Prehistoric sites within 2km of SX 71008 78345
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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.
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 71008 78345
Chinkwell Tor Cairn
OS Map: SX 7293 7825
HER: MDV20168
ShortName: CN:Chinkwell1
Butler map: 7.3
Grinsell: WID 10
Turner: A63
Nearby sites: SX 7293 7825
Distance: 1.92km
Berry Pound Round House
OS Map: SX 7152 8017
HER: MDV26661
ShortName: HT:Berry Pou1
Nearby sites: SX 7152 8017
Distance: 1.90km
Dunstone Down Round House
OS Map: SX 70815 76615
HER: MDV26858
ShortName: HT:Dunstone 1
Nearby sites: SX 70815 76615
Distance: 1.74km
Dunstone Down Round House
OS Map: SX 7062 7728
HER: MDV26861
ShortName: HT:Dunstone 2
Nearby sites: SX 7062 7728
Distance: 1.13km
Dunstone Down Round House
OS Map: SX 70845 76595
HER: MDV26858
ShortName: HT:Dunstone 3
Nearby sites: SX 70845 76595
Distance: 1.76km
Langworthy Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 70668 77189
HER: MDV26861
ShortName: CN Langworth1
Butler map: 19.3
Notes: Listed by Butler but no cairn listed in HER or NMR. Maybe hut circle HER 26861. Visited by the author 15/09/19 as can be seen in the photo there is clearly a cairn here although it is in a very dilapidated state.
Nearby sites: SX 70668 77189
Distance: 1.20km
Hamel Down S.E.1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 71455 78665
HER: MDV7520
ShortName: CN Hamel Dow3
Butler map: 20.14.1
Grinsell: WID 8
Notes: NMR A. "Heather and gorse covered cairn. Mutilation in top and south face shows a construction of stones. No trace of ditch. On top of the mound is a modern boundary stone inscribed 'DS 1854 Old House'".
Nearby sites: SX 71455 78665
Distance: 0.55km
Hamel Down S.E.2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 71474 78507
HER: MDV7522
ShortName: CN Hamel Dow4
Butler map: 20.14.2
Grinsell: WID 9
Notes: NMR B "Cairn on Hamel Down with diameter 10 metres by 0.3 metres high in poor condition with a trench driven across the centre." Some stones exposed or heaped on one side of the cairn.
Nearby sites: SX 71474 78507
Distance: 0.49km
Hamel Down W. Cairn
OS Map: SX 6997 7904
HER: MDV5991
ShortName: CN:Hamel Dow5
Butler map: 20.
Nearby sites: SX 6997 7904
Distance: 1.25km
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: 1.60km
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: 1.63km
Blackaton Round House
OS Map: SX 6927 7852
HER: MDV26232
ShortName: HT:Blackaton1
Nearby sites: SX 6927 7852
Distance: 1.75km
Blackaton Round House
OS Map: SX 69434 78788
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: HT:Blackaton2
Nearby sites: SX 69434 78788
Distance: 1.64km
Pitton Round House
OS Map: SX 72375 78695
HER: MDV7422
ShortName: HT:Pitton1
Nearby sites: SX 72375 78695
Distance: 1.41km
Pitton Round House
OS Map: SX 72365 78675
HER: MDV7421
ShortName: HT:Pitton2
Nearby sites: SX 72365 78675
Distance: 1.40km
Hameldown Round House
OS Map: SX 7125 7925
HER: MDV26878
ShortName: HT:Hameldown1
Nearby sites: SX 7125 7925
Distance: 0.94km
Hameldown Round House
OS Map: SX 7100 7933
HER: MDV26880
ShortName: HT:Hameldown2
Nearby sites: SX 7100 7933
Distance: 0.99km
Hameldown Round House
OS Map: SX 7118 7932
HER: MDV26879
ShortName: HT:Hameldown5
Nearby sites: SX 7118 7932
Distance: 0.99km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69686 79232
ShortName: HT:Challacom1
Nearby sites: SX 69686 79232
Distance: 1.59km
Hameldown SE Round House
OS Map: SX 7125 7791
