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Burley Camp

Hillfort

Rhiannon Oct 5, 2005

Unusually it seems that when the Normans built their fancy 2-motte and bailey castle here, they didn’t utilise the earthworks that already existed: the defenses of the Iron Age Burley Camp.

Leslie Grinsell’s source hinted that a crock of gold is buried here, but that anyone who attempts to dig for it is scared off by the eldritch thunder and lightning that ensue.

(’Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain, 1976)

Sites within 20km of Burley Camp

Gallows Hill

Round Barrow(s) • 2.72km ESE

1

1
Great Nodden

Cairn(s) • 4.08km ENE

4
Great Links Tor

Round Cairn • 5.3km E

10

1

1
Doe Tor

Cist • 5.32km E

5

1
Sourton Tors Circle

Stone Circle • 5.41km ENE

3

1
Corn Ridge

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 5.71km ENE

19

1

1

1
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.46km SSW

22

7
Longstone Hill

Cairn(s) • 7.79km ENE

5

1
Fordsland Ledge

Cairn(s) • 8.27km ENE

18

4
High Willhays

Cairn(s) • 8.51km ENE

11

3
Yes Tor

Cairn(s) • 8.7km ENE

23

2

1
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 8.81km SSW

2
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.96km SE

17
White Tor East

Cist • 10.14km SE

6

1
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.17km ESE

10

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11.05km ESE

18

1

4
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 11.1km SE

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 11.11km ESE

3
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 11.14km ESE

4

1
Cut Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.24km E

12

4
Thorn Barrow

Round Barrow(s) • 11.36km WNW

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 11.85km SE

2

1
Cullever Steps

Cairn circle • 11.9km ENE

6
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.91km SE

1

1
Higher Tor

Round Cairn • 11.99km ENE

7
Whitehorse Hill

Cist • 12.15km E

1

6

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 12.21km ESE

1
East Hill

Hillfort • 12.54km NE

11

1
Nine Stones

Cairn(s) • 12.62km ENE

27

1

5

1
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 12.63km ESE

13

2
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.68km SE

8
Watchet Hill

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 13.02km ENE

6
White Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.42km ENE

20

1
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 13.47km SE

1

2
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.55km SE

8

1

1
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 13.79km E

2

1
White Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 13.81km ENE

35

1

11
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 13.92km SE

105

19

1
Vixen Tor

Cist • 13.93km SE

14

4

1
Crow Tor

Cist • 13.96km ESE

2

1
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 14.04km SE

39

3
Sittaford

Stone Circle • 14.06km E

14

1

1

1
Cosdon Beacon

Cairn(s) • 14.42km ENE

4
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 14.44km ESE

1

1

1

1
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 14.57km SE

1

1
Castle Head

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.58km SW
Yellowmeade

Cist • 14.65km SE

2

1
The Greywethers

Stone Circle • 14.82km E

63

4

11

3
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15km ESE

1
Sittaford Tor hut circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15km E

3
Throwleigh (b) circle

Stone Circle • 15.05km ENE

1
Cosdon Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.14km ENE

32

5

1
Bude Farm Sticklepath

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.17km ENE

1
Buttern Hill Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 15.18km ENE

28

4
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.24km ESE

8

1

1
Wistman’s Wood

15.39km ESE

2

2
Buttern Hill

15.47km ENE

1

1
Scorhill

Stone Circle • 15.7km ENE

69

3

12
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 15.71km E

16

1
Tolmen Stone

Holed Stone • 15.75km ENE

4
Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn.

Chambered Cairn • 15.88km ENE

8

2
Stennen Hill

Cist • 16.02km ESE

9

1
Chittaford Down

Cist • 16.04km E

9

2
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 16.06km E

8

2
Fernworthy stone row (North)

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.06km E

15

1

3

1
Fernworthy

Stone Circle • 16.08km E

54

6

2
Fernworthy Stone Row (South)

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.11km E

7

2
Fernworthy SE

Cairn(s) • 16.11km E

2

1

1
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.15km E

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 16.15km E

16

2
Fernworthy Cairn and Cairn Circle (Eastern)

Cairn circle • 16.2km E

5

2
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.26km SE

1

1
Shovel Down

Stone Circle • 16.27km E

2

1
Shovel Down & The Long Stone

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.35km E

62

1

7

1
Oxenham Arms

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.48km ENE

4

1

2

1
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 16.52km E

1

1

2
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 16.52km ESE

3
Ingra Tor

Cist • 16.64km SE

1

1
Kes Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.75km E

6

1
Stannon Newtake

Cist • 16.94km E

1

1
Fernworthy Round House

17.02km E

19

1
Assycombe Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.06km E

33

3
East Lowton settlement

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

17

1
Thornworthy Down

Cist • 17.24km E

12

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 17.33km ESE

8
Metherall Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.39km E

12

2
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 17.4km E

4

1

1
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.45km SE

8
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 17.46km SE

8

1
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.6km SE

4

1
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.62km E

43

2
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.68km SE

17
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.68km SE

45

1

3
Heath Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.75km E

1

1
Blakey Tor

Cist • 17.85km ESE

5

1
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 17.85km SE

16

2
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 17.85km SE

3

2
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 17.91km SE

10

5
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 17.97km SE

1

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 18.08km ESE

8

1
Hurston Ridge

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.23km E

3
Hurston Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 18.26km E

17

1

2

1
Chagford Common

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.27km E

3
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 18.3km ESE

9

1
West Vitifer

Cairn(s) • 18.37km E

2
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.39km ESE

26

7

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 18.44km SE

17
Water Hill

Cairn(s) • 18.44km E

2
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 18.47km ESE

4

1

3
Water Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.5km E

1
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 18.54km SE

1

1
Puggie Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 18.73km ENE

1
Royal Hill

19.11km ESE
Leather Tor South

Cist • 19.15km SE

2
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 19.28km SSW

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 19.55km ESE

7

4
Soussons Down

Cairn(s) • 19.6km E

2
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.66km ESE

4

2
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 19.67km ESE

24
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 19.68km ESE

10

1
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.69km E

3

1
Hingston Down

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 19.7km SW

1

1
Birch Tor

Cairn(s) • 19.73km E

13

1
Soussons Common Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 19.84km E

23

8

2
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 19.91km ESE

2
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 19.92km SE

3