Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX65217539
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About the database: The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. The database is in early stages of development but now has over 400 records. The data is structured to try to minimise duplication but there are separate entries for all stone rows - so row associated structures such as menhirs and cairn circles will have duplicate entries. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.
NOTE: Clicking on the icons for each monument will give the name of the monument. Where icons overlap they are replaced with an icon with a number - if they are sites that are very close together then zooming in may separate them.
Bellever Tor (SW) Encircled Cairn
OS Map: SX64157628
NMR record: SX 67 NW 44
Nearby sites: SX64157628
Distance: 1.38km
Bellever Tor 1 (W) (Newtake) Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Lakehead Hill
OS Map: SX64077646
NMR record: SX 67 NW 43
PMD: Bellever Tor W
Notes: Dixon #62. Bar Rep 54. Turner E26. Butler Bellever Tor (Cairn 1) - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.1 (diagram pp.52-3). Grinsell LYDFORD 59. For further coverage see the Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX64077646
Distance: 1.56km
Black Newtake (b) Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX63867603
NMR record: SX 67 NW 47
Notes: Turner A50.
Nearby sites: SX63867603
Distance: 1.49km
Black Newtake (C) No. 3 Ring Setting Cairn and Cist
OS Map: SX63897585
NMR record: SX 67 NW 49
PMD: Black Newtake Central
Notes: Dixon #79. Bar Rep 57. Turner D4. Butler Bellever Tor - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.6 (Cairn 6 diagram pp.52-3). Grinsell LYDFORD 62. Further coverage on Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX63897585
Distance: 1.4km
Black Newtake (E) No. 5 Ring Setting Cairn and Cist
OS Map: SX63847572
NMR record: SX 67 NW 51
PMD: Black Newtake S
Notes: Dixon #80. Bar Rep 59. Turner D7. Butler Bellever Tor - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.8 (Cairn 8 diagram pp.52-3). Grinsell LYDFORD 64. Further coverage on Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX63847572
Distance: 1.41km
Black Newtake (N) No. 1 Ring Setting Cairn and Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Lakehead Hill
OS Map: SX63917606
NMR record: SX 67 NW 46
PMD: Black Newtake N
Notes: Dixon #78. Bar Rep 57. Turner D5. Butler Bellever Tor (Cairn 3) - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.3 (diagram pp.52-3). Grinsell LYDFORD 60. Further coverage on Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX63917606
Distance: 1.46km
Dunnabridge Pound
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Dunnabridge Pound
OS Map: SX64627465
NMR record: SX 67 SW 22
PMD: Dunnabridge Pound
Notes: Dunnabridge Pound probably has its origins in the prehistoric period as evidenced by the slight traces of hut circles within it. The pound underwent reconstruction in the medieval period and was used in the drifts to hold cattle found illegally pasturing on the moors. It was from this usage that the Judge's Chair got its name. "It occupies 0.9ha on a slight S slope, and is of rather oval form with greatest diameters of 110m by 122m. It is enclosed by a drystone wall 1.9m high and about 1m thick at the base, tapering towards the top. The material is mostly medium size moor stones with some large blocks and upright slabs incorporated at the base. The uneven interior is slightly raised at the southern perimeter and cut into the slope on the north, accompanied by a spread of stones, 1.5m long and 0.3m high, extending from the inner face and up to 0.6m high. The only entrance to be seen is the gated one on the S." See also, Legendary Dartmoor: Dunnabridge Pound
Nearby sites: SX64627465
Distance: 0.95km
Dunnabridge Common Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
OS Map: SX63587546
NMR record: SX 67 NW 54
PMD: Smith Hill
Notes: Dixon #81. Bar Rep. 58. Butler Bellever Tor (Cairn 9) - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.9 (diagram p52-3). Turner E37. Grinsell LYDFORD 65.
Nearby sites: SX63587546
Distance: 1.63km
Dunnabridge Pound Farm Newtake Cist
OS Map: SX64077568
NMR record: SX 67 NW 52
PMD: Dunnabridge Newtake
Notes: Dixon #87. Bar Rep 59. Butler Bellever Tor - Vol. 2. Map 27.20.10 (Cairn 10 diagram pp.52-3). Grinsell LYDFORD 66. Only one side of this cist remains. Further coverage on Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX64077568
Distance: 1.18km
Lakehead Hill 8 Cist
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Lakehead Hill
OS Map: SX64717717
NMR record: SX 67 NW 38
PMD: Lakehead Hill SE
Notes: Dixon #37. Bar Rep 33. Butler Lakehead Hill (Cairn 8) - Vol. 2. Map 27.19.8 (diagrams pp.48-52). Grinsell LYDFORD 58. Further coverage on Lakehead Hill page.
Nearby sites: SX64717717
Distance: 1.85km
Laughter Tor E. Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Laughter Tor Stone Row
OS Map: SX65217539
NMR record: SX 67 NE 28
PMD: Laugh Tor I Stone Row
Notes: Butler Laughter 1. Double row interrupted by a new-take wall. row is robbed near wall. "Bronze Age standing stone 2.65 metres high, 0.7 metres wide and 0.52 metres thick, set into a small cairn. About 18 metres to the south east is a double stone row orientated north west to south east and consisting of at least 23 upright stones and a further 9 displaced ones averaging about 1.7 metres apart. The standing stone was re-erected in 1893 and again in 1911 and the cairn was excavated in 1903"
Nearby sites: SX65217539
Distance: 0km
Laughter Tor W. Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Laughter Tor Stone Row
OS Map: SX65197539
NMR record: SX 67 NE 94
PMD: Laugh Tor II Stone Row
Notes: Butler Laughter 2. "A double stone row at about 395m OD cuts across the gentle SW projecting spur of Laughter Tor in an area of heather and rough grass some 12m WSW of the standing stone 'Laughter Man'. The stones, although all relatively small in size, form two good slightly curving rows oriented about 295 degs. and 0.7m to 1.2m apart, consisting of thirteen stones extending from SX 6519075381 some 15m ESE to SX 6520475375. Now visible are six stones in each row with a single stone at the NW end. Originally there may have been at least ten in each row at intervals of about 1.2m."
Nearby sites: SX65197539
Distance: 0.02km
Laughtor Man Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Laughter Tor Stone Row
OS Map: SX65287535
NMR record: SX 67 NE 28
PMD: Laugh Tor Man Standing Stone
Notes: The longstone is 2.4 m high and was found prostrate on a cairn which was excavated by Burnard. The cairn contained "a great quantity of charcoal and peat ashes". The longstone was restored in 1903. A double stone row heads to the longstone. See also, Legendary Dartmoor: The Prehistoric Complex of Laughter Tor
Nearby sites: SX65287535
Distance: 0.08km