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Kestor Settlement
Trip No.135 Entry No.2 Date Added: 31st Jul 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kestor Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2004. View northeast from Kestor rocks overlooking Kestor Settlement. The entire hilltop and hillsides here are covered in the ancient remains of ancient huts and field systems.
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Log Text: Kestor Settlement (of which Round Pound is part of): Only across the road from the Round Pound, which I learned later was part of this settlement and not separate from it, as we walked up the slope to the east of Round Pound, I couldn’t believe the amount, and quality, of the structures that remained here.
At first, it was all a little mind-boggling, but then Sandy G produced a plan of the site, and I kept asking where we were on the plan, so I could sort my photographs accordingly. The views to the east and north east would have been quite amazing, had it not been for the mist around that day.
At home, I poured over Butler's "Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities", volume 2, pages 170 onwards, which has a map of the settlement and descriptions of the field systems and the individual houses and enclosures within it. Brilliant!
Kes Tor Rock Basin
Trip No.135 Entry No.4 Date Added: 31st Jul 2019
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Kes Tor Rock Basin submitted by AngieLake on 28th Jul 2017. Another view of the rock basin here. Probably taken in 2002 on old film camera.
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Log Text: Kes Tor Outcrop: My fear of falling stopped me from going to the top of this amazing outcrop to see the rock basin (I saw another walker trip over and narrowly miss going over the edge whilst I was there), but I admired the outcrop from down below. I hope I can still tick this site off my Dartmoor list as having visited!
Kes Tor Cairn
Trip No.135 Entry No.5 Date Added: 31st Jul 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Kes Tor Cairn submitted by davep on 31st Jul 2019. Photograph taken 16th May 2019. Kes Tor Reported Cairn from Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (site 1923).
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Log Text: Kes Tor Cairn: As the group gathered around the western side of the tor, we saw what I initially thought was a tumble of smaller rocks from the side of the Tor, but as I walked around photographing it, thought it resembled a cairn. Walking back to join the group, Sandy and Dave were in conversation, concluding it was indeed probably a cairn. Dave took a gps with his garmin, remarkably similar to mine with my basic model, and has now included the cairn on Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks as a 'reported cairn' (site 1923).
St Ninian's Well (Brisco)
Trip No.39 Entry No.2 Date Added: 31st Jul 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Ninian's Well (Brisco) submitted by Anne T on 18th Aug 2017. First view of St Ninian's Well as we turned the corner of the dog-leg in the footpath.
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Log Text: St Ninian's Well, Brisco, Cumbria: From Carlatton Demesne Standing Stone, heading back onto the A69, we took the M6 to junction 42, then the third exit towards Durdar. Brisco (Briscoe according to Pastscape) is the first turn to the right. The village is a line of houses on both sides of the road. We parked where the road widened slightly at Brisco Hall farm and walked back southwards to the footpath, which runs to the north of Well View cottage (they have a sign on the side of the house saying their drive is Elvis Presley Boulevard!), and followed the grassy lane down towards the railway line. Where the path does a right hand turn, there is a small set of stone steps. The footpath then turns north east towards the railway line, going through a gate into a field. The well is in this small enclosed area, tucked away at its south eastern end, mostly hidden by shrubs and brambles.
There is an arched well head that looks Victorian, and Pastscape and Historic England says was erected in the 1830s to 1840s. A step goes down to the well basin, in which, under the water, is a circular structure with a circular hole in its middle. In the corner of the fence facing the well is a small wooden bench, covered by brambles when we visited, but we used sticks to move these away and sit and admire this spot.
From the well, a gate leads through a fence-line down into a field of pasture below (the ground drops by 3-4 feet and there are steps down to the new ground level). This ground is wet and boggy and in line with the well head and pool is a cattle truck. A steady trickle of water comes through the bottom of the trough into a pool which has large boulders pushed around it in a partial circle, now partly destroyed. It looks like this might have been the original well pool. At the bottom of the field, the main west coast railway line runs and we watched several intercity trains and a steam train go by before returning to go into Carlisle for a late lunch then onto our next stop – a wheel-headed cross north west of Carlisle in Rockcliffe.
Shovel Down Cairn Row 4
Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Shovel Down row 4 Cairn submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. At the southern end of row 4 is a 7 metre diameter cairn with a central pit. This is the view looking west.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 4 Cairn: Walking from Kes Tor across the moorland trackway, we came across this 'stony lump' at the top of a slope. Looking to my right (north), there was a double stone row running downslope at 90 degrees to the track. Only a small cairn, but interesting, particularly given its context. The group spent some time checking to see if any trace of the cist was visible, but we didn't find it.
Shovel Down row 4
Trip No.136 Entry No.7 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Shovel Down row 4 submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. A typical Dartmoor avenue, seen here from the northern end, running off up the hillside to the south.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 4: From Shovel Down Cairn Row 4, this row started just to the north west, the stones ‘marching’ steadily downhill. These stones were similar in size to the Drizzlecombe Stone Rows 1 & 2, but largely hidden in tall grass.
