The north wall of the pound.
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Looking west along the north wall of the pound, from the centre.
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Looking east along the north part of the wall, from the centre. The so called Merry Making Stone is in the background.
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A pattern of holes [rock art?] on the top of one of the stacks of stomes on the west side of the pound. The holes look to round and evenly formed to be very old. They look like they could have been drilled.
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One of the patterns of holes [ rock art ?] in The Merry Making Stone which is on the east side of the pound.
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Tha last two standing stones of the lower circle.
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The lower ring which has only two stones standing.
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The circle looking from the south with the small new addition in the front right side.
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The circle, looking north west , showing the small stone added by someone just recently. See Mr Hamhead’s news post
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The new stone added to the circle can be seen in the foreground. See Mr Hamhead’s new post
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The cairn at SX652626 . This cairn is to the north west of the large central cairn.
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The large central cairn at Three Barrows looking from the south. SX653625
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This is one of the many shelters that have been built into the large central cairn. It is yet to be surveyed and repaired. Sharp Tor is in the background, centre right.
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The largest of the three cairns. This one is 43 metres in diameter and 3.5 metres high. Four members of the survey team show some scale.
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English Heritage along with the Dartmoor Preservation Association and a few volunteers have undertaken the project of surveying and restoring many of the cairns on Dartmoor. Over many days last year the cairns on Western Beacon and Wetherdon Hill were done.
This years project started on 21st April 2006 with five of the cairns on Butterdon Hill. The largest were chosen as they were in the worst state of repair, having had their shape altered by the public making shelters with the stones. This was mostly done by digging pits into the cairns and building walls with the stones taken out.
On 21st and 22nd of April 2006 eight volunteers set about surveying , recording and reconstructing these five cairns. The larger of the cairns were surveyed using a plain table and the smaller done using the offset method. When this was finished the walls were taken down and the stones replaced into the holes and any of the tumbled stones were replaced into hollows around the edges in order to get the cairn back into the domed shape they would have had when first built.
You will see from the photographs ,especially the cairn at SX654585, what was achieved.
The cairn at SX653588 taken after the reconstruction.
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The cairn at SX653588 taken during the survey.
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The cairn at SX654585 after reconstruction.
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A photo of the cairn at SX654585 taken during the survey.
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A photo of the cairn at SX656585 looking from the east.
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This a photo of the summit cairn, SX655586, taken during the reconstruction.
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This is the summit cairn at SX655586 taken during the survey.
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This is the most northerly of the two summit cairns. It is at SX655587. This photo was taken after the reconstruction work had been carried out.
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This is the remains of a small settlement situated on the north and south sides the slope of the Butter Brook.This is a very pleasant spot ideal for a picnic on a warm afternoon or evening. There are the remains of 10 dwellings left, 9 on the north and one on the south. There could have been more houses here but they have now been demolished by the building of a small reservoir, and a pine plantation that cover part of the area.
The area is easy to find and get to being only around 500 metres from the Harford Moor Gate entrance to the moor.
The Gate is at SX644595.
Looking to the south from the hillside at the brook showing one of the houses.
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Five of the roundhouses in the settlement on the north bank of the brook.
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The stones of the retaining circle are very clear on the southerly side although the northerly side has been damaged be a later field wall. The cairn is at SX544644.
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The kist in the cairn with the capstone to the left.
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The summit cairn looking from the south east.
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The summit cairn looking from the north east. The stone to the left of the cairn is an O.S. trig point.
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The northerly of the cairns looking from the south.This cairn is at SX655587.
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The northerly of the cairns on the summit.SX655587
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Two of the cairns on Weatherdon Hill taken from Butterdon Hill.
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Looking from the south with most of the bracken now gone.
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The chambered tomb now the bracken has nearly gone.
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The cairn at SX544644, the capstone of the kist can be seen in the centre of the cairn.
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Part of the wall, possibly an entrance, of the hill fort on the Dewerstone.
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Part of the wall of the enclosure/settlement on the Dewerstone. This is inside the wall of the hill fort.
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Part of the wall of the enclosure on the Dewerstone.
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A photo of the “Longstone” on the southern slopes of Butterdon Hill. This stone is part of a row of boundary stones another can be seen on the top of the hill.
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A photo of the stone marked on the O.S. map as the Longstone.
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The stone marked on the O.S. map as the Longstone at SX655583. This is marked as a boundary stone and is in the line of stones put up between 1800 and 1803 to mark the boundary of Ugborough and Harford, but looks a lot older than the other stones in the row.
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One of the large cairns on Butterdon Hill
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