LATEST UPDATES, 02/02/02 There has been a long while of not receiving reports, probably due to Drak, our web host (jolly nice people, thoroughly recommended) changing the security on the cgi bins and things so all our scripts broke at once and no one bothered to tell us until Wally did last month. There have been a few reports in since then, plus one that has been languishing in my in box for a while because it got lost (oops). Can I request that if you have sent in a report and don't see it up within 3 weeks, please drop me a line and spank me, because I can be a bit slow sometimes. Also, if you find any broken links or whatever, please let me know.
A NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL READERS Please send in reports if you want. This is NOT a UK only site, I do take submissions from anywhere in the world and would be absolutely thrilled to hear from you. As I imagine an OS grid reference is out of the question, I can take co-ordinates in Lat and Long if you can manage it, or you can give me whatever local grid reference is appropriate - but please be aware I can't check up on them necessarily, and it will be pretty hard for me to look up grid references for international sites. If you want to put a description of the site and its history in the comments field that would be absolutely fantastic.
If you want to find out more about the sites listed here, you should really consider getting a copy of Tom Bullock's CD-ROM.
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I can recommend this, as I have a copy at home. It has a complete listing of stone circles and rows known to exist in the British Isles, and photos of those that Tom has visited.
I have put up some screenshots (jpeg format, between 86 and 106k). I've set them to open in a new window, as they take a short time to download. A perfect present for the Megarak in the family, particularly in those damp, cold winter months, but also for planning visits in summer.
What I am trying to do here is list individual sites, and keep updates of things found at those sites by visitors, to give a record of the debris and damage that occurs there. The idea is that it gives us an idea of the trend in such things, how it varies by season, and over the longer term, whether it is increasing or not, etc etc.
If you have recently visited a prehistoric site, and wouldn't mind taking the trouble, I'd really appreciate it if you could fill in the survey form and send it to me. To make this easier for you, I have added an on-line form here so that all you have to do is fill in the fields. If you don't want any particular part of that information being made available on site, then please let me know in the comments section. Please note that the required fields are your name, the site name, the date of the visit and the location. The form will not post without those fields entered (and of course missing fields reduce the value of your submission).
There is also a text version of the form, which you can take with you to a site, or give to your friends. It might look scrappy online because the line formats don't come out right, but if you save the file ("File menu - save as", or right click on link and choose "save target as") and open it in a standard text editor (eg notepad) it'll be fine.
All of the replies are entered into a Microsoft Access database, and if you want a copy of the publicly available information in database format for your own interest, please mail me. I will not give out information that those submitting the reports have requested remain unpublished.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep the forms coming. I use the information when giving talks, to demonstrate the kind of pressure these places are under, and it's so important to keep track of these things if we want these places to survive. It is so much easier if you just spend 5 minutes filling out the form rather than expecting me to lift the relevant info out of any mails you send to mailing lists etc. The update date on the list below refers to the date I put up the page, not the date of the last contribution.
If you find that I have failed to provide anything other than the name, can I please recommend that you check out Andy Burnham's alphabetical index to see if anyone else has a page up about it. If you have Tom Bullock's CD, of course, you probably won't have to.
