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Carneglos row
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Carneglos row submitted by SandyG on 17th Jan 2018. Stone row in the foreground and the distinctive Brown Willy beyond. View from south east (Scale 1m).
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Log Text: On the way back from another failed attempt to get to Goodaver circle, I decided not to completely give up, and went for a look for the stone row, in an open field to the west of the northern corner of the forest. It's open access land, and easy to enter the field after taking the track westwards from the radio mast. I first found what looked to be the remains of a hut circle, and then found the stone row. Its clearly an ancient stone row, with a few fairly big stones, but most of them are fairly small. The ground here was very rough and dry after such a prolonged period with no rain, but looks like it gets boggy and well trodden and churned up by the cattle in the fields.
Carneglos Barrow
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2023. My rating: Ambience 2 Access 3
Carneglos Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Jun 2023. Somewhere in the dense forest is this barrow. The forest track passes close by, but there is no easy way in, but I am sure I could glimpse some raised earthworks in places.
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Log Text: Somewhere in the dense forest is this barrow. The forest track passes close by, butthere is no easy way in, but I am sure I could glimpse some raised earthworks in places.
Goodaver
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Couldn't find on 9th Jun 2023
Goodaver submitted by cazzyjane on 6th Dec 2014. Goodaver Stone Circle, Bodmin Moor.
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Log Text: Stop at Webbs Down near Bolventor to try to walk to the Goodaver stone circle through the forests from the north. Its very hot, and about halfway there the forest tracks are all shut off, with barbed wire and CCTV. I look at going over the rough ground to the west of the forest, but it wont be easy. I then check my route map, and realise that the 5 km walk is each way, not a full round trip. Decide this is no good, and head back to the car, but I do get to visit the stone row. Time to go to Blisland for an afternoon pint.
West Cranmore Round Barrows
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023
West Cranmore Round Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Mar 2023. Seen from the carriage of the East Somerset steam railway. Two large round barrows in a field, with fairly distinct ditches around them.
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Log Text: Seen from the carriage of the East Somerset steam railway near Merryfield Lane halt. Two large round barrows in a field, with fairly distinct ditches around them. There is remains of a third much ploughed out barrow. Looks like badgers are starting to dig away at one of the two large barrows.
Beacon Hill (Oakhill) Barrows
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Access 4
Beacon Hill (Oakhill) Barrows submitted by dooclay on 20th Aug 2023. From the East
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Log Text: Several round barrows can be clearly seen from the roman road in an open field along the ridgetop, with several more to be found in Beacon Hill Woods. I didn't have time to park and go and have a proper look.
Doulting Quarries barrow
Date Added: 20th Mar 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 19th Mar 2023. My rating: Access 5
Doulting Quarries barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 20th Mar 2023. In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
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Log Text: In some open land behind the bus stop at Doulting, opposite to the stone quarries entrance, I saw what looked like a longbarrow with stone entrance. Closer inspection showed this to be a modern interpretation, with a large stone standing on the top.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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 Standing Stone
Date Added: 8th Mar 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Harbourne Head Standing Stone submitted by Bladup on 18th Jan 2016. Harbourne Head Standing Stone.
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Log Text: A cold grey February afternoon walk out onto the moor to visit the Harbourne Head menhir. It’s a nice pointy topped stone, slightly taller than me and leaning to one side. Some swaling going on nearby, but not close to the stone and doesn't prevent me getting a visit.
Rippon Tor
Date Added: 24th Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rippon Tor submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2007. Having just puffed my way up the side of the tor (!), this is the first view of the Cairn that Butler calls 'C1' from the west side. In the centre of the pile of stones is a modern Trig. station. (The height of Rippon Tor is 473m.)
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Log Text: The forecast is for a cold icy but bright sunny day as we pack up and leave Splash Cottage, so I decide for a walk up to Rippon Tor and around before the journey home. Unfortunately the real weather up there means I am in the clouds and fog. I make the effort to climb the tor, but its freezing fog up there, and can't see more than about 25 metres, so have a quick wander to the hilltop cairns, cross and millstone, then back down to the car via an old boundary cross at the edge of the frozen Blackslade Mire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.