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Lakehead Hill
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill E submitted by postman on 31st May 2013. Stone row, stone circle and big cist, I never told my wife our weekend away was just so I could come here, don't think she would've been dead impressed.
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Log Text: Day to Dartmoor for a lovely and sunny but tiring walk from Dunnabridge finding several cairns and cists on the way up and over Bellever Tor and on to Lakehead Hill with all its prehistoric remains. Down through Kraps Ring and the forest to Bellever, then up past Laughter Hole to the stone rows on the slopes of Laughter Tor then back to Dunnabridge. Pint at the Warren House Inn after. Lovely.
Lakehead Hill Cairn 8
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill Cairn 8 submitted by AngieLake on 8th Dec 2009. The remaining cist from Cairn 8 on Lakehead Hill.
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Log Text: North to Lakehead Hill, and my first target is on the right of the forest track and marked as "Cist" on the map. It does what it says on the tin, and a decent cist is found within a large circular cairn.
Lakehead Hill Cairn 7
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill Cairn 7 submitted by simonsworn on 7th Apr 2005. Facing south
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Log Text: Further north along the forest track and across the Lich Way, this next target is marked as "Cairn Circle & Cist" on the map. Down a little open trackway into a clearing in the forest, I find the remnants of a large cist in a large round cairn, but the remnants of a cairn circle elude me. Possibly once had a stone row associated, although that perhaps is for another cairn yet to be found within the forest.
Lakehead Hill E
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Hill E submitted by simonsworn on 15th Mar 2005. After the surrounding plantation was cleared, facing NW, scale at 2m.
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Log Text: Carry on northwards and then left in the scrubby gap between the forest trees to what the OS mark as "Cairn Circle & Cist". A path leads on westwards and then there it is, the coverstar of the Lakehead Hill sites. A short stone row leads westwards to a large rectangular box structure, all in a very nicely tended open area. I suspect this has all been "restored", but it does look very pretty in the afternoon sunshine. These days eleven stones make the row leading westwards to the cist, with a kink in the middle. The cist is a large box structure, much bigger than most of the cists on Dartmoor, and I think could be considered more of a burial chamber. This is partially surrounded by a circle of half a dozen small stones, although this has probably not been reconstructed very accurately. I like it.
Lakehead Hill 6
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 6 submitted by AngieLake on 4th Dec 2009. Looking NW up the slope from the cairn circle with cist towards the empty cairn circle (or Butler's site 5 on Lakehead Hill) .
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Log Text: I now wander out onto the open hilltop and head soutwest towards carins 5 and 6 marked as "Cairn Circle and Cist" on the OS map, but am initially mislead by a large post which does not mark them before finding the pair of cairns with their small marker! The southern of the two cairn circles consists of 10 pale stones standing in a circle of about 6m diameter surrounding a fairly large flat stone, probably a capstone for a cist, but I can see nothing underneath. It once supposedly had a stone row leading away to the southeast.
Lakehead Hill 5
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 5 submitted by Bladup on 12th May 2017. Lakehead Hill South Cairn Circle [5].
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Log Text: Just to the north of Cairn 6 is Cairn 5, again a nice circle of 10 pale slabs with a diameter about 7m, slightly larger than cairn 6, as are the stones. There is no signs of a cist within the circle, but a few slabs to the southeast which may have made up part of a row to the cairn.
Lakehead Hill W
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill W submitted by simonsworn on 3rd Apr 2005. From the eastern end of the row, facing west
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Log Text: I now head north to the top of the hill, where a single stone row of about a dozen stones heads east to west across the hilltop. There is no obvious cairn, but at the western end the stone is facing across the rline of the row as if to be a Blocking Stone.
Lakehead Hill 2
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Lakehead Hill 2 submitted by davep on 14th Jul 2011. Lakehead Hill Cairn 2 (Cist)
There are numerous sites in close proximity on Lakehead Hill. These are covered in detail in Butler's Atlas of Antiquities Vol 2. Map 27 Site 19 (see pp. 48-52). This cist is Butler's Cairn 2 marked with a Dartmoor National Park post 9A. The precise location is SX64267770
What follows is a description of how to locate it.
A short way southwards up the hill from Kraps Ring can be found cairn 1 which has a clear retaining circle of diameter 6m formed by...
