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Merrivale Menhir
Date Added: 25th Mar 2014
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3

Merrivale Menhir submitted by Dal_gCais on 1st Oct 2003. Merrivale Menhir SX554748 Devon
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Hembury Castle
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 3 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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Denbury
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2

Denbury submitted by AngieLake on 1st Mar 2005. Denbury Fort, looking towards approximately ENE
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Log Text: Not so much a long walk as a steep one, but certainly worth going to see. The undergrowth has indeed been cleared but there is still a lot of wood, and it is hard to get an impression of the whole place from any one spot. The steep-sided defensive ditch is the most impressive part.
Leech Wells
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 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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Log Text: The waters do not flow as readily as they used to years ago, this is possibly because of new houses being built further up the hill.
Broadsands Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 16th Mar 2014
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit

Broadsands Chambered Tomb submitted by scullion on 19th Mar 2004. SX 892573, Devon
A Neolithic chambered tomb or passage grave located on the southern slope overlooking Torbay coast at Broadsands. This megalithic chamber has a single parallel-sided entrance passage 3.8 metres long and 1.2 metres wide lined with alternating orthostats and dry stone walling set within a near circular cairn 12 metres in diameter at construction but later reduced to 7 metres north east by 9 metres east west.The tomb comprises of a polygonal chamber with dimensions of 3.35 metres ...
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