Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 67800 83650
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 67800 83650
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66319 83190
HER: MDV6580
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br4
Nearby sites: SX 66319 83190
Distance: 1.55km
Metherel Cairn
OS Map: SX 6684 8401
HER: MDV6655
Megalithic Portal: 15138
PMD: Metherel
ShortName: CT?Metherel1
Turner: C2
Barrow Report: 56
Notes: Cairn or hut circle? Excavation of three hut circles in 1936, prior to the construction of new reservoir at Fernworthy, showed the eastern circle, "No 6" (SX66858402), to represent the remains of a cairn with a probable cremation burial in a pit beneath a cover-stone.
Nearby sites: SX 6684 8401
Distance: 1.03km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66309 83171
HER: MDV6582
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br5
Nearby sites: SX 66309 83171
Distance: 1.57km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66301 83156
HER: MDV6581
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br6
Nearby sites: SX 66301 83156
Distance: 1.58km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66273 83116
HER: MDV6579
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br7
Nearby sites: SX 66273 83116
Distance: 1.62km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6627 8309
HER: MDV6583
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br8
Nearby sites: SX 6627 8309
Distance: 1.63km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66246 83239
HER: MDV6583
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br9
Nearby sites: SX 66246 83239
Distance: 1.61km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66238 83436
HER: MDV6599
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br10
Nearby sites: SX 66238 83436
Distance: 1.58km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66231 83268
HER: MDV6578
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br11
Nearby sites: SX 66231 83268
Distance: 1.61km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6623 8332
HER: MDV6574
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br12
Nearby sites: SX 6623 8332
Distance: 1.60km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66155 83539
HER: MDV105624
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br13
Nearby sites: SX 66155 83539
Distance: 1.65km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66346 82886
HER: MDV6644
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br14
Nearby sites: SX 66346 82886
Distance: 1.64km
Lowton Brook E Round House
OS Map: SX 66587 83716
HER: MDV6585
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br15
Nearby sites: SX 66587 83716
Distance: 1.21km
Lowton Brook E Round House
OS Map: SX 66570 83632
HER: MDV6589
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br16
Nearby sites: SX 66570 83632
Distance: 1.23km
Lowton Brook E Round House
OS Map: SX 66584 83649
HER: MDV6588
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br17
Nearby sites: SX 66584 83649
Distance: 1.22km
Lowton Brook E Round House
OS Map: SX 66588 83731
HER: MDV6586
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br18
Nearby sites: SX 66588 83731
Distance: 1.21km
Thornworthy Round House
OS Map: SX 6727 8469
HER: MDV27853
ShortName: HT:Thornwort1
Nearby sites: SX 6727 8469
Distance: 1.17km
Thornworthy Down Round House
OS Map: SX 66383 84971
HER: MDV6720
ShortName: HT:Thornwort3
Nearby sites: SX 66383 84971
Distance: 1.94km
Thornworthy Down Round House
OS Map: SX 66349 84861
HER: MDV6725
ShortName: HT:Thornwort4
Nearby sites: SX 66349 84861
Distance: 1.89km
Thornworthy Down Round House
OS Map: SX 66509 84916
HER: MDV6115
ShortName: HT:Thornwort5
Nearby sites: SX 66509 84916
Distance: 1.81km
Thornworthy Down Round House
OS Map: SX 66333 84783
HER: MDV6723
ShortName: HT:Thornwort9
Nearby sites: SX 66333 84783
Distance: 1.85km
Thornworthy Down Round House
OS Map: SX 66356 84818
HER: MDV6115
ShortName: HT:Thornwort12
Nearby sites: SX 66356 84818
Distance: 1.86km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68496 82180
HER: MDV6595
ShortName: HT:Bush Down1
Nearby sites: SX 68496 82180
Distance: 1.63km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68486 82158
HER: MDV6596
ShortName: HT:Bush Down2
Nearby sites: SX 68486 82158
Distance: 1.64km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68695 82535
HER: MDV6598
ShortName: HT:Bush Down3
