Dartefacts Database Classification System. The intention is to eventually provide a complete classification index page with hyperlinked text to view entire classifications of items.
Update (27/04/20): ALL of the classifications have been hyperlinked to the ‘Index’ Page and it is now time to proofread, ensuring no classifications have been ‘accidentally’ missed out!
A more ‘user-friendly’ (i.e. shorter!) index (with friendly ‘Darticons’) is available on the ‘By Classification Page‘.
Country Parks
Glider Clubs
Good Wild Camping Sites
Markers for Well Known Walks
Model Aircraft Flying Clubs
Model Boat Sailing Clubs
Mountain Bike Hire
Outdoor Education Centres
Riding Stables
Running Events
Well Known Letter Boxes
Artwork Locations
Castles & Forts
Cultural Items
Druids’ Benches?
Memorial Benches
Picnic Benches
Corners
Cottages
Courts
Dartmoor National Park Boundary Markers
Follies
Galleries
Goldsworthy Rock Stacks
Graves
Hamlets
Lanes
Magik Symbols
Manor Houses
Mansions
Memorial Sites
Mounting Blocks
Myths & Legends
Old Post Offices
Plaques
Rangers’ Huts
Ruined Houses
Secret Places?
Steps
Sunken Lanes
WebCams
Dartefacts of Death!
Facilities
Car Parks
Corner Shops
Estate Agents
Parks
Post Boxes
Post Offices and Post Offices with Shops
Schools
Telephone Boxes
Toilets!
Towns
TV Masts
Villages
Habitations
Haunted Dartmoor!
Religious Buildings
Abbeys
Chapels
Church Houses
Churches
Rubbish!
School Houses
Twin Peaks References
Village Halls
‘Modern’ (i.e. non-prehistoric) Pounds
Ancient Tenements
Ash Houses
Bartons (Large Farmhouses or Manor Houses)
Bee Boles
Cattle
Cattle Grids
Cattle Pastures
Cattle Pounds
Cattle Strolls
Commons (areas of heather moorland that belong to a parish)
Concrete Rollers
Knife Grinder Support Stones
Metal Troughs
Old Metal Cart Wheels
Rick Staddles
Farm Machinery
Farm Water Pounds or small reservoirs for farming
Farms, Farmhouses, Farmsteads and Working Farms
Field Wall Crossing Points
Abrupt End of Stone Walls
Distinctive or Named Field Wall Corners
Kinky Walls
Newtakes
Ruined Field Wall Remains (possibly prehistoric/ probably medieval?)
Sheepfolds
Fallen Gateposts
Farm Style Gates
Gate Posts used for building walls
Granite Gate Posts
Granite Gate Posts (Slotted)
Granite Gate Posts with Hangars
Moor Gates
Pairs of Gate Posts
Slip-Style Granite Gate Posts
Walled-in Gates
Well Known Gates
Granite Field Posts
Granite Rubbing Posts/ Buggers
Granite Structures
Iron Stakes
Longhouses
Medieval Villages
Minor Ruins
Potato Caves
Rabbit Warrens/ Pillow Mounds
Repurposed Farmhouses
Ruined Farmsteads
Sheep Creeps/ Holes
Vermin Traps
Walls
Windstrews
Working Farms
Apple Crushers
Blowing Stones
Carved/ Dressed Granite
Cheese Presses
Edgerunners
etc.
