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Grimspound
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Grimspound submitted by h_fenton on 11th Aug 2008. Grimspound, from the northwest (Hookney Tor). Low level oblique kite aerial photograph. There are a few people on the right side of the photo to help show scale.
Photo taken: 8 August 2008
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Challacombe rows
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Challacombe rows submitted by Bladup on 11th Sep 2013. The North end of Challacombe stone rows.
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Bennet's Cross
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Bennet's Cross submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2006. This is a lovely cross, believed to have been carved from a prehistoric menhir.
It stands about 1.7 metres tall, and is just beside the B3212 road near its high point as it crosses the moor between Moretonhampstead and Postbridge.
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Birch Tor Cairn
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Birch Tor Cairn submitted by Bladup on 28th Oct 2013. Birch Tor Cairn. Showing the 2 stones on the cairn.
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Hookney Tor Cairn
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Hookney Tor Cairn submitted by Bladup on 28th Oct 2013. Hookney Tor Cairn, showing the curving bank of the cairn (it's attached to an outcrop), with Grimspound in the background.
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Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North)
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. The platform cairn on Hameldown Tor.
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Hamel Down Cross
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Hamel Down Cross submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Hamel Down Cross looking towards SE.
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Broad Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Approaching Broad Barrow from the north, along the Two Moors Way.
This is one of the largest barrows on Dartmoor and it stands on the highest part of Hamel Down.
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Single Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Single Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Single Barrow, about halfway between Two Barrows and Broad Barrow. (Not easy to distinguish with everything covered in heather!) Cremated bones were found here.
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Hamel Down
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Hamel Down submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. A map (after Butler) of the barrows, cairns, and an ancient cross on Hamel Down.
This will be useful for referencing the individual sites to be posted very soon.
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Two Barrows (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Two Barrows (Hamel Down) submitted by AngieLake on 22nd Apr 2007. Two Barrows (south) sadly supports a drystone wall these days, despite ancient builders re-routing a reave (prehistoric field boundary) to avoid it. (Looking east in late-afternoon sun).
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Hound Tor Enclosure
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Hound Tor Enclosure submitted by Andy B on 3rd Jul 2011. Hound Tor
From this angle, taken a little way into the moorland from Swallerton Gate, SX7479 : Hound Tor falls into three main stacks.
Copyright Derek Harper and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Musbury Castle
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes
Musbury Castle submitted by ForestDaughter on 12th Jun 2012. A view of the hill fort from about three-quarters of the way up.
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Coney's Castle
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes
Coney's Castle submitted by MattImpey on 8th Jul 2007. The fort enclosure to the south side of Coney's Castle can clearly been seen here.
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Lambert's Castle
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes
Lambert's Castle submitted by MattImpey on 7th Jul 2007. Lambert's Castle is about 1 mile from Coney's Castle and has views across the Dorset countryside.
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Golden Cap Barrows
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes
Golden Cap Barrows submitted by Bladup on 10th Jul 2024. Looking down the coast towards Golden Cap from Charmouth beach
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Stoney Littleton
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes
Stoney Littleton submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Mar 2005. Stoney Littleton barrow viewed from the west.
Its a cracking little barrow, with the most wonderful passage and chambers inside, and the powers that be have even left a decent sized area around it free of any farming activity. A lovely sunny day, but some of the walk to the barrow was horrendously muddy.
The fields around the barrow had recently been ploughed, a crop of beet of some sort having been the last grown. While walking back after my visit, I found a bit of the lovely golden colou...
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Black Hill
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Greater Manchester)
Visited: Yes
Black Hill Cairns submitted by AngieLake on 10th Aug 2010. While walking up to the cairns you may notice, near the track, a line of Boundary Stones running (approx SE - NW) between the NE of Haytor Down and the summit of Black Hill.
This was one on the left coming downhill, a rather picturesque scene with the windswept tree.
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Almscliffe Crags
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes
Almscliffe Crags submitted by andy_h on 23rd Apr 2004. The Wart Well at Almscliffe.
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The Cockpit
Date Added: 7th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes
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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