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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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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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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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Butterdon Stone Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Aug 2004
Butterdon Stone Circle submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Aug 2004. Butterdon Stone Circle, Butterdon Hill, Dartmoor, Devon SX656588
The fantastic Butterdon Hill stone row starts at a cairn situated just downslope to the north of the largest cairn on the hilltop. The cairn is the usual mass of stones with a hollowed out middle, about 8 metres in diameter. Outside the remains of the cairn lies a ring of large fallen slabs, which once must have made an impressive ring.
This view is to the north, along the row, of which the first half mile can be seen as th...
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Butterdon Hill Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 5th Aug 2004. Butterdon Hill Cairns, Dartmoor, Devon SX655587
At the summit of Butterdon Hill are two very large cairns, with others to be seen in the vicinity. The southern of the pair, on the actual summit of the hill, has been fairly mutilated, with a trig point and various walls of shelters now built into and around it.
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Butterdon Hill Row
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2004
Butterdon Hill Row submitted by thecaptain on 6th Aug 2004. The remains of this fantastic row run for nearly 2 kilometres across the moor in a roughly northerly direction from Butterdon Hill.
The row drops off from the ridge at Butterdon Hill barrow and continues towards the top of Piles Hill. At the lowest part of the slopes, the alignment is pretty well defined.
This view is looking south as the row meanders its way across the lower slopes. On the skyline can be seen Butterdon Hill Barrow, at which point the row reaches the top of the ridge and ...
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Hobajons Cross
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2004
Hobajons Cross submitted by thecaptain on 6th Aug 2004. Hobajons Cross. This relatively large stone is part of the Butterdon Hill row, and has a simple cross carved into it on the western face. It appears to be a part of the original alignment, adapted for more recent use as a marker for ancient tracks crossing the moor.
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The Longstone (Piles Hill)
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Aug 2004
The Longstone (Piles Hill) submitted by thecaptain on 7th Aug 2004. This large stone just below the summit of Piles Hill, over 2 metres in height, leans at an angle although it has been only recently re-erected. It probably marked the northern end of the Butterdon Hill stone row.
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Piles Hill Cairns
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2004
Piles Hill Cairns submitted by thecaptain on 8th Aug 2004. On the top of Piles Hill, to the north of the large summit cairn is a smaller, but more well defined cairn about 15m diameter, which has at some point in time been remodelled into a shelter. It has a reasonably well defined ring of stones around its perimeter.
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Scorhill
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2004
Scorhill submitted by thecaptain on 14th Aug 2004. Scorhill stone circle, one evening January 1995
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Grey Wethers.
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2004
Grey Wethers. submitted by thecaptain on 14th Aug 2004. Grey Wethers stone circles seen from the lower slopes of Sittaford Tor in about 1995.
Or is it the arrival of The Mysterons ?
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Fernworthy circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2004
Fernworthy circle submitted by thecaptain on 14th Aug 2004. Fernworthy stone circle from the southeast. Picture from about 1995.
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Fernworthy stone row SW
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Aug 2004
Fernworthy stone row SW submitted by thecaptain on 14th Aug 2004. Fernworthy South Avenue, leading to the stone circle.
Picture from about 1995
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Spinsters' Rock
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 17th Aug 2004
Spinsters' Rock submitted by thecaptain on 17th Aug 2004. Spinsters Rock in the evening sunlight
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Shovel Down stone circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2004
Shovel Down stone circle submitted by thecaptain on 13th Oct 2004. Two of the remaining standing stones viewed looking east.
The northern end of row 3 is just down to the right of this picture somewhere.
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