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Metherall Settlement
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Aug 2006
Metherall Settlement submitted by AngieLake on 23rd Aug 2006. Shall we see this rare sight more often as global warming takes effect? These ancient hut circles are usually under the water of Fernworthy Reservoir. Find them just below the main car park after a very dry spell (such as summer 2006).
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Thornworthy Cairn
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2006
Thornworthy Cairn submitted by AngieLake on 1st Oct 2006. Thornworthy Cist, sitting in its little circle, looks approximately southwest across the water of Fernworthy reservoir. When first created it was on the north slopes of a river valley.
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Hamel Down Cross
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Hamel Down Cross submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Hamel Down Cross (west side).
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Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. The most northerly platform cairn of Hamel Down barrow cemetery on Hameldown Tor.
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Hamel Down row
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Hamel Down submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. A map (after Butler) of the barrows, cairns, and an ancient cross on Hamel Down.
This will be useful for referencing the individual sites to be posted very soon.
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Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. The first Bowl Barrow approached from the south along Hamel Down's ridge. Also known (Butler) as Blackaton Down north cairn. Here it looks quite imposing, but is nowhere near as large as the higher Broad Barrow. The scattered sheep's bones in the foreground gave the scene a rather macabre ambience!
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Broad Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Approaching Broad Barrow from the south. Standing on the highest part of Hamel down (532m) it is the largest barrow on Dartmoor, and The Two Moors Way runs straight through it.
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Single Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Single Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Single Barrow, about halfway between Two Barrows and Broad Barrow. (Not easy to distinguish with everything covered in heather!) Cremated bones were found here.
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Two Barrows (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Two Barrows (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Two Barrows (north) seen from its northwest side in late afternoon sun. Haytor rocks can be seen on the distant horizon, left. This is the barrow where a beautiful dagger pommel was found. (See site page for more). That is the 'Duke' stone sticking out of the central hollow. The southern of this pair can be seen supporting the drystone wall, right.
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Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. The long shadow across the centre of pic is the ditch - the best I could do with photographing the 'Concave barrow' or cairn on Hamel Down. Also known as Blackaton Down north cairns. Silhouetted left is the outline of Bowl Barrow (Blackaton Down north cairn) and if you look closely, Two Barrows (south) is just visible in the far corner of the field.
(Follow line of wall on right).
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Hamel Down Beacon cairn
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Apr 2007
Hamel Down Beacon cairn submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Hameldown Beacon cairn's north side in late afternoon sunshine, the field wall's shadow darkening the foreground. On the far left horizon Haytor can be seen, faintly lit by the sun.
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Hamel Down Cairn and Cist
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Apr 2007
Hamel Down Cairn and Cist submitted by AngieLake on 23rd Apr 2007. A sunny, late-afternoon shot of this cairn cist on Hamel Down, looking approx east - southeast. Close to the camera, right, is the earthfast slab that Butler though was a remnant of a retaining circle.
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Damage Barton
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jul 2007
Damage Barton submitted by AngieLake on 4th Jul 2007. One of the Damage Barton stones viewed from the road to the Bull Point Lighthouse.
Excuse quality, its off a camcorder film.
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Lakehead Hill W
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Aug 2007
Lakehead Hill W submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Aug 2007. The most interesting stone in this row lies towards its eastern end. Here viewed looking north.
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Lakehead Hill E
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2007
Lakehead Hill E submitted by AngieLake on 21st Aug 2007. Lakehead Hill in Spring 07.
(View to SE?)
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Lakehead Cairn Circle 1
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Aug 2007
Lakehead Cairn Circle 1 submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Aug 2007. This view was to the north, I'm sure. It was a lovely day - Good Friday, 2007. Dartmoor can be lovely in Spring.
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Belstone Ring Cross
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2007
Belstone Ring Cross submitted by AngieLake on 7th Sep 2007. Belstone Ring Cross and an explanatory board on the wall beside it, in Belstone parish church.
(See site page for details).
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Oxenham Arms
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2007
Oxenham Arms submitted by AngieLake on 7th Sep 2007. I popped into the Oxenham Arms on 5th Sept and found this one propping up a beam in the dining room - a room to the left of the passage, behind the bar at the front of the building.
(It doesn't look like the one Martyn was enjoying his drink with in his personal page pic!)
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Nine Stones (Belstone)
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2007
Nine Stones (Belstone) submitted by AngieLake on 9th Sep 2007. Excuse the poor quality of this compilation pic, but it shows the circle, the river, and to the right, the long stone lying outside the north arc of the circle.
Butler thinks that the full complement of stones are probably present and that this 1.75m fallen slab once stood erect in the single socket hole adjacent to it. He writes that: "The curious arrangement of close-set slabs on the north-west side and the rest being irregularly spaced around the circumference seems to have been the orig...
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Merrivale
Date Added: 26th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Sep 2007
Merrivale submitted by AngieLake on 12th Sep 2007. To link in with the Captain's recent pics of Merrivale, Langstone Moor, etc, this is the amazing rock formation of Great Staple Tor in close-up, taken from the north west(-ish), [lower pic] and across the rear of the 'portals' [top].
You can see how the Ancients might have revered this natural stone 'doorway': it is still enthralling today. Perhaps they thought that their 'gods' watched them through its portals on Great Staple Tor, and that is why they positioned their monuments around it?
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