Prehistoric sites within 3km of SX 53300 68500
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 3km of SX 53300 68500
Peek Hill E.1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5576 6995
HER: MDV28525
ShortName: CN:Peek Hill1
Nearby sites: SX 5576 6995
Distance: 2.86km
Lynch Common Round House
OS Map: SX 5521 6619
HER: MDV25064
ShortName: HT:Lynch Com2
Nearby sites: SX 5521 6619
Distance: 3.00km
Yennadon Down (MEA 1) Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5451 6912
HER: MDV22762
ShortName: CN?Yennadon 1
Grinsell: MEA 1
Notes: Disturbed cairn on Yennadon Down, covered in gorse. Location unconfirmed.
Nearby sites: SX 5451 6912
Distance: 1.36km
Sharpitor W.6 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5520 7039
HER: MDV62014
ShortName: CN?SharpitorW6
Nearby sites: SX 5520 7039
Distance: 2.68km
Sharpitor W.7 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5540 7055
HER: MDV62015
ShortName: CNxSharpitorW7
Notes: a cairn built upon an earlier field system boundary bank
Nearby sites: SX 5540 7055
Distance: 2.93km
Sharpitor W.5 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5533 7055
HER: MDV62016
ShortName: CN:SharpitorW5
Notes: "Cairn situated adjacent to a field system on Walkhampton Common. Dimensions of cairn: 0.7 metres high, 9.8 metres by 5 metres. Central pit 1 metres by 0.8 metres by 0.15 metres. Oval mound with stones protruding. Oriented east-west. Probably a cairn, though may be connected with nearby field system."
Nearby sites: SX 5533 7055
Distance: 2.89km
Peek Hill E.2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5579 7010
HER: MDV63629
ShortName: CN?Peek Hill2
Nearby sites: SX 5579 7010
Distance: 2.96km
Roborough Down 3 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 509 686
HER: MDV63828
ShortName: CN?Roborough3
Nearby sites: SX 509 686
Distance: 2.40km
Peek Hill Summit 1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 55650 69959
HER: MDV63628
ShortName: CN:Peek Hill3
Butler map: 45.5.1
Notes: Two cairns - one not included by Butler
Nearby sites: SX 55650 69959
Distance: 2.77km
Peek Hill Summit 2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 55623 69942
HER: MDV28529
ShortName: CN:Peek Hill4
Butler map: 45.5.2
Nearby sites: SX 55623 69942
Distance: 2.73km
Sharpitor W.1 Cairn
OS Map: SX 55093 70784
HER: MDV5012
ShortName: CN:SharpitorW1
Butler map: 45.11.1
Grinsell: WAL 19
Nearby sites: SX 55093 70784
Distance: 2.90km
Sharpitor W.2 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5509 7065
HER: MDV19964
ShortName: CN:SharpitorW2
Butler map: 45.11.2
Notes: NMR C
Nearby sites: SX 5509 7065
Distance: 2.80km
Sharpitor W.3 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5511 7066
HER: MDV61947
ShortName: CN:SharpitorW3
Butler map: 45.11.3
Notes: NMR A
Nearby sites: SX 5511 7066
Distance: 2.82km
Sharpitor W.4 Cairn
OS Map: SX 5512 7065
HER: MDV61948
ShortName: CN:SharpitorW4
Butler map: 45.11.4
Notes: NMR B
Nearby sites: SX 5512 7065
Distance: 2.82km
Sharpitor W Round House
OS Map: SX 55290 70309
HER: MDV28573
ShortName: HT:Sharpitor31
Nearby sites: SX 55290 70309
Distance: 2.69km
Sharpitor W Round House
OS Map: SX 5475 7064
HER: MDV61951
ShortName: HT:Sharpitor32
Nearby sites: SX 5475 7064
Distance: 2.58km
Sharpitor W Round House
OS Map: SX 54866 70544
HER: MDV25926
ShortName: HT:Sharpitor33
Nearby sites: SX 54866 70544
Distance: 2.57km
Roborough Down 1 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5092 6828
HER: MDV2315
ShortName: CN:Roborough1
Grinsell: MON 1
Barrow Report: 68 69
Notes: Destroyed by airfield construction during war.
Nearby sites: SX 5092 6828
Distance: 2.39km
Roborough Down 2 Reported Cairn
OS Map: SX 5109 6811
HER: MDV2316
ShortName: CN:Roborough2
Grinsell: MON 2
Barrow Report: 68 69
Notes: Destroyed by airfield construction during war.
Nearby sites: SX 5109 6811
Distance: 2.24km
Lowery Round House
OS Map: SX 5568 6949
HER: MDV52430
ShortName: HT:Lowery1
Nearby sites: SX 5568 6949
Distance: 2.58km
Sharpitor W. (Peek Hill) Cairn Circle
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists
OS Map: SX 55056 70751
HER: MDV5011
Megalithic Portal: 52566
PMD: Sharpitor W Stone Row
Alternate name: Sharpitor W. stone row Cairn Circle
ShortName: CC Sharpitor W
Butler map: 45.11
DPD page: 20
Grinsell: WAL 18
Notes: "The cairn lies on a gentle sw slope ne of horseyeatt farm, with a stone row see sx57se/141 running sw from it. The cairn is about 7m in diameter and 0.6m height, partly turf-covered, with a central hollow. The visible set stones within the cairn suggest two or three underlying concentric stone circles. These stones have a maximum height of 0.2m and are predominantly set with their long axes tangential to the circle". Lethbridge pp.19-20, diagram p.19.
Nearby sites: SX 55056 70751
Distance: 2.85km
Sharpitor W. (Peek Hill) Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists
OS Map: SX 55058 70748
HER: MDV12831
Megalithic Portal: 2120
The Stone Rows of GB: Sharpitor West
PMD: Sharpitor W Stone Row
Alternate name: Sharpitor W Stone Row
ShortName: SR Sharpitor W
Butler map: 45.11
DPD page: 20
Notes: Butler: Sharpitor W, Worth: Peek Hill. Near Horseyeat Farm. "BA stone row and cairn. The 132m long row has 47 upright stones and the low cairn is 8.4m in diameter. Both monuments lie under dense bracken cover; gorse vegetation has obscured part of the row". Lethbridge pp.19-20, diagram p.19, photo p.20 Horseyeat Farm stone row. See also: Sea Views at Sharpitor West
Nearby sites: SX 55058 70748
Distance: 2.85km
Yennadon Down Reported Stone Circle
OS Map: SX 54907 67815
HER: MDV106412
ShortName: SC:Yennadon Dn
Notes: "A well defined and complete circle approximately 11 metres in diameter and 0.25 to 0.3 metres in height with internal level ground. Sited on south facing gentle slope of Yennadon Down near the old railway track. Seven stones visible on the southern perimeter.2
Nearby sites: SX 54907 67815
Distance: 1.75km