Nearby sites: SX 68695 82535
Distance: 1.43km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68415 82475
HER: MDV6591
ShortName: HT:Bush Down4
Nearby sites: SX 68415 82475
Distance: 1.33km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68408 82476
HER: MDV6590
ShortName: HT:Bush Down5
Nearby sites: SX 68408 82476
Distance: 1.32km
Chagford Common 2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6785 8359
HER: MDV13036
ShortName: CN:Chagford 2
Grinsell: CHA 7
Notes: Disturbed cairn. See also CHA 10a-i NMR 443914
Nearby sites: SX 6785 8359
Distance: 0.08km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68402 82477
HER: MDV6590
ShortName: HT:Bush Down6
Nearby sites: SX 68402 82477
Distance: 1.32km
Chagford Common 3 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6784 8362
HER: MDV13037
ShortName: CN:Chagford 3
Grinsell: CHA 8
Notes: Round cairn. Diameter 4.7 metres, height 0.4 metres. Slight unsurveyable central hollow. A fragmentary and spread bank leads away from this mound towards the nearby agglomerated enclosure. See also CHA 10a-i NMR 443914
Nearby sites: SX 6784 8362
Distance: 0.05km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68452 82286
HER: MDV6594
ShortName: HT:Bush Down7
Nearby sites: SX 68452 82286
Distance: 1.51km
Chagford Common 4 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6785 8364
HER: MDV13038
ShortName: CN:Chagford 4
Grinsell: CHA 9
Notes: cairn, slight hollow centre. Diameter 6m, height 0.4m. See also CHA 10a-i NMR 443914
Nearby sites: SX 6785 8364
Distance: 0.05km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68460 82413
HER: MDV6593
ShortName: HT:Bush Down8
Nearby sites: SX 68460 82413
Distance: 1.40km
Chagford Common 6 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 675 830
HER: MDV13039
ShortName: CN:Chagford 6
Grinsell: CHA 10a-i
Notes: 1902 exc. Unlocated - maybe CHA 7-9
Nearby sites: SX 675 830
Distance: 0.72km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68624 82036
ShortName: HT:Bush Down9
Nearby sites: SX 68624 82036
Distance: 1.81km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68702 82575
HER: MDV6597
ShortName: HT:Bush Down10
Nearby sites: SX 68702 82575
Distance: 1.40km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68438 82411
HER: MDV6592
ShortName: HT:Bush Down11
Nearby sites: SX 68438 82411
Distance: 1.39km
Bush Down Round House
OS Map: SX 68601 82026
ShortName: HT:Bush Down12
Nearby sites: SX 68601 82026
Distance: 1.81km
Lowton Brook Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6690 8287
HER: MDV54605
ShortName: CN:Lowton Br
Nearby sites: SX 6690 8287
Distance: 1.19km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67419 82579
HER: MDV6668
ShortName: HT:Hurston R1
Nearby sites: SX 67419 82579
Distance: 1.14km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67350 82705
HER: MDV61935
ShortName: HT:Hurston R2
Nearby sites: SX 67350 82705
Distance: 1.05km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67266 82549
HER: MDV61937
ShortName: HT:Hurston R3
Nearby sites: SX 67266 82549
Distance: 1.22km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67270 82546
HER: MDV61938
ShortName: HT:Hurston R4
Nearby sites: SX 67270 82546
Distance: 1.22km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67271 82570
ShortName: HT:Hurston R5
Nearby sites: SX 67271 82570
Distance: 1.20km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67344 82500
HER: MDV6671
ShortName: HT:Hurston R6
Nearby sites: SX 67344 82500
Distance: 1.24km
Hurston Ridge Round House
OS Map: SX 67266 82562
HER: MDV61936
ShortName: HT:Hurston R7
Nearby sites: SX 67266 82562
Distance: 1.21km
Chagford Common Cairn
OS Map: SX 6780 8365
HER: MDV64199
ShortName: CN:Chagford 1
Butler map: 25.7
Grinsell: CHA 7, 8, 9, 10
Notes: CHA 7, 8, 9, 10
Nearby sites: SX 6780 8365
Distance: 0.00km
Hurston Ridge Stone Row Cairn
OS Map: SX 67268 82446
HER: MDV61939
PMD: Hurston Ridge Stone Row
ShortName: CN:Hurston R6
Butler map: 25.9
Butler Vol 5: p.221 & Fig.154
Grinsell: CHA 5
Notes: The cairn at the upper end of the alignment measures 5.9 metres in diameter and stands up to a height of 0.6 metres. A large slab denoting the north eastern edge of the cairn may represent a second blocking stone of the associated alignment. A cinerary urn was found in the cairn. "The cairn has been throughly rifled ... It's shape is irregular ... but with no sign of the cist at one time visible here" (Butler Vol 2 p.30).
