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Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North)
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North) submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Dec 2022. Atop Hamel Down tor there is a large cairn and trig point. It looks to me as though the current pile of stones is a relatively modern construction, but there seems to be a large circular platform which is presumably the base of the original cairn here, with some large stones spaced around it.
Viewed here looking southeast, with Haytor and Rippon Tor framing the cairn top
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Log Text: Climb up to the top of Hamel Down for a walk along the ridge, with splendid views down onto Grimspound from the slopes. Once at the top there is a large cairn and trig point. It looks to me as though the current pile of stones is a relatively modern construction, but there seems to be a large circular platform which is presumably the base of the original cairn here, with some large stones spaced around it. Beautiful views all around, I spend some time trying to figure out all of the various tors and features which can be seen.
Grimspound
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
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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Log Text: I've not been to Grimspound for many a year now, in fact too long. It really is wonderful, with a multiplicity of circular hut buildings within a huge encircling wall. A lovely place to sit and eat my lunch in one of the huts, with the Challacombe stone rows visible on the hillside the other side of the valley and the Warren House Inn way beyond them. Triffic.
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Dec 2022. Broad Barrow is at the top the highest point of Hamel Down at 532m. Seen here from the south
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Log Text: Walking on to the south, there is an obvious large cairn know as Broad Barrow atop the highest point of the down at 532m. This is one of the largest cairns on Dartmoor, but mostly an earthen construction, unlike many of the others. In its southern edge is an excavated stone structure, whether the remains of an old chamber or a more modern construction I do not know. In the central area on top is what looks like a grave, with a dug stony area and a "headstone", put here by the Duke of Somerset as a boundary marker in 1854.
Single Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Single Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jan 2023. Hamel Down Single Barrow, which is smaller and less obvious than Broad Barrow which can be seen here on the hilltop to the south.
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Log Text: Further south along the track, and just to the west of it is the next barrow, known as Single Barrow, which is smaller and less obvious than Broad Barrow. It too has one of the Duke Stone boundary markers on top of it.
Two Barrows (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Two Barrows (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jan 2023. Looking for the second barrow, and I notice a slight rise under the corner of the walls
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Log Text: Onwards southward slightly downhill to a field wall where there is another barrow with a Duke Stone on top, named as Two Barrows. Looking for the second, and it can be seen right under the corner of the walls, no doubt it has been used as a boundary corner for a long time.
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down) submitted by davep on 14th Aug 2019. The Blackaton Down North Cairn, from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (site 586). Photograph taken 19th August 2017.
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Log Text: From the field wall corner can be seen the next large barrow, a bit further to the south, but within the enclosed field on the western side of the wall. I didn’t cross into the field for a closer look.
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2023. Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
Hamel Down Beacon cairn
Date Added: 14th Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Beacon cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Jan 2023. On the southern top of Hameldown at 517m, at a corner of the field wall, is a prominent large cairn. The field wall makes no attempt to avoid the cairn, running right over it, but not across the centre. The cairn has been cut away from the western side within the walled field.
Here seen from the south.
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Log Text: On to the southern top of Hameldown at 517m, at a corner of the field wall, is another prominent large cairn, again with a Duke Stone on its top. The field wall makes no attempt to avoid the cairn, running right over it, but not across the centre. From here the views to the south open up with almost the whole of the southern moor and southeast Devon to be seen.
Hamel Down Cross
Date Added: 27th Jan 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Jan 2023. Hamel Down Cross viewed looking east
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Log Text: Walking back northwards along the ridge and from the top of Broad Barrow, Hamel Down Cross can be seen shining in the sun away from the modern track to the west, so I go for a look. It’s a lovely weathered old stone cross which has lost its head and one of its arms. It has some sort of carving on it's east face, probably a Duke of Somerset boundary marking, but the cross clearly predates that.
Ten Commandments Stone
Date Added: 31st Jan 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2022. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 3
Ten Commandments Stone submitted by AngieLake on 31st May 2010. While I was there yesterday there were several groups of visitors arriving to enjoy the ambience of the tor. The stones are in the foreground here.
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Log Text: A day to myself, and decide to go to Totnes, but first go the scenic way through Buckland, then decide to walk out to Buckland Beacon for a look at the Ten Commandments stones. The views from here are fantastic, right down to the sea all around the south, including right along the Teign estuary. Great to spend time looking all around the north and west trying to figure out all the various tors and bits of Dartmoor previously visited. Magnificent. There is a very interesting series of Boundary stones to the north, one of which looked to me like an old cross originally.
Challacombe rows
Date Added: 31st Jan 2023
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Challacombe rows submitted by Bladup on 11th Sep 2013. The North end of Challacombe stone rows.
