Castles, Stone Circles, and Other Ancient Monuments

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British Castles

England | Scotland | Wales | Picture Gallery

Click your mouse on this to go to the Castle Gazeteer	Web Page Shortcuts: Visit a Site... English Castles Scottish Castles Welsh Castles Walled Towns Picture Gallery (1) Picture Gallery (2) Stone Circles Curiosities Marshmount Castle Gwernogle Castle Ocean Liners Keeps and Towers Bolsover Castle
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You could say I was obsessed on the subject of castles and prehistoric stone circles. Here is a selection of some of my favorite links to sites on the Internet that are relevant in these areas, also some annotated lists of castles and other things.

These sections are pretty much all related to the British Isles, mainly because that is my area of experience; most of the places described in these lists have been personally visited.

The contents of these pages are personal opinions; I am responsible for any factual errors or just plain wrong-headedness, so please feel free to e-mail me at: *Grobius*.

I will add more of my pictures to this from time to time. (June 1997: added some more --easiest way is to open the Picture Gallery if you don't want to wade through my text pages. June 1998: A new picture gallery in another format.)

NEW:
Jun 1998 -- Picture Gallery (Netscape Navigator only) (click here).
Jan 1998 -- Walled Towns in Britain (click here).
Apr 1998 -- Keeps and Towers (click here).
Apr 1998 -- Bolsover Castle (click here).

--Grobius Shortling, Dec 1996

Castles of England, Scotland, and Wales

[Pictures by G.S.-- low resolution to reduce transmission time]

Summary Index of Castles

I guess the best way to do this is to go alphabetically by country rather than regionally by county (there are just so many, and it's hard to arrange a tour that takes them in by proximity).

England | Scotland | Wales | Picture Gallery

LINKS

• CASTLES OF THE WORLD The best castle site going (has many links to British castles, too, and a nice Castle Site of the Week feature)
• WELSH CASTLES A fully indexed compendium -- excellent!
• CASTLE HOME PAGE The 'Compleat' site by another castle enthusiast! (includes non-British castles, so that leaves me in the dark except for some Dutch and German castles I've visited)
• SCOTTISH CASTLES "National Heritage" Listings
• SCOTTISH CASTLE TYPES A Thumbnail history (Glasgow Daily Record)
• RAMPANT SCOTLAND -- CASTLES Comprehensive list of links
• SCOTLAND A visitor's picture album
• NORTHERN IRELAND There are a couple of good castles there
• MARSHMOUNT CASTLE An imaginary castle (by Grobius Shortling)

Link to a general commentary on Celtic Castles by clicking Here.

CASTLES of the RHINE

(This is an attractive Web site)

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PREHISTORIC STONE CIRCLES

LINKS

• BRITISH MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS Comprehensive source (requires registration)
• SCOTLAND A visitor's picture album
• STONEHENGE One of many sites (contains several links)
• VIRTUAL STONEHENGE A 'virtual' tour (you need the Superscape 3D viewer)
• STONE PAGES By far the best web site on this subject, with beautiful photographs

Click your mouse on this to view the Stone Circle Page

GOOD OLD PLACES AND CURIOSITIES

This Web Page is Grobius Shortling's list of some unusual places in Great Britain -- Stately Homes, Museums, Natural Wonders, etc. It is pretty much a random selection, by no means as comprehensive as the Castle Pages.

Click your mouse on this to view the Curiosities Page

DINOSAURS OF THE SEA

OCEAN LINERS (yes, I consider them Ancient Monuments, to the extent that they survive in some form or another -- not these stupid floating Holiday Inns that pass for ships these days)

LINKS

• QUEEN MARY My own page, but it links to others (great ship before they turned it into a hotel)
• TITANIC (1) Technical stuff, really nice graphics (lesson in web page design)
• TITANIC (2) RMS Titanic: Her passengers and crew -- a good Titanic home page
• AND THE REST (Normandie, etc.) A Fantastic Source for devotees on this subject
  Note: This was a great site, but it has disappeared (checked Feb 98). Does anybody know where it moved to, or is it now just defunct? If you know, please tell me by e-mail.

  [Note: An Australian Titanic Web Page -- "http://www.netpacific.com.au/titanic/" -- which I liked a lot, has disappeared; the dreaded "URL not found" message, not uncommon these days, appears; does anybody know if it moved?]

  The last survivor of Titanic, Edith Haisman, died at the age of 100 on January 22, 1997.

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Revisions to this page:Feb 1997: The HTML page that was selected as Castle Site of the Week on 'Castles.Org' was much too large and has been split up into smaller pages for easier access, and I have also added some of my photographs (I apologize for the poor resolution of the photographs; they were scanned as 72 dpi bitmap images from standard prints, but I don't know about this stuff -- the pictures were obviously better, and even look OK in Windows, but get 'pixilated' on the Internet). In the future, as finances permit, since it is expensive to scan pictures as computer images using a commercial service (Kinko's), I will add more of them as clickable GIF's. Some of the pictures have a 'hot spot' that will link directly to the appropriate reference (move your mouse around until it changes shape, then click). The site has been optimized for Netscape Navigator, so it might not look the same if you use another Web Browser (looks lousy in Webcrawler, for example, but OK in Internet Explorer).
Another technical note: This site contains features that you need an advanced Web Browser to utilize (Navigator or Explorer versions 3 or above), but the bare bones should work on any browser. Contains Animated GIF's, JavaScript, and Frames. There are also normal HTML links, so you should be able to access anything here via alternative methods, hence the redundancy of controls.
Mar 1997: Page split up into separate URL's.
Apr 1997: Picture Gallery added.
May 1997: JavaScript Shortcut Menu created; some redesign; additional pictures.
May 1998: Gradually converting all (most) of the graphics to thumbnails that can be clicked on to enlarge. The web pages were taking an unconscionable time to load up, and I want to add more pictures. Having the enlargeable pictures will do them more justice, supposing you want to look at them.
June 1998: Another picture gallery added (same pictures, but a different way of viewing them). Only works with Netscape
Sept 1998:Time for a change. This web site is old as such things go, so it is being redesigned for more advanced browers (and also just because I got tired of the old appearance). The current page will be kept as a bookmark, but please go to Castles for all the updates to this site.

Copyright © 1997 by Wyatt James.
You are welcome to copy anything from these pages, but if you use anything on the Internet I would appreciate an acknowledgment.

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