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Hound Tor Enclosure
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hound Tor Enclosure submitted by Andy B on 3rd Jul 2011. Hound Tor
From this angle, taken a little way into the moorland from Swallerton Gate, SX7479 : Hound Tor falls into three main stacks.
Copyright Derek Harper and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Being such a beautiful day, I walk up to the top of Hound Tor before the sun goes down. Beautiful up here in the low sunlight. With views all around. I even climb up to the top of the bare granite rock tor, grazing my fingers on the rough stone in the process. I am a bit wary of being up here alone, and my legs are giving a bit of trouble getting down, but it was worth it. Didn't see much of an enclosure here, but wasn't looking for one to be honest.
Hound Tor Ring Cairn
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hound Tor Ring Cairn submitted by h_fenton on 23rd Oct 2009. Hound Tor Ring Cairn, with Hound Tor in the background.
29 September 2009
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Log Text: From the top of Hound Tor, I make my way south to look for the cairn and cist, but it is easy to find with obvious pathways leading to it. It is a splendid thing, about two thirds of a circle of contiguous surrounding stones with remains of a large cist box in the centre. I sit here for a fair while watching the sunlight fading on the Hound Tor rocks before heading back to the car.
Bowerman's Nose
Date Added: 28th Sep 2020
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 26th Feb 2019. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Bowerman's Nose submitted by Bladup on 25th Apr 2013. Bowerman's Nose.
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Log Text: Drive down from Hound Tor passing Bowerman's Nose, but the sun has now gone, so decide not to go out to the fabulous looking rock column. One for another time. The drive down this little road is splendid, part of it being gated (I'd forgotten the joys of gated roads!), part through a stream bed , some over open common and some through woodland.
Joan Ford Newtake W
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Joan Ford Newtake W submitted by Bladup on 19th Jan 2016. Joan Ford Newtake W, A little circle with a wall going though it and incorporating two stones. No trace of an internal cist.
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Log Text: Having decided to walk further than the short loop, and to visit the Joan Forn Newtake and cross at the Swincome waterworks, I proceeded out across the moor in a west and southwest direction. Leaving the hardened trackway, I headed up to the hilltop on the way to the enclosure, and noted what were probably cairns, or perhaps hut circles. From there over to the corner of the enclosure wall with its gated entrance, at which I noted some reasonably sized stones, but stupidly didn't realise these were the remains of the Joan Ford Newtake W cairn circle, and didn't take pictures.
Dunnabridge Pound
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Dunnabridge Pound submitted by h_fenton on 27th Apr 2010. Dunnabridge Pound from the air.
Kite Aerial Photograph
7 April 2010 @ 9am
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Log Text: The Judges Chair in deep shadow, so no good for photos, but a nice little sit down
Money Pit cairn
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Money Pit cairn submitted by Bladup on 17th Jan 2015. Money Pit cairn.
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Log Text: Looking lovely in the late afternoon sun
Yar Tor Summit
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Yar Tor Summit submitted by AngieLake on 8th Mar 2005. Yar Tor Summit Cairn sits at 416m, overlooking a beautiful area of mid-Dartmoor. This view is of the approach from the south.
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Log Text: Such a lovely day, I decided to go up to the top of Yar Tor to take in the views, despite my legs aching a bit by now. The top of the southern part of the tor has a clear ancient cairn built on top, but this has been made into a spiral shape, I believe during wartime when it was used as a lookout shelter. While stood at the top of Yar Tor, a couple of Wokka-Wokkas flew up the Dart valley below me before heading up the valley towards Princetown and over the moor. Strange to see them from above!
Ouldsbroom Cross
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 11th Apr 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Ouldsbroom Cross submitted by cazzyjane on 29th Nov 2014. Ouldsbroom Cross in the evening sun.
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Beardown Cairn and Cist
Date Added: 21st Sep 2021
Site Type: Cist
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Beardown Cairn and Cist submitted by TheCaptain on 5th Mar 2017. Beardown Cairn and Cist, near the Lich Way on the heights between the Cowsic and West Dart rivers.