HER: MDV54718
ShortName: HT:Hameldown6
Nearby sites: SX 7125 7791
Distance: 0.50km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69665 79217
ShortName: HT:Challacom2
Nearby sites: SX 69665 79217
Distance: 1.60km
Hameldown SE Round House
OS Map: SX 71575 77988
HER: MDV103663
ShortName: HT:Hameldown7
Nearby sites: SX 71575 77988
Distance: 0.67km
Challacombe Round House
OS Map: SX 69467 78786
HER: MDV5988
ShortName: HT:Challacom3
Nearby sites: SX 69467 78786
Distance: 1.60km
Hameldown SE Round House
OS Map: SX 71724 78111
ShortName: HT:Hameldown8
Nearby sites: SX 71724 78111
Distance: 0.75km
Chinkwell Tor NW Round House
OS Map: SX 72592 78458
HER: MDV7440
ShortName: HT:Chinkwell2
Nearby sites: SX 72592 78458
Distance: 1.59km
Bagpark Round House
OS Map: SX 721 785
HER: MDV28889
ShortName: HT:Bagpark1
Nearby sites: SX 721 785
Distance: 1.10km
Blackaton Down N. Cairn
OS Map: SX 70683 79094
HER: MDV7413
Megalithic Portal: 16633
ShortName: CN Blackaton N
Butler map: 20.12.1
Butler Vol 5: p.193 & Fig.137
Grinsell: WID 4
Notes: The earthwork remains of two Bronze Age cairns. 'B' is a cairn 42 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. Cairn with small hollow towards centre. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.12.
Nearby sites: SX 70683 79094
Distance: 0.82km
Blackaton Down S. Cairn
OS Map: SX 70732 79047
HER: MDV7412
Megalithic Portal: 16634
ShortName: CN:Blackaton S
Butler map: 20.12.2
Butler Vol 5: p.192 & Fig.136
Grinsell: WID 5
Notes: ['A' SX 7073 7904]. Tumuli on saddle, 'A' is 40 feet in diameter with a rim 1 ft. high. One of pair of cairns, this one is concave or "saucer" shaped. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.12.
Nearby sites: SX 70732 79047
Distance: 0.75km
Blackaton Newtake (Hameldown) Ancient Pool
OS Map: SX 70785 78973
HER: MDV7527
ShortName: PO:Hameldown
Notes: Previously recorded as a possible cairn (was listed here as Hameldown 2 Reported Cairn), although identification noted later as 'doubtful' - water filled depression with a few surface stones. Identified as one of the 40+ 'sacred pool' sites on the moor, possibly dating from the Prehistoric period.
Nearby sites: SX 70785 78973
Distance: 0.67km
Broad Barrow Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 70577 79908
HER: MDV20787
Megalithic Portal: 16630
Alternate name: Broad Burrow Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC BroadBarrow
Butler map: 20.9
Butler Vol 5: p.166 & Fig.106
Grinsell: MAN 10
Turner: A46
Notes: "Infilled ring cairn. Stone ring 14 metres diameter internally with bank 2.5 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. Infilled to 0.25 metres below bank top." Butler Volume 1 Map 20.9.
Nearby sites: SX 70577 79908
Distance: 1.62km
Hameldon Cist
OS Map: SX 71008 78345
HER: MDV7519
Megalithic Portal: 16636
PMD: Hamel Down S.
Alternate name: Hamel Down S. Cist
ShortName: CT Hameldon
Butler map: 20.15
Butler Vol 5: p.178 & Fig.120
DPD page: 129
Grinsell: WID 7
Barrow Report: 54
Notes: Precise location originally unsurveyed but given approximately by Worth as SX 71257908. This may explain the large discrepancy between the NMR position and that given by Butler and in the HER. Three sides of the cist are visible with the fourth having sunken below the earth. The capstone is incomplete and only partly covers the cavity. Lethbridge diagram p129 and photo top p.129. Butler Hamel Down 15 (S) - Vol. 1. Map 20.15 (Cairn 15 p.149, diagram Vol 5. p.178).
