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Fernworthy Cairn SE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jul 2014
Fernworthy Cairn SE submitted by theCaptain on 26th Jul 2014. The northern terminus of the southeastern stone row 2 is a circular cairn about 8 metres in diameter with central cist and a possible surrounding ring of small stones.
Seen here looking south along its stone row.
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Whitestone (Lee)
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2015
Whitestone (Lee) submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2015. I found a place to park and got out for a look, and there was the large white quartz stone, stood in the paddock just above the roadside.
It's probably about 8 to 10 feet tall, and cannot be seen from the nearby roadside due to the thick hedge, but it can be seen (in winter anyway) from further up the hillside
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Woolacombe Memorial
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2015
Woolacombe Memorial submitted by theCaptain on 4th Jan 2015. Closer inspection reveals this to be a memorial to the American soldiers of the second World War who were based in this area in the build up to D-Day, using the beaches of Woolacombe and nearby Saunton to practise their invasion techniques.
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Beardown Cairn and Cist
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Beardown Cairn and Cist submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Mar 2017. Beardown Cairn and Cist, near the Lich Way on the heights between the Cowsic and West Dart rivers.
My friend Antony tries out the cist for size, during a memorable walk along the Lich Way across the moor at Easter 1988.
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Log Text: Visited while on walk across Dartmoor on the Lich Way Easter 1988. Walked right by Beardown Cairn and Cist, on the heights between the Cowsic and West Dart rivers. My friend Antony tries out the cist for size. It certainly was the start of a funny event. It was very damp down the bottom of the cist. Sometime later along the walk towards Wistman's Wood, Antony was bringing up the rear, and it was noticed he was walking along with his trousers round his neck, hoping for them to dry out in the sun, wondering how long it would be until anyone noticed... However, we later all ended trouserless with very wet and mucky lower limbs, due to a bog near the Powder Mills.
Challacombe Cross Settlement
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Mar 2017
Challacombe Cross Settlement submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Mar 2017. A photo of what I have called Shapley Common Hut, taken during a walk at Easter 1988.
I dont believe this would be at the location given on the Portal sitepage, but more to the northeast, around SX697830, as our walk first took us south along the ridge to Hookney Tor and Grimspound
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Trowlesworthy West circle
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2017
Trowlesworthy West circle submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2017. The cairn circle at the uphill end of the Trowlesworthy single stone row.
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Trowlesworthy West row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2017
Trowlesworthy West row submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2017. The junction where the Trowlesworthy West row meets its cairn circle at the upper end.
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Trowlesworthy East row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2017
Trowlesworthy East row submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2017. Seen looking south, the Trowlesworthy East stone row runs down across the hillside from The Pulpit circle.
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Brisworthy
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2017
Brisworthy submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2017. Brisworthy stone circle seen as approaching from the east
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Ringmoor Down Stone Row
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jan 2019
Ringmoor Down Stone Row submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Jan 2019. Ringmoor Down Stone Row looking back south uphill towards the circle.
April 2013
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Fernworthy Cairn 4
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2019
Fernworthy Cairn 4 submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2019. The first monument to look for, which you might otherwise miss is cairn 4, found right at the corner of forest, trackway and open area. Probably about 10 metres in diameter, the centre of the cairn is green and rocky, and there are several kerbstones making up a circular surround.
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Fernworthy stone row SE
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2019
Fernworthy stone row SE submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2019. The southeastern stone row is short and of small stones, hard to tell whether it is a single or a double row with little space between the two rows.
The northern terminus of the row has a cairn, but there is nothing obvious of the southern terminus, with just 20m of stones to be seen.
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Fernworthy Cairn E
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2019
Fernworthy Cairn E submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2019. Cairn 5 is up to 10 m diameter, and has a small 5 m diameter mound in the centre, surrounded by a flatter region and then a ring of surrounding stones.
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Fernworthy stone row N
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2019
Fernworthy stone row N submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2019. Approaching the northern row from the circle. Froggymeade living up to its name.
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White Ridge Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 12th Feb 2019
White Ridge Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Feb 2019. There is a large elongated slab near to the middle of the ring structure, which looks to me like it should once have been standing.
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Sittaford Tor pound
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Feb 2019
Sittaford Tor pound submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Feb 2019. An oval shaped enclosure, defined by embanked rubble walls.
The walls are best seen where the old leat cuts through them on the western side.
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White Ridge pound
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Feb 2019
White Ridge pound submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Feb 2019. Circular enclosure between 20 and 25 metres in diameter, surrounded by an embanked rubble wall up to a metre in height.
It has an entrance on the western side still with a jamb in place, at which point the walls are easiest to see.
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Cranbrook Castle
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Feb 2019
Cranbrook Castle submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Feb 2019. Cranbrook Castle as seen from Butterdon Down
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Log Text: Cranbrook Castle hillfort can be seen to the northwest of Butterdon Down. I decide that with it only being February, and with it getting dark by 5:00pm, I will not visit, but go for a pint in the Union Inn at Moretomhampstead before heading out to Houndtor.
Butterdon Down Cairns
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Butterdon Down Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 4th Mar 2019. On the top of Butterdon Hill are remains of several cairns.
Looking southeast with Mardon Down on the horizon.
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Log Text: Being such a beautiful day, I walk up to the top of Butterdon Hill, much of which is covered in Gorse, and it’s a bit of a struggle to get to the actual top the way I have approached it. Once on top, it is obvious that there are remains of several cairns up here, and many more of the ancient boundary type constructions, some of which also have large side set slabs within them. The views from up here are fabulous, and its like being up here on a summer day rather than in February. The sky is all a bit hazy, and its obvious there are several fires burning, I suspect from burning of the gorse and bracken.
The Giant's Grave Mardon Down
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Giant's Grave Mardon Down submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Mar 2019. At the top of Mardon Down is a fairly large cleared area, but the Giant's Grave cairn is very disappointing, being not much more than a large bumpy area of ground of about 20m diameter. It certainly doesn't live up to its name.
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Log Text: At the top of the hill, and there is a fairly large cleared green area, but the Giant's Grave cairn is very disappointing, being not much more than a large bumpy area of ground, of about 20m diameter. It certainly doesn't live up to its name.