Shell Top South West (Enclosure) — The Modern Antiquarian

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The reave running from Penn Beacon to Shell Top , the summit cairn of which can be seen at the top of the hill.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The east wall of the settlement.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The view to the southwest from one of the roundhouses showing Plymouth Sound.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

One of the roundhouses showing the doorway stones still standing.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

One of the roundhouses inside the settlement.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The reave running from the west side up to the settlement.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The cairn which is in a fairly bad state of repair.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The cairn to the southwest of Shell Top with the settlement in the background.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Image of Shell Top South West (Enclosure) by Lubin

The settlement showing the adjoining reave running from east to west along the lower wall.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©

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Sites within 20km of Shell Top South West

Dewerstone Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 0.7km NNW

4

4
West Saddlesborough Cairn

Cairn(s) • 1.4km ENE

5

2
West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.49km ENE

8

2
West Saddlesborough Stone Row & Cairn Circle

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.49km ENE

19

3
Wigford Down

Cairn(s) • 1.74km NNE

11

1
Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.8km E

9

1
Wigford Down

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.82km N

2
Saddlesborough

1.9km E
Saddlesborough summit cairns

Cairn(s) • 2km E

3

1
Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.37km ESE

11

1
Ringmoor Down Reave

2.64km NE

1
Emmets Post

Cairn(s) • 2.9km E

1

1
Brisworthy Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 3.33km NE

57

1

8

1
Ringmoor Kerbed Cairn

Kerbed Cairn • 3.4km NE

6
Roborough Beacon

Enclosure • 3.42km W

8

2
Trowlesworthy Warren

Cist • 3.44km ENE

1

1
Ringmoor Cairn Circle and Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 3.46km NE

52

7

3
Ringmoor Down Cist

Cist • 3.46km NE

3

1
Trowlesworthy Stone Row West

Stone Row / Alignment • 3.64km ENE

20

3

1
Trowlesworthy Stone Row East

Stone Row / Alignment • 3.72km ENE

17

3

1
Boringdon Camp

Hillfort • 3.83km SSE

13

1
Trowlesworthy Warren

Stone Circle • 3.83km ENE

24

2

2
Trowlesworthy

3.94km ENE
Little Trowlesworthy Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.94km ENE

2
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 3.95km NE

3
Legis Tor Cist

Cist • 4.07km ENE

5

1
Maristow Camp

Enclosure • 4.46km W
Willings Walls Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.5km ENE

