Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 67695 79705
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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.
Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.
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List of sites within 2km of SX 67695 79705
Merripit Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 6588 8014
HER: MDV6678
ShortName: HT:Merripit 1
Nearby sites: SX 6588 8014
Distance: 1.87km
Merripit Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 66246 80225
HER: MDV6678
ShortName: HT:Merripit 2
Nearby sites: SX 66246 80225
Distance: 1.54km
Hill W of Grendon Farm Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 6805 7835
HER: MDV6008
ShortName: CN:Hill W of1
Grinsell: WID 1a
Notes: The remains of a ring cairn are visible as overgrown small stones.
Nearby sites: SX 6805 7835
Distance: 1.40km
Assycombe Hill S.2 (duplicate) Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6627 8016
ShortName: CN:Assycombe6
Notes: NMR 916309 clearly refers to Butler's Assycombe Hill S.1 & S.2. The entry refers to Butler's coverage Vol 2 p. 26. It is clear from Butler that the NGR is SX 662 812. This is clear both from the listingat the end of Vol2 as well as from where they are marked on Butler's Map 26. The text states "The proximity of these two cairns on te summit of the ridge 400 m to the suth-west suggests these may have been the burial mounds of the community" i.e the Assycombe Hill South settlement. However, the NGR given in the NMR is SX 662802 which is 1 km to the south! This error has resulted in duplicate entries for the HER which has this pair of cairns at both locations. HER 54601 & 54602 are duplicates (with incorrect NGRs) of 61309 & 61310.
UPDATE 31/12/2022. HER record 54601 has been deleted. This duplicate record will be left in place - as it explains the duplication.
Nearby sites: SX 6627 8016
Distance: 1.50km
Assycombe Hill S.1 (duplicate) Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6627 8016
ShortName: CN:Assycombe4
Notes: NMR 916309 clearly refers to Butler's Assycombe Hill S.1 & S.2. The entry refers to Butler's coverage Vol 2 p. 26. It is clear from Butler that the NGR is SX 662 812. This is clear both from the listingat the end of Vol2 as well as from where they are marked on Butler's Map 26. The text states "The proximity of these two cairns on te summit of the ridge 400 m to the suth-west suggests these may have been the burial mounds of the community" i.e the Assycombe Hill South settlement. However, the NGR given in the NMR is SX 662802 which is 1 km to the south! This error has resulted in duplicate entries for the HER which has this pair of cairns at both locations. HER 54601 & 54602 are duplicates (with incorrect NGRs) of 61309 & 61310.
UPDATE 31/12/2022. HER record 54602 has been deleted. This duplicate record will be left in place - as it explains the duplication.
Nearby sites: SX 6627 8016
Distance: 1.50km
Water Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 67238 81415
ShortName: HT:Water Hil1
Nearby sites: SX 67238 81415
Distance: 1.77km
Water Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 67241 81425
ShortName: HT:Water Hil2
Nearby sites: SX 67241 81425
Distance: 1.78km
Water Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 67250 81438
ShortName: HT:Water Hil3
Nearby sites: SX 67250 81438
Distance: 1.79km
Water Hill Round House
OS Map: SX 67273 81344
ShortName: HT:Water Hil4
Nearby sites: SX 67273 81344
Distance: 1.69km
Water Hill SW Round House
OS Map: SX 66395 81025
HER: MDV54600
ShortName: HT:Water Hil7
Nearby sites: SX 66395 81025
Distance: 1.85km
Water Hill SW Round House
OS Map: SX 66385 80995
HER: MDV54600
ShortName: HT:Water Hil8
Nearby sites: SX 66385 80995
Distance: 1.84km
Blackaton Ball E. Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 69467 78786
