Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down (Cist) — The Modern Antiquarian

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The Barn Hill kist

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Lubin Mar 6, 2005

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Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist

Lubin Mar 6, 2005

The kist on Whitchurch Down is on the south side of Barn Hill. It is easily accessible as it is only around half a mile south from the Pork Hill car park which is at SX531751.

Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist

Rhiannon Feb 18, 2007

I have just been told of a man who several years ago lost his way on Whitchurch Down, near Tavistock. The farther he went the farther he had to go; but happily calling to mind the antidote “in such case made and provided,” he turned his coat inside out, after which he had no difficulty in finding his way. “He was supposed,” adds my informant, “to be pisky-led.”

In ‘Choice Notes from Notes and Queries – Folklore’ (1859) – p219. Originally in volume ii. Online at Google Books.

Sites within 20km of Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Vixen Tor

Cist • 0.92km E

14

4

1
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 1.61km E

1

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 1.63km NNW

2

1
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.99km ENE

8

1

1
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 2km ENE

39

3
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 2.16km ENE

105

19

1
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.23km NNE

1

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 2.99km E

2

1
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.99km NE

8
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 3.51km NNE

1
Ingra Tor

Cist • 3.53km ESE

1

1
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.79km E

1

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 4.13km NNE

3
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 4.16km SE

4

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.25km N

17
White Tor East

Cist • 4.3km NNE

6

1
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 4.36km NE

4

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 4.4km NNE

18

1

4
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 4.54km ESE

16

2
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 4.55km ESE

3

2
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 4.57km ESE

10

5
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 4.62km NNE

10

1
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 4.82km ESE

1

1
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 4.83km ESE

17
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 4.9km E

8

1
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 5.13km SE

1

1
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 5.2km E

45

1

3
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.65km E

8
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 5.75km ESE

17
Leather Tor South

Cist • 5.82km ESE

2
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 6.12km ENE

1

1

1

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 7km NE

1
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 7.05km ESE

3
Down Tor South

Cist • 7.07km ESE

2

1
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 7.42km ESE

1
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 7.44km SE

2

2
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.49km ESE

69

1

7

1
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 7.67km ESE

9

2
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 7.74km ESE

10

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 7.77km ENE

8
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.77km ESE

2

1
Outcombe

Cist • 7.79km ESE

1

1
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 7.89km ESE

52

3

11

3
Blakey Tor

Cist • 7.9km E

5

1
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 8.08km E

4

1

3
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.09km NE

13

2
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 8.09km ESE

3

2
Wistman’s Wood

8.2km ENE

2

2
Crow Tor

Cist • 8.26km ENE

2

1
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 8.4km SE

6
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.4km ENE

1
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 8.43km E

1

1
Royal Hill

8.51km E
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 8.53km ESE

9

2
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 8.6km W

2
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.61km WNW

22

7
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 8.81km SE

12

1
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 8.82km SE

2
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 8.83km SE

3
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 8.83km ESE

15

3
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 8.86km E

10

1
Ringmoor Kerbed Cairn

Kerbed Cairn • 8.94km SE

6
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.94km SE

3
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 8.99km E

24
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.03km ESE

8

1
Ringmoor Cairn Circle and Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.1km SE

52

7

3
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 9.17km ESE

7

1
Ringmoor Down Reave

9.26km SE

1
Wigford Down

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.33km SSE

2
Ringmoor Down Cist

Cist • 9.35km SE

3

1
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.37km ENE

8

1

1
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 9.41km E

4

1
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 9.45km ESE

116

8

1
Brisworthy Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 9.54km SE

57

1

8

1
Wigford Down

Cairn(s) • 9.58km SSE

11

1
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 9.59km ESE

3

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 9.74km ENE

9

1
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.83km SE

3
Legis Tor Cist

Cist • 9.88km SE

5

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 9.93km ESE

5
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.95km ESE

10
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 9.98km E

1
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 9.99km E

5

2
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 10.06km E

3

1
Ter Hill

Cist • 10.06km E

2

1
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 10.09km E

2
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 10.1km SE

1

1
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 10.22km ENE

16

1
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 10.23km ESE

2

1
Doe Tor

Cist • 10.34km N

5

1
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 10.38km ENE

3
Dewerstone Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.41km SSE

4

4
Willings Walls Warren cist

Cist • 10.5km SE

2
Trowlesworthy Warren

Cist • 10.5km SE

1

1
Cut Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.51km NE

12

4
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 10.55km NE

2

1
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 10.58km ESE

7

1
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 10.58km ESE

2

1

1
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 10.64km E

26

4

1
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 10.64km ENE

9

1
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 10.66km ESE

35

1
Roborough Beacon

Enclosure • 10.72km S

8

2
Maristow Camp

Enclosure • 10.88km SSW
Trowlesworthy

10.91km SE
Little Trowlesworthy Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.91km SE

