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Corbridge Crosses
Date Added: 10th Apr 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2022. My rating: Access 5
Corbridge Crosses submitted by Anne T on 12th Sep 2019. The old market cross, which stood upon steps and a Roman altar, was removed from it's original place in 1807, and stood outside the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle. It was returned to Corbridge in the 20th century, but now sits 2m to the east of the door into the Pele Tower. Very worn, it once had an inscription, plus dog tooth ornament.
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Log Text: After a visit to Coria in September 2022, was looking to get a pint in the Pele Tower, but it was unfortunately temporarily closed.
West Cranmore Round Barrows
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023
West Cranmore Round Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Mar 2023. Seen from the carriage of the East Somerset steam railway. Two large round barrows in a field, with fairly distinct ditches around them.
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Log Text: Seen from the carriage of the East Somerset steam railway near Merryfield Lane halt. Two large round barrows in a field, with fairly distinct ditches around them. There is remains of a third much ploughed out barrow. Looks like badgers are starting to dig away at one of the two large barrows.
Beacon Hill (Oakhill) Barrows
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Access 4
Beacon Hill (Oakhill) Barrows submitted by dooclay on 20th Aug 2023. From the East
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Log Text: Several round barrows can be clearly seen from the roman road in an open field along the ridgetop, with several more to be found in Beacon Hill Woods. I didn't have time to park and go and have a proper look.
Doulting Quarries barrow
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Access 5
Doulting Quarries barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Mar 2023. In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
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Log Text: In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
The Cockpit
Date Added: 17th Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
The Cockpit submitted by LivingRocks on 18th Mar 2005. A panoramic view of the Cockpit Stone Circle which according to Magicmap ‘includes a circular kerbed stone bank 2.8m -11.2m wide and up to 0.5m high which encloses an area approximately 27m in diameter. There are 27 (?) standing and recumbent stones set largely into the internal face of this bank, thereby creating the stone circle. The tallest standing stone measures about 0.95m high and some of the recumbent stones are up to 1.9m in length. Within the eastern side of the stone circle, abuttin...
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Log Text: I have been meaning to visit The Cockpit for many many years, and I managed to do so in September 2022. From White Raise I head off towards the Cockpit, down to the major crossing of tracks, and then taking the way to the west, on what is now a largely rebuilt and upraised stone trackway across the boggy moorland. This has made what was probably difficult going into a very easy and pleasant walk. Just after a little ford over a stream, and there it is, looking all green inside and splendid. Its a large circular area of flat ground surrounded by a stone lined embankment, with a good set of quite large stones around the inner edge, another not so complete ring around the outside. There are a few little round cairn like structures spaced around its circumference, the largest being at the eastern side. Time for lunch, then I'd better head back. Having looked at the rough and marshy ground to the south, I decide to go back the way I came, and not to make up a loop walk across the open moorland to look for a few other cairns and "piles of stones" marked on the OS map.
White Raise Cairn
Date Added: 15th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
White Raise Cairn submitted by baz on 3rd May 2003. White Raise Cairn (NY489224). This 20m. long cairn has an exposed central cist.
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Log Text: I eventually get to the White Raise cairn, MD10, a large roundish mass of stones on top of a small natural hillock. Its not very round, with a few sticking out arms, and it is clear why this became known as "The Starfish Cairn". Clambering up onto the top of it, and the previous notable cairns can be seen in the distance. There is a hollow containing a large cist, fairly big and much deeper than any I have seen on Dartmoor. Near to this cist, on the eastern side, are a couple of large stones, no doubt once the capstones of the cist. There are other stones which may once have formed a ring around the structure.
Roughtor Summit Cairns
Date Added: 15th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roughtor Summit Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jul 2022. Showing the cairn structure around the natural outcrops at the summit of Roughtor
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Log Text: Remains of cairns created round some natural outcrops within the settlement on the top of Roughtor, near to the memorials.
Seven Lords' Lands
Date Added: 13th Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Seven Lords' Lands submitted by AngieLake on 31st May 2010. Looking towards Rippon Tor from the now tidied-up Seven Lords Lands Cairn.
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Log Text: On the way back to Haytor, I stop to go and look at Seven Lords' Lands cairn with its large encircling ring of stones. Its really splendid here in the low sun, which occasionally peeps through the clouds. Now to the Rock Inn after a tiring day on the big moor, I sat quietly nursing a pint in the snug when Dave from Royle Family comes in with wife and dog, and sits next to me.
Trendlebere Down
Date Added: 9th Mar 2023
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Trendlebere Down submitted by AngieLake on 10th Aug 2010. First view of Trendlebere Down stone row on approach from the road. Orientated N-S, the south end is to far right here.
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Log Text: Getting from the road to find this row is a bit of a struggle through gorse and heather, and I initially found it hard to find. But there it is, not quite where I was expecting to find it, but as so often with a path running down beside it, and it has had much of the growth mechanically cleared from it. The large cairn at the top is completely overgrown, as is the top of the row, but I found a few fairly large fallen stones hidden underneath the overgrowth. Further down, the row becomes more cleared, but the stones are smaller, mostly flat on the ground, and many have been substantially damaged by the mechanical machines used to clear the gorse and heather. The bottom end again becomes lost in high vegetation. Amongst the disturbance is a large stone, facing across the rows, which looks as though it may have once been a terminal blocking stone. All in all a disappointment.