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Log Text: Drive from Postbridge to Challacombe via the Soussons cairn stone circle, and park in a little quarry by the roadside, before heading west down to Headland Warren farm with its alpacas, then up over the mining remains to the lower end of the Challacombe stone rows. Most of the stones are showing white above the heather and it looks splendid. The bottom end is a bit of a jumble, no doubt many of the stones moved during the extensive mining here, several of which seem to have been placed in surprising positions. Up the hill to the south, its a clear treble row, which can be followed up the hill to the large 2m tall stone at the top. Can see Grimspound to the east, and over to the Warren House Inn to the west. Back to the car, and drive round to the Warren House Inn for a pint of Black Tor "Pride of Dartmoor" and a look at its everlasting fire, before going to sit outside admiring the views, where I can make out some of the stone row and Grimspound. Must be one of the best pub views in southern England. Fabulous.
Challacombe Down Standing Stone
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Challacombe Down Standing Stone submitted by cazzyjane on 31st May 2012. The large terminal stone looking across to Birch Tor.
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Log Text: Park in a little quarry by the roadside, before heading west down to Headland Warren farm with its alpacas, then up over the mining remains to the lower end of the Challacombe stone rows. Most of the stones are showing white above the heather and it looks splendid. The bottom end is a bit of a jumble, no doubt many of the stones moved during the extensive mining here, several of which seem to have been placed in surprising positions. Up the hill to the south, its a clear treble row, which can be followed up the hill to the large 2m tall stone at the top. Can see Grimspound to the east, and over to the Warren House Inn to the west.
Corringdon Ball settlement
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Corringdon Ball settlement submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Feb 2023. On the western side of the hill there is a clearly defined settlement comprising several enclosures.
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor and around Corringdon Ball. On the western side of the hill there is a clearly defined settlement comprising several enclosures. There are also many hut circles spread around on the hillside here, along with a cairn with cist.
Ball Gate
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ball Gate submitted by Anne T on 26th Oct 2016. The Ball Gate ring cairn, which lies less than 100 metres from the Corringdon Ball chambered cairn. Submitted on behalf of Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks.
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor around Corringdon Ball. Just to the north of the large gateway is a clearly defined ring cairn.
Corringdon Ball Tomb
Date Added: 28th Feb 2023
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 25th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Corringdon Ball Tomb submitted by TheCaptain on 30th Jun 2004. Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb, Dartmoor, Devon SX669613
View looking at the remains of the chamber
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Log Text: Walk from South Brent up onto the moor around Corringdon Ball. Just as we get to the longbarrow and other megalithic sites my phone malfunctions and packs up. Getting very fed up with this decide to give up looking for any more old stones and just continue on with the walk up to Shipley Bridge.
Harbourne Head A
Date Added: 4th Mar 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head A submitted by davep on 24th Oct 2019. The Harbourne Head A Stone Ring Cairn Circle from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website, site 555.
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Log Text: From the menhir I walk up to the top of the hill to look at the two ring cairns. Both quite large diameter, seemingly a ring of stone around a flat inside with a pile in the middle. The northern of the two is less distinct and more grassy. I didn't see anything resembling a circle of upright stones!
Harbourne Head B
Date Added: 4th Mar 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head B submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. The South East Cairn.
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Log Text: From the menhir I walk up to the top of the hill to look at the two ring cairns. Both quite large diameter, seemingly a ring of stone around a flat inside with a pile in the middle. The southern of the two is more distinct, and the central mound and ring are more obviously comprised of stones. I didn't see anything resembling a circle of upright stones!
Hembury Castle
Date Added: 5th Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hembury Castle submitted by caradoc68 on 15th May 2008. Site in Devon:
Hembury castle (the danish camp), just north of Buckfast "devon" SX 725 684. Good little hillfort hiddern away way in Hembury wood, a site worth visiting>. Has very steep rampart bank, 20 feet in some places, a scrape the other side of the ditch. Inside the fort there is a small motte & bailey in the south west corner.
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Log Text: A nice sunny afternoon, after Sunday lunch at Scorriton and a walk out to Bench Tor, I decide to go and have a look at Hembury Castle before heading home. What a lovely place, old woodland with a hilltop iron age fort, modified and updated with a Norman Motte. In places the ramparts are huge, presumably increased for the Motte & Bailey castle. Lovely.
Trendlebere Down Stone Row Cairn
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Trendlebere Down Stone Row Cairn submitted by bec-zog on 24th Nov 2003. Black Hill Stone Row & Cairn. SX767,793.
Bronze age burial cairn with 16 stone row extending N, plus either a terminator stone or remains of a second stone row. A further cairn located at S end
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Log Text: The large cairn at the top of the stone row is completely overgrown, as is the top of the row, but I found a few fairly large fallen stones hidden underneath the overgrowth.
Seven Lords' Lands
Date Added: 13th Mar 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Seven Lords' Lands submitted by AngieLake on 31st May 2010. Looking towards Rippon Tor from the now tidied-up Seven Lords Lands Cairn.
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Log Text: On the way back to Haytor, I stop to go and look at Seven Lords' Lands cairn with its large encircling ring of stones. Its really splendid here in the low sun, which occasionally peeps through the clouds. Now to the Rock Inn after a tiring day on the big moor, I sat quietly nursing a pint in the snug when Dave from Royle Family comes in with wife and dog, and sits next to me.