2
Gallows Hill

Round Barrow(s) • 10.91km NNW

1

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 10.93km ENE

8

1
Shell Top South West

Enclosure • 11.11km SSE

9
Willings Walls Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.25km SE

1

1
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.26km ENE

4

2
West Saddlesborough Cairn

Cairn(s) • 11.27km SSE

5

2
West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.29km SSE

8

2
West Saddlesborough Stone Row & Cairn Circle

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.29km SSE

19

3
Grim’s Grave

Ring Cairn • 11.29km ESE

14

1
Trowlesworthy Stone Row West

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.29km SE

20

3

1
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 11.31km ENE

1

1

2
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.34km ENE

26

7

1
Spanish Lake

Cist • 11.34km SE

1
Trowlesworthy Warren

Stone Circle • 11.37km SE

24

2

2
Chittaford Down

Cist • 11.37km ENE

9

2
Trowlesworthy Stone Row East

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.42km SE

17

3

1
Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.44km SSE

9

1
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 11.47km ENE

8

2
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.51km ENE

43

2
Saddlesborough summit cairns

Cairn(s) • 11.53km SSE

3

1
Saddlesborough

11.56km SSE
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 11.63km ENE

4

1

1
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.77km ENE

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 11.77km ENE

16

2
Emmets Post

Cairn(s) • 11.82km SE

1

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 11.9km ENE

7

4
Great Links Tor

Round Cairn • 12km N

10

1

1
Tory Brookhead

Cairn(s) • 12.19km SE
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.25km E

12

2
Tory Brookhead

Enclosure • 12.33km SE

7
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.36km E

1
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 12.37km E

12

2
Shell Top

Cairn(s) • 12.45km SE

3
Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.71km SSE

11

1
Sittaford

Stone Circle • 12.74km NE

14

1

1

1
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.91km ENE

3

1
Great Nodden

Cairn(s) • 12.98km N

4
Cholwich Town (destroyed)

Stone Row / Alignment • 13.24km SE

1

2
Sittaford Tor hut circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.25km NE

3
Penn Beacon

Cairn(s) • 13.33km SE

2
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.37km E

2

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 13.46km ENE

5
Burley Camp

Hillfort • 13.47km NW

1

1
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.59km ESE

4

1
The Greywethers

Stone Circle • 13.62km NE

63

4

11

3
Penn Beacon South

13.67km SE

3
Holne Moor

Cist • 13.68km E

1

2
Stannon Newtake

Cist • 13.7km ENE

1

1
Whitehorse Hill

Cist • 13.8km NE

1

6

1
Ranny Brook

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.92km ESE

3

1
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 13.97km ESE

5

2
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.05km ESE

1
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.09km E

6
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 14.21km ESE

4

1
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.21km ESE

3

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 14.32km ESE

15

6

1
Dendles Waste

Cist • 14.34km ESE

1

1
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 14.4km E

1
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 14.42km WSW

1
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 14.49km ENE

3

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 14.52km E

9

1
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.55km E

2
Corn Ridge

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 14.71km N

19

1

1

1
Soussons Common Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 14.73km ENE

23

8

2
Aller Brook

Cist • 14.74km E

1

1
Blatchford Bottom settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.74km ESE

3
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.76km E

20

1

1
Boringdon Camp

Hillfort • 14.93km SSE

13

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 14.93km E

11

1

2
Coombebrook North East

Cairn(s) • 14.95km ESE

1

1
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 15km E

10
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 15.02km ESE

9

3
Fordsland Ledge

Cairn(s) • 15.08km NNE

18

4
Hingston Down

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 15.11km WSW

1

1
Assycombe Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.11km NE

33

3
Sourton Tors Circle

Stone Circle • 15.15km N

3

1
Soussons Down

Cairn(s) • 15.23km ENE

2
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 15.23km ENE

33

1
Corndon Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.25km ENE

1
Harrowthorn Plantation North

Cairn(s) • 15.27km ESE

1

1
Water Hill

Cairn(s) • 15.3km ENE

2
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.33km E

1

1
Water Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.43km ENE

1
Stalldown Cairns

Cairn(s) • 15.43km ESE

6

1
Fernworthy SE

Cairn(s) • 15.48km NE

2

1

1
Fernworthy

Stone Circle • 15.48km NE

54

6

2
Fernworthy Stone Row (South)

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.49km NE

7

2
Stalldown Stone Row cairns

Cairn(s) • 15.54km ESE

4

2

1
Fernworthy Cairn and Cairn Circle (Eastern)

Cairn circle • 15.57km NE

5

2
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 15.57km E

1

1
Stalldown cairn circle

Cairn circle • 15.6km ESE

5
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 15.61km E

11

1

3
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn NE

Cairn(s) • 15.61km ESE

4

2
Fernworthy stone row (North)

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.61km NE

15

1

3

1
High Willhays

Cairn(s) • 15.65km NNE

11

3
Castle Head

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.67km W
Stalldown Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.68km ESE