Nearby sites: SX 67268 82446
Distance: 1.32km
Hurston Ridge Cairn
OS Map: SX 67006 81841
HER: MDV6609
ShortName: CN:Hurston R2
Butler map: 25.10
Grinsell: LYD 30
Notes: Hurston ridge; pillaged cairn (diam 8m) examined in 1900. Yielded large portion of broken urn (circumference 1.12m), resting mouth down on flat stone covering pit filled with wood charcoal. The urn was partly protected by a leaning stone kept in position by trigger stones. Highly ornamented. Dark, friable pottery containing little clay. No surrounding stone circle (worth).
Nearby sites: SX 67006 81841
Distance: 1.98km
Hurston Ridge Reave, adjacent to Cairn
OS Map: SX 6766 8350
HER: MDV61934
ShortName: CN:Hurston R5
Nearby sites: SX 6766 8350
Distance: 0.21km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67985 83756
HER: MDV64180
ShortName: HT:Chagford 1
Nearby sites: SX 67985 83756
Distance: 0.21km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67949 83260
HER: MDV64190
ShortName: HT:Chagford 2
Nearby sites: SX 67949 83260
Distance: 0.42km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 6800 8389
HER: MDV27743
ShortName: HT:Chagford 3
Nearby sites: SX 6800 8389
Distance: 0.31km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67889 83165
HER: MDV64191
ShortName: HT:Chagford 4
Nearby sites: SX 67889 83165
Distance: 0.49km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67982 83628
HER: MDV64183
ShortName: HT:Chagford 5
Nearby sites: SX 67982 83628
Distance: 0.18km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67937 83287
HER: MDV64189
ShortName: HT:Chagford 6
Nearby sites: SX 67937 83287
Distance: 0.39km
Chagford Common 5 Cairn
OS Map: SX 6784 8362
HER: MDV64200
ShortName: CN:Chagford 5
Nearby sites: SX 6784 8362
Distance: 0.05km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 68027 83466
HER: MDV64186
ShortName: HT:Chagford 7
Nearby sites: SX 68027 83466
Distance: 0.29km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 68012 83475
HER: MDV6707
ShortName: HT:Chagford 8
Nearby sites: SX 68012 83475
Distance: 0.27km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67981 83643
HER: MDV64182
ShortName: HT:Chagford 9
Nearby sites: SX 67981 83643
Distance: 0.18km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 68167 83580
HER: MDV6715
ShortName: HT:Chagford 10
Nearby sites: SX 68167 83580
Distance: 0.37km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 6776 8394
HER: MDV27742
ShortName: HT:Chagford 11
Nearby sites: SX 6776 8394
Distance: 0.29km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 68103 83578
HER: MDV64185
ShortName: HT:Chagford 12
Nearby sites: SX 68103 83578
Distance: 0.31km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67796 82967
HER: MDV64194
ShortName: HT:Chagford 13
Nearby sites: SX 67796 82967
Distance: 0.68km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67850 83345
HER: MDV43227
ShortName: HT:Chagford 14
Nearby sites: SX 67850 83345
Distance: 0.31km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67849 83291
HER: MDV6706
ShortName: HT:Chagford 15
Nearby sites: SX 67849 83291
Distance: 0.36km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67854 83063
HER: MDV64193
ShortName: HT:Chagford 16
Nearby sites: SX 67854 83063
Distance: 0.59km
Chagford Common Round House
OS Map: SX 67857 83145
HER: MDV64192
ShortName: HT:Chagford 17
Nearby sites: SX 67857 83145
Distance: 0.51km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 66829 84024
HER: MDV6654
Megalithic Portal: 15138
ShortName: HT:Metherall1
Nearby sites: SX 66829 84024
Distance: 1.04km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 66823 84014
HER: MDV6624
Megalithic Portal: 15138
ShortName: HT:Metherall2
Nearby sites: SX 66823 84014
Distance: 1.04km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 67049 84181
HER: MDV6625
ShortName: HT:Metherall3
Nearby sites: SX 67049 84181
Distance: 0.92km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 67077 84042
HER: MDV6695
ShortName: HT:Metherall4
Nearby sites: SX 67077 84042
Distance: 0.82km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 6697 8411
HER: MDV6656
Megalithic Portal: 15138
