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The Round Pound

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2004

The Round Pound

The Round Pound submitted by thecaptain on 23rd Oct 2004. The Round Pound, looking northwest from across the road which has been curved to pass around it.
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Kestor Settlement

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2004

Kestor Settlement

Kestor Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2004. Kestor Rock Basin. View from the top of Kestor rocks looking southwest towards Shovel Down. This is the largest natural rock basin on Dartmoor, it is about 3 feet in diameter and is at least 2 feet deep with water throughout most of the year. I wonder if it was significant to the ancient settlers here.
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Corringdon Ball

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 24th Oct 2004

Corringdon Ball

Corringdon Ball submitted by thecaptain on 24th Oct 2004. Corringdon Ball site overview. This is the view looking southwest from Brent Fore Hill, overlooking the Corringdon Ball site. I have tried to mark out the various sites. In the background is the Butterdon Hill to Piles Hill ridge with its enormous number of sites. Again, I have tried to mark out the various rows and features which would be seen in this view.
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Shovel Down row 2

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2004

Shovel Down row 2

Shovel Down row 2 submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 2 is of the typical Dartmoor style of double row, with paired stones placed about one and a half metres apart, the pairs of stones generally increasing in height towards a cairn at the upper end. This view is looking up the remains of the upper end, which is fairly complete, towards the two giant fallen stones and the forfold circle.
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Shovel Down Fourfold Circle

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2004

Shovel Down Fourfold circle

Shovel Down Fourfold circle submitted by thecaptain on 27th Oct 2004. The cairn at the upper end Shovel Down row 2 avenue is a nice little monument, known as the Fourfold Circle. Obviously once a mound of diameter about 9 metres, as with most of the Shovel Down sites, most of the stones have been removed for wallbuilding. What is left are four concentric rings of stone slabs surrounding a central pit. The stones are set on edge, with their flat faces facing in towards the centre of the cairn. Viewed here lookingsouthwest with row 4 going up the hill behind
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Merrivale

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 29th Oct 2004

Merrivale

Merrivale submitted by thecaptain on 29th Oct 2004. Merrivale site overview. This is the view looking west overlooking the Merrivale site. I have tried to mark out where the various features are. The stones in the foreground are remains of bronze age reaves and ancient settlement huts and field walls.
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Merrivale Centre S

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale Centre S

Merrivale Centre S submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Looking northish at the end of row 3 and the remains of its cairn. The stones in the background are some of those in the southern (or central) avenue.
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Merrivale Centre N

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Cairn Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale Centre N

Merrivale Centre N submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. The remains of the cairn with its central cist and surrounding stone circle which is in the middle of the southern (or central) avenue
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Merrivale Centre Row

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale Centre Row

Merrivale Centre Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. One of the larger and/or shaped "special stones" which make up part of the Merrivale central Avenue. View looking south, with the unusual large capstone of the cist beyond.
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Merrivale NE circle

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale NE circle

Merrivale NE circle submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. At the eastern end of the Merrivale northern double row is the remains of a cairn with a surrounding stone circle. These stones can be seen here, along with the large stones at the end of the rows extending away from the circle in this view looking west.
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Merrivale North Row

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale North Row

Merrivale North Row submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. Roughly in the middle of the Merrivale northern double row can be seen a few stones which may or may not have gone to make up a circle or other structure, perhaps in a similar manner to the cairn and circle in the southern avenue, not more than a few yards away from here. This is a view looking east along the northern rows, and some extra stones can be seen here.
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Merrivale Cists

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2004

Merrivale Cists

Merrivale Cists submitted by thecaptain on 1st Nov 2004. View loking north at the large cist with its broken capstone, just to the south of the Merrivale central avenue. The capstone has been split by stoneworkers a couple of centuries ago, with the middle part of it taken away for some other use, leaving us a view into the stone lined cist below.
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Merrivale NW

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Nov 2004

Merrivale NW

Merrivale NW submitted by thecaptain on 6th Nov 2004. Just to the south of the western end of the Merrivale southern avenue are the remains of a once large cairn with retaining circle. The stones from this cairn were removed in 1851 to mend the road, leaving just a circle of uneven ground, with a few slabs remaining in an outer bank.
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Merrivale circle

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 10th Nov 2004

Merrivale circle

Merrivale circle submitted by thecaptain on 10th Nov 2004. the small stones of Merrivale stone circle poking up above the skyline beyond the great menhir.
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The Beeracres Stone

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2004

The Beeracres Stone

The Beeracres Stone submitted by thecaptain on 11th Nov 2004. The Beeracres Stone My new standing stone, almost 6 feet of best Cornish Granite, recently erected in the garden of Beeracres. Despite a nightmare start to things when getting it delivered, we managed to move it into place and erect it last Sunday afternoon fairly easily, and had a nice little celebratory event. I think it looks nicely at home here.
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Woodleaze Farm

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Nov 2004

Woodleaze Farm

Woodleaze Farm submitted by thecaptain on 15th Nov 2004. View looking southeast of the remains of this long barrow, seen just to the south of the track past Woodleaze Farm. It has been completely ploughed over, leaving only traces of it as a slight mound in the field level.
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Adlestrop Hill

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2006

Adlestrop Hill

Adlestrop Hill submitted by thecaptain on 3rd Apr 2006. Adlestrop Hill long barrow. Just about found and identified after a long search by about a dozen hardened stonehunters, and a couple of full time archaeologists.
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Ibsley Common barrows

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery Country: England (Hampshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2006

Ibsley Common barrows

Ibsley Common barrows submitted by thecaptain on 6th May 2006. On the western edge of the New Forest plateau above the river Avon is this fine disc barrow with splendid views in all directions. This is the view towards the northeast.
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Ston Easton Barrow

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 20th Nov 2005

Ston Easton Barrow

Ston Easton Barrow submitted by thecaptain on 20th Nov 2005. Ston Easton Barrow as seen from the A37. I have driven past this barrow hundreds of times and regularly thought I ought to pay it a proper visit. Travelling home from my friends the Shepto Steptoe's the morning after Wells Carnival it was wonderfully sunny, and I had my camera. This is the view from the roadside.
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King Henry's Mound

Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound Country: England (Greater London)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2006

King Henry's Mound

King Henry's Mound submitted by thecaptain on 1st Jan 2006. King Henry's Mound is a much modified large mound in Richmond Park.
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