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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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.
Bellever Tor N Settlement
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 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor N Settlement submitted by AngieLake on 5th Nov 2009. Looking up the slope of the eastern border of this settlement towards the south and the summit of Bellever Tor.
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Log Text: Following lunch atop the splendid viewpoint that is Bellever Tor, I walked northwards towards Lakehead Hill along the nice and clear pathway which passes through several ancient settlements, of which various walls and other remains can be seen.
Bellever Tor Cairn one
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bellever Tor Cairn one submitted by caradoc68 on 6th Oct 2013. This incredible Circle Kist is just on the edge of Bellever plantation facing Bellever Tor, mentioned by both Worth and Butler has being a Kist with three sides and a capstone.
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Log Text: Now on a worn pathway along what was previously the edge of the forested area, and I get to what is marked "Cairn & Cist". A nicely formed cairn is found with a few surrounding kerbstones and a large capstone covering the remnants of a cist underneath.
Bellever Tor 2
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 2 submitted by AngieLake on 25th Nov 2009. This is a possible candidate for the 'circle' at SW of Bellever Tor. It's hard to tell, but this looked as if it was placed upright deliberately, and probably part of a cairn circle or hut circle.
10 Sept 09.
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Log Text: Making it over the northern wall into the area where the forest has recently been cleared, and look for the next "Cairn" marked on my map. Even with gps I struggle to find what could be considered to be a cairn, although there were several contenders. I suspect that what I found as a single standing stone was its last remains.
Bellever Tor 6
Date Added: 27th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Bellever Tor 6 submitted by caradoc68 on 8th Oct 2013. Great little Kist hidden away in the long grass.
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Log Text: Back into the western area to search for this marked as "Cairn Circle & Cist", hiding in amongst the long grass, which was at times almost waist deep. Nice remains of a cist with several cairn kerbstones encirling it.
Bellever Tor 10
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
Bellever Tor 10 submitted by davep on 5th Apr 2020. Photo taken 23/07/2019 at grid reference SX 64086 75691 (N50.56506 W3.92048)
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Log Text: Second cain I looked for first had the challenge of getting across the wall into the eastern area. I found the cairn in what I thought was a most unlikely place on a slope, the remains being largely a single cist sideslab, with a few other stones laying nearby.
Bellever Tor 9
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
Bellever Tor 9 submitted by davep on 5th Apr 2020. Photo taken July 23 2019 at SX 63585 75470 (N50.56295 W3.92748). Interesting to contrast with the pics taken by Bladup two years earlier. This pic is shortly after vegetation had burnt back.
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Log Text: Day to Dartmoor for a lovely and sunny but tiring walk from Dunnabridge. Decided to start my walk by searching out the various cairns and cists on the way up to Bellever Tor, for which the ViewRanger with OSMap app helped enormously for those marked on the map. First I found, marked as "Cairn & Cist" was a small cist with a couple of surrounding kerbstones in some open rough ground which had probably been burned fairly recently.
Cordon des Druides
Trip No.204 Entry No.329 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cordon des Druides submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Jun 2007. The largest stones are at the centre of the row, up to two metres in height, but most are much smaller.
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Log Text: This long line of white quartz stones is easy to find in the Fougères Forest, north of the town. It is about 500 metres east of the big parking area at Chennedet crossroads along the D177 road, and has a sign and a few parking places nearby.
The row is about 250 metres long, and the white quartz blocks are spaced at about 3 metres apart. The row runs at an alignment of 233° / 053° or Southwest to Northeast. The largest stones are at the centre of the row, up to two metres in height, but most are much smaller. Apart from this long row, there are several other quartz blocks which seem to have once been a parallel row nearby.
Pierre du Trésor
Trip No.204 Entry No.328 Date Added: 16th Sep 2020
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Ille-et-Vilaine (35))
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Pierre du Trésor submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Jun 2007. It is hard to tell exactly what these stones are the remains of. It is probably a fairly large simple dolmen which has now collapsed.
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Log Text: Deep in the darkest depths of Fougères forest can be found the Pierre du Trésor. Its actually only about a 400 metre signposted walk from the big car park at the Chennedet crossing of the main D177 road north from Fougères, and the traffic on this busy road is only 100 metres away. My gps didnt stand a chance of picking up a signal, and my camera insisted on using its flash, even on this bright and sunny afternoon.
Its hard to tell exactly what these stones are the remains of. It could be a fairly large simple dolmen which has now collapsed. Normal ground level would be above the stones, and they are now seen within a pit which has been dug around them at some point, no doubt people looking for the treasure. What is probably a capstone is about 4.5 by 2.5 metres, and very irregularly shaped. It is possible to wriggle underneath it, if that should be your want.