My friend Antony tries out the cist for size, during a memorable walk along the Lich Way across the moor at Easter 1988.
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Log Text: Beautiful sunny day forecast, and the Army firing range not in use today, so head down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. Park at Holming Beam at 12:00 after a busy journey down, and I am the only one there. Start by walking over to the first Beardown Tor with its Army firing post observation huts. Making a schoolboy error I head off to what I think is the next Beardown Tor across grassy open moorland, not checking as I go. Once at the top I realise I have walked much further to Lydford Tor, and already passed the cairn and cist I wanted to visit again after the Antony trousers episode in 1988. Doh! Dartmoor lesson, concentrate on navigation and double check everything. Its now a complex task to get across the rough moor to the cist, which was a nightmare to find, eventually resorting to the gps only to find I was about 10 feet away, it has now become totally overgrown and I almost fall in. No way I could sit in the cist, could hardly see it!
Crow Tor
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Crow Tor submitted by Bladup on 10th Dec 2017. Crow Tor Cairn and Cist.
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Beardown Cairn, and now back on the planned route but behind time, I see another chap out on the moor nearby, an old looking chap dressed in what looks like tweeds, and we exchange greetings. Head north towards Crow Tor, crossing a wall and small stream. Looking for the cairn below Crow Tor which is not marked on the map, and having an initial look where I think it is, I again resort to gps and there it is about 20 metres away. A lovely stone cairn with a fairly large cist inside, the capstones shifted off to one side. Up to Crow Tor to find somewhere to sit and have lunch, during which time a couple walking the other direction pass by and we exchange waves. I now head north across the featureless boggy high moorland to Rough Tor, with firing range huts, double checking it is the right one a couple of times!
Maiden Hill
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Maiden Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 23rd Sep 2021. A large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Devils Tor, looking to head on to Conies Down there seems two choices, either down and up the steep and deep Cowsic valley, or a longer route round the head of the valley further north, which I decide to take. The path is fairly good, and obviously used a fair bit by people on quad bikes, so is easy going except for the odd bit of bog. Onto the top of Maiden Hill, avoiding a large herd of ponies, and look for the cairn in the featureless long grass, finding only a large raised area of grass which quite possibly does have a cairn underneath.
Conies Down
Date Added: 25th Sep 2021
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 1988. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Conies Down submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Conies Down Stone Row @ SX58597905 looking north
This row runs almost NS actual azimuth 10 deg. It is 172m long, difficult to find as the stones are small & only about 22 remain standing. The row runs slightly uphill to to a low mound possibly the remains of a burial - no
finds.
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Log Text: Visited while on walk across Dartmoor on the Lich Way. Being new to Dartmoor Stone Rows, and not knowing how small the stones could be, I thought it to be very overgrown and insignificant. Knowing what I do now, its possibly quite a significant row!
Beardown Man
Date Added: 23rd Sep 2021
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 2
Beardown Man submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Beardown Man looking north
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. Now at Rough Tor I have now learned (remembered) that when walking on the open moor, any sort of path in roughly the right direction is easier than trying to cross the untamed and boggy moor, so standing on the top of the tor taking in the magnificent vista all around in the sun, decide on a route across to Devil's Tor on a pathway which heads to the south of it to start with, but looks mostly fairly easy going. Then up to the top of the hill, and Beardown Man peeks its top over the horizon and grows taller as I approach. It's not at the top of the hill, just below the summit on the west side, but magnificent, twice my height, a lovely thin flat stone with views from north to south over the deep Cowsic valley on the west side, but nothing to the east, which I think odd. Its fabulous out here.
Conies Down
Date Added: 25th Sep 2021
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Conies Down submitted by Brian Byng on 7th Feb 2002. Conies Down Stone Row @ SX58597905 looking north
This row runs almost NS actual azimuth 10 deg. It is 172m long, difficult to find as the stones are small & only about 22 remain standing. The row runs slightly uphill to to a low mound possibly the remains of a burial - no
finds.
