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Dartmoor Resource: List of Dartmoor Guide Maps

List of Dartmoor Guide Maps

Dartmoor Guide Maps

Introduction

This page and the linked guide maps are very much in a development stage and in a state of flux. The first early version was created in 2023 but not made public as the author considered them to be too much in need of refinement. This is now being made public as a work in progress. The aim is to make the full listings more accessible to researchers and in so doing make it easier to identify omissions and duplicates both in these listings and on the official HER listings. A data tidy including tweaks to rationalise naming is being done in the process of creating these lists. The Shortnames for GPS listings have been overhauled and rationalised. The SiteID for each record will always remain constant and are reecommended for use to refer to entries.

Table of Dartmoor Guide Maps

This is a table of 62 guide maps, Dartmoor divided into rectangular blocks. The guides use one page of code using two database tables - the Sites table and a Guide table. The GuideID links the two to generate automated content. The eastern and western, and northern and southern limits (8-digit OS) are included in the table (bottom left corner and upper right corner). A free text field in the Guide table will eventually allow a customised introduction to be added to each Guide. MapZoom is the Zoom level passed to the map.

Each entry in a Guide Map is given a GuideOrder number which purely serves the purpose of bunching together records in the table of that guide into a logical and easy to read fashion. These maybe subject to change as records come and go - please do not quote the GuideOrder number to reference sites on this website. The SiteID of site records will never change and should be used to reference any entry in this database. These guide tables currently include all records except round houses and duplicate records are intentionally included. These may get separated out at some point as often they suggest a data tidy is required on the HER. The occasional duplicate record is desirable such as master records for cairn cemeteries where each individual cairn has it's own record and the master record, marked as a duplicate, acts like an index to those records but does not represent an individual cairn.

The listings in the guides have been separated into a Table of Ritual and Burial Monuments excluding round houses but including everything else. The reason for this is that round houses can swamp listings as they form a big majority of the entries in the Sites Table. They have been retained on the maps.

The Guide Maps pages will include:

  1. A photo of a prominent site to head the page
  2. Introductory text ... none have this yet but will be added in the future
  3. Table of Ritual and Burial Monuments
  4. Map of all sites within the Guide Map including round houses and ritual monuments
  5. List of Ritual and Burial Monuments

The author aims to use these Guide Maps to check listings over time in a focussed way.

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks database - addressing duplicates and omissions

There are over 2000 ritual and burial monuments included in these guide maps. The bulk of the database listings were compiled in 2017 and involved the merger of cairn records from Grinsell, Butler, Turner, Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (Radcliffe)and then NMR and HER records. The cairns listed by Butler in his 5 Volume Atlas of Dartmoor Antiquities predated records becoming electronic so many were missing from the HER when these listings were compiled. The HER have been doing a fantastic job in addressing these omissions and during 2024 most of these missing Butler records were added. The task of identifying and matching these new HER Butler records (estimate of 100-120 records) to our records started in December 2024.

The data on the website has been refined over the years by fieldwork and research. Photos have been added and grid references updated with accurate Garmin data. Round house data (4800 records) was supplied by Sandy Gerrard and is in the database but not currently in the tables for these guides although they do appear on the guide maps. A number of records identified in 2017 as HER duplicates have since been deleted from the HER and a major tidy of these was done in 2023. As the underlying site records are updated that will automatically feed into these guide map listings and as such this interface should largely maintain itself.

The reader may notice that what is being talked about here is records and not archaeological sites. Ideally, there should be a one-to-one match but it is very easy for duplication to take place in official records. As a desktop exercise a lot of potential duplicates were identified back in 2017 and many have now gone from the HER. Does this mean all the remaining duplicates identified in these listings are really duplicates? With this quantity of data, no author can claim to have not made mistakes and it maybe that field work is needed to clarify the matter for each case and some records have been restored as unique records. For the purpose of completion of significant listings it is desirable to retain some records marked as duplicates but if they are unnessary clutter they will be removed.