ShortName: HT:Metherall5
Nearby sites: SX 6697 8411
Distance: 0.95km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 6709 8397
HER: MDV61334
ShortName: HT:Metherall6
Nearby sites: SX 6709 8397
Distance: 0.78km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 6706 8413
HER: MDV6626
ShortName: HT:Metherall7
Nearby sites: SX 6706 8413
Distance: 0.88km
Metherall Round House
OS Map: SX 66862 84021
HER: MDV6655
Megalithic Portal: 15138
ShortName: HT:Metherall8
Nearby sites: SX 66862 84021
Distance: 1.01km
Frenchbeer Round House
OS Map: SX 6727 8511
HER: MDV6206
ShortName: HT:Frenchbee1
Nearby sites: SX 6727 8511
Distance: 1.55km
Frenchbeer Rock Round House
OS Map: SX 67208 85472
HER: MDV6115
ShortName: HT:Frenchbee2
Nearby sites: SX 67208 85472
Distance: 1.92km
Frenchbeer Rock Round House
OS Map: SX 67197 85491
HER: MDV6115
ShortName: HT:Frenchbee3
Nearby sites: SX 67197 85491
Distance: 1.94km
Yardworthy stone row Cairn
OS Map: SX 67596 84383
HER: MDV14228
ShortName: CN:Yardworth2
Nearby sites: SX 67596 84383
Distance: 0.76km
West Vitifer (duplicate) Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 675 826
HER: MDV-1
ShortName: CT?West Viti2
Notes: Possible location of a Bronze Age cist, although when subject to field investigation in November 2002 the site was not found. Probably a duplicate of NMR 443785.
Nearby sites: SX 675 826
Distance: 1.09km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6797 8478
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha1
Nearby sites: SX 6797 8478
Distance: 1.14km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6802 8475
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha2
Nearby sites: SX 6802 8475
Distance: 1.12km
East Lowton Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 6658 8371
HER: MDV6585
ShortName: CNxEast Lowt1
Grinsell: LYD 25
Turner: C1
Notes: Hut Circle
Nearby sites: SX 6658 8371
Distance: 1.22km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6802 8468
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha3
Nearby sites: SX 6802 8468
Distance: 1.05km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 68075 84693
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha4
Nearby sites: SX 68075 84693
Distance: 1.08km
Lakeland Round House
OS Map: SX 6850 8271
HER: MDV6672
ShortName: HT:Lakeland1
Nearby sites: SX 6850 8271
Distance: 1.17km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6797 8468
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha5
Nearby sites: SX 6797 8468
Distance: 1.04km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 68081 84746
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha6
Nearby sites: SX 68081 84746
Distance: 1.13km
Yardworthy Round House
OS Map: SX 67680 84502
HER: MDV14227
ShortName: HT:Yardworth1
Nearby sites: SX 67680 84502
Distance: 0.86km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6808 8472
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha7
Nearby sites: SX 6808 8472
Distance: 1.11km
Lower Shapley Round House
OS Map: SX 6801 8480
HER: MDV55522
ShortName: HT:Lower Sha8
Nearby sites: SX 6801 8480
Distance: 1.17km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66406 82958
HER: MDV6584
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br1
Nearby sites: SX 66406 82958
Distance: 1.56km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 66358 83292
HER: MDV6575
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br2
Nearby sites: SX 66358 83292
Distance: 1.49km
Lowton Brook Round House
OS Map: SX 6634 8307
HER: MDV6718
ShortName: HT:Lowton Br3
Nearby sites: SX 6634 8307
Distance: 1.57km
Assycombe Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 66101 82649
HER: MDV6537
Megalithic Portal: 1738
PMD: Assycombe Standing Stone
ShortName: SS Assycombe
Butler map: 35.19
DPD page: 135
Notes: Bronze Age stone row and cairn, Assycombe. The double stone row is 120m long terminating in the cairn at the North-East end. The South-West end is blocked by a stone 2.0m high. The largest stone, 2m high, lies at the E end and was re-erected re-erected by Baring-Gould in 1892 or 1893. The cairn is 8.4m in diameter and 0.6m high.