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Log Text: Head west from the stone row, and right at the edge of the forest is found Cairn 2, marked by the OS as "Cist". What I find is a fairly large cist box standing proud of the ground, with nothing too obvious of a cairn or circle surrounding it.
Lakehead Cairn Circle 1
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Lakehead Cairn Circle 1 submitted by simonsworn on 30th Mar 2005. Lakehead Cairn Circle 1. Earlier photo, facing southwest with 2m scale
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Log Text: Heading back northeast, and after disturbing something fairly large within the forest edge, I proceed to what is marked as "Cairn Circle". I find a ring of 13 small pale stones, about 6 m in diameter. Nothing much to be found within the circle except for one other flat slab.
Laughter Tor Longstone
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Laughter Tor Longstone submitted by cazzyjane on 24th Jul 2014. Laughter Man on Laughter Tor.
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Log Text: The longstone is a lovely thing, although it has supposedly been re-erected facing the wrong way, as it does not aligned either with or against the row. Its almost 2.5 metres tall, and the views south are gorgeous, and I can see my car from here, so not far back now. Checking on the time, and I decide not to go to the top of Laughter tor, as it is lower than Bellever Tor, and the views from there cannot be much better than from here.
Laughter Tor row 2
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Laughter Tor row 2 submitted by SandyG on 25th Jan 2019. View from above and north west of the row and standing stone at the top of Laughter Tor 1 (Scales 1m).
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Log Text: Before leaving, I remember that there is supposedly the small remnants of another double stone row to be found a bit west of the longstone, but am not expecting to find them under the vegetation. However, before I even start my search, there they are, much nearer than I expected, and once again the ground around them has been roughly cleared. I find about half a dozen pairs of tiny stones, clearly not in alignment with either the longstone or the other stone row. Their size and spacing reminds me of Porlock row on Exmoor more than a typical Dartmoor avenue. Well that was an unexpected positive result!
Dunnabridge Pound
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dunnabridge Pound submitted by h_fenton on 27th Apr 2010. Dunnabridge Pound from the air.
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7 April 2010 @ 9am
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Log Text: Now I can head back down the hillside on a decent track to Dunnabridge, passing what are probably interesting remains of Brimpts Mine, which on another less tired time I would go and explore! Once down and before walking up the road to the car park, I decide for a quick look in Dunnabridge Pound with the Judge's Chair, which once more is in dark shadow.
I get back to the car at 5:15 after walking 14.3 km and ascending 337 m of vertical, now slightly regretting cutting off the northernmost part of the walk to Postbridge, as it is so much easier on the made tracks. A damn good day out, my back and legs have been working well. Now for a pint at the Warren House Inn where I sit taking in the beautiful views over to Grimspound. Thats a walk for another day.
Kraps Ring
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Kraps Ring submitted by simonsworn on 8th May 2005. Facing north from the isolated hut circle southwest of the settlement which is just over the ridge in the background.
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Log Text: Time is getting on, and clouds seem to be coming over, and I am getting tired. What to do now, I don't want to give up and return the way I came, but completing the planned walk will be a lot further in distance. However, most of the rest of the walk will be on marked pathways, which is probably 3 times easier than tromping over open moorland, so I decide to carry on. So I head northwards downslope to Kraps Ring, past a lovely fallen tree which is still growing from its horizontal position, the branches now turning upwards. Then there is a lovely hut circle with a tree in its entrance. Then Kraps Ring itself. For some reason I was expecting some reasonably sized earthworks (no idea why, its not what you get on Dartmoor), but what I found was large low banks of stone, no doubt from a fallen wall with remnants of many hut circles within, rather like a smaller version of Grimspound. Again, I wonder the wisdom of the full walk via Postbridge which would involve a significant loss of altitude, so I decide to make a cut eastwards through the forest along what I assume is a track, but just turns out to be a firebreak or something. However walking through the forest adjacent to the break is pleasant and easy enough, encountering all sorts of toadstools and birds in the process, until I come to a fence at the side of the road from Postbridge to Bellever which is easy enough to get through. The walk is now much easier along the bridleway across open common land to Bellever where I decide to drop down to the river for a look at the pretty old clapper bridge in a wonderful riverside area of trees and grass. There are a couple of people having a picnic, and further down the river a couple fly fishing. Apart from all the no parking cones and other signs, there are no signs of the chaos that was supposedly here a month or so ago with masses camping out in the woodland. What a beautiful and idyllic place. Back to the bridleway which climbs up through the forest to Laughter Hole with its incredible lichen covered trees, and further up and eventually out onto the open moorland below Laughter Tor.
