Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 58591 79076
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About the database listings: In all listings clicking on the photo or the site name will open a page for the site with a larger photo and further details from the database. The database now has over 6680 records covering nearly all publicly listed sites on Dartmoor including around 4800 round houses. This level of detail is of interest to archaeologists but tends to swamp listings of sites more likely to be of interest for walkers. For this reason, the listings default to around 550 core sites only. These are the stone circles, stone rows and the ring cairns listed by Turner. The default search radius is 2 km. The controls below the map can be used to start a new search by entering a 6- or 8-digit reference (without the prefix "SX"). The search radius can be specified and you can add incremental Display layers of detail on top of the core sites. If using a more detailed layer you will need to decrease the search radius to avoid getting hundreds of search results.
- Core sites Default listing of core sites consisting of stone circles & rows and some of the major ring cairns.
- Plus cairns adds approx. 1000 cairns and other minor sites not included in the core listings but excluding round houses.
- Plus round houses adds approx. 4800 round houses.
- Plus non-sites adds in the records for sites that no longer exist or are not prehistoric sites.
- Plus duplicates adds records excluded as duplicates. Those maybe duplicate records in external listings (e.g. the Historic Environment Records). For example, some sites have been identified as cairns in some listings and interpreted as round houses in other listings and both records appear.
These listings have incorporated, matched up and merged all of the records from all of the major archaeological listings including: Worth, Grinsell, Turner, Butler, Bill Radcliffe, Sandy Gerrard, Megalithic Portal, the National Monument Records and the Historic Environment Records. The author would like to thank Bill, Sandy, the lovely people both at Megalithic Portal (especially Anne Tate who did an amazing job to link listings) and at ACE Archaeology for collaborative work over the years to synchronise and correct listings across the various websites which now interlink. A culmination of years of work the final merger of cairn records took 3 months of cross referencing in 2017 the result being a snapshot of the records at that time. This data has in turn been refined since by field work and research. The round house data was supplied by Sandy Gerrard. Grid references are in order of accuracy: from Google Earth satellite, if visible and found, from a Garmin GPS reading, if visited by the author and from the literature otherwise. Individual site pages will state the source of the grid reference and provide satellite imagery. If a site listing lacks a photo it has not yet been visited by the author in which case the grid reference is from the literature.
Currently the database only includes sites which can be represented by a grid reference. Reaves are not included as they require GIS shape technology which is beyond the current capability of this system. To see the sources for the records, look at the tables on the resources menu. The database listings can also be viewed on a Google map and downloaded as GPS datasets for Garmin devices.
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List of sites within 2km of SX 58591 79076
Conies Down stone row (natural outcrop) Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 586 789
HER: MDV4592
ShortName: CNxConies Do2
Grinsell: LYD 33
Notes: Natural outcrop which is probably the small cairn described by Crossing. Probably duplicate of Conies Down (alleged) but the "roughly" NGR give by Grinsell does not match.
Nearby sites: SX 586 789
Distance: 0.18km
Devil's Tor 2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 59630 79497
ShortName: CN Devils Tor2
Notes: The author found this walking south from the Beardown man standing stone on 15/09/20. It is quite clearly a cairn although whether or not it is prehistoric is another matter. There does not seem to be much evidence of clearance taking place in this area which would suggest a prehistoric cairn. There are no records in the HER except to a site further south, see siteid=4005 Devil's Tor. The cairn is approx 4-5 metres across as judged by eye - no precise measurement was taken. The HER record MDV4217 relates to a cairn reported by Worth in 1948 - maybe this is it. The site further south which is identified in the HER record is described as not being a cairn and this author would agree. The NMR record SX 57 NE 2 refers to confusion to two reported sites south of Beardown Man - but neither grid reference is satisfactorly close although likely that is a problem with the grid references.
Nearby sites: SX 59630 79497
Distance: 1.12km
Conies Down 3 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5917 7924
HER: MDV48268
ShortName: CN:Conies Do3
Nearby sites: SX 5917 7924
Distance: 0.60km
Spriddle Lake Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5768 7968
HER: MDV68891
ShortName: CN?Spriddle 1
Nearby sites: SX 5768 7968
Distance: 1.09km
Broad Hole S. Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5915 7824
HER: MDV49705
ShortName: CN:Broad Hol1
Butler map: 29.14
Notes: HER has this listed as a hut circle. Butler describes as a cairn and NMR suggests possible capstone of a cist.
