Eylesbarrow

Nearest town:
Plympton (13km SSW)
OS reference:
SX599686
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 29' 59.26 N
Longitude:
3° 58' 32.49 W
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Images

Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The Eylesbarrow’s footprint has been considerably pilfered away... but nonetheless remains very extensive indeed. Great spot to hang out for an hour or two.... and ‘cairn-bathe’, as they say.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The Eylesbarrow looking approx north. That is a boundary stone to right, together with a memorial... to what or whom I can’t remember :-)

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The Eylesbarrow. Note the substantial grassy footprint encompassing the naked rock.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The southern cairn, the Eylesbarrow. As my rucksack shows, this was/still is a massive stone pile.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The Eylesbarrow from the northern monument

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The northern cairn with the southern (The Eylesbarrow) left background.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Northern cairn footprint... the magical Down Tor complex can [just] be seen from this cairn, although not from the Eylesbarrow itself (to the immediate south). Coincidence?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Apr 9, 2016
Image of Eylesbarrow (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The northern of the two cairns to grace Eylesbarrow possesses a low elevation.... perhaps it always did.... but a significant footprint.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Articles

Eylesbarrow

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 14, 2010

At the highest point of the hill, the southern end of the ridge, are two large cairns. The northern cairn is an impressive 20m across. A Bronze Age reave heads WSW down the hill directly from it. But the southern cairn, the Eylesbarrow itself, is bigger still. Another of the reservoir catchment markers stands between the two cairns, on a windswept spot that will be the highest point of my walk today. Without hanging around very long, I follow the reave down the hill.

Eylesbarrow

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 13, 2005

The hill takes its name from the two large cairns that sit atop the summit. Both have been much altered by travellers seeking shelter over the years...and I for one was welcome of the little circular shelter on what was a sunny but cold day.

The views up here are superb, looking down to the Cornish coast (and home) to the south west whilst to the east the barrenness of Dartmoor is there for all to see.

Miscellaneous

Eylesbarrow
Cairn(s)
Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 13, 2005

In 1240 a perambulation of the Bounds of the forest of Dartmoor was undertaken by 12 knights summoned by the Sheriff of Devon, under the orders of Henry III. Included in that perambulation was Elysburgh.

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