Whilst everyone else walked down to the Fourfold Stone Circle to start a well deserved lunch break, and see the start of Shovel Down Row 2, I paused to take photographs of row 4. The row reminded me more than a little of Standingstone Rigg in Northumberland, with the size of the stones and the steepness of the slope down which the stones ran (not literally!).
Shovel Down Fourfold Circle
Trip No.135 Entry No.8 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Shovel Down Fourfold circle submitted by simcon on 29th Aug 2003. SX659861 Shovel Down Stone Circle, Dartmoor Devon. I see this Web site lists two circles here, SE and NW. I only saw this circle which matches the description of Shovel Down SE Stone Circle. The view is looking south where the row continues to a large standing stone. Notice the two large standing stones fallen at the bottom of this picture. One has CP carved into it and the large stone over the hill has DC using the same size and style of letters. I do not know what this means. I parked in Fernw...
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Log Text: Shovel Down Fourfold Stone Circle: Again, so many monuments in such a short walk – but by now, I should have stopped being surprised! At Kes Tor, Sandy G had spotted AngieLake, who had arrived a little later than us at the car park, and who had wandered about looking for us. By this time, it was lunchtime, and we were pleased to re-group and sit and take a welcome break, using the two large stones as the head of row 2 as a convenient picnic spot.
Whilst everyone was sharing out their sandwiches and tea/coffee, I took a few minutes to try and photograph the small-ish stones of the fourfold stone circle, largely hidden by the grassy tussocks, but none-the-less still recognisable as a kerbed cairn, although a little similar (if smaller) than Yellowmead.
With its proximity to row 2 and row 4, and other rows and features I'd not yet seen, this was an amazing spot.
Shovel Down row 3
Trip No.135 Entry No.10 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Shovel Down row 3 submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 3 lseen here looking south from the northern part.
The row continues over the crest in the foreground and down into the dip, where it ends beside the Fourfold Circle.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 3: To the west of stone row 2, and to the north of row 4, there was not much left to see of this row, which I tried to trace (without much success due to the high, tussocky grass on this part of the moor) as we walked down towards the stone circle.
Now writing up my photojournal, I’m pleased to see that Sandy G’s photographs, whilst showing a lot more stones, are a little similar to mine, largely showing the tops of stones peeking out of the grass. Good job for our superb guide, who pointed out the row to me.
Shovel Down stone circle
Trip No.135 Entry No.11 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Shovel Down stone circle submitted by thecaptain on 13th Oct 2004. Two of the remaining standing stones viewed looking east.
The northern end of row 3 is just down to the right of this picture somewhere.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Stone Circle: Before we visited this site, I thought there would be nothing to see, but I was wrong. Whilst there are just three stones remaining, they appear to the eye to sit along the arc of a circle. However, the authenticity of this stone circle is queried by Pastscape.
The stones are sited in deep, tussocky grass, I was very pleased to be able to reach this stone circle, not far off the main footpath, using my walking poles to balance.
Our GPS recorded the three stones at:
SX 65830 86187, SX 65822 86196 and SX 65823 86199
Shovel Down row 1
Trip No.135 Entry No.12 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Shovel Down row 1 submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 1.
At the northern end of this ruinous single stone row can be seen a few stones larger than the majority of theose remaining. Most of the remaining stones are very small and difficult to spot under the grass
This view is looking southwards along the general direction of the row.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 1: My goodness, this row was difficult to spot! Thank goodness for Sandy’s patience, his wellington boots and his pole in pointing out a few of the stones!
Shovel Down row 5
Trip No.135 Entry No.13 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Shovel Down row 5 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 5.
Although most of the stones in this avenue are either small or have been removed, traces of the row can be seen right to the Longstone.
View looking southwest at the lower end of the row, with Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 5: Having been a little mystified by trying to find Rows 3 and 1, and having to rely on Sandy G to point out a few of the ground-level small stones, to find this stone row, running towards the Longstone, was really good. Glorious views over to Kes Tor, although it was still a little misty to get great photos.
The Longstone (Shovel Down)
Trip No.135 Entry No.14 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
The Longstone (Shovel Down) submitted by cazzyjane on 16th Apr 2012. The longstone at Shovel Down with Kestor Rock behind.
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Log Text: The Longstone: A welcoming standing stone, very prominent in the landscape, sitting between rows 5 and 6. I had fun posing the group for photographs around the stone.
Shovel Down row 6
Trip No.135 Entry No.15 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Shovel Down row 6 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 6
View looking south towards the Three Boys Stone. Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 6: Nothing is visible of this row now, although we walked down the line of the row to get to the Three Boys.
Three Boys
Trip No.135 Entry No.16 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Three Boys submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Nearly 2 metres long, this fairly large, almost fallen stone was probably once a blocking stone at the southern end of Shovel Down row 6.
