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Furzehill Common stone row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 19th May 2010
Furzehill Common stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 19th May 2010. Here I found four little stumps of stone in a row, in a boggy hollow on top of the ridge. They are spaced 2.5, 5, 2.5 metres apart, suggesting a missing stone in between those I could find.
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Hoaroak 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2010
Hoaroak 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 30th May 2010. This is a nice little setting of stones, mostly on open grassland, making it easy to see and find!
Most of the stones are less than 18 inches long, and fallen, or else just stubs of stone still fast in the ground. Only one stone really stands proudly near the centre of the setting.
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Furzehill Common 5
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2010
Furzehill Common 5 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2010. View southeast over where this excellent stone setting is to be found, off of the steep eastern slopes of Furzehill Common ridge, overlooking the splendid Hoaroak Water valley, with fantastic views to Cheriton Ridge and beyond.
I almost didn’t come and look for this one as time was getting on, the hillside was in shadow, and when I got near, I saw that the hillside was covered in ferns. I am glad to say that I did go for a quick look, and eventually found the best stone setting I had see...
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Sittaford Stone Circle
Date Added: 12th Jun 2014
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Sittaford Stone Circle submitted by theCaptain on 12th Jun 2014. With the weather turned nice, I took a day off work to walk out to the newly found Sittaford Tor stone circle.
This is a plot from my GPS showing not only the track of my walking around of the circle, but I also created a waypoint for each stone, which are plotted as the little flags.
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Log Text: With the weather turned nice, I took a day off work to walk out to the newly found Sittaford Tor stone circle, starting out from Fernworthy Reservoir. Having planned the trip in advance, so knowing where to look, the circle was very easy to find, although very wet and boggy. All of the stones have been dug around so they are no longer buried in the mire. Excellent.
Yellowmead cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2004
Yellowmead cairn submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jul 2004. A short distance uphill to the northeast from the main circles is the remains of a small cairn, with a surrounding ring of stones.
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Langcombe Brook 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jul 2006
Langcombe Brook 4 submitted by thecaptain on 27th Jul 2006. Langcombe Brook Cairn 4.
Three slabs of the central kist are in place, and a capstone covering half of it is still in place.
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Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. Royal Hill Cairn 4
In the centre is a large cist, about 1 metre square, with its capstone displaced to the edge of the cairn.
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Royal Hill Cairns (SX621724)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2006
Royal Hill Cairns (SX621724) submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. Royal Hill Cairn 5
Cairn 5 is easily found to the north of cairn 4, and about 100 metres distant from it.
This is a cute little thing with a complete stone ring around a central cist, but there is little remaining in the way of a cairn.
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Down Tor circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2010
Down Tor circle submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2010. Hingstone Hill or Down Tor circle and stone row. Late afternoon, September 26 2010
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Down Tor stone row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2010
Down Tor stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2010. Hingstone Hill or Down Tor stone row. Late afternoon, September 26 2010
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Holne Ridge NE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2010
Holne Ridge NE submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Oct 2010. I didn’t think I was going to be able to find this as the area it’s in is all covered by fern and bracken, but it was quite obvious once I got near. The cairn is well formed, about 7 metres in diameter about a metre tall with the expected hollow in the top.
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Holne Ridge 7
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Oct 2010
Holne Ridge 7 submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Oct 2010. Holne Ridge cairn 7, looking south up the ridge.
About 6 metres diameter, and less than a metre high, it is however well formed.
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Holne Moor
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Holne Moor submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. At the southeastern end, in a lowpoint before the ground rises again, there seems to be a single, fairly large triangular shaped stone placed across the central or northern row, which may once have been a blocking stone marking the proper end of the monument.
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Siward's Cross
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Siward's Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. The northern side and western face of this nice old cross, believed to date back to late Saxon, early medieval times.
On the western face are the words “Boc Lond” which presumably relate to Buckland, or Book Land, connected to the monks of Buckland Abbey.
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Narrator Brookhead Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Narrator Brookhead Enclosure submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. This is an oval shaped enclosure, approximately 50m by 30m which is defined by large stone walls, which nowadays make up a fallen structure about 3 metres wide by up to a metre high. Many upright stones can be seen within the walled structure.
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Down Tor cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 21st Nov 2010
Down Tor cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Nov 2010. About 50 metres to the northwest of the beautiful cairn circle, around the edge of the hillside, is the remains of another cairn, 14 metre diameter and more than a metre high. There are no signs of any kerb stones or structure within the cairn.
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Narrator Brookhead Cairn
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Nov 2010
Narrator Brookhead Cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Nov 2010. There are two much smaller cairns at its base on the southwest side, both only a couple of metres diameter, but both showing signs of side set slabs.
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Cheriton Ridge stone row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge stone row submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. I found the tops of about 5 or 6 stones just poking their tops above the turf, aligned in a row oriented just east of north along the ridge. As with most of the Exmoor stone rows, the stones are tiny and very difficult to find, with most of them probably buried under the turf and heather.
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Cheriton Ridge 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. Stone Setting reported in my Exmoor Archaeology book, but I found nothing for these at the given location.
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Cheriton Ridge 3
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Feb 2011
Cheriton Ridge 3 submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Feb 2011. Stone Setting reported in my Exmoor Archaeology book, but I found nothing for these at the given location.
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