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: CNxBlackaton1
Butler map: 20.18.1
Notes: Hut circle
Nearby sites: SX 69467 78786
Distance: 2.00km
Blackaton Ball W. Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 69435 78788
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: CNxBlackaton2
Butler map: 20.18.2
Notes: Hut circle
Nearby sites: SX 69435 78788
Distance: 1.97km
Red Barrows 2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67709 79666
HER: MDV6006
ShortName: CN Red Barro2
Butler map: 24.2.2
Grinsell: MAN 6
Barrow Report: 56
Nearby sites: SX 67709 79666
Distance: 0.04km
Red Barrows 3 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67694 79690
HER: MDV6005
ShortName: CN Red Barro3
Butler map: 24.2.3
Grinsell: MAN 7
Nearby sites: SX 67694 79690
Distance: 0.02km
Red Barrows 4 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67695 79705
HER: MDV6004
ShortName: CN Red Barro4
Butler map: 24.2.4
Grinsell: MAN 8
Nearby sites: SX 67695 79705
Distance: 0.00km
Soussons Plantation N.1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67673 79963
HER: MDV6015
ShortName: CN:Soussons N1
Butler map: 24.2.5
Butler Vol 5: p.38 & Fig.15
Grinsell: MAN 4
Nearby sites: SX 67673 79963
Distance: 0.26km
King's Oven Reported Cist
OS Map: SX 67477 81336
HER: MDV6620
PMD: King's Oven
ShortName: CT?King's Ov1
Butler map: 26.1.2
Notes: In the wall of King's Oven enclosure. Butler gives NGR for CHA 6a by mistake.
Nearby sites: SX 67477 81336
Distance: 1.65km
Water Hill 2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 67158 81306
HER: MDV6675
ShortName: CN?Water Hil3
Butler map: 26.5.2
Notes: Doubtful "a heather covered mound slightly to the n of the large cairn on the summit of water hill. It measures 5.1m in diam and up to 0.6m high with one recumbent granite boulder visible on its s side. It is apparently composed of earth and stone". This record formerly linked to MDV54619 which has presumably been deleted as a duplicate.
Nearby sites: SX 67158 81306
Distance: 1.69km
King's Oven (Near) Reported Cist
OS Map: SX 6747 8129
HER: MDV6620
ShortName: CT?King's Ov2
Butler map: 26.5
Grinsell: CHA 6a
Notes: Destroyed? Fragmenary remains of cairn and cist reported by Speence Bate in 1871
Nearby sites: SX 6747 8129
Distance: 1.60km
Blackaton Round House
OS Map: SX 6927 7852
HER: MDV26232
ShortName: HT:Blackaton1
Nearby sites: SX 6927 7852
Distance: 1.97km
Blackaton Round House
OS Map: SX 69434 78788
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: HT:Blackaton2
Nearby sites: SX 69434 78788
Distance: 1.97km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69467 78786
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: HT:Challacom3
Nearby sites: SX 69467 78786
Distance: 2.00km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69664 79903
HER: MDV5990
ShortName: HT:Challacom4
Nearby sites: SX 69664 79903
Distance: 1.98km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69649 79889
HER: MDV5990
ShortName: HT:Challacom5
Nearby sites: SX 69649 79889
Distance: 1.96km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69613 80096
HER: MDV54571
ShortName: HT:Challacom6
Nearby sites: SX 69613 80096
Distance: 1.96km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 6862 8040
HER: MDV6700
ShortName: HT:Challacom12
Nearby sites: SX 6862 8040
Distance: 1.16km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68593 80233
HER: MDV6700
ShortName: HT:Challacom13
Nearby sites: SX 68593 80233
Distance: 1.04km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68588 80273
HER: MDV6700
ShortName: HT:Challacom14
Nearby sites: SX 68588 80273
Distance: 1.06km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68614 80233
HER: MDV6700
ShortName: HT:Challacom15
Nearby sites: SX 68614 80233
Distance: 1.06km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 6846 8056