Nearby sites: SX 5915 7824
Distance: 1.01km
Conies Down Stone Row Cairn
OS Map: SX 5859 7905
HER: MDV4592
ShortName: CN:Conies Do1
Butler map: 30.11
Nearby sites: SX 5859 7905
Distance: 0.03km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59202 78857
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol1
Nearby sites: SX 59202 78857
Distance: 0.65km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59200 78768
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol2
Nearby sites: SX 59200 78768
Distance: 0.68km
White Barrow Cairn
OS Map: SX 56852 79309
HER: MDV4214
ShortName: CN:White Bar1
Butler map: 30.13
Grinsell: LYD 31
Nearby sites: SX 56852 79309
Distance: 1.75km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59212 78834
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol3
Nearby sites: SX 59212 78834
Distance: 0.67km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 5913 7882
HER: MDV50599
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol4
Nearby sites: SX 5913 7882
Distance: 0.60km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 5911 7889
HER: MDV48274
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol5
Nearby sites: SX 5911 7889
Distance: 0.55km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59179 78777
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol6
Nearby sites: SX 59179 78777
Distance: 0.66km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59194 78802
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol7
Nearby sites: SX 59194 78802
Distance: 0.66km
Broad Hole N Round House
OS Map: SX 59190 78841
HER: MDV4589
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol8
Nearby sites: SX 59190 78841
Distance: 0.64km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 59132 78258
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol9
Nearby sites: SX 59132 78258
Distance: 0.98km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 591 783
HER: MDV49703
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol10
Nearby sites: SX 591 783
Distance: 0.93km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 59146 78252
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol11
Nearby sites: SX 59146 78252
Distance: 0.99km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 5911 7830
HER: MDV49704
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol12
Nearby sites: SX 5911 7830
Distance: 0.93km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 59136 78384
HER: MDV49680
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol13
Nearby sites: SX 59136 78384
Distance: 0.88km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 5903 7826
HER: MDV48277
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol14
Nearby sites: SX 5903 7826
Distance: 0.93km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 59171 78465
HER: MDV4623
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol15
Nearby sites: SX 59171 78465
Distance: 0.84km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 5926 7823
HER: MDV54356
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol16
Nearby sites: SX 5926 7823
Distance: 1.08km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 5908 7829
HER: MDV49705
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol17
Nearby sites: SX 5908 7829
Distance: 0.93km
Broad Hole S Round House
OS Map: SX 5909 7831
HER: MDV49702
ShortName: HT:Broad Hol18
Nearby sites: SX 5909 7831
Distance: 0.91km
Devil's Tor Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 59578 79408
HER: MDV4217
ShortName: CN Devil's Tor
Notes: "A low ovoid cairn located in an area of peat cuttings and shell craters on a ridge crest, 250 metres south of Devil's Tor. It is partially obscured by heather and measures 3.1 metres in diameter with a maximum height of 0.4 metres. There are no indications of a kerb or cist and no obvious sign of disturbance. A natural stone pile at SX 59457939 has been erroneously claimed as the feature described by Worth."
Nearby sites: SX 59578 79408
Distance: 1.04km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5907 7932
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do1
Nearby sites: SX 5907 7932
Distance: 0.54km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5912 7923
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do2
Nearby sites: SX 5912 7923
Distance: 0.55km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5917 7919
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do3
Nearby sites: SX 5917 7919
Distance: 0.59km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5912 7942
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do4
Nearby sites: SX 5912 7942
Distance: 0.63km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5912 7921
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do5
Nearby sites: SX 5912 7921
Distance: 0.55km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5914 7916
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do6
Nearby sites: SX 5914 7916
Distance: 0.56km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5914 7915
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do7
Nearby sites: SX 5914 7915
Distance: 0.55km
Conies Down Tor E Round House
OS Map: SX 5912 7938
HER: MDV48266
ShortName: HT:Conies Do8
Nearby sites: SX 5912 7938
Distance: 0.61km
Conies Down 4 (alleged) Reported Cist
OS Map: SX 5812 7963
HER: MDV12809
PMD: Spriddle Lake
ShortName: CNxConies Do4
Notes: No cist could be found in this area. At NGR SX 58167968 are several granite blocks which may have been mistaken for a cist. Probably Grinsell Lydford 33 - but NGR given by Grinsell suggests possible different site.