Viewed looking northwest with a row 6 stone under the gorsebush
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Log Text: Three Boys: This was our last stop of the three days, and a lot of a let-down as someone had very recently used this stone as a toilet and left a great deal of white toilet paper around it. Yeuk! I think Gordon and/or Dave may have reported this to the authorities to clear up.
After this, we walked steadily back to the car park, took a few final photographs of the group altogether, using Janet and Gordon’s camera on my tripod on a timed setting. Then Andy, Dave, Andrew and myself headed back to Princetown to look inside the Visitor Centre.
Shovel Down row 2
Trip No.135 Entry No.9 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Shovel Down row 2 submitted by AngieLake on 27th Oct 2004. Looking in the opposite direction from Simcon's picture, the fallen portals are in the foreground of this photo and show the avenue leading up to them, and to the concentric circle or cairn.
(Taken on cheap single-use camera, as were the recent Scorhill postings)
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Log Text: Shovel Down Row 2 with fallen standing stones: We enjoyed a much welcome lunch break at the two pillar stones at the head (southern end) of row 2. Angie got some photographs of Andy B sitting on the larger of the two pillars, and later I wished I’d have stood over her shoulder to get similar shots.
I didn’t walk to the northern most end of this stone circle, as I thought we proposed to visit it on the way back to the car park, but we took a slightly different route, so didn’t see the stones at its other terminus.
By this time of the day, the number of monuments we'd seen already was getting a little overwhelming (so many in such a relatively small piece of moorland), I was really glad I’ been very careful to write down the numbers of the photographs I’d taken for each monument, making it easier to sort the photos out into ‘which monument was which’ that evening.
High Moorland Visitor Centre
Trip No.135 Entry No.17 Date Added: 1st Aug 2019
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
High Moorland Visitor Centre submitted by AngieLake on 5th Feb 2011. A modern replica of a pot from the recent Bellever hut circle excavations. Made by a local lady potter and displayed in the 'Going for Bronze' exhibition in summer 2010.
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Log Text: Thornworthy Cist and Ter Hill Cross, Princetown National Park Visitor Centre: We had about 15 minutes before the centre closed on the Thursday, so we flew in with Dave Parks for me to see and photograph the Thornworthy Cist and the Ter Hill Cross. There was scaffolding around the back of the building, so I used this to step onto the weedy garden to photograph the cist slab from the top.
By the time I'd taken some photographs, I was being ushered out of the garden as they wanted to close the centre for the night, but I was bid 'you are more than welcome to come back tomorrow if you can".
Drizzlecombe row 1
Trip No.134 Entry No.4 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe row 1 submitted by Karen on 27th Oct 2003. Drizzlecombe SE row looking up the row from its longstone
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Log Text: Drizzlecombe 1 Stone Row: Having been able to glimpse these stones rows as we walked across the moorland from Whittenknowles Rocks settlement, I couldn’t wait to see these rows at last. But, my goodness, what a richness and complexity of sites all in one small-ish area. I made careful notes throughout the day of which photographs belonged to which row, and hopefully these now all make sense.
Stone Row 1, similar in some ways to the Merrivale Rows, but then again not, had a much, much taller pillar stone. Located at the SW end of the row, this pillar stone can be seen on UK Grid reference finder: SX 59053 66858.
The stone row is unusual because it starts off as a single row (74.5m), then becomes a double row (for 47m), then back to a single row (28m to the cairn) – total length 149.5m.
I was surprised to see quite a few walkers stroll along this valley bottom, some along the row, others not. With the River Plym to our east, the water shimmered in the afternoon light. There were also a lot of cattle in the field, but all seemed used to people and just carried on grazing.
Drizzlecombe menhir 2
Trip No.134 Entry No.7 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe menhir 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jun 2007. This magnificent menhir at the downhill end of row 2 (or C) at Drizzlecombe is the largest on Dartmoor, and said to be "by far the finest in the west of England".
I wouldnt argue with that.
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Log Text: Drizzlecombe Menhir 2: I took this to be an integral part of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 2, so have moved a couple of my photos over to this site page.
Drizzlecombe menhir 1
Trip No.134 Entry No.5 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe menhir 1 submitted by thecaptain on 1st Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe menhir 1 viewed from the southwest, with the row running away to the left.
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Log Text: Drizzlecombe Menhir 1: I counted this pillar stone as part of the stone row, although Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks and Pastscape record it separately. I have switched some of my photographs over to this site page. Beautiful stone, and lovely location.
Drizzlecombe menhir 3
Trip No.134 Entry No.10 Date Added: 2nd Aug 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe menhir 3 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe menhir 3 seen from the west.
Many of the stones of row 3 can be seen running away from this terminal longstone to the left.
In the background is the glorious menhir 2.
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Log Text: Drizzlecombe Menhir 3: Again, I took this to be an integral part of Drizzlecombe Stone Row 3, so I've swapped some of my photos to this site page. I've duplicated the trip/order number with row 3 to match my walk/photo journal.