HER: MDV6659
ShortName: HT:Challacom16
Nearby sites: SX 6846 8056
Distance: 1.15km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68525 80524
HER: MDV6664
ShortName: HT:Challacom17
Nearby sites: SX 68525 80524
Distance: 1.17km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68485 80533
HER: MDV6662
ShortName: HT:Challacom18
Nearby sites: SX 68485 80533
Distance: 1.14km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68492 80512
HER: MDV54550
ShortName: HT:Challacom19
Nearby sites: SX 68492 80512
Distance: 1.13km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68515 80479
HER: MDV6665
ShortName: HT:Challacom20
Nearby sites: SX 68515 80479
Distance: 1.13km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 6850 8058
HER: MDV6663
ShortName: HT:Challacom21
Nearby sites: SX 6850 8058
Distance: 1.19km
Challacombe Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68475 80517
HER: MDV6661
ShortName: HT:Challacom22
Nearby sites: SX 68475 80517
Distance: 1.13km
Merripit Hill Cairn
OS Map: SX 66359 79926
HER: MDV103610
ShortName: CN:Merripit
Nearby sites: SX 66359 79926
Distance: 1.35km
King's Oven Round House
OS Map: SX 67449 81288
ShortName: HT:King's Ov1
Nearby sites: SX 67449 81288
Distance: 1.60km
King's Oven Round House
OS Map: SX 67452 81312
ShortName: HT:King's Ov2
Nearby sites: SX 67452 81312
Distance: 1.63km
King's Oven Round House
OS Map: SX 67441 81271
ShortName: HT:King's Ov3
Nearby sites: SX 67441 81271
Distance: 1.59km
Soussons Plantation N.2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6791 7982
HER: MDV6086
ShortName: CNxSoussons N2
Nearby sites: SX 6791 7982
Distance: 0.24km
Assycombe Hill S Round House
OS Map: SX 66605 81381
HER: MDV6676
ShortName: HT:Assycombe10
Nearby sites: SX 66605 81381
Distance: 2.00km
Assycombe Hill S Round House
OS Map: SX 66651 81404
HER: MDV6676
ShortName: HT:Assycombe18
Nearby sites: SX 66651 81404
Distance: 1.99km
Assycombe Hill S Round House
OS Map: SX 66638 81391
HER: MDV6676
ShortName: HT:Assycombe20
Nearby sites: SX 66638 81391
Distance: 1.99km
Assycombe Hill S Round House
OS Map: SX 66642 81394
HER: MDV6676
ShortName: HT:Assycombe24
Nearby sites: SX 66642 81394
Distance: 1.99km
Corndon Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68455 80649
HER: MDV6660
ShortName: HT:Corndon D6
Nearby sites: SX 68455 80649
Distance: 1.21km
Cator Common Embanked Cairn Circle
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Cator Pound
OS Map: SX 67426 78001
HER: MDV5978
Megalithic Portal: 52173
ShortName: CC CatorCommon
Butler map: 18.4
Grinsell: WID 1
Turner: B3
Notes: "Cairn, to the south-west of (a) - (SX 67 NE45), 15 ft. diameter and 3 ft high; comprised of small stones overgrown with gorse and heather on unenclosed moorland."
Nearby sites: SX 67426 78001
Distance: 1.73km
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 6898 8084
HER: MDV49462
Megalithic Portal: 1819
PMD: Challacombe Down Stone Row
ShortName: CC Challacombe
Butler map: 24.3
Butler Vol 5: p.239 & Fig.169
Turner: G20
Notes: Dubious site - the current arrangement relates to stones placed during restoration of the stone row. See Worth (1953) p. 226 on how "nothing coherent" came of attempts to re-erect stones scattered to the west of the north end of the row which gave the appearance of a stone circle.
Nearby sites: SX 6898 8084
Distance: 1.71km
Challacombe Down Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 69021 80723
HER: MDV6600
Megalithic Portal: 10092
PMD: Challacombe Stone Row
ShortName: SS Challacombe
Butler map: 24.3
DPD page: 126
Notes: The largest and most prominent blocking stone of the Dartmoor rows is to be found at the Challacombe triple row. Worth states that it is over 5 feet in width at the base and over 6 feet in height. Butler (Vol. 2) states that the terminal pillar is today 0.5m shorter than when it was measured in 1893.