Nearby sites: SX 71008 78345
Distance: 0.00km
Hameldown Beacon Cairn
OS Map: SX 70830 78922
HER: MDV7435
Megalithic Portal: 16635
ShortName: CN HamelBeacon
Butler map: 20.13
Butler Vol 5: p.166 & Fig.106
Grinsell: WID 6
Notes: A grass covered cairn which was alleged to have been used as a beacon in medieval period. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.13
Nearby sites: SX 70830 78922
Distance: 0.60km
Hameldown N.E. Stone Row
OS Map: SX 71481 80095
HER: MDV18865
Megalithic Portal: 6333472
The Stone Rows of GB: Hameldown
PMD: Berry Pound Stone Row
Alternate name: Hamel Down Stone Row
ShortName: SR Hamel NE
Butler map: 20.3
Notes: No NMR listing. HER record MDV18865. Described in Butler Volume 1 Map 20.3. To the south of Berry Pound is a small longhouse. "Within the abandoned field 250m south of the longhouse are the probable remains of a single row first recorded in 1983. Five or six stones remain in line up to 206m apart, the rest having been removed or buried when the field was ploughed."
Nearby sites: SX 71481 80095
Distance: 1.81km
Single Barrow Cairn
OS Map: SX 70576 79538
HER: MDV7487
Megalithic Portal: 16631
ShortName: CN SingleBarro
Butler map: 20.10
Butler Vol 5: p.23 & Fig.106
Grinsell: MAN 11
Notes: Round barrow, crowned by boundary stone dated 1854, and inscribed single burrow. Excavated 1873. Diameter 23 metres, height 1.0 metres. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.10.
Nearby sites: SX 70576 79538
Distance: 1.27km
Two Barrows Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 70654 79219
HER: MDV7409
Megalithic Portal: 16632
Alternate name: Two Barrows 1 Stone Ring Cairn Circle
ShortName: RC Two Barrows
Butler map: 20.11.1
Butler Vol 5: p.23 & Fig.106
Grinsell: MAN 12
Barrow Report: 21 56
Notes: "The northern barrow was excavated in 1872. It measures 40 feet in diameter and 4 1/2 feet high. A ring of stones encircled the barrow and in the centre was a small cairn. A cremation burial was found to the SE of the centre covered by five flat stones. With the cremation was the blade of a bronze dagger and a pommel made from amber with a decoration consisting of rows of gold pins" See: Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol. 5 pp.549-58 (1872). Relevant Butler map Vol. 1. Map 20. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.11 Two Barrows 1. [N.b. Treated as Turner type Stone Ring Cairn circle from the description].
Nearby sites: SX 70654 79219
Distance: 0.94km
Two Barrows S Cairn
OS Map: SX 70663 79203
HER: MDV7411
Megalithic Portal: 16632
Alternate name: Two Barrows 2 Cairn
ShortName: CN TwoBarrowsS
Butler map: 20.11.2
Butler Vol 5: p.23 & Fig.106
Grinsell: WID 3
Notes: Two Barrows 2. An oval, stony mound measuring 15.5m E-W and 10.5m N-S. It stands up to 1.1m high and was probably originally bowl-profiled. The N slope is spit by a narrow path and a N-S slope across the top of the barrow has caused minor damage. It appears to be unexcavated. The mounds is crossed by a maintained drystone field wall, approaching from the SE and turning W on the barrow. The wall is built over the mound and does not seem to have caused much damage. This barrow appears to have been a target point for a reave, Fleming's Hameldon South, approaching from the E and stopping 3.5m short of the mound. The reave line is continued W by the modern wall beyond the barrow. See also: Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol. 5 pp.549-58 (1872). Butler Volume 1 Map 20.11
Nearby sites: SX 70663 79203
Distance: 0.92km