Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 67790 68530
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 67790 68530
Buckfastleigh Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 67371 67772
ShortName: HT:Buckfastl1
Nearby sites: SX 67371 67772
Distance: 0.87km
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: 1.15km
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: 0.96km
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: 0.95km
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: 0.95km
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: 0.93km
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: 1.05km
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: 1.06km
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: 1.08km
Mardle Ring Round House
OS Map: SX 67473 68656
HER: MDV5208
ShortName: HT:Mardle Ri1
Nearby sites: SX 67473 68656
Distance: 0.34km
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: 1.13km
Mardle Ring Round House
OS Map: SX 67528 68666
HER: MDV5206
ShortName: HT:Mardle Ri2
Nearby sites: SX 67528 68666
Distance: 0.30km
Holne Lee 5 Cairn
OS Map: SX 68495 69805
HER: MDV5198
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee5
Butler map: 58.11.5
Grinsell: HOL 16
Notes: NMR A
Nearby sites: SX 68495 69805
Distance: 1.46km
Holne Lee 6 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6849 6982
HER: MDV13209
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee6
Butler map: 58.11.6
Grinsell: HOL 16a
Nearby sites: SX 6849 6982
Distance: 1.47km
Holne Lee 8 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6869 6993
HER: MDV13198
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee8
Butler map: 58.11.8
Grinsell: HOL 18
Nearby sites: SX 6869 6993
Distance: 1.66km
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: 0.71km
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: 0.50km
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: 0.46km
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: 0.36km
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: 0.19km
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: 0.13km
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: 1.89km
Venford Brook S.1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6763 7047
HER: MDV-1
ShortName: CN?Venford S1
Butler map: 60.8.3
Notes: Two disturbed hut circles overlain by later clearance material lie at the foot of a steep N facing slope above the right bank of the W tributary of the Venford Brook. The huts, at SX 67597048 and SX 67597046, are largely infilled with small boulders and rocks and measure 6.5m and 5.5m in external diameter respectively.
Nearby sites: SX 6763 7047
Distance: 1.95km
Venford Brook S.2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6764 7046
HER: MDV-1
ShortName: CN?Venford S2
Butler map: 60.8.4
Notes: Two disturbed hut circles overlain by later clearance material lie at the foot of a steep N facing slope above the right bank of the W tributary of the Venford Brook. The huts, at SX 67597048 and SX 67597046, are largely infilled with small boulders and rocks and measure 6.5m and 5.5m in external diameter respectively.
Nearby sites: SX 6764 7046
Distance: 1.94km
Hickaton Hill E Round House
OS Map: SX 6827 6685
HER: MDV24781
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 8
Nearby sites: SX 6827 6685
Distance: 1.75km
Hickaton Hill E Round House
OS Map: SX 68020 66671
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 9
Nearby sites: SX 68020 66671
Distance: 1.87km
Venford Reservoir S.2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6826 7046
HER: MDV113643
ShortName: CNxVenfordRes2
Butler map: 60.20.2
Notes: Clearance cairns?
Nearby sites: SX 6826 7046
Distance: 1.99km
Hickaton Hill E Round House
OS Map: SX 68321 66778
HER: MDV24768
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 10
Nearby sites: SX 68321 66778
Distance: 1.83km
Venford Reservoir S.3 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6811 7050
HER: MDV64120
ShortName: CN:VenfordRes3
Butler map: 60.20.3
Nearby sites: SX 6811 7050
Distance: 2.00km
Hickaton Hill E Round House
OS Map: SX 6817 6670
HER: MDV24780
ShortName: HT:Hickaton 11
Nearby sites: SX 6817 6670
Distance: 1.87km
Holne Ridge N.11 Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 66698 70020
HER: MDV61447
ShortName: CN:HolneRidg11
Butler map: 60.26.11
Notes: Ring cairn
Nearby sites: SX 66698 70020
Distance: 1.85km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67634 68388
HER: MDV5306
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B1
Nearby sites: SX 67634 68388
Distance: 0.21km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67625 68377
HER: MDV5306
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B2
Nearby sites: SX 67625 68377
Distance: 0.23km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67656 68386
HER: MDV5306
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B3
Nearby sites: SX 67656 68386
Distance: 0.20km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67619 68346
HER: MDV5306
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B4
Nearby sites: SX 67619 68346
Distance: 0.25km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67811 68298
HER: MDV5216
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B5
Nearby sites: SX 67811 68298
Distance: 0.23km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 6760 6849
HER: MDV24778
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B6
Nearby sites: SX 6760 6849
Distance: 0.19km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67794 68281
HER: MDV5216
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B7
Nearby sites: SX 67794 68281
Distance: 0.25km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67960 68274
HER: MDV24777
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B8
Nearby sites: SX 67960 68274
Distance: 0.31km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67655 68322
HER: MDV5306
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B9
Nearby sites: SX 67655 68322
Distance: 0.25km
Snowdon Brook North Round House
OS Map: SX 67597 68487
HER: MDV24778
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B10
Nearby sites: SX 67597 68487
Distance: 0.20km
Snowdon Brook S Round House
OS Map: SX 68201 68054
HER: MDV24770
