Dartmoor Resource: Search for Sites Nearby

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, walking the Stone Rows and Stone Circles of Dartmoor

Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 66898 68171

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!

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.

Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

NOTE: Clicking on the icons for each monument in the map will give the name of the site. You can zoom in and out and drag the map around.

List of sites within 2km of SX 66898 68171

Buckfastleigh Moor Round House

OS Map: SX 67371 67772
ShortName: HT:Buckfastl1
Nearby sites: SX 67371 67772
Distance: 0.62km

Crad Hole Ring Cairn Circle

OS Map: SX 6721 6650
HER: MDV5260
ShortName: CC:Crad Hole1
Butler map: 58.2
Nearby sites: SX 6721 6650
Distance: 1.70km

Puper's Hill E Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 6780 6738
HER: MDV13190
ShortName: CN?Puper's H3
Butler map: 58.9
Nearby sites: SX 6780 6738
Distance: 1.20km

Snowdon 1 Cairn

OS Map: SX 66898 68171
HER: MDV5221
ShortName: CN:Snowdon 11
Butler map: 58.10.1
Grinsell: BUC 4
Notes: NMR B Large cairn on Snowdon; the most southerly of a line of four cairns. Visible on Google earth.
Nearby sites: SX 66898 68171
Distance: 0.00km

Snowdon 2 Cairn

OS Map: SX 66871 68281
HER: MDV5220
ShortName: CN:Snowdon 21
Butler map: 58.10.2
Grinsell: BUC 3
Notes: One of a line of four cairns. Visible on Google earth.
Nearby sites: SX 66871 68281
Distance: 0.11km

Snowdon 3 Cairn

OS Map: SX 66846 68395
HER: MDV5222
ShortName: CN:Snowdon 31
Butler map: 58.10.3
Grinsell: BUC 2
Notes: One of a line of four cairns. Visible on Google Earth.
Nearby sites: SX 66846 68395
Distance: 0.23km

Snowdon 4 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6686 6856
HER: MDV13203
ShortName: CN:Snowdon 41
Butler map: 58.10.4
Grinsell: BUC 1
Notes: One of a line of four cairns.
Nearby sites: SX 6686 6856
Distance: 0.39km

Holne Lee 1 Cairn

OS Map: SX 67847 69575
HER: MDV5200
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee1
Butler map: 58.11.1
Grinsell: HOL 9
Notes: NMR A
Nearby sites: SX 67847 69575
Distance: 1.69km

Holne Lee 2 Cairn

OS Map: SX 67884 69583
HER: MDV13208
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee2
Butler map: 58.11.2
Grinsell: HOL 10
Notes: ?
Nearby sites: SX 67884 69583
Distance: 1.72km

Holne Lee 3 Cairn

OS Map: SX 67921 69599
HER: MDV5201
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee3
Butler map: 58.11.3
Grinsell: HOL 11
Notes: NMR B
Nearby sites: SX 67921 69599
Distance: 1.76km

Mardle Ring Round House

OS Map: SX 67473 68656
HER: MDV5208
ShortName: HT:Mardle Ri1
Nearby sites: SX 67473 68656
Distance: 0.75km

Holne Lee 4 Cairn

OS Map: SX 67992 69641
HER: MDV5202
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee4
Butler map: 58.11.4
Grinsell: HOL 12
Notes: NMR C
Nearby sites: SX 67992 69641
Distance: 1.83km

Mardle Ring Round House

OS Map: SX 67528 68666
HER: MDV5206
ShortName: HT:Mardle Ri2
Nearby sites: SX 67528 68666
Distance: 0.80km

Mardle Valley 2 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6761 6922
HER: MDV5203
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va2
Butler map: 58.12.2
Grinsell: HOL 13
Notes: NMR A
Nearby sites: SX 6761 6922
Distance: 1.27km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66722 66214
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 2
Nearby sites: SX 66722 66214
Distance: 1.96km

Mardle Valley 3 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6772 6903
HER: MDV5204
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va3
Butler map: 58.12.3
Grinsell: HOL 14
Notes: NMR B
Nearby sites: SX 6772 6903
Distance: 1.19km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 6675 6620
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 3
Nearby sites: SX 6675 6620
Distance: 1.98km

Mardle Valley 4 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6761 6895
HER: MDV24792
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va4
Butler map: 58.12.4
Grinsell: HOL 15
Notes: NMR C
Nearby sites: SX 6761 6895
Distance: 1.06km

Mardle Valley 5 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6779 6889
HER: MDV62034
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va5
Butler map: 58.12.5
Notes: NMR D
Nearby sites: SX 6779 6889
Distance: 1.15km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66731 66215
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 5
Nearby sites: SX 66731 66215
Distance: 1.96km

Mardle Valley 6 Cairn Circle

OS Map: SX 6781 6872
HER: MDV5307
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va6
Butler map: 58.12.6
Nearby sites: SX 6781 6872
Distance: 1.06km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66669 66191
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 6
Nearby sites: SX 66669 66191
Distance: 1.99km

Mardle Valley 7 Cairn

OS Map: SX 6792 6855
HER: MDV5214
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va8
Butler map: 58.12.7
Grinsell: BUC 5
Nearby sites: SX 6792 6855
Distance: 1.09km

Ryder's Hill Cairn

OS Map: SX 65982 69068
HER: MDV5223
ShortName: CN:Ryder's H1
Butler map: 58.13
Butler Vol 5: p.162 & Fig.101
Grinsell: HOL 8
Nearby sites: SX 65982 69068
Distance: 1.28km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66657 66188
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 8
Nearby sites: SX 66657 66188
Distance: 2.00km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66694 66206
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 9
Nearby sites: SX 66694 66206
Distance: 1.98km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67192 66471
HER: MDV5295
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 1
Nearby sites: SX 67192 66471
Distance: 1.73km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66693 66199
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 10
Nearby sites: SX 66693 66199
Distance: 1.98km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67250 66508
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 2
Nearby sites: SX 67250 66508
Distance: 1.70km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66690 66193
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 11
Nearby sites: SX 66690 66193
Distance: 1.99km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67236 66498
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 3
Nearby sites: SX 67236 66498
Distance: 1.71km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66674 66207
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 12
Nearby sites: SX 66674 66207
Distance: 1.98km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67254 66521
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 4
Nearby sites: SX 67254 66521
Distance: 1.69km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66653 66204
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 13
Nearby sites: SX 66653 66204
Distance: 1.98km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67245 66509
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 5
Nearby sites: SX 67245 66509
Distance: 1.70km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66667 66201
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 14
Nearby sites: SX 66667 66201
Distance: 1.98km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67248 66519
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 6
Nearby sites: SX 67248 66519
Distance: 1.69km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66656 66215
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 15
Nearby sites: SX 66656 66215
Distance: 1.97km

Hickaton Hill Round House

OS Map: SX 67235 66510
HER: MDV5294
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 7
Nearby sites: SX 67235 66510
Distance: 1.69km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66665 66211
HER: MDV5190
ShortName: HT:Biller's 16
Nearby sites: SX 66665 66211
Distance: 1.97km

Hickaton Hill E Round House

OS Map: SX 6827 6685
HER: MDV24781
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 8
Nearby sites: SX 6827 6685
Distance: 1.90km

Biller's Pound Round House

OS Map: SX 66727 66215
HER: MDV5189
ShortName: HT:Biller's 17
Nearby sites: SX 66727 66215
Distance: 1.96km

Hickaton Hill E Round House

OS Map: SX 68020 66671
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 9
Nearby sites: SX 68020 66671
Distance: 1.87km