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Log Text: Day down to Dartmoor for a pilgrimmage to Beardown Man. From Maiden Hill, I now head south to look for the stone row I have dim memories of from the 1988 Lich Way moorland crossing, and as I approach down the hillside, there is a large herd of cattle, some looking at me menacingly with their horns, so I reluctantly decide to give them a wide berth, and don't get to the top of the row where there are a large group including calves laying around. Heading further down I can get to the lower end of the row, and it is clearly there, stones spaced about 4 metres apart which appear white amongst the green grass, and is just how I remember it. From here its not going to be easy to get back as other than the Lich Way going east west, there is nothing resembling a path heading south, so I decide I have to make best way I can heading up and over towards Black Dunghill after first crossing around the top of the initial bogland. Its a difficult, boggy route, made slightly easier using the occasional animal track or quad bike track in a sort of zig zag fashion until I get to the top of the ridge by the unmarked hill, from where I can make out Black Dunghill with what looks a good path over it, which I head to. Getting tired now, and the sun dropping, I sit and eat my last sandwich with mild relief as I can see a good path leading all the way back to where the car is parked. Its a simple walk back to Holming Beam, but unfortunately I now have a wet bum from sitting down, made tolerable by the fantastic views, with Beardown Man clearly visible on the horizon up to the north. It can even be seen from the track by the car park, magnificent. Back to the car about 5:20, and there is another couple out here walking along the track, so thats now 5 people I have seen all day with over 5 hours out on the moor. Change out of wet boots, and head down for a pint in the setting sun at the Two Bridges Hotel after. Lovely.
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle
Date Added: 31st Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle submitted by davep on 19th Aug 2019. The Challacombe Down Cairn Circle, set just to the west of the northern end of this triple stone row. From the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (site 270).
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Log Text: At the bottom end of the Challacombe stone rows, most of the stones are showing white amongst the heather. It is all a bit of a jumble, no doubt many of the stones moved during the extensive mining here, several of which seem to have been placed in surprising positions, with a sort of semicircular feature to one side.
Stannon Newtake West Cairn and row
Date Added: 4th Jun 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Stannon Newtake West Cairn and row submitted by TheCaptain on 8th May 2022. From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I tried to get to the cairn with possible small stone row which is nearby down the hill. However, I could not get through all the chest height gorse and heather to find it. I think I saw the cairn and a couple of the larger stones further down, situated in a cleared area, lower left of this picture
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Log Text: From the Stannon Newtake cairn with cist, I tried to get to the cairn with possible small stone row which is nearby down the hill. However, I could not get through all the chest height gorse and heather to find it. I do think that I saw a couple of the larger stones further down, standing in a cleared area. I later find out that the whole length of the White Ridge stone row has been cleared and links up with these stones, which are possibly the end of that long row.
Assycombe
Date Added: 28th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Assycombe submitted by stonedowser on 26th Feb 2002. This view is from the top end of the row looking downhill.
Ian.
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Butterdon East
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Butterdon East submitted by SandyG on 4th Jan 2019. Eastern stone. A substantial fallen pillar measuring 5m long stands up to 0.56m above the surrounding ground. View from west (Scale 1m).
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Burford Down Stone Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Burford Down Stone Row submitted by Tom_Bullock on 9th Jul 2002. The Burford Down stone row, one of the finest in
Dartmoor, shows evidence of recent damage by whatever farmer is running
huge tractors across the fields. S(he) has been driving right through
the rows (perpendicular to them) along several tracks. I saw evidence of
at least 3 stones that had been dislodged and pushed aside by the wheels
of the tractor. I don't know if there is a procedure for reporting such
damage, or even if the farmer is liable for such damage. I have never, in my 12 year...
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Hook Lake Row
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hook Lake Row submitted by SandyG on 4th Oct 2014. Dense molinia makes it difficult to photograph this row. This is the length approaching the prehistoric enclosure. The structure on the skyline is a prehistoric round house. View from south.
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