40

1

6

2
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.69km E

2

1
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 15.75km E

6

1
Fernworthy Round House

15.77km NE

19

1
Hurston Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.03km ENE

17

1

2

1
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn S

Cairn(s) • 16.04km ESE

3

2

1
East Lowton settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.06km NE

17

1
Hillson’s House

Cairn(s) • 16.06km ESE

5

2

1
Hurston Ridge

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.08km ENE

3
Kit Hill

16.14km WSW

2

1
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 16.16km ESE

9

1

1
West Vitifer

Cairn(s) • 16.35km ENE

2
Yes Tor

Cairn(s) • 16.36km NNE

23

2

1
Longstone Hill

Cairn(s) • 16.41km N

5

1
Metherall Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.47km NE

12

2
Heath Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.54km NE

1

1
Thornworthy Down

Cist • 16.56km NE

12

1
Challacombe

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.81km ENE

19

2
Birch Tor

Cairn(s) • 16.82km ENE

13

1
Stalldown South-East

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.85km ESE

8

2
Dupath Rounds

Enclosure • 16.85km WSW

1

1
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.9km E

1
Three Barrows

Cairn(s) • 16.93km ESE

10
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 16.96km E

2
Shovel Down & The Long Stone

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.97km NE

62

1

7

1
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.99km E

9

1
Shovel Down

Stone Circle • 17.08km NE

2

1
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 17.19km E

8

1

1
Chagford Common

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.21km NE

3
Castlewich Henge

Henge • 17.22km WSW

3

3
Sharp Tor

Cairn(s) • 17.23km ESE

5

1
Tolmen Stone

Holed Stone • 17.5km NE

4
Scorhill

Stone Circle • 17.68km NE

69

3

12
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.68km ESE
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 17.7km E

13

1

1
Burford Down

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.73km ESE

18

5
Burford Down cairn and cist

Cairn(s) • 17.73km ESE

8

1
Piles Hill stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.75km ESE

3

1
East Bovey Head

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.84km ENE

14

1
Grimspound & Hookney Tor

17.92km ENE

49

8

1
Hamel Down

Cairn(s) • 17.97km ENE

6
Kes Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18km NE

6

1
Shapley Tor

Cairn(s) • 18.01km ENE

6
Piles Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 18.1km ESE

8

2
Throwleigh (b) circle

Stone Circle • 18.12km NE

1
Harford Moor

Cist • 18.13km ESE

15

2
White Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 18.14km NNE

35

1

11
Buttern Hill Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 18.15km NE

28

4
Buttern Hill

18.26km NE

1

1
Grims Lake Mire

Cist • 18.27km ENE

10

1
The Dun Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 18.28km ENE

1

1
Shapley Common

Platform Cairn • 18.31km ENE

12
Piles Hill longstone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 18.31km ESE

12

2
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 18.42km E

2

1
Higher Tor

Round Cairn • 18.55km NNE

7
Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn.

Chambered Cairn • 18.6km NE

8

2
Corringdon Ball Stone Row

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 18.63km ESE

15

1
White Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.67km NNE

20

1
Glasscombe Corner

Stone Row / Alignment • 18.71km ESE

11

2
Glasscombe Ball North

Stone Row / Alignment • 18.72km ESE

1
Glasscombe Ball

Cairn(s) • 18.74km ESE

3

2
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 18.81km E

5

1
Corringdon Ball Long Barrow

Long Barrow • 18.84km ESE

14

1
King’s Barrow

Round Barrow(s) • 18.85km ENE

8

1
Butterdon stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 18.91km ESE

16

1

3
Butter Brook Ford

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.95km ESE

5

1
Cullever Steps

Cairn circle • 18.97km NNE

6
Glaze Meet

Cairn(s) • 19.13km ESE

3

1
Spurrell’s Cross Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 19.26km ESE

6

2
Weatherdon Hill

Cairn(s) • 19.44km ESE

2

1
Butterdon Hill (north) cairn

Round Cairn • 19.47km ESE

3

1
Cosdon Beacon

Cairn(s) • 19.85km NNE

4
Tunhill Rocks

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.85km ENE

1
Addicombe

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.89km ESE
Nine Stones

Cairn(s) • 19.91km NNE

27

1

5

1
Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Cairn circle • 19.92km ESE

4

2
Butterdon Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 19.92km ESE

21

2
Wittaburrow

Cairn(s) • 19.98km ENE

11