Dartmoor Resource: Search for Sites Nearby

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, walking the Stone Rows and Stone Circles of Dartmoor

Prehistoric sites within 3km of SX 58200 86650

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 58200 86650

Lower Duna Goat Clearance Cairn

OS Map: SX 5565 8622
HER: MDV3170
ShortName: CN?Lower Dun1
Grinsell: LYD 4
Notes: uncertain whether prehistoric or an industrial spoil heap
Nearby sites: SX 5565 8622
Distance: 2.59km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57775 87725
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor1
Nearby sites: SX 57775 87725
Distance: 1.16km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57765 87755
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor2
Nearby sites: SX 57765 87755
Distance: 1.19km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57765 87785
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor3
Nearby sites: SX 57765 87785
Distance: 1.22km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57775 87705
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor4
Nearby sites: SX 57775 87705
Distance: 1.14km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57835 87735
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor5
Nearby sites: SX 57835 87735
Distance: 1.14km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57845 87675
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor6
Nearby sites: SX 57845 87675
Distance: 1.08km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57855 87705
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor7
Nearby sites: SX 57855 87705
Distance: 1.11km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57805 87675
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor8
Nearby sites: SX 57805 87675
Distance: 1.10km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57785 87695
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor9
Nearby sites: SX 57785 87695
Distance: 1.12km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57705 87725
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor10
Nearby sites: SX 57705 87725
Distance: 1.18km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57755 87735
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor11
Nearby sites: SX 57755 87735
Distance: 1.17km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57725 87725
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor12
Nearby sites: SX 57725 87725
Distance: 1.18km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57725 87705
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor13
Nearby sites: SX 57725 87705
Distance: 1.16km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57715 87705
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor14
Nearby sites: SX 57715 87705
Distance: 1.16km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57705 87755
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor15
Nearby sites: SX 57705 87755
Distance: 1.21km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57705 87735
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor16
Nearby sites: SX 57705 87735
Distance: 1.19km

Lints Tor NW Round House

OS Map: SX 57715 87735
HER: MDV5557
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor17
Nearby sites: SX 57715 87735
Distance: 1.19km

Lints Tor SW Round House

OS Map: SX 57845 87235
HER: MDV11805
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor18
Nearby sites: SX 57845 87235
Distance: 0.68km

Okement Hill N. Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 603 880
ShortName: CN?Okement H1
Butler map: 42.
Notes: Butler: Crossing recorded two more cairns in the area". The NMR record has a slightly different guessed NGR.
Nearby sites: SX 603 880
Distance: 2.50km

Lints Tor SW Round House

OS Map: SX 57805 87225
HER: MDV11805
ShortName: HT:Lints Tor19
Nearby sites: SX 57805 87225
Distance: 0.70km

Okement Hill Summit Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 603 877
HER: MDV4369
ShortName: CNxOkement H2
Butler map: 42.
Grinsell: LYD 5a
Notes: Doubtful - probable peat stack. NGR supplied by Grinsell.
Nearby sites: SX 603 877
Distance: 2.35km

Black Ridge Round House

OS Map: SX 5954 8484
HER: MDV28318
ShortName: HT:Black Rid1
Nearby sites: SX 5954 8484
Distance: 2.25km

Green Tor Reported Cairn

OS Map: SX 5642 8610
ShortName: CNxGreen Tor1
Butler map: 43.14
Notes: "Turf and heather covered mound on the right bank of Green Tor Water, to the southeast of Green Tor. It is situated between areas of extensive peat cuttings and streamworkings and may be associated with either of these two activities.". Probably not a cairn, no entry on HER.
Nearby sites: SX 5642 8610
Distance: 1.86km

Great Kneeset Cairn

OS Map: SX 58347 86242
HER: MDV103608
ShortName: CN:Great Kne1
Nearby sites: SX 58347 86242
Distance: 0.43km

Kitty Tor E Round House

OS Map: SX 57595 87345
HER: MDV60360
ShortName: HT:Kitty Tor1
Nearby sites: SX 57595 87345
Distance: 0.92km

Watern Oke (N of) Clearance Cairn

OS Map: SX 5635 8452
HER: MDV3310
ShortName: CN?WaternOke
Grinsell: B:LYD 14a
Notes: Probably mining spoil heap. C18 or C19. Crossing 1912/1965. T. Greeves 09/08/1969
Nearby sites: SX 5635 8452
Distance: 2.82km

Kitty Tor E Round House

OS Map: SX 57567 87374
HER: MDV103661
ShortName: HT:Kitty Tor2
Nearby sites: SX 57567 87374
Distance: 0.96km

Kitty Tor E Round House

OS Map: SX 57572 87414
HER: MDV103661
ShortName: HT:Kitty Tor3
Nearby sites: SX 57572 87414
Distance: 0.99km

Kitty Tor E Round House

OS Map: SX 57588 87324
HER: MDV60360
ShortName: HT:Kitty Tor4
Nearby sites: SX 57588 87324
Distance: 0.91km

High Willhayes Clearance Cairn

OS Map: SX 5802 8921
HER: MDV28576
ShortName: CN-HighWill
Grinsell: B:OKE 5b
Notes: Modern stone-heap on outcrop. In the photo the modern heap can be seen as can High Willhays Stone Ring Cairn Circle SiteID=565 in the foreground.
Nearby sites: SX 5802 8921
Distance: 2.57km

Kneeset Nose Reported Cist

OS Map: SX 588 865
HER: MDV7727
PMD: Great Kneeset
ShortName: CT?Kneeset N1
Notes: A cist is recorded on Kneeset Nose by the County Sites and Monuments Record. It was not found during field investigation although two walkers knew of the cist, perhaps at a nearby location.
Nearby sites: SX 588 865
Distance: 0.62km