Nearby sites: SX 5812 7963
Distance: 0.73km
Foxholes Round House
OS Map: SX 6041 7858
HER: MDV28597
ShortName: HT:Foxholes1
Nearby sites: SX 6041 7858
Distance: 1.89km
Beardown Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
OS Map: SX 60330 78092
HER: MDV14690
Megalithic Portal: 42853
PMD: Lydford Tor
Alternate name: Lydford Tor E. Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
ShortName: CT Beardown
Butler map: 29.17
Butler Vol 5: p.197 & Fig.140
DPD page: 109
Grinsell: LYD 41a
Turner: E27
Notes: "The cairn, 4.5 metres by 5.6 metres and 0.4 metres high has spread over the remains of a contiguous kerb 4.6 metres in diameter." ... "Three of the cist slabs lean inwards at the top, the fourth, east slab remains upright. The bottom of the cist contains several slabs. The coverstone is visible to the north west partially buried in the cairn." Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo top p.109. Butler Lydford Tor E Vol. 5. Map 29.17 (diagram Vol 5. p.197).
Nearby sites: SX 60330 78092
Distance: 2.00km
Beardown Man Standing Stone
OS Map: SX 59616 79634
HER: MDV4200
Megalithic Portal: 4144
PMD: Beardown Man Standing Stone
ShortName: SS BeardownMan
Butler map: 29.15
Butler Vol 5: p.220
DPD page: 108
Notes: A Bronze Age standing stone measuring 3.4m high, 1m by 0.4m in section and in good condition. One of the few isolated menhirs on Dartmoor. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: Dartmoor's Beardown Man. Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo p.108.
Nearby sites: SX 59616 79634
Distance: 1.17km
Conies Down Stone Row
OS Map: SX 58591 79076
HER: MDV4592
Megalithic Portal: 1846
The Stone Rows of GB: Conies Down
PMD: Conies Down Stone Row
ShortName: SR ConiesDown
Butler map: 30.11
DPD page: 107
Notes: "The Conies Down stone row is oriented a few degrees west of north-south and is 145m long. Originally a double alignment of stones, only three pairs of upright stones now survive. There are a total of 17 upright and 15 recumbent stones. The average gap between stones is 10m and between the pairs the gap is some 1.4m wide". Lethbridge diagram p.107.
Nearby sites: SX 58591 79076
Distance: 0.00km
Crow Tor Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
OS Map: SX 60531 78683
HER: MDV5938
Megalithic Portal: 45775
PMD: Crow Tor
ShortName: CT Crow Tor
Butler map: 29.18
Butler Vol 5: p.196 & Fig.139
DPD page: 109
Grinsell: LYD 41
Turner: E39
Notes: "A kerbed cairn and cist. The cairn consists of a stony, turf-covered mound, and measures 4.5m in diameter and 0.45m in height. There are traces of a retaining kerb of leaning, granite slabs to the northeast and south. The cist is set slightly to the north of the centre of the cairn. It is trapezoidal in shape, and measures 0.65m and 0.95m in length, 0.8m in width, and 0.5m in depth. The cover-stone, which is 0.9m long, 0.5m wide and 0.2m thick, is displaced and lies just to the south east of the cist." Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo bottom p.109. Butler Vol. 2. Map 29.18 (p.63, photo on p.124, diagram Vol. 5. p.196).
Nearby sites: SX 60531 78683
Distance: 1.98km
Devils Tor Reported Cist
OS Map: SX 59479 79414
ShortName: CT-DevilsTor
Notes: This feature was reported by Russell Chapman to Bill Radcliffe. The current author was visiting Beardown and had mentioned this to Bill who suggested that it should be checked out. The grid reference given by Russell was SX 59475 79416. The feature is a rectangular pit lined by small stones. It does not have the appearance of a Bronze Age cist. The nature and function of this feature is unclear but would seem most likely to be relatively modern. The author would like to thank Russell and Bill for the details.
Nearby sites: SX 59479 79414
Distance: 0.95km
Maiden Hill Cist
OS Map: SX 58831 79380
HER: MDV4216
Megalithic Portal: 45815
PMD: Maiden Hill
Alternate name: Conies Down Summit Cist
ShortName: CT:MaidenHill
Butler map: 30.11
Butler Vol 5: p.158 & Fig.28
DPD page: 108
Grinsell: LYD 32
Notes: Maybe natural rather than a cist. "large turf-covered cairn which has been dug into from its southern edge. No stones are visible in the saucer-shape depression in the centre but a setting of three slabs near the northern edge may be the sides of a cist which contained a secondary burial inserted at a later date into the side of the mound" (Butler). Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo p.108. Butler Vol 2 30.11 p. 77. See very useful notes on Megalithic Portal.
Nearby sites: SX 58831 79380
Distance: 0.39km