Trendlebere Down Stone Row Cairn
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Trendlebere Down Stone Row Cairn submitted by bec-zog on 24th Nov 2003. Black Hill Stone Row & Cairn. SX767,793.
Bronze age burial cairn with 16 stone row extending N, plus either a terminator stone or remains of a second stone row. A further cairn located at S end
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Log Text: The large cairn at the top of the stone row is completely overgrown, as is the top of the row, but I found a few fairly large fallen stones hidden underneath the overgrowth.
Harbourne Head Standing Stone
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head Standing Stone submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. Harbourne Head Standing Stone.
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Log Text: A cold grey February afternoon walk out onto the moor to visit the Harbourne Head menhir. It’s a nice pointy topped stone, slightly taller than me and leaning to one side. Some swaling going on nearby, but not close to the stone and doesn't prevent me getting a visit.
Hembury Castle
Date Added: 5th Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hembury Castle submitted by caradoc68 on 15th May 2008. Site in Devon:
Hembury castle (the danish camp), just north of Buckfast "devon" SX 725 684. Good little hillfort hiddern away way in Hembury wood, a site worth visiting>. Has very steep rampart bank, 20 feet in some places, a scrape the other side of the ditch. Inside the fort there is a small motte & bailey in the south west corner.
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Log Text: A nice sunny afternoon, after Sunday lunch at Scorriton and a walk out to Bench Tor, I decide to go and have a look at Hembury Castle before heading home. What a lovely place, old woodland with a hilltop iron age fort, modified and updated with a Norman Motte. In places the ramparts are huge, presumably increased for the Motte & Bailey castle. Lovely.
Harbourne Head B
Date Added: 4th Mar 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head B submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. The South East Cairn.
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Log Text: From the menhir I walk up to the top of the hill to look at the two ring cairns. Both quite large diameter, seemingly a ring of stone around a flat inside with a pile in the middle. The southern of the two is more distinct, and the central mound and ring are more obviously comprised of stones. I didn't see anything resembling a circle of upright stones!
Harbourne Head A
Date Added: 4th Mar 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head A submitted by davep on 24th Oct 2019. The Harbourne Head A Stone Ring Cairn Circle from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website, site 555.
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Log Text: From the menhir I walk up to the top of the hill to look at the two ring cairns. Both quite large diameter, seemingly a ring of stone around a flat inside with a pile in the middle. The northern of the two is less distinct and more grassy. I didn't see anything resembling a circle of upright stones!
Corringdon Ball Tomb
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Corringdon Ball Tomb submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb, Dartmoor, Devon SX669613
View looking at the remains of the chamber
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor around Corringdon Ball. Just as we get to the longbarrow and other megalithic sites my phone malfunctions and packs up. Getting very fed up with this decide to give up looking for any more old stones and just continue on with the walk up to Shipley Bridge.
Corringdon Ball Tomb
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Corringdon Ball Tomb submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb, Dartmoor, Devon SX669613
View looking at the remains of the chamber
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Log Text: The remains of Corringdon Ball chambered tomb are marked on the map as Long Barrow, and it is situated on the saddle of land between Corringdon Ball and Brent Fore Hill, not far from the cairn at the head of the Brent Fore row. This was once one of the largest monuments on the moor, but has been badly damaged, with a track cut through its northern part, and most of the southern end destroyed. Several large stones remain at the south end, which would once have formed a very large chamber. These are now nearly all fallen and broken, with just a semblance of any chamber recognisable.
Ball Gate
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ball Gate submitted by Anne T on 26th Oct 2016. The Ball Gate ring cairn, which lies less than 100 metres from the Corringdon Ball chambered cairn. Submitted on behalf of Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor around Corringdon Ball. Just to the north of the large gateway is a clearly defined ring cairn.
Corringdon Ball settlement
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Corringdon Ball settlement submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Feb 2023. On the western side of the hill there is a clearly defined settlement comprising several enclosures.
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor and around Corringdon Ball. On the western side of the hill there is a clearly defined settlement comprising several enclosures. There are also many hut circles spread around on the hillside here, along with a cairn with cist.
Moor Divock Round Cairn D
Date Added: 13th Feb 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Moor Divock Round Cairn D submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Nov 2022. Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
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Log Text: Nearby to the north of Moor Divock 5 is another raised mound which initially looks to be another cairn, which the sheep like to sit on. When I do get to have a closer look, there seems to be possibly a cairn, but with no further info I am not 100% convinced this is anything other than a natural lump in the ground.
Challacombe Down Standing Stone
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Challacombe Down Standing Stone submitted by cazzyjane on 31st May 2012. The large terminal stone looking across to Birch Tor.
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Log Text: Park in a little quarry by the roadside, before heading west down to Headland Warren farm with its alpacas, then up over the mining remains to the lower end of the Challacombe stone rows. Most of the stones are showing white above the heather and it looks splendid. The bottom end is a bit of a jumble, no doubt many of the stones moved during the extensive mining here, several of which seem to have been placed in surprising positions. Up the hill to the south, its a clear treble row, which can be followed up the hill to the large 2m tall stone at the top. Can see Grimspound to the east, and over to the Warren House Inn to the west.