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Image of Fernworthy SE (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Fernworthy SE Cairn viewed from N.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone

markj99 Jul 16, 2022

Image of Fernworthy SE (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Fernworthy SE Cairn viewed from S.

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markj99 Jul 16, 2022

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Fernworthy SE

Cairn(s)

markj99 Jul 16, 2022

Fernworthy SE is a ruined cairn c. 30 yards SE of Fernworthy Stone Circle. The cairn is listed as Monument Number 443898 on Historic England Research Records (go to Links). It is said to denoted the N end of a ruined stone row which has been obscured by afforestation. The cairn measures c. 20 feet across by 1.5 high with putative remains of a cist in the centre. This consists of two earthset stones set at right angles to each other, c. 9 inches high.

Fernworthy SE

Cairn(s)

markj99 Jul 16, 2022

Monument Number 443898

Fernworthy SE Cairn on Historic England Research Records.

Sites within 20km of Fernworthy SE

Fernworthy Stone Row (South)

Stone Row / Alignment • 0.01km NNW

7

2
Fernworthy

Stone Circle • 0.04km WNW

54

6

2
Fernworthy Cairn and Cairn Circle (Eastern)

Cairn circle • 0.1km ENE

5

2
Fernworthy stone row (North)

Stone Row / Alignment • 0.21km NNW

15

1

3

1
Fernworthy Round House

0.99km ESE

19

1
East Lowton settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.12km E

17

1
Thornworthy Down

Cist • 1.21km ENE

12

1
Metherall Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.3km E

12

2
Assycombe Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.61km SE

33

3
Heath Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 1.64km E

1

1
Shovel Down & The Long Stone

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 1.78km NNE

62

1

7

1
The Greywethers

Stone Circle • 1.88km SW

63

4

11

3
Shovel Down

Stone Circle • 1.98km N

2

1
Chagford Common

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.19km E

3
Sittaford Tor hut circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.25km SW

3
Hurston Ridge

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.4km ESE

3
West Vitifer

Cairn(s) • 2.43km ESE

2
Hurston Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.46km ESE

17

1

2

1
Sittaford

Stone Circle • 2.81km WSW

14

1

1

1
Kes Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.88km NNE

6

1
Tolmen Stone

Holed Stone • 3.01km NNW

4
Stannon Newtake

Cist • 3.09km S

1

1
Water Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.26km ESE

1
Scorhill

Stone Circle • 3.29km NNW

69

3

12
Water Hill

Cairn(s) • 3.3km SE

2
Birch Tor

Cairn(s) • 3.97km ESE

13

1
Whitehorse Hill

Cist • 4.01km W

1

6

1
East Bovey Head

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.28km E

14

1
Buttern Hill

4.31km NNW

1

1
Shapley Common

Platform Cairn • 4.39km E

12
Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn.

