle, although it is claimed that there is a stone missing and that the three tall stones used to stand in a large rectangular arrangement.<\/li>\n
Long Meg (In Cumbria, next to a large stone circle) \u2013 interesting due to the red rock used and the spiral\/circle shapes, the spirals are fascinating and can be found all around the world from Sagaro Nat.Park, Arizona to Croatia. David Talbot has suggested that rock art could represent highly charged electrical events that could have taken place in the ancient sky and were 100 times more powerful than the famous Northern Lights. Click for a great documentary about this topic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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Dolmen<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Dolmen are a global phenomena and found all over the U.K but the majority are found in the South West of England. We visited:<\/p>\n
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Chun Quoit \/ Dolmen<\/strong> – If this dolmen was a tomb it was for very small people.<\/li>\n
Lanyon Quoit<\/strong>\u00a0 is a\u00a0tall dolmen standing at around 2 metres with a 2.7m x 5.3m capstone weighing approx. 13.5 tonnes.<\/li>\n
Trethevy Quoit<\/strong> is\u00a0a huge and beautiful structure we visited as it looks like a sculpture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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Skara Brae<\/strong> \u2013 A large well-preserved stone-built Neolithic Settlement on the Orkney islands, we visited as there are few sites in the world that are so obviously dwellings.<\/li>\n
Cairnpapple Hill<\/strong> \u00a0– quite a strange structure about 30m in diameter, it kind of looks like a flying saucer landed and grass grew on top of it. There is a central mound with Stones inside, an area circling the mound with holes dug into the ground and then there is a ditch surrounding the structure. \u00a0A fascinating place.<\/li>\n
Quarrys<\/strong> – We visited a quarry on the Orkney islands that is believed to be where the Brodgar ring stones were taken from and we stopped at a pile of rocks that stood out in the landscape near Landsend and certainly looked like an artificial structure.<\/li>\n
Brentnor<\/strong> \u2013 There are many churches called St Michael\u2019s which are curiously located along the St Michael\u2019s Ley line, we visited this site because this one is on top of a mound (like those at Glastonbury and \u2018Burrowbridge Mump\u2019). The existence of St Michael\u2019s churches along the St Michael\u2019s Ley Line suggests that these energy lines are important and that the church builders had the same knowledge that the ancient civilisation before us had i.e. they knew how to use and manipulate these energies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n
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This is just a sample of the sites in the U.K, we fully intend to plan more trips to document more of the beautiful monuments remaining in the British countryside.<\/p>\n
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Research for this trip was made a lot easier thanks to www.megalithic.co.uk<\/a>, we recommend this website for more information on each site.<\/p>\n
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