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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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Nine Stones (Belstone)
Date Added: 19th Jul 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jul 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nine Stones (Belstone) submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Apr 2004. Belstone Nine Stones, Belstone Common, Devon SX612928.
A nice neat little stone circle on the moors below Belstone Tor on the common to the south of the village of Belstone, Devon. This circle is almost certainly the remains of a round burial cairn, and traces of the burial chamber can be seen within the circle.
This is a view looking north
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Hobajons Cross
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
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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Hobajons Cross
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
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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Merrivale Second Menhir and Cairn
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 28th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Merrivale Second Menhir and Cairn submitted by Anne T on 9th Jul 2019. To show the relationship of these monuments with the tall Merrivale Menhir, the recumbent granite pillar is in the foreground, with its pit immediately behind it; the cairn is visible as a low mound behind it (just right of centre) The tall menhir is in the background. The cairn is 5.5m from the menhirs and the granite slab 2m from the cairn. Row 4 runs from the centre to the middle left of the photo; the western stone of row 6 is to the left hand side of the menhir.
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Yar Tor SE
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Yar Tor SE submitted by bec-zog on 27th Nov 2003. Yar Tor Stone rows & Burial cysts. @SX682,738 near Dartmeet
Triple stone rows can be found buried in heather & bracken ~ 450 metres in length.
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Money Pit cairn
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Money Pit cairn submitted by Bladup on 17th Jan 2015. Money Pit cairn.
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