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B11
Nearby sites: SX 68201 68054
Distance: 0.63km
Snowdon Brook S Round House
OS Map: SX 68243 67740
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B12
Nearby sites: SX 68243 67740
Distance: 0.91km
Snowdon Brook S Round House
OS Map: SX 68095 67801
HER: MDV24769
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B13
Nearby sites: SX 68095 67801
Distance: 0.79km
Snowdon Brook S Round House
OS Map: SX 68182 68080
HER: MDV24770
ShortName: HT:Snowdon B14
Nearby sites: SX 68182 68080
Distance: 0.60km
Holne Lee 11 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67767 69497
HER: MDV61446
ShortName: CN:Holne Lee11
Nearby sites: SX 67767 69497
Distance: 0.97km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 6779 6863
HER: MDV62026
ShortName: HT:River Mar1
Nearby sites: SX 6779 6863
Distance: 0.10km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 6770 6871
HER: MDV62028
ShortName: HT:River Mar2
Nearby sites: SX 6770 6871
Distance: 0.20km
Mardle Valley 6 (W of) Cairn
OS Map: SX 6778 6876
HER: MDV62033
ShortName: CN:Mardle Va7
Nearby sites: SX 6778 6876
Distance: 0.23km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 6775 6868
HER: MDV62027
ShortName: HT:River Mar3
Nearby sites: SX 6775 6868
Distance: 0.16km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 6797 6849
HER: MDV24779
ShortName: HT:River Mar4
Nearby sites: SX 6797 6849
Distance: 0.18km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 6779 6853
HER: MDV24776
ShortName: HT:River Mar5
Nearby sites: SX 6779 6853
Distance: 0.00km
River Mardle Round House
OS Map: SX 67864 68569
HER: MDV5215
ShortName: HT:River Mar6
Nearby sites: SX 67864 68569
Distance: 0.08km
Puper's Hill 2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67775 67055
HER: MDV67607
ShortName: CN:Puper's H2
Nearby sites: SX 67775 67055
Distance: 1.48km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 67770 70474
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo17
Nearby sites: SX 67770 70474
Distance: 1.94km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 68106 70434
HER: MDV64119
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo18
Nearby sites: SX 68106 70434
Distance: 1.93km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 68101 70434
HER: MDV64119
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo26
Nearby sites: SX 68101 70434
Distance: 1.93km
Holne Ridge N.15 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6694 7013
HER: MDV6476
ShortName: CN:HolneRidg15
Nearby sites: SX 6694 7013
Distance: 1.81km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 67752 70467
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo46
Nearby sites: SX 67752 70467
Distance: 1.94km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 67648 70497
HER: MDV26362
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo47
Nearby sites: SX 67648 70497
Distance: 1.97km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 68258 70428
HER: MDV113635
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo54
Nearby sites: SX 68258 70428
Distance: 1.95km
Holne Moor Round House
OS Map: SX 68068 70433
HER: MDV64119
ShortName: HT:Holne Moo59
Nearby sites: SX 68068 70433
Distance: 1.92km
Puper's Hill 1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 67364 67425
HER: MDV13191
ShortName: CN:Puper's H1
Nearby sites: SX 67364 67425
Distance: 1.18km
Holy Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6849 6880
HER: MDV62030
ShortName: HT:Holy Broo1
Nearby sites: SX 6849 6880
Distance: 0.75km
Holy Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6811 6880
HER: MDV62031
ShortName: HT:Holy Broo2
Nearby sites: SX 6811 6880
Distance: 0.42km
Holy Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6802 6884
HER: MDV62029
ShortName: HT:Holy Broo3
Nearby sites: SX 6802 6884
Distance: 0.39km
Holne Lee Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 68656 69919
HER: MDV5199
Megalithic Portal: 45836
Alternate name: Holne Lee 7 Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC Holne Lee7
Butler map: 58.11.7
Grinsell: HOL 17
Turner: A32
Notes: "One of four cairns on Holne Lee 1140 metres north-west of Greatcombe. Cairn diameter 20.5 metres, height 0.8 metres. Has a 4 metre wide circular bank surrounding a circular area measuring 12.5 metres in diameter. Location" NMR B
Nearby sites: SX 68656 69919
Distance: 1.64km
Inner Pupers Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67566 67421
HER: MDV13205
Megalithic Portal: 45847
PMD: Inner Pupers
Alternate name: Inner Puper's Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC:InnerPupers
Butler map: 58.9
DPD page: 89
Grinsell: BUC 6
Turner: A60
Notes: "The rock outcrop known as Inner Pupers is encompassed by a cairn of 13.0 meters overall diameter. It takes the shape of a platform 0.4 meters high around the rock, with a rim 1.5 meters wide and a further 0.4 meters high. Of small stones, with further 'natural' slabs protrude through."
Nearby sites: SX 67566 67421
Distance: 1.13km
Mardle Embanked Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67526 69359
HER: MDV5308
Megalithic Portal: 3374
Alternate name: Mardle Valley 1 Embanked Cairn Circle
ShortName: CC Mardle
Butler map: 58.12.1
Turner: B11
Notes: Embanked stone circle; an annular bank of earth and/or stone with an inner edge of orthostats. Much disturbed. Internal diam 6.5m with bank 1.2m wide and 0.4m high (turner). This cairn has a very interesting structure appearing to be multiple circles of stones similar to the cairns at Corringdon Ball. This structure is difficult to capture in a photograph as the stones are small and the site much disturbed.
Nearby sites: SX 67526 69359
Distance: 0.87km
Pupers Rock Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67281 67376
HER: MDV5219
Megalithic Portal: 45845
Alternate name: Puper's Hill Summit Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC:Pupers Rock
Butler map: 58.9
DPD page: 89
Grinsell: DEA 1
Turner: A58
Notes: "Ring cairn incorporating a large flat-topped granite outcrop. The stone ring measures 17 meters in diameter internally with 2.5 meter wide bank 0.6 meters high. There are the remains of a stone circle, around 1.0 meter high within the outcrop."
Nearby sites: SX 67281 67376
Distance: 1.26km