The HER do a fantastic job maintaining the official records and it has been frustrating not to be more pro-active in helping to tidy the HER records beyond publishing this data. It is very time consuming to do this and the author has no funding and not enough time. However, making these Guide Maps public will hopefully help contribute towards this.

Each site record now includes a link to the relevant Guide Map it belongs to. Currently that appears as the GuideID number with a link.

Introduction written 01/01/2025

The author can be emailed via:

Contact email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk


GuideIDGuideNameEasting MinNorthern MinEasting MaxNorthing MaxMapCentreOSMapZoomHER X-Checked
1Okehampton Camp5450915060009432SX5725929171
2Belstone6000910062809500SX6140930071
3Cosdon Hill6280910065789500SX6429930070
4Homer Hill and Longstone Hill5550901757009150SX5625908481
5Corn Ridge and Sourton Tor5400883057009017SX5550892481
6Yes Tor5700883060009150SX5850899071
7Taw Marsh6000883063409100SX6170896570
8Throwleigh Common and Buttern Hill6340882566209100SX6480896371
9Great Nodden5280850055408830SX5410866571
10Okehampton Range5540850061008830SX5820866571
11Hangingstone Hill6100850064008830SX6250866571
12Gidleigh Common and Scorhill6400871466208825SX6510877081
13Shovel Down6400850068008714SX6600860780
14Drewsteignton and Spinsters Rock6950880077009150SX7325897571
15White Hill and Doe Tor5135830055008500SX5318840080
16Tavy Cleave and Watern Oke5500830057008500SX5600840081
17Cut Hill5700822061908500SX5945836071
18Sittaford6190822064408500SX6315836070
19Fernworthy6450822066158500SX6533836080
20Thornworthy and Metherall6615835868808500SX6748842980
21Chagford Common6615822072008358SX6908828980
22North Brent Tor and Willsworthy4500770052908300SX4895800060
23Nattor down and Standon Hill5290795057008300SX5495812570
24Langstone Moor5290770057007950SX5495782570
25Beardown and Conies Down5700770062008220SX5950796060
26East Dart6200790065008220SX6350806070
27White Ridge and Assycombe Hill6500790068808220SX6690806070
28Lakehead Hill6200770068807900SX6540780070
29Grimspound6880770072008220SX7040796060
30Cripdon Down and Hayne Down7200794077808300SX7490812071
31Haytor, Hound Tor and Trendlebere Down7200770077807940SX7490782070
32Cox Tor and Whitchurch Common5200729055007700SX5350749570
33Merrivale5500730257507700SX5625750170
34Princetown5750730062007700SX5975750071
35Bellever and Dunnabridge6200735067307700SX6465752570
36Yar Tor and corndon Down6730735072007700SX6965752571
37Rippon Tor7200735077807700SX7490752570
38Walkhampton and Sharpitor5470700058507302SX5660715170
39Royal Hill and Ter Hill6050700065307350SX6290717570
40Holne Moor6530700069007350SX6715717570
41Holne Chase6900700075007350SX7200717571
42Burrator4900670057607011SX5330685671
43Hingston Hill5760680060507010SX5905690581
44Crane Hill6050679064507000SX6250689581
45Buckfastleigh6450665073007000SX6875682571
46Wigford Down5180636055506700SX5365653071
47Ringmoor Down5550650057606700SX5655660081
48Drizzlecombe5760666060006800SX5880673080
49Hen Tor5760650060006660SX5880658081
50Plym Steps and Langcombe Brook6000650063006790SX6150664570
51Upper Erme6300640064506800SX6375660071
52Brent Moor and Dean Moor6450630071006650SX6775647571
53Trowlesworthy Warren5474630059206500SX5697640081
54Crownhill5435590059206300SX5678610071
55Penn Moor5920600063006500SX6110625061
56Staldon Moor6300600064506400SX6375620071
57Ugborough Moor and Corringdon Ball6450600068006300SX6625615071
58Butterdon Hill6400570068006000SX6600585071
59Mardon Down7650870077508800SX7700875090
60Tottiford, Bridford and Christow7900830083508750SX8125852560
61Lydford and NW of Dartmoor4447845052009731SX4824909150

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