The following table lists the records currently in this Guide Map. For an explantion of the Guide Maps and a table of all 62 Guide Maps, follow this link: Guide List Table. Introductory text will be added to each guide list in 2025. Notes on duplication and omissions will appear below the table once checks have been finalised.
PS. These notes are to assist untangling complicated records and are neither permanent nor a criticism of the HER who do a fantastic job! The author finds it easier to systematically work through these records (2000+ of them) and add these notes, which are then to be communicated with the HER, if appropriate, it is a pragmatic way of dealing with lots of data without continually stopping and starting.
Guidance for walkers: The monuments featured in this database are archaeological treasures and need to be protected and preserved - please do not disturb any sites. Please check access and firing times before visiting sites, not all sites listed are on open access land. Firing ranges and boundaries of open access areas are marked on the OL28 OS Dartmoor Explorer map. Please stick to the country code and consider giving support to the numerous agencies that help to keep Dartmoor a fabulous natural and historic environment!
OS Map: SX 73510 73118
NMR record: SX 77 SW 8
HER record: MDV7977
ShortName: CN BuckBeacon
Butler map: 10.
Grinsell: B:BITM 1
Notes: HER referring to Newman: Buckland Beacon, probable tor cairn. The tor outcrop is surrounded by small, turf-covered stones indicating a possible tor cairn. Condition is mostly stable but subject to visitor erosion. SX73500 73100.
Nearby sites: SX73517312
OS Map: SX 73570 73240
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV30630
Megalithic Portal: 45827
Alternate name: Buckland Common 5 Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC:BucklandRid
Butler map: 10.9
Turner: A13
Notes: Linear arrangement of mounds incorporated into boundary. Could be prehistoric cairns. Turner A13. No NMR record. "Robbed cairn. Stone ring is 13m inside diameter bank 1.80m wide and 50cms high, much of the bank on the eastern side has been destroyed. The central area has been disturbed, modern stone wall running north to south through the eastern section of the stone ring."
Nearby sites: SX73577324
OS Map: SX 73558 73260
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV127202
ShortName: PO:BuckBeacon
Notes: "A pool measuring 10.5 by 9.5m. One of over 40 such 'sacred' pools identified on Dartmoor that are thought to have potentially been designed during the prehistoric period. Lies near a cairn." NB. Nearby is Turner A13 ring cairn.
Nearby sites: SX73567326
OS Map: SX 70220 71700
NMR record: SX 77 SW 23
HER record: MDV8030
ShortName: CN?Brake 1
Butler map: 11.1.1
Turner: A17
Notes: Hut circle at brake corner. HER: A circular enclosure bounded by a bank consisting of small stone. Part of the interior has been filled in with cleared field stones. there is no trace of an entrance. Certain identification of the feature as a hut circle could not be made. No orthostats are visible and the construction using small stones is unusual for a hut. The exposed situation on the crest of a spur is more appropriate to a cairn but the walling, at best about 0.4 m. high, appears too regular for a cairn rim
Nearby sites: SX70227170
OS Map: SX 70180 71680
NMR: No record found
HER: No record found
ShortName: CN?Brake 2
Butler map: 11.1.2
Notes: Possible hut circle.
Nearby sites: SX70187168
OS Map: SX 69148 73346
NMR record: SX 67 SE 82
HER record: MDV6426
The Stone Rows of GB: Sherberton Common
PMD: Sherberton Common
ShortName: SR:SherberCom
Butler map: 11.6
Butler Vol 5: p.214
Notes: Sandy Gerrard (see link to SRGB): According R.N. Worth this is a double stone row that measured 68.6m long situated on a gently sloping south facing slope. According to him the row was destroyed in 1897 shortly after its discovery. The rows were described as being between 8 and 9 feet apart and included some contiguous stones. Jeremy Butler suggested that it was a passage similar to one surviving at Fernworthy Reservoir but he was unable to identify the site of the feature described by Worth (Butler, J., 1997, 214). Fresh fieldwork has identified the structure, which survives comparatively well and is clearly a passageway leading to a robbed roundhouse from a length of prehistoric rubble walling. The structure has only been partly robbed and several stones remain together with the original 1897 stone robbing pits.
Nearby sites: SX69157335
OS Map: SX 69100 73200
NMR record: SX 67 SE 82
HER record: MDV6426
PMD: Sherberton Common Stone Row
ShortName: CT?SherberCom
Butler map: 11.6
Grinsell: WID 22
Notes: NGR taken from NMR. Grinsell gives location SX 691739. Destroyed by 1897 but see entry for the stone row which is in fact a passageway to a round house.
Nearby sites: SX69107320
OS Map: SX 69160 71400
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV130253
ShortName: CN?Bench Tor
Butler map: 59.2
Notes: Butler: in the field system "a small mound near the north end was probably a cairn".
Nearby sites: SX69167140
OS Map: SX 73548 71735
NMR record: SX 77 SW 11
HER record: MDV8019
ShortName: CN:Ausewell E
Grinsell: ASH 3
Barrow Report: 41
Nearby sites: SX73557174
OS Map: SX 73477 71753
NMR record: SX 77 SW 11
HER record: MDV7988
ShortName: CN:Ausewell W
Grinsell: ASH 2
Barrow Report: 41
Notes: "diameter 18.0m, crude stone wall around cairn obviously modern survives as a semi circular enclosure on west side of cairns flat top."
Nearby sites: SX73487175
OS Map: SX 72437 71979
NMR record: SX 77 SW 14
HER record: MDV7996
Alternate name: Holne Chase Castle Fort
ShortName: FT:HolneChase
Notes: "A slight univallate hillfort situated on the north facing side of Holne Chase overlooking the River Dart. The hillfort survives as an oval enclosure measuring 120m long by 96m wide internally, defined by a single rampart and ditch with a counterscarp bank present to the north east, west and south west. It has two entrances, a simple gap to the south east and an inturned entrance to the south west."
Nearby sites: SX72447198
OS Map: SX 73000 72320
NMR: No record found
HER record: MDV20513
ShortName: CN?Kingshead
Nearby sites: SX73007232
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