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Yellowmead
Date Added: 3rd Nov 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Yellowmead submitted by postman on 28th May 2013. Sheepstor is the backdrop here.
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Log Text: Very misty and mysterious at Yellowmead
Stalldon Row
Date Added: 20th Jun 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Stalldon Row submitted by thecaptain on 22nd Sep 2006. The northern end of the row has 4 wonderful large (2 metres plus) stones still standing, which can be seen from miles away all over the southern moor, and look in many ways like walkers on the hilltop.
Seen here looking to the north, the wild moorland stretches off into the distance.
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Log Text: A nlog walk but worth it after a number of aborted trip ( sewage work gates being shut etc)
Oxenham Arms
Date Added: 13th Feb 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Oxenham Arms submitted by TheCaptain on 26th Apr 2004. Oxenham Arms, South Zeal, Devon SX651935.
An enormous and magnificent menhir built into the wall of a tremendous pub on the main street in the village of South Zeal, Devon.
In fact, the pub is believed to have been built by monks in the twelfth century around the menhir. As the pub website says "A very interesting part of the house is the small lounge behind the bar. In this room, set in the wall, is a monolith and the theory of archaeologists is that the monastic builders placed the...
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Log Text: 25 ft stone 4 feet into room above and 17 ft underground
Down Ridge
Date Added: 26th May 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th May 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Down Ridge submitted by TheCaptain on 15th Apr 2019. There is not a huge amount left, and much of that is at the uphill side, forming an arc indicating a diameter of about 25 metres.
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Log Text: huge stones for a Dartmoor circle - flat facing , clearly built touching each other
Sherberton circle
Date Added: 26th May 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Sherberton circle submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Sherberton stone circle
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Leech Wells
Date Added: 27th May 2019
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 1992. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Leech Wells submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Nov 2004. The Leech Wells. Still believed locally to possess healing properties.
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Shovel Down row 5
Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Shovel Down row 5 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 5.
Although most of the stones in this avenue are either small or have been removed, traces of the row can be seen right to the Longstone.
View looking southwest at the lower end of the row, with Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Fernworthy
Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Fernworthy circle submitted by StoneLee on 10th Jul 2014. Froggymead en route to Grey Wether's
Double whammy.
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Fernworthy stone row SW
Date Added: 21st Apr 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
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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Drizzlecombe Brook
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Marker Stone
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Drizzlecombe Brook submitted by Anne T on 11th Jul 2019. This is the 'standing stone' at SX 5870966946, in between Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement and Drizzlecombe Brook with its old tin workings.
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Drizzlecombe cist 22
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Drizzlecombe cist 22 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2007. To the south of the main Drizzlecombe sites can be found this cairn with cist.
The possible capstone is displaced to the west.
Viewed here looking southeast towards Shavercombe.
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Drizzlecombe cist 22
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Drizzlecombe cist 22 submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Jul 2007. To the south of the main Drizzlecombe sites can be found this cairn with cist.
The possible capstone is displaced to the west.
Viewed here looking southeast towards Shavercombe.
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Drizzlecombe row 1
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe row 1 submitted by Karen on 27th Oct 2003. Drizzlecombe SE row looking up the row from its longstone
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Drizzlecombe row 2
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe row 2 submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. View of what the natives call row C the one with the 14ft (4.3m) high
terminal stone in Burls book page 114. The chinese graphic is on the largest
stone that can be seen at the far end & is facing the camera.
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Drizzlecombe row 2
Date Added: 8th Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe row 2 submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. View of what the natives call row C the one with the 14ft (4.3m) high
terminal stone in Burls book page 114. The chinese graphic is on the largest
stone that can be seen at the far end & is facing the camera.
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Drizzlecombe
Date Added: 9th Jul 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Drizzlecombe submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Jun 2007. The spectacular Drizzlecombe complex of stone rows, longstones, cairns, circles and cists, with the significant sites marked on.
Seen here from the west, on the slopes of Eastern Tor.
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Drizzlecombe row 3
Date Added: 9th Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drizzlecombe row 3 submitted by ernar on 17th Oct 2004. The NW stone row at Drizzlecombe begins at the center cairn (of a 3-cairn group oriented SE just downhill the settlement) and is aligned at 235ยบ.
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Drizzlecombe Giant's Basin
Date Added: 9th Jul 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Drizzlecombe Giant's Basin submitted by Bladup on 12th May 2017. The large Giant's Basin.
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Drizzlecombe menhir 1
Date Added: 9th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drizzlecombe menhir 1 submitted by thecaptain on 1st Feb 2008. Drizzlecombe menhir 1 viewed from the southwest, with the row running away to the left.
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Drizzlecombe menhir 2
Date Added: 9th Jul 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Drizzlecombe menhir 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 13th Jun 2007. This magnificent menhir at the downhill end of row 2 (or C) at Drizzlecombe is the largest on Dartmoor, and said to be "by far the finest in the west of England".
I wouldnt argue with that.
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