Chambered Cairn • 4.41km NNW

8

2
Buttern Hill Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 4.44km NNW

28

4
Throwleigh (b) circle

Stone Circle • 4.54km NNW

1
Challacombe

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 4.65km ESE

19

2
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.67km SSW

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 4.67km SSW

16

2
Puggie Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 4.69km NE

1
Shapley Tor

Cairn(s) • 4.91km E

6
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 4.94km SW

2

1
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 4.96km SSW

8

2
Soussons Down

Cairn(s) • 4.99km SE

2
Chittaford Down

Cist • 5.06km SSW

9

2
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 5.55km SSW

1

1

2
Grimspound & Hookney Tor

5.58km ESE

49

8

1
Grims Lake Mire

Cist • 5.72km E

10

1
Cut Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 5.75km WSW

12

4
Soussons Common Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 5.84km SE

23

8

2
White Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 5.89km NW

35

1

11
Hamel Down

Cairn(s) • 5.98km ESE

6
King’s Barrow

Round Barrow(s) • 6.02km E

8

1
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 6.09km S

4

1

1
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 6.16km SSW

16

1
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 6.38km SE

3

1
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.48km S

43

2
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 6.67km SSW

3
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.81km SSW

8

1

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 6.96km SSW

9

1
White Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.04km NW

20

1
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 7.4km SW

13

2
Crow Tor

Cist • 7.41km SW

2

1
Meacombe Burial Chamber

Burial Chamber • 7.52km ENE

10

4
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.61km SSE

3

1
Cosdon Beacon

Cairn(s) • 7.64km NW

4
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.65km S

26

7

1
Cosdon Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.69km NNW

32

5

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 7.74km S

8

1
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 7.75km SW

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 7.97km SSE

5
The Spinsters’ Rock

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech • 8.1km NE

40

10

1
Wistman’s Wood

8.25km SSW

2

2
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 8.37km S

9

1
Higher Tor

Round Cairn • 8.48km WNW

7
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 8.49km SW

1
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.59km S

7

4
Fordsland Ledge

Cairn(s) • 8.98km W

18

4
Cullever Steps

Cairn circle • 9.17km WNW

6
High Willhays

Cairn(s) • 9.17km WNW

11

3
Oxenham Arms

Standing Stone / Menhir • 9.41km NNW

4

1

2

1
Bowerman’s Nose

Natural Rock Feature • 9.42km E

11

5
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.53km S

4

2
Cranbrook Castle

Hillfort • 9.62km ENE

11

1
Yes Tor

Cairn(s) • 9.64km WNW

23

2

1
Nine Stones

Cairn(s) • 9.7km NW

27

1

5

1
Watchet Hill

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 9.84km NW

6
Corndon Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.88km SE

1
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 9.91km SW

1

1

1

1
Hound Tor

Cist • 10.08km E

24

2
The Dun Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 10.28km ESE

1

1
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 10.33km SE

33

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 10.42km SSE

9

1
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.51km SE

20

1

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 10.63km SSW

8
Longstone Hill

Cairn(s) • 10.71km WNW

5

1
Hunter’s Tor

Hillfort • 10.75km E

10

1
Great Links Tor

Round Cairn • 10.81km W

10

1

1
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.85km SSE

6
Bude Farm Sticklepath

Standing Stone / Menhir • 10.87km NNW

1
Prestonbury Castle

Hillfort • 10.88km NE

16

1
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11km S

26

4

1
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 11km SSE

1
Top Tor

Cairn(s) • 11.07km ESE

7
Blakey Tor

Cist • 11.14km SSW

5

1
Doe Tor

Cist • 11.18km W

5

1
East Hill

Hillfort • 11.22km NW

11

1
Tunhill Rocks

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

1
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 11.4km S

2
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 11.4km WSW

4

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11.4km WSW

18

1

4
Corn Ridge

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 11.42km W

19

1

1

1
Giant’s Grave (Dartmoor)

Long Barrow • 11.48km ENE

13

1

2
Mardon Down Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11.59km ENE

25

4
Foale’s Arrishes

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.6km ESE

9
Seven Lords’ Lands

Cairn(s) • 11.64km ESE

7

2

2
Mardon Down Cairns

Cairn(s) • 11.64km ENE

10

2
Blackslade Down

Cist • 11.65km ESE

7

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 11.68km WSW

3
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.72km WSW

10

1
Mardon Down Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 11.73km ENE

25

3
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 11.8km SSW

4

1

3
Wittaburrow

Cairn(s) • 11.82km ESE

11
Black Hill

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 11.86km E

15

1
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 11.9km SSE

12

2
Sharpitor Nutcrackers

Rocking Stone • 11.94km E

1
Mardon Down

12.04km ENE

1
Sourton Tors Circle

Stone Circle • 12.09km W

3

1
Black Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.09km E

9

2
Great Nodden

Cairn(s) • 12.14km W

4
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 12.15km S

1
White Tor East

Cist • 12.17km WSW

6

1
Royal Hill

12.22km SSW
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 12.22km S

3

1
Wooston Castle

Hillfort • 12.33km ENE

13

1

1
Haytor Rock

Rocky Outcrop • 12.39km ESE

1

1
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 12.41km WSW

1
Rippon Tor

Cairn(s) • 12.42km ESE

22

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.44km WSW

17
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 12.48km SSW

24
