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Rippon Tor
Date Added: 24th Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 9th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Rippon Tor submitted by AngieLake on 19th Oct 2007. Having just puffed my way up the side of the tor (!), this is the first view of the Cairn that Butler calls 'C1' from the west side. In the centre of the pile of stones is a modern Trig. station. (The height of Rippon Tor is 473m.)
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Log Text: The forecast is for a cold icy but bright sunny day as we pack up and leave Splash Cottage, so I decide for a walk up to Rippon Tor and around before the journey home. Unfortunately the real weather up there means I am in the clouds and fog. I make the effort to climb the tor, but its freezing fog up there, and can't see more than about 25 metres, so have a quick wander to the hilltop cairns, cross and millstone, then back down to the car via an old boundary cross at the edge of the frozen Blackslade Mire.
Ten Commandments Stone
Date Added: 31st Jan 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2022. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 3
Ten Commandments Stone submitted by AngieLake on 31st May 2010. While I was there yesterday there were several groups of visitors arriving to enjoy the ambience of the tor. The stones are in the foreground here.
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Log Text: A day to myself, and decide to go to Totnes, but first go the scenic way through Buckland, then decide to walk out to Buckland Beacon for a look at the Ten Commandments stones. The views from here are fantastic, right down to the sea all around the south, including right along the Teign estuary. Great to spend time looking all around the north and west trying to figure out all the various tors and bits of Dartmoor previously visited. Magnificent. There is a very interesting series of Boundary stones to the north, one of which looked to me like an old cross originally.
Cator Common Platform Cairn and Cist
Date Added: 24th Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Couldn't find on 6th Dec 2022
Log Text: Driving back to the cottage from Postbridge, thought I'd have a quick look for the remains of this cairn circle and cist, although I didn't have any details with me and no phone signal. It's not very accurately marked on the OS map I had with me, but I had a walk alonside the river in the boggy ground but it was getting dark and I could find nothing. Reading up on it when home, and its up on the slope somewhere.
Hamel Down Cross
Date Added: 27th Jan 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Cross submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Jan 2023. Hamel Down Cross viewed looking east
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Log Text: Walking back northwards along the ridge and from the top of Broad Barrow, Hamel Down Cross can be seen shining in the sun away from the modern track to the west, so I go for a look. It’s a lovely weathered old stone cross which has lost its head and one of its arms. It has some sort of carving on it's east face, probably a Duke of Somerset boundary marking, but the cross clearly predates that.
Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North)
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Platform Cairn (North) submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Dec 2022. Atop Hamel Down tor there is a large cairn and trig point. It looks to me as though the current pile of stones is a relatively modern construction, but there seems to be a large circular platform which is presumably the base of the original cairn here, with some large stones spaced around it.
Viewed here looking southeast, with Haytor and Rippon Tor framing the cairn top
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Log Text: Climb up to the top of Hamel Down for a walk along the ridge, with splendid views down onto Grimspound from the slopes. Once at the top there is a large cairn and trig point. It looks to me as though the current pile of stones is a relatively modern construction, but there seems to be a large circular platform which is presumably the base of the original cairn here, with some large stones spaced around it. Beautiful views all around, I spend some time trying to figure out all of the various tors and features which can be seen.
Grimspound
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Grimspound submitted by h_fenton on 11th Aug 2008. Grimspound, from the northwest (Hookney Tor). Low level oblique kite aerial photograph. There are a few people on the right side of the photo to help show scale.
Photo taken: 8 August 2008
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Log Text: I've not been to Grimspound for many a year now, in fact too long. It really is wonderful, with a multiplicity of circular hut buildings within a huge encircling wall. A lovely place to sit and eat my lunch in one of the huts, with the Challacombe stone rows visible on the hillside the other side of the valley and the Warren House Inn way beyond them. Triffic.
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 31st Dec 2022
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Broad Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 31st Dec 2022. Broad Barrow is at the top the highest point of Hamel Down at 532m. Seen here from the south
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Log Text: Walking on to the south, there is an obvious large cairn know as Broad Barrow atop the highest point of the down at 532m. This is one of the largest cairns on Dartmoor, but mostly an earthen construction, unlike many of the others. In its southern edge is an excavated stone structure, whether the remains of an old chamber or a more modern construction I do not know. In the central area on top is what looks like a grave, with a dug stony area and a "headstone", put here by the Duke of Somerset as a boundary marker in 1854.
Single Barrow (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Single Barrow (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jan 2023. Hamel Down Single Barrow, which is smaller and less obvious than Broad Barrow which can be seen here on the hilltop to the south.
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Log Text: Further south along the track, and just to the west of it is the next barrow, known as Single Barrow, which is smaller and less obvious than Broad Barrow. It too has one of the Duke Stone boundary markers on top of it.
Two Barrows (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 2nd Jan 2023
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Two Barrows (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 2nd Jan 2023. Looking for the second barrow, and I notice a slight rise under the corner of the walls
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Log Text: Onwards southward slightly downhill to a field wall where there is another barrow with a Duke Stone on top, named as Two Barrows. Looking for the second, and it can be seen right under the corner of the walls, no doubt it has been used as a boundary corner for a long time.
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down north (Hamel Down) submitted by davep on 14th Aug 2019. The Blackaton Down North Cairn, from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (site 586). Photograph taken 19th August 2017.
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Log Text: From the field wall corner can be seen the next large barrow, a bit further to the south, but within the enclosed field on the western side of the wall. I didn’t cross into the field for a closer look.