Laughter Tor row 1
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Laughter Tor row 1 submitted by cazzyjane on 24th Jul 2014. The double stone row on Laughter Tor.
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Log Text: Now I am nearly back to Dunnabridge, time to sit in the sun for a rest to take in the views and finish my supplies. Damn, I have left the fruit in the car! The stone row should be just along a bit more then up on my right. There it is, but it’s a struggle to get to it from here through the heather and gorse. The row which is a double row of some 160m in length remains with a good section at each end but with very few stones remaining in between. The bottom dozen or so of stones are clear to be found, including a possible end stone, making a double row which leads up to the hillside to the longstone, of which only the top can be seen in the distance. The track of the row has been very roughly cleared of vegetation, and although it is good to have it cleared, it looks like quite a bit of damage has been done to the ground, and possibly some of the remaining intermediate stones damaged. Most of the intermediate section of the alignment has probably been used to build the wall which I now have to cross to get to the top part, of which about a dozen stones make a reasonable section well before the longstone.
Blackquarries Hill
Date Added: 13th Sep 2020
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Blackquarries Hill submitted by thecaptain on 17th Nov 2004. Blackquarries Hill Long Barrow, seen here in the November evening sunlight from the northeast.
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Log Text: Revisiting this part of the Cotswold Way, and the field around the long barrow has been opened up to the public with a stile, and an information board has been placed in front of the barrow. The fence and old tree stumps have been removed, although it is all still a very untidy heap!
Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow submitted by thehappydruid on 11th Aug 2020. Forresters' Oaks Round Barrow
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Log Text: Breezy but sunny afternoon walk up Gray Hill to check out the old stones, then a walk around Wentwood Forest. Just before the end of the walk, this round barrow can be found, with views up to Gray Hill.
Gray Hill circle
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gray Hill circle submitted by SandyG on 6th Jan 2019. Kerbed cairn/stone circle and stone 6. View from south west (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: Breezy but sunny afternoon walk up Gray Hill to check out the old stones, then a walk around Wentwood Forest. Much of the top of the hill has become very overgrown, and it was initially difficult to find the stone row leading down to the circle. I disturbed at least three fallow deer on my way through. However, the bracken and gorse on the slopes around the stones is mostly cleared, so it was easy to find the big stones of the row, and the circle beside the lower of the big stones, although most of the circle is well overgrown with brambles bracken and gorse, and my legs got ripped to shreds.
Gray Hill stone row
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Gray Hill stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Apr 2004. Grey Hill or Gray Hill Stone Row, Monmouthshire, ST437936 - ST438935
Looking to the south down the hill, is a fairly reasonable alignment of 5 stones in a row, which sort of joins between the jumbled stone remains on the top of the hill and the stone circle.
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Log Text: Breezy but sunny afternoon walk up Gray Hill to check out the old stones, then a walk around Wentwood Forest. Much of the top of the hill has become very overgrown, and it was initially difficult to find the stone row leading down to the circle. I disturbed at least three fallow deer on my way through. However, the bracken and gorse on the slopes around the stones is mostly cleared, so it was easy to find the big stones of the row, and two of the stumps.
Gray Hill summit cairn
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Gray Hill summit cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Apr 2004. Grey Hill or Gray Hill, Monmouthshire. Cairn atop hill at ST434936
Right on the top of the hill, with spectacular views all around is the remains of an ancient, but well worn cairn. I could have been imagining it, but did this cairn once have a kerbed ring around it, and some internal structures ?
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Log Text: Breezy but sunny afternoon walk up Gray Hill to check out the old stones, then a walk around Wentwood Forest. Beautiful views all around from the cairn at the top of the hill
Haresfield Beacon and Ring
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Aug 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Haresfield Beacon and Ring submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 24th Jun 2011. From the same spot looking NNW over the inside of the Fort
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Log Text: Walk around the Bruce Friendship Trail, which takes in the superb Haresfield Beacon with its remnants of promontory hillfort with a round tumulus at the western point, with a trig point on the top. Superb views over the Severn Vale