Nearby sites: SX 66101 82649
Distance: 1.97km
Assycombe Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 66095 82641
HER: MDV6537
Megalithic Portal: 1738
The Stone Rows of GB: Assycombe Stone Row
PMD: Assycombe Stone Row
ShortName: SR Assycombe
Butler map: 35.19
DPD page: 135
Notes: "Bronze Age stone row and cairn, Assycombe. The double stone row is 120m long terminating in the cairn at the North-East end. The South-West end is blocked by a stone 2.0m high, re-erected there by Baring-Gould. The cairn is 8.4m in diameter and 0.6m high. Scheduled." Also from Burnard's 1892 field notes: The row, which starts from a ruined cairn, consists of 84 standing stones, and extends 800 feet E. and W., running in two rows down the hill towards Assycombe. It terminates towards the W. in a stone lying prone, 5' 9" long. 2'' wide. The avenue is from 5' to 6' wide, inner measurement. The stones composing the row are 18" high, and down to 6".
Nearby sites: SX 66095 82641
Distance: 1.98km
Assycombe Hill Encircled Cairn and Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 66102 82650
HER: MDV6538
Megalithic Portal: 45814
PMD: Assycombe Stone Row
Alternate name: Assycombe Hill Stone Row Encircled Cairn and Cist
ShortName: CT Assycombe
Butler map: 35.19
Butler Vol 5: p.232 & Fig.164
DPD page: 135
Grinsell: LYD 26
Turner: F16
Notes: The cairn at the E end is in line with the N of the two rows. It measures 8.4m in diameter and is 0.6m high. It contains a large quantity of stone; two stones in the centre, set at right angles to each other around a hollow, suggest the remains of a cist.
Nearby sites: SX 66102 82650
Distance: 1.97km
Bush Down Settlement
OS Map: SX 6849 8217
HER: MDV6596
Megalithic Portal: 7699
ShortName: ST:BushDown
Nearby sites: SX 6849 8217
Distance: 1.63km
East Lowton Settlement
OS Map: SX 666 837
HER: MDV107002
Megalithic Portal: 34966
ShortName: ST:EastLowton
Nearby sites: SX 666 837
Distance: 1.20km
Heath Stone Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 6712 8375
HER: MDV6650
Megalithic Portal: 14933
ShortName: SS Heath Stone
Butler map: 25.
Notes: The original Heath Stone was a boundary stone which was referred to in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor in 1240 and some very early maps. According to Butler (Vol. 2 Map 25 p.32) the stone carved with a biblical inscription in 1970 that is currently known as the Heath Stone is unlikely to have been the original Heath Stone as it is in a useless position to be of any use as a boundary stone. The stone was not included in maps from the 18th century and then reappeared in a different location. It is doubtful that the current stone is the original or that it is prehistoric. Crossing suggests that the large standing stone in the Hurston Ridge stone row is the actual Heath Stone. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Dartmoor Heathstone
Nearby sites: SX 6712 8375
Distance: 0.69km
Hurston Ridge Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 67268 82444
HER: MDV6541
Megalithic Portal: 8345
PMD: Hurston Ridge Standing Stone
ShortName: SS HurstonRidg
Butler map: 25.9
DPD page: 136
Notes: Hurston Ridge is one of the best examples of a double stone now on Dartmoor. At the south end is a cairn 22feet in diameter. The space between the rows widens intentionally as it approaches the cairn. The first stone from the south in the eastern row is the largest stone and stands 5 feet 10 inches high. Crossing suggests this may have been the original Heath Stone. A cinerary urn, in fragments except for the rim, was discovered in the cairn in 1900. Restored, the urn, 18 3/4 inches high, 16 inches in diameter at the rim and 8 inches in diameter at the base was revealed as an unusually large and handsome bipartite Overhanging rim or crowned urn of Middle Bronze Age type.