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down)
Date Added: 3rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Blackaton Down south (Hamel Down) submitted by TheCaptain on 3rd Jan 2023. Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
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Log Text: Just to the south of the large obvious barrow can be seen the remnants of the southern saucer barrow, also within the enclosed field.
Hamel Down Beacon cairn
Date Added: 14th Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 6th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hamel Down Beacon cairn submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Jan 2023. On the southern top of Hameldown at 517m, at a corner of the field wall, is a prominent large cairn. The field wall makes no attempt to avoid the cairn, running right over it, but not across the centre. The cairn has been cut away from the western side within the walled field.
Here seen from the south.
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Log Text: On to the southern top of Hameldown at 517m, at a corner of the field wall, is another prominent large cairn, again with a Duke Stone on its top. The field wall makes no attempt to avoid the cairn, running right over it, but not across the centre. From here the views to the south open up with almost the whole of the southern moor and southeast Devon to be seen.
Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village
Date Added: 22nd Dec 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Village submitted by markj99 on 19th Sep 2022. Longhouse in E end of Hound Tor Medieval Village viewed from SSW.
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Log Text: Walk from Hound Tor over the top and down to the deserted medieval village in a dip on the eastern side of the Tor. This started in the bronze age, but the remains to be seen these days are from the medieval period. The remains include several longhouses and other buildings which are really fascinating to wander around, trying to figure out what was what.
Bowerman's Nose
Date Added: 22nd Dec 2022
Site Type: Rock Outcrop
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 5th Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Bowerman's Nose submitted by cromagnonman on 6th Nov 2021. 'Twilight Huntsman'
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Log Text: Walk up and over the hilltop, then go and have a proper look at Bowerman's Nose, a really fabulous rock outcrop, said to represent the giant hunter turned to stone by a coven of witches. Lots of photo opportunities here!
Money Pit cairn
Date Added: 28th Dec 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Money Pit cairn submitted by Antonine on 2nd Sep 2022. With Sharp Tor behind, 2010
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Log Text: Passing by the Money Pit cairn, had to go for a quick look. I also had a quick look for the southern, top, end of the treble stone row, but didn't follow it down the hill, as we were walking the other direction.
Corndon Down N Cairns
Date Added: 21st Dec 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Corndon Down N Cairns submitted by TheCaptain on 21st Dec 2022. I thought I saw signs of a possible row emanating from the northwestern side of the eastern cairn but we weren't hanging around this grey cold windy day, so I didn't spend any time having a proper look.
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Log Text: Walk from Ponsworthy up and over Corndon Hill, taking in the money pit, Sharp Tor and Dr Blackall's ride, stopping for lunch at the Tavistock Inn. At the top of the northern summit, east west across the top, are two large cairns about 20 to 25 metres diameter, both of which have been mutilated by previous visitors to make crude shelters. There is an ancient reave running across the hill, and I thought I saw signs of a possible row emanating from the northwestern side of the eastern cairn but we weren't hanging around this grey cold windy day, so I didn't spend any time having a proper look.
Corndon Down Cairns
Date Added: 21st Dec 2022
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Corndon Down Cairns submitted by AngieLake on 6th May 2009. Corndon Tor cairn viewed from its north side.
(This is the rock outcrop at the highest point of Corndon Down, with the remains of a cairn around its base.)
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Log Text: Walk from Ponsworthy up and over Corndon Hill, taking in the money pit, Sharp Tor and Dr Blackall's ride, stopping for lunch at the Tavistock Inn. At the top of the main, southern summit, is a granite tor surrounded by masses of cairn material. About 50 metres to the north is another large cairn, which also encompasses a granite outcrop. Both are about 25 metres diameter. To the west of the tor top cairn are several edge set slabs in a line, which may have once formed part of a stone row up here. Butler states that it is possible that these are the remains of a double stone row. Crossing recorded an unfound treble stone row somewhere in the region, with a double stone row not far off. As for the northern summit, we weren't hanging around this grey cold windy day, so I didn't spend any time having a proper look.
Housesteads Roman Fort
Date Added: 24th Apr 2023
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Housesteads Roman Fort submitted by jeffrep on 6th Apr 2020. Housesteads was a Roman auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland near the border with Scotland constructed around 124 A.D.
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Log Text: A day on Hadrians Wall. Drive to Housesteads, bus to The Sill, then walk up to the trig point on Winshield Crag before walking eastwards along Hadrians wall back to Housesteads Fort, having lunch at Sycamore Gap. A long look round Housesteads Fort with its large colourful artwork gatehouse created for the 1900 years celebrations, fabulous latrines and a decent little museum.
Tormarton 1
Date Added: 28th Aug 2023
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2022
Tormarton 1 submitted by dooclay on 28th Aug 2022. unploughed (currently) area in which the barrow is located - from the road
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Log Text: Day out walking and stopped for a quick look here on the way home. The field has been harvested, leaving the long raised lump in the ground standing proud. No obviously easy way into the field, so I satisfied myself with a view from the road.
St Nicholas (West Tanfield)
Date Added: 8th Oct 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 27th Sep 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
St Nicholas (West Tanfield) submitted by TheCaptain on 8th Oct 2022. In the churchyard is what looks like a very ancient cross shaft mounted on a block. Its obviously far older than anything else in the graveyard, but I saw nothing written on or about it.
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Log Text: After visiting the Thornborough Henges on my way back from Northumberland, I call in to the Bull Inn at West Tanfield for a pint, and notice that there is something marked at the local church. A very interesting old place with pele tower outside; I cannot look inside the church as there is building work going on, but outside in the churchyard, there is what looks like a very interesting and ancient cross shaft mounted on a block. Its obviously far older than anything else in the graveyard, but I see nothing written on or about it.