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.49km SW

8
Horridge Common (West)

Cairn(s) • 12.57km ESE

1

1
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 12.69km SSW

10

1
Aller Brook

Cist • 12.69km SSE

1

1
Holne Moor

Cist • 13.03km SSE

1

2
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 13.13km SSE

2
Ter Hill

Cist • 13.26km S

2

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 13.34km SW

2

1
Horridge Common

Round Barrow(s) • 13.38km ESE

3
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.39km S

1
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.5km SW

1

1
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.53km SSW

8
Horridge Common

Round Cairn • 13.63km ESE

8
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.64km SW

8

1

1
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 13.66km SW

105

19

1
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 13.9km SW

39

3
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 14.12km S

5

2
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 14.18km SSE

2

1
Gallows Hill

Round Barrow(s) • 14.29km W

1

1
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.29km SW

1

1
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 14.39km S

4

1
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 14.49km SSW

1

1
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.62km SSW

45

1

3
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 14.7km SSW

8

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 14.8km SW

2

1
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 14.83km SW

1

1
Vixen Tor

Cist • 14.92km SW

14

4

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 15.25km SSW

17
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.28km SSW

17
Ingra Tor

Cist • 15.47km SW

1

1
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 15.48km SW

1

2
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 15.55km SSE

1

1
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 15.93km SSW

10

1
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 15.95km SSW

9

2
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 16.08km SW

1

1
Burley Camp

Hillfort • 16.11km W

1

1
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 16.25km SSW

3
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 16.27km SSW

1
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.29km SSW

69

1

7

1
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.39km S

12

2
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 16.45km SSW

15

3
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 16.47km SW

3

2
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 16.51km SW

16

2
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 16.64km S

2

1

1
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.65km SW

10

5
Down Tor South

Cist • 16.65km SSW

2

1
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 16.86km SSE

11

1

3
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.89km SSW

2

1
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.99km SW

4

1
Hembury Castle

Hillfort • 17.11km SE

19

5

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 17.19km SSE

11

1

2
Leather Tor South

Cist • 17.22km SSW

2
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 17.23km S

2

1
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 17.27km SW

1

1
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.55km SSW

10
Outcombe

Cist • 17.59km SSW

1

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 17.6km SSW

5
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 17.67km SSW

9

2
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 17.74km SSW

3

1
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 17.75km SSW

7

1
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.79km SSE

1

1
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 17.82km SSE

6

1
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 17.93km S

35

1
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.01km SSE

2

1
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 18.04km SSE

10
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 18.05km SSW

3

2
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 18.1km SSW

116

8

1
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 18.13km SSW

52

3

11

3
Grim’s Grave

Ring Cairn • 18.19km S

14

1
Bow Henge

Henge • 18.26km NNE

1
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 18.29km SSE

8

1

1
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.36km SSW

8

1
Higher Bury Camp

Hillfort • 18.37km NE

1
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.46km S

4

1
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.49km SSE

1
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 18.62km SSE

2
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 18.68km SSE

9

3
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.68km WSW

22

7
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.8km SSE

9

1
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 18.81km SSW

2
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 18.83km SSE

13

1

1
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 18.84km SSW

6
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 18.96km SSW

2

2
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 18.97km S

4

1
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 18.99km SSW

12

1
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 19km SSE

9

1

1
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 19.04km S

3

1
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.04km SSW

3
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.27km S

1
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 19.28km S

5

2
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 19.33km SSE

2

1
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 19.42km SSW

7

1
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 19.51km SSE

5

1
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 19.73km SSW

1

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 19.77km S

15

6

1
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.78km SSW

3
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 19.8km WSW

2
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 19.87km SSW

3
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.91km SSE