Nearby sites: SX 69021 80723
Distance: 1.67km
Challacombe Down Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 69016 80718
HER: MDV6600
Megalithic Portal: 1819
The Stone Rows of GB: Challacombe Down
PMD: Challacombe Stone Row
ShortName: SR Challacombe
Butler map: 24.3
Butler Vol 5: p.239 & Fig.169
DPD page: 126
Notes: "Bronze Age triple stone row well marked and wider apart at the north, drawing nearer to the south where they meet a blocking stone of unusual size. The stones have suffered little in their restoration except that a stone in the middle row was turned to form a blocking stone for that row. The loose stones scattered to the west of the north end have been suggested to form a stone circle and additional rows but may be stones excavated from the north end of the stone row."
Nearby sites: SX 69016 80718
Distance: 1.66km
King's Oven (Water Hill) Cairn
OS Map: SX 67158 81299
HER: MDV6674
Megalithic Portal: 34690
PMD: Water Hill Possible Chambered Cairn
Alternate name: Water Hill 1 Cairn
ShortName: CN Kings Oven
Butler map: 26.5.1
Butler Vol 5: p.156 & Fig.95
Grinsell: CHA 6
Notes: Situated at SX 67158129 on the rounded summit of Water Hill is the remains of a substantial round cairn 18.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.4 metres high in the east and 0.9 metres in the west. The whole of the central area of the cairn has been robbed to construct a superimposed modern boundary cairn 4.0 metres in diam and 2.1 metres high. This has given a 'dished' appearance to the cairn proper. Several large slabs averging 0.8 metres by 0.7 metres scattered around the base of the boundary cairn may be the remains of a destroyed cist.
The southern flat topped cairn measures 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres in height and is surmounted by a modern stone pile. A large slab situated to the south of this pile may have been part of a cist.
Nearby sites: SX 67158 81299
Distance: 1.68km
Red Barrows Cairn
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Soussons Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67718 79650
HER: MDV6007
Megalithic Portal: 34986
PMD: Red Barrows
Alternate name: Red Barrows 1 Cairn
ShortName: CN RedBarrows
Butler map: 24.2.1
Grinsell: MAN 5
Notes: Four Bronze Age round barrows between 10 and 20 meters in diameter and 0.5 to 2.2 meters high. One barrow was excavated in 1902, finds included pottery and flints. See also HER records, 6004, 6005, 6006, 6007.
Nearby sites: SX 67718 79650
Distance: 0.06km
Soussons Common Ring Setting Cairn and Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Soussons Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67516 78700
HER: MDV6013
Megalithic Portal: 1266
PMD: Soussons Plantation
Alternate name: Soussons Plantation S. Ring Setting Cairn and Cist
ShortName: CT Soussons Cm
Butler map: 24.2.6
DPD page: 124
Grinsell: MAN 9
Turner: D2
Barrow Report: 22 23 45 56
Notes: "A 28 feet diameter cairn circle with a central cist (plan). The tallest stone in the cairn circle is about 2 feet high." "This cist measures at least 1.3 metres long by 0.5 metres wide and when excavated in 1903 two coils of human hair were found" (Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 23. 1904). Lethbridge p.124. Butler Soussons Plantation S - Vol. 2. Map 24.2.6 (diagrams pp. 18-20). See also HER record MDV6013.
Nearby sites: SX 67516 78700
Distance: 1.02km
Soussons Down (Red Barrows) Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Soussons Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 6767 7998
HER: MDV6015
Megalithic Portal: 2136
The Stone Rows of GB: Soussons Down
PMD: Red Barrows Stone Row
Alternate name: Soussons Down Stone Row
ShortName: SRxRed Barrows
Butler map: 24.2
Notes: Triple row destroyed in 1946 Butler Vol. 5 p38, Vol. 3 Map 24.2 p.19. The row was associated with a cairn about 300m north of the four Red Barrow cairn group (SX 67 NE 3).
Nearby sites: SX 6767 7998
Distance: 0.28km