1

1
Tory Brookhead

Enclosure • 4.58km ENE

7
Willings Walls Warren cist

Cist • 4.65km ENE

2
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.65km ENE

3
Tory Brookhead

Cairn(s) • 4.68km ENE
Spanish Lake

Cist • 4.69km ENE

1
Cholwich Town (destroyed)

Stone Row / Alignment • 4.71km E

1

2
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 4.73km NNE

2

2
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 4.95km ENE

1

1
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 5.01km NE

12

1
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 5.01km NE

6
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.02km NE

3
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 5.23km NE

2
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 5.67km NE

52

3

11

3
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 5.76km ENE

7

1
Shell Top

Cairn(s) • 5.79km ENE

3
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 5.82km NE

3

2
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 5.89km NE

8

1
Penn Beacon

Cairn(s) • 6km E

2
Penn Beacon South

6.05km E

3
Outcombe

Cist • 6.24km NE

1

1
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 6.42km NE

9

2
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 6.45km NE

116

8

1
Leather Tor South

Cist • 6.55km NNE

2
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 6.68km NE

7

1
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 6.71km N

1

1
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 6.96km NE

3

1
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7km NE

2

1
Down Tor South

Cist • 7.09km NE

2

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 7.36km NE

5
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.38km N

4

1
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 7.41km N

10

5
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.43km NE

10
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 7.51km NE

3
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 7.54km N

16

2
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 7.56km N

3

2
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.57km NE

69

1

7

1
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 7.57km NE

1
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 7.58km ENE

35

1
Dendles Waste

Cist • 7.61km E

1

1
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 7.8km NNE

1

1
Grim’s Grave

Ring Cairn • 7.87km ENE

14

1
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 7.92km NE

15

3
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 7.98km NE

9

2
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 8km ENE

2

1
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 8.01km NE

10

1
Ranny Brook

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.07km ENE

3

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 8.44km NNE

17
Coombebrook North East

Cairn(s) • 8.51km E

1

1
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.54km NNE

17
Harrowthorn Plantation North

Cairn(s) • 8.55km E

1

1
Ingra Tor

Cist • 8.8km N

1

1
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 8.89km ENE

2

1

1
Stalldown Cairns

Cairn(s) • 8.94km E

6

1
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 9.09km NNE

8

1
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.12km NNE

45

1

3
Stalldown Stone Row cairns

Cairn(s) • 9.32km E

4

2

1
Stalldown cairn circle

Cairn circle • 9.32km E

5
Stalldown Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.33km E

40

1

6

2
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn NE

Cairn(s) • 9.39km E

4

2
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn S

Cairn(s) • 9.41km E

3

2

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 9.62km ENE

15

6

1
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 9.68km ENE

5

2
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 9.74km NE

1

1
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.78km ENE

1
Blatchford Bottom settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.78km ENE

3
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.8km NNE

1

1
Hillson’s House

Cairn(s) • 9.93km E

5

2

1
Stalldown South-East

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.01km E

8

2
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.03km ENE

4

1
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.17km NNE

8
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.21km ENE

3

1
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 10.27km ENE

4

1
Burford Down

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.31km E

18

5
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 10.32km NE

4

1
Burford Down cairn and cist

Cairn(s) • 10.36km E

8

1
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 10.45km N

1

1
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.62km ENE

12

2
Vixen Tor

Cist • 10.89km NNW

14

4

1
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 10.92km NE

5

2
Harford Moor

Cist • 11.04km E

15

2
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 11.11km NNW

1

2
Sharp Tor

Cairn(s) • 11.18km E

5

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 11.25km N

2

1
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11.28km N

39

3
Piles Hill stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.3km E

3

1
Butter Brook Ford

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.31km E

5

1
Three Barrows

Cairn(s) • 11.4km E

10
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 11.49km N

105

19

1
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 11.53km ENE

9

3
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 11.62km NE

10

1
Piles Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 11.63km E

8

2
Ter Hill

Cist • 11.74km NE

2

1
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.76km N

8

1

1
Piles Hill longstone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 11.77km E

12

2
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 11.86km NE

24
Royal Hill

11.9km NE
Weatherdon Hill

Cairn(s) • 11.99km E

2

1
Butterdon stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.05km E

16

1

3
Addicombe

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.09km E
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 12.09km ENE

10
Glasscombe Ball

Cairn(s) • 12.13km E

3

2
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 12.14km NE

4

1

3
Glasscombe Ball North

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.19km E

1
Butterdon Hill (north) cairn

Round Cairn • 12.38km E

3

1
Spurrell’s Cross Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.39km E

6

2
Glasscombe Corner

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.43km E

11

2
Butterdon Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 12.48km E

21

2
Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Cairn circle • 12.55km E

4

2
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 12.63km NE

3

1
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 12.65km NE

1
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 12.67km ENE

9

1

1
Blakey Tor

Cist • 12.69km NE

5

1
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.69km ENE

1

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 12.72km NNW

2

1
Corringdon Ball Stone Row

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 12.73km E

15

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 12.75km ENE

11

1

2
Glaze Meet

Cairn(s) • 12.79km E

3

1
Western Beacon

Cairn(s) • 12.93km E

19

5
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.94km ENE

2

1
Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Chambered Tomb • 13.01km E

8

2
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.02km N

8
Cuckoo Ball

Chambered Tomb • 13.08km E

13

2
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.09km N

1

1
Corringdon Ball Long Barrow

Long Barrow • 13.11km E

14

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.13km NNE

8
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 13.18km ENE

6

1
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.33km NE

1
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 13.34km NE

2
Cantrell Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 13.34km E

3

2
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.61km ENE

2

1
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.81km ENE

11

1

3
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.88km ENE
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.9km ENE

9

1
Mount Edgcumbe Barrow

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 13.96km SW

1

1
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 13.97km NE

26

4

1
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 14.02km ENE

2
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

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

1
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 14.08km NNE

1

1

1

1
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 14.27km N

1
Aish Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.47km E

2

2
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 14.51km NE

12

2
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 14.58km ENE

8

1

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 14.67km N

3
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 14.8km ENE

13

1

1
Holne Moor

Cist • 14.81km ENE

1

2
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 14.82km N

4

1
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 14.83km ENE

1

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 14.9km N

18

1

4
White Tor East

Cist • 15.2km N

6

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.23km NNW

17
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 15.34km ENE

2

1
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.43km N

10

1
Wistman’s Wood

15.46km NNE

2

2
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.46km NE

4

2
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.58km ENE

2
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.73km ENE

5

1
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 15.95km NE

9

1
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.99km NNE

1
Aller Brook

Cist • 16.09km ENE

1

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.37km NNE

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.52km NE

7

4
Brent Hill

Hillfort • 16.53km E

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 16.55km NE

8

1
Crow Tor

Cist • 16.55km NNE

2

1
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 16.65km W

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 16.75km NNE

9

1
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.76km NE

6
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.82km NE

26

7

1
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.89km NNE

8

1

1
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 16.94km NE

1
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 17.13km NNE

3
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.15km NNE

13

2
Hingston Down

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 17.25km W

1

1
Dupath Rounds

Enclosure • 17.34km W

1

1
Treninnow Stone Monument

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech • 17.36km SW

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 17.44km NE

9

1
Castlewich Henge

Henge • 17.5km W

3

3
Treninnow Gatepost

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.5km SW

1

1
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 17.54km NNE

16

1
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.62km NE

20

1

1
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.71km NE

43

2
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 17.73km NW

2
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.87km NE

3

1
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 18.03km NE

4

1

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 18.06km NE

5
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 18.19km NE

33

1
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 18.28km NNE

1

1

2
Kit Hill

18.28km W

2

1
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.38km NW

22

7
Corndon Tor

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

1
Chittaford Down

Cist • 18.68km NNE

9

2
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 18.79km NNE

8

2
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 19.09km NNE

2

1
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.09km NNE

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 19.09km NNE

16

2
Rame Head

Cliff Fort • 19.24km SW

2

1
Hembury Castle

Hillfort • 19.32km ENE

19

5

1
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 19.85km NE

3

1