Nearby sites: SX 67268 82444
Distance: 1.32km
Hurston Ridge Settlement
OS Map: SX 674 825
HER: MDV6668
Megalithic Portal: 34979
ShortName: ST:HurstonRidg
Butler map: 25.9
Nearby sites: SX 674 825
Distance: 1.22km
Hurston Ridge Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Hurston Ridge Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 67260 82437
HER: MDV6541
Megalithic Portal: 8345
The Stone Rows of GB: Hurston Ridge
PMD: Hurston Ridge Stone Row
ShortName: SR Hurston
Butler map: 25.9
Butler Vol 5: p.228 & Fig.161
DPD page: 136
Notes: .Worth: Watern Hill. "A stone alignment which includes two parallel lines of upright stones leading downslope for 143 metres from a round cairn. The lower end of the alignment is denoted by a blocking stone. Midway along the alignment a length of later enclosure walling crosses the row. The cairn at the upper end of the alignment measures 5.9 metres in diameter and stands up to a height of 0.6 metres. A large slab denoting the north eastern edge of the cairn may represent a second blocking stone of the associated alignment. A cinerary urn was found in the cairn." A number of the stones were restored to their original sockets in 1894. A broken hand axe was discovered in the pit in which one of the stones had stood near to the menhir next to the cairn.
Nearby sites: SX 67260 82437
Distance: 1.33km
Lowton Brook W. Settlement
OS Map: SX 663 834
HER: MDV104672
Megalithic Portal: 24262
ShortName: ST:LowtonBrW
Nearby sites: SX 663 834
Distance: 1.52km
Metherall Settlement
OS Map: SX 668 840
HER: MDV6624
Megalithic Portal: 15138
ShortName: ST:Metherall
Barrow Report: 56
Nearby sites: SX 668 840
Distance: 1.06km
Thornworthy Cist
OS Map: SX 66746 84346
HER: MDV6613
Megalithic Portal: 15453
PMD: Thornworthy
ShortName: CT Thornworthy
Butler map: 35.22
Butler Vol 5: p.64 & Fig.42
DPD page: 137
Grinsell: CHA 3
Turner: E39
Barrow Report: 16 21 56
Notes: Butler Vol. 2. Map 35.22 (p.169, photo on p.136, diagram Vol. 5. p.64).Originally there was a second slightly smaller cist. This was removed after the excavation and re-erected at Torquay Museum. It is now at the High Moorland Visitor Centre at Princetown. See also: Thornworthy 2 Cist
Nearby sites: SX 66746 84346
Distance: 1.26km
West Vitifer Cist
OS Map: SX 67574 82806
HER: MDV6615
Megalithic Portal: 34980
PMD: Chagford Common
ShortName: CT:WestVitifer
Butler map: 25.11
Grinsell: CHA 4
Barrow Report: 16
Notes: "Possible location of a Bronze Age cist, although when subject to field investigation in November 2002 the site was not found" "The cairn was partially excavated in 1897 by the Barrow Committee of the Devonshire Association. This working revealed a ring of slabs surrounding a cist which had not been previously examined. In the cist there was a complete Bronze Age beaker together with charcoal but no trace of a burial." Cairn survives, restored urn thought to be in Plymouth museum. See: Sixteenth Barrow Report 1897. Butler Vol. 2. Map 25.11 ( p.32).
Nearby sites: SX 67574 82806
Distance: 0.87km
Yardworthy Stone Row
OS Map: SX 6760 8439
HER: MDV61337
Megalithic Portal: 6333471
The Stone Rows of GB: Yardworthy
PMD: Yardworthy
ShortName: SR:Yardworthy
Notes: "Stone row in Yardworthy Newtake, an area of rough pasture that has since undergone some stone clearance. Apparently the remains of a double row it starts 3.0 metres from a low barrow at SX67608438 and extends to the north-east for 7.0 metres. The north-west side consists of four stones, 2.0 to 2.5 metres apart. The south-eastern side about 1.4 metres distant has only one stone and two turf humps which may conceal others. Visible stones are barely 0.1 metres high. Immediately beyond the north-east end is a hollow or stone pit about 4.0 by 2.0 metres diameter. This, and clearance in the area may have destroyed any continuation."
Nearby sites: SX 6760 8439
Distance: 0.77km