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Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 2
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2015
Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 2 submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jul 2015. One of the cairns associated with the smaller of the two enclosures.
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Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2015
Showery Tor Northwest enclosure 1 submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Jul 2015. One of the cairns associated with the larger of the two enclosures.
The top of Roughtor enshrined in mist.
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Showery Tor Northwest Cairn 1
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jan 2015
Showery Tor Northwest Cairn 1 submitted by theCaptain on 11th Jan 2015. On the slopes of Showery Tor, above the top end of the long cairn structure, are remains of a few hut and round cairn structures.
I thought this to be the remains of a round cairn with cist.
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Showery Tor North Standing Stone
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015
Showery Tor North Standing Stone submitted by TheCaptain on 11th Jul 2015. Looking around from one of the cairns, I again notice something over towards Davidstow, about halfway to the forest, and wonder what it is, so I decide to walk over and have a look.
This is definitely a standing stone, still stood upright and held in place by a good amount of packing stones.
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Shovel Down stone circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 13th Oct 2004
Shovel Down stone circle submitted by thecaptain on 13th Oct 2004. Two of the remaining standing stones viewed looking east.
The northern end of row 3 is just down to the right of this picture somewhere.
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Shovel Down Settlement
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down Settlement submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. The remains of a hut within the Shovel Down settlement. This hut still has its entrance jambs in place, set side on to the walling.
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Shovel Down row 7
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 7 submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 7.
About 100 metres below the Three Boys Stone can be found a large flat stone, with what looks like a slab mounted on edge nearby. Could these be the remains of some form of cairn or cist associated with this now destroyed row?
Kes Tor on the horizon in this view looking northeast.
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Shovel Down row 6
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 6 submitted by thecaptain on 15th Oct 2004. Shovel Down Row 6
View looking south towards the Three Boys Stone. Fernworthy forest in the distance.
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Shovel Down row 5
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2004
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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Shovel Down row 4
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 4 Cairn submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. At the southern end of row 4 is a 7 metre diameter cairn with a central pit. This is the view looking west.
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Shovel Down row 3
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 3 submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 3 seen here looking north from the crest of the hill in the middle.
On the horizon is Cosdon Hill, while Scorhill circle is on the hillside in the middle distance beyond the forest.
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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 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 row 1
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 14th Oct 2004
Shovel Down row 1 submitted by thecaptain on 14th Oct 2004. Shovel Down row 1.
At the northern end of this ruinous single stone row can be seen a few stones larger than the majority of theose remaining. Most of the remaining stones are very small and difficult to spot under the grass
This view is looking southwards along the general direction of the row.
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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 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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Shovel Down
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Shovel Down submitted by thecaptain on 16th Oct 2004. Overall view of the Shovel Down site, taken looking west from Kestor on Sunday 10th October 2004.
I have tried to indicate the position of most of the various parts of this large ceremonial centre.
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Shortwood Hill barrow
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2005
Shortwood Hill barrow submitted by thecaptain on 25th Jan 2005. Shortwood hill barrow viewed from the north
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Shortwood Hill barrow
Date Added: 9th Sep 2020
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Shortwood Hill barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 30th May 2020. A long walk during the supposed lockdown (end May 2020) took me through this field and over the barrow for the first time in many years. Despite the field being cleared and shorn of vegetation, the barrow was more disappointing to see than I remembered.
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Log Text: A long walk during the lockdown (end May 2020) took me through this field and over the barrow for the first time in many years. Despite the field being cleared and shorn of vegetation, the barrow was more disappointing to see than I remembered.
Shortwood Circle
Date Added: 18th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 26th Jan 2005
Shortwood Circle submitted by thecaptain on 26th Jan 2005. Shortwood circle. Seen here silhouetted against a setting January sun.
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Shortwood Barrows
Date Added: 27th Sep 2021
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 27th Aug 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Shortwood Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 27th Sep 2021. There are barrows marked below the topograph on the information boards, and indeed a few large circular mounds which don't look like the quarrying scars nearby.
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Log Text: Cotswold Way loop walk, filling in the bit between Stonehouse and Standish woods. There are barrows marked below the topograph on the information boards, and indeed a few large circular mounds which don't look like the quarrying scars nearby.
Shooting Box Disc Barrow
Date Added: 29th Oct 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Nov 2018
Shooting Box Disc Barrow submitted by TheCaptain on 14th Nov 2018. The large barrow on the top of Long Mynd where the road crosses over.
View looking west with Corndon Hill in the distance
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