Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX68968086
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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.
Challacombe Down Stone Row
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX68968086
NMR record: SX 68 SE 28
PMD: Challacombe Stone Row
Notes: "Bronze Age triple stone row well marked and wider apart at the north, drawing nearer to the south where they meet a blocking stone of unusual size. The stones have suffered little in their restoration except that a stone in the middle row was turned to form a blocking stone for that row. The loose stones scattered to the west of the north end have been suggested to form a stone circle and additional rows but may be stones excavated from the north end of the stone row."
Nearby sites: SX68968086
Distance: 0km
Challacombe Down Standing Stone
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX68968086
NMR record: SX 68 SE 28
PMD: Challacombe Stone Row
Notes: The largest and most prominent blocking stone of the Dartmoor rows is to be found at the Challacombe triple row. Worth states that it is over 5 feet in width at the base and over 6 feet in height. Butler (Vol. 2) states that the terminal pillar is today 0.5m shorter than when it was measured in 1893.
Nearby sites: SX68968086
Distance: 0km
Challacombe Down Cairn Circle
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Challacombe Down Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX68988084
NMR record: SX 68 SE 28
PMD: Challacombe Down Stone Row
Notes: Turner Stone Circle G20. Dubious site - the current arrangement relates to stones placed during restoration of the stone row. See Worth (1953) p. 226 on how "nothing coherent" came of attempts to re-erect stones scattered to the west of the north end of the row which gave the appearance of a stone circle.
Nearby sites: SX68988084
Distance: 0.03km
Grimslake Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
OS Map: SX70418116
NMR record: SX 78 SW 10
PMD: Hookney Down
Notes: Dixon #100. Turner Grimspound E18. Butler Grimslake Mire - Vol. 1. Map 20.16 (diagram p.147). Grinsell NORTH BOVEY 3 (Hookney Down). Cairn with kerb circle and central cist.
Nearby sites: SX70418116
Distance: 1.48km
Grimspound Enclosed Settlement
OS Map: SX70078084
NMR record: SX 78 SW 11
Notes: Probabaly the best known enclosed settlement on Dartmoor, within walking distance of Warren House Inn. Extensive notes in the NMR record, see also coverage on Wikipedia and Legendary Dartmoor.
Nearby sites: SX70078084
Distance: 1.11km
Hameldown (N) (Broad Barrow) Stone Ring Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX70577989
NMR record: SX 77 NW 1
Notes: Turner A46.
Nearby sites: SX70577989
Distance: 1.88km
King's Oven (Water Hill) Cairn
OS Map: SX67158129
NMR record: SX 68 SE 19
PMD: Water Hill Possible Chambered Cairn
Notes: Situated at SX 67158129 on the rounded summit of Water Hill is the remains of a substantial round cairn 18.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.4 metres high in the east and 0.9 metres in the west. The whole of the central area of the cairn has been robbed to construct a superimposed modern boundary cairn 4.0 metres in diam and 2.1 metres high. This has given a 'dished' appearance to the cairn proper. Several large slabs averging 0.8 metres by 0.7 metres scattered around the base of the boundary cairn may be the remains of a destroyed cist.
Nearby sites: SX67158129
Distance: 1.86km
Soussons Down (Red Barrows) Stone Row
OS Map: SX67677998
NMR record: SX 67 NE 233
PMD: Red Barrows Stone Row
Notes: Triple row destroyed in 1946 Butler Vol. 5 p38, Vol. 3 Map 24.2 p.19. The row was associated with a cairn about 300m north of the four Red Barrow cairn group (SX 67 NE 3).
Nearby sites: SX67677998
Distance: 1.56km