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Corringdon Ball South
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2004
Corringdon Ball South submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball S, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards over the remains of the southern multiple rows.
hard to pick out much in the picture, but there are the remains of 7 or 8 rows of small stones here.
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Corringdon Ball S.E.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2004
Corringdon Ball S.E. submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball SE, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards towards the remains of the cairn circle at the end of the southern multiple rows.
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Corringdon Ball N.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2004
Corringdon Ball N. submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball N, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards along the northern single row.
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Corringdon Ball Central
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2004
Corringdon Ball Central submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. Corringdon Ball C, Dartmoor, Devon SX666612
View eastwards along the triple stone rows towards the cairn circle.
Brent Fore Hill double row and cairn can be seen rising up the hillside in the background (if you look really carefully!)
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Corringdon Ball Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jul 2004
Corringdon Ball N. submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jul 2004. View westwards over the cairn circle at the end of the northern single row.
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Brent Fore Hill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2004
Brent Fore Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2004. Brent Fore Hill stone row, Dartmoor, Devon SX668613
Looking up the row on solstice eve
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Spurrells Cross Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2004
Spurrells Cross Row submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2004. Spurrells Cross Stone Row, Dartmoor, Devon SX658599
Not much remains to be seen of the cairn and double row which lies to the southwest of Spurrells Cross.
This is the view looking southwards up the row to the cairn on a now very nice and sunny solstice eve.
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St Lythans
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2004. My rating: Access 4
St Lythans submitted by thecaptain on 9th Aug 2004. A picture of this massive structure with my Dad beside it for scale. They sure must have been big dogs who lived in here !
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Tinkinswood
Date Added: 26th Apr 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Wales (South Glamorgan)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tinkinswood submitted by thecaptain on 10th Aug 2004. While visiting Tinkinswood with my Dad recently, we could hardly fail to be impressed with the size of the capstone. What a lovely tomb this is.
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Log Text: While visiting Tinkinswood with my Dad in 2004, we could hardly fail to be impressed with the size of the capstone. What a lovely tomb this is. But more intriguing were the other rocks and stones in the vicinity. I knew the layout of the main chamber before I visited, but was surprised to find so many other stones and what looked like structures there were in the area. Since my visit, and before I got round to posting this, Sem has also commented on this, and added a few pictures. After visiting the main site, we spent some time looking at the other stones in the area. The first to be noted, while walking across the fields to the chamber from the little parking area, were some large stones in the field on the left (to the south). Closer inspection of this and it looked like this was the remains of another burial chamber, with a fallen dolmen type of structure, with other stones making out what could have been other chamber stones, or some sort of entrance. Looking carefully and the remains of a mound can be made out. Further on towards the main chamber, and again to the left of the pathway, and there are some large stones in a sort of pile in the hedgerow. All around in this region is an outcropping of a thick slab like rock, which has been used to make the structures. It is possible that these stones have just been moved and dumped into the hedgerow as part of a field clearance. However, it is also possible to my eyes, that these are the remains of some sort of tomb. Still further towards the main tomb, at the gateway used to get from one field into that which the main chamber lives in, are a couple of fairly large standing stones. These also look fairly ancient. Is it possible that they some ancient stone remains, or are they simple the remains of an old stile? In the field to the south of here (the main tomb is to the north) I was intrigued by some rock outcrops which seemed to have some form other than just the natural. Investigating this, and I could not fail to notice what seemed like a stone avenue which lead towards the two large standing stones at the stile. The alignment of this avenue would have been directly to the entrance and main forecourt of the main tomb. It is possible that this is not actually a stone avenue, but perhaps a trackway cut into the bedrock (the 2 foot thick slabstone) with what looks like stone uprights being remnants of the slab. But why would anyone do this ? In the wooded area surrounding the main chamber, there appear to be many more stones, either standing or fallen. Some of these are more clearly seen from the fields around the outside of the fenced region of the large barrow remains. One of the more fascinating things I found is in a little wooded copse to the southeast of the main chamber, between the "avenue" field, and the "dolmen" field. Inside this dark little wood, the natural rock outcrop can be seen clearly at the surface of the ground, as about a two foot thick slab, horizontally positioned on the surface. The real interesting thing here is that this slab has been quarried at some time in the distant past, perhaps by being burrowed underneath before breaking large slabs off. Well by now I might have been imagining things, but I would have put money on one large bit of the slab that was removed being a match for the massive Tinkinswood capstone. It seems that not only the size and shape were a good match, but also the thickness. Had I found the quarry from where the massive stones of the chamber were taken. It was lovely to think so. The area Tinkinswood chamber is obviously so much more than just the large barrow and tombs. Perhaps the entire local landscape is of monumental importance. It would be nice to know if anything else is known.
Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2004
Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle submitted by thecaptain on 14th Jul 2004. Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle, Dartmoor, Devon SX658598
To the southwest of the cairn at the head of the stone row is a much bigger and better preserved cairn. I found about 4 stones which seemed to make a line radiating away from this cairn in a northeasterly direction. Is it possible that this was once part of a row extending downhill from this cairn ?
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Glasscombe Ball North
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2004
Glasscombe Ball North submitted by thecaptain on 14th Jul 2004. Glasscombe Ball stone row, Dartmoor, Devon SX657604
The remains of this row would have started at a cairn on top of the ridge and progressed in a south-easterly direction away from it. With all the stones flattened to the ground, the layout of the original row is not easy to determine, but would have been at least 80 metres in length.
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Glasscombe Corner Stone Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2004
Glasscombe Corner Stone Row submitted by thecaptain on 16th Jul 2004. Glasscombe Corner stone row, Dartmoor, Devon SX661608
Just above Glasscombe Corner can be found the remains of this fine stone row. Unusually, it has its cairn at the lower end, and marches off up the hill for about 150 metres in a south westerly direction.
View here of the cairn and looking up the row. The cairn is fairly small and insignificant, although the remains of what was once possibly a ring of slabs can be seen.
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Harford S.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Harford S. submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Harford Moor South, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
On Harford Moor, near to the upper reaches of Butter Brook, are the remains of a couple of stone alignments, which are very close together.
The southern of the two is a short double row, which extends in a northeasterly direction away from a small cairn. There are a several pairs of very closely set stones remaining, including what is probably the end pair, which are slightly larger than the others, about 25m distant from the cairn.
This i...
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Butterbrook
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Butterbrook submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Butterbrook Stone Rows, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
On Harford Moor, near the upper reaches of Butter Brook, are the remains of a couple of stone alignments, which are very close together. The easiest to find is a short double row, which extends in a northeasterly direction away from a small cairn.
Just to the north of this is a single row of stones, which crosses beyond the end of the double row.
This is a view looking to the east, with the remains of the double row seen to the right of ...
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Harford Moor N
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jul 2004
Harford Moor N submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Jul 2004. Harford Moor North, Dartmoor, Devon SX652599
At the upper reaches of Butterbrook are a double and a single row of stones, on a similar alignment. The northern single row crosses beyond the end of the double row. The stones are smaller than those of the double row, some hardly showing above the ground, and not easy to see in all the loose natural stone of the area. There is no obvious western end to the row, and the furthest stones here are more or less adjacent to the cairn of the double row...
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Dodman Point
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2004
Dodman Point submitted by thecaptain on 28th Jul 2004. The Dodman is a massive defended headland projecting into the ocean south of Mevagissey.
Seen here from the sea to the southwest.
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Rame Head
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2004
Rame Head submitted by thecaptain on 29th Jul 2004. Rame Head promontary fort, Cornwall, SX418482
Sunset over Rame Head Iron Age promontary fort.
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Yellowmead
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jul 2004
Yellowmead submitted by thecaptain on 30th Jul 2004. Yellowmead, Dartmoor, Devon SX575678
What an amazing site this is. On gently sloping hillside facing Sheepstor can be found this tremendous fourfold stone circle, about 20 minutes boggy walk from parking near what is known as the Scout Hut.
I found it impossible to get any photographs which do any justice to this site.
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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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Butterdon Hill Barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 2nd Aug 2004. Butterdon Hill Barrow, Dartmoor, Devon SX657594
Large cairn just beside the Butterdon Hill stone row, at the point where the row changes direction as it drops over the edge of the ridge, and at what is the crest of the hill when seen from the north. It is possible that it was once surrounded by a ring of stones, but this cairn has been much altered over the years.
Viewed here looking towards the northwest
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