Granite Cubes
Granite Rollers
Holed Stones
Millstones
Quadrant Pound-Stones
Quern (Grinding) Stones
Split Granite
Feather & Tare Stones
Iron Feather and Tare Remains
Wedge and Groove Method of Splitting
Stone Troughs
Wheelwright’s Forms
Boundary, Guide and Distance Markers
B Rocks
B Stones
B.S Bound Stones on Old Maps
Bedford Markers
Bedford Marker Posts
Bedford Markers Inscribed
Bound Stones on Haytor Down
Cator Boundstones ‘CB’
Cobras
County Bridge Stones
Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) Stones
Dartmoor Prison Stones, Director of Convict Prisons (DCP)
Frank Phillpotts’ Peat Pass Markers
Gideligh Parish Boundary Markers
Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Markers
Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Rocks
Great Stannon Newtake Boundary Stones
Guide and Waymark Stones
H Huxton Bound Stones
Iron Cobras (Forest Bounds)
Lydford, Bridestowe and Sourton Boundary Stones
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Milestones
Road Milestones
Misc. Bound Stones
Misc. Stones
P SM Bound Stones
PCWW Markers
Abandoned PCWW Marker Posts
PCWW 1917 Markers
PCWW 1919 Markers
PCWW 1932 Markers
PCWW Cast Iron Markers
Pew Tor Marker Stones 1847
Pew Tor Marker Stones 1896
PUDC (Paignton Urban District Council) Boundary Stones, Venford Reservoir, Holne Moor
Riddon Ridge Stones
Sampford Spiney Parish Boundary Stones
Small Cairns, pile of stones – possibly relatively modern to mark a summit, path or junction
TA (Tavistock Ashburton) Guide Stones
Tavistock Rural District Council (TRDC) Posts
The Duke Stones
The Heathercombe Three Fishes
Torquay Water Main (TWM) Stones
WD (War Department) Stones
Yeoland Mine Bound Stones
Abandoned/ Broken Crosses
Churchyard Crosses
Market Crosses
Memorial Crosses
Socket Stones
Unconfirmed Crosses
Village Crosses
Wayside Crosses
Inscribed Granite Rails
Misc. Inscribed Rocks
Revd. Edward Bray Inscriptions
Special Items
Incised Farm Signs
Incised Marks
Lintels
Lintels (doorways)
Lintels (windows)
China Clay Pools
China Clay Slurry Pipes
China Clay Waste
China Clay Works
Red Lake Tramway Inspection Points
Forest Paths
Plantations
Saw Mills
Timber Transporting Aerial Ropeways
Fulling Mills (wool treatment)
Gunpowder Manufacturers
Gunpowder Mills
Industrial Paths
Arsenic Mines
Barytes Mines
Copper Mines
Fluorspar Mines
Haematite (Iron Oxide) Mines
Lead Mines
Silver Mines
Zircon Mines
Adits
Blowing Houses
Buddles
Crazing Millstones
Flat Rod Pillars
Girts
Mortar Stones
Mould Stones/ Float Stones
Pits (tin or sometimes sand extraction)
Shored-up Pits
Tethering Rings
Tin Mills
Tin Mines
Tin Workings
Beams (Open Mining Gullies or Trenches)
Tinners’ Passes
Tinners’ Gerts (larger than a gully!)
Tinners’ Gullies and Gulfs
Tinners’ Buildings
Tinners’ Caches
Tinners’ Caves
Tinners’ Caves, Caches and Fougous
Tinners’ Evidence
Tinners’ Huts
Crazing Mills
Tinners’ Reservoirs
Tinners’ Test Pits
Wheel Pits
Wheelhouses
Whim Stones
Misc. Industrial Structures/ Items
Concrete Bases
Nice old walls
Ruined Buildings
Significant Earthworks
Miscellaneous Industrial Items
Meilers
Peat Cutters’ Buildings
Peat Cutters’ Huts
Peat Kilns
Peat Pass Markers
Peat Passes
Peatworks
Peatworks’ Bricks
Peatworks’ Reservoirs
Explosives Stores
Misc. Quarry Items
Quarry Locations
Quarrying Machinery
Capped Boreholes
Explosives Stores
Miscellaneous Reservoir Items
Aircrash Sites
Firing Ranges 629 Capping Stones
Ammunition Demolition Craters
Butts
Datum Posts
Distance Markers
Flag Poles
Granite Rifle Range Communication Posts
Impromptu Defensive Structures
Observation Posts (OPs)
Military Firing Range Targets
Military Targets
Military Telephone Points
Military Tethering Rings
Misc. Military Ruins
Modern Military Camps
Other Military Buildings
Home Guard Lookout Posts
Low Level Radar Pylon Bases
Misc. Ruined WW2 Buildings, Machinery or Equipment
WWII Aerodromes
WWII Air Raid Shelters
WWII Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacements
WWII Glider Posts
WWII RAF Stations
WWII Rifle Ranges
WWII Roborough Down Decoy Airfield (Codename: PL2!)
Decoy Runway Lightbases
WWII Slit Trenches
Non-Granite Posts Sign Posts
Telegraph Markers
Water Board Posts (?)
Wooden Pegs
Bolts
Flush Brackets
Found Dartmoor B.M.s
Not Located Dartmoor B.M.s
Not Yet Visited Dartmoor B.M.s
Ex Trig Points (Trig Points that no longer exist!)
Trig Points (Trigs that can still be found!)
Refreshments, Facilities & Accommodation
B&Bs
Cafes, Tea Shops, Restaurants and Diners!
Camping Barns
Hostels & Bunkhouses YHA
Museums
Pubs, Inns, Hotels & Bars Hotels
Inns
Abandoned Rail Gauges
Embankments
Granite Points
Milestones
Railway Bridges
Railway Halts
Railway Hut Ruins
Railway Lines
Railway Sidings
Railway Tunnels
Railway Viaducts
Stable Ruins
Tramroads
Tramways
Trackways
Turnpike Houses (Toll Houses)
Boulders, Stones & Rock Features
Balancing Boulders
Caves (made and natural/ fallen slabs)
Isolated Rocks and Boulders
Large Boulders
Large Cairns (rubble remains of eroded tor or prehistoric grave?)
Large Flat Slabs of Granite
Logan Stones
Natural Rock Windows
Odd Boulders & Rocks
Possible BS Bound Stones on Maps
Rock Basins
Rock Features
Pareidolia (Seeing Faces in Rocks)
Rock Handles
Rock Seats
Rock Shelters
Rocky Outcrops and Stacks
Small Cairns or Piles of Rocks
Solitary Interesting Rocks
Solitary Upright Stones
Xenoliths
Zoomorphism (perceiving an inanimate object as having animal traits)
Named Tors, Hills & Outcrops (for Baggers!)
600m Peak
Animal Named Tors
Balls (Rounded Hills)
Beacons (High Hills)
Dartmoor Bog Hoppers’ Peaks (a distinct, named area of the moor which is at least 500m above sea level)
Dewey Hills
Large Outcrops
Rocks
Short, Steep Hills
Steep Hills
Bogs, Marshes and Mires
Brakes (thickets, possibly in marshlands)
Chases (unenclosed land formerly reserved for hunting)
Clatters/ Clitters (scattered rocks/ boulders – remains of eroded tors)
Commons
Downs
Ferns
Ghylls (a deep ravine or narrow mountain stream often wooded)
Gorse
Holes
Lawns
Meadows
Moors
Plains (gentle land, rock free and good for grazing)
Ridges
Valleys
Bottoms (Valleys)
Cleaves & Gorges (Steep Valleys often found near the edge of the moor)
Combes (small valleys, usually closed at the top end)
Wastes (small areas of rough pasture)
Waters (the divide between two river systems – or even the system itself)
Wilderness!
Forest Corners
Green Cathedrals
Encircled Cairns
Platform Cairns
Ring Cairns
Ceremonial Complexes
Chambered Tombs
Cists
Cup Stones
Encircled Cairn with Cist
Hut Circles
Neolithic Burial Chambers
Neolithic Enclosures
Neolithic Sites
Other Prehistoric Items
Pounds
Prehistoric Boundary Posts
Prehistoric Settlements
Reaves
Rock Pairs
Standing Stones
Stone Circles
Stone Circles (Modern)
Stone Rows
The Dartmoor Sun Circle
Tumuli (a Tumulus is a mound of earth over a grave)
Turner “Stone Circles”
Brooks
Cascades and Swirling Pools
Rivers
Prominent River Bends
River Confluences (& Foots)
River Heads
River Islands
River Pools
Rivers Meet
Springs
Streams (‘Lake’ on Dartmoor means stream!)
Waterfalls
Bays
Ponds
Pools
Reservoirs
Swimming Pools!
Wells
Collapsed Clapper Bridges
Foot Bridges
Leat Clapper Bridges
Rickety Iron Footbridges
Ruined Bridges
Stone Bridges
Suspension Bridges
Tube Bridges
Wooden Bridges
Fords
Sheep Leaps
Stepping Stones
Viaducts
Aqueducts
Bullseyes
Drain Covers
Hydro-Electric Generating Stations
PCWW Drain Covers
Pump Houses
Rain Gauges
Reservoir Boundary Structures
Reservoir Control Stations
River/ Livestock Barrier Gates
Unidentified Water Objects (U.W.O.s ??)
Water Height Gauges
Water Monitoring Stations
Water Pounds (small reservoirs)
Water Tunnels
Weirs
Disused Leats
Flowing Leats
Head Weirs
Kinks-in-Leats (for night navigation test!)
Launders
Leat Foot Bridges (FBs)
Leat Junctions
Leat Sluice Gates
Leat Tunnel Entrances & Exits
Leats’ Points of Interest
Z Peter and Karin Brooks Dartefacts
Z Max Piper Dartefacts
South Devon B.M.s (older classification)
Laira Bridge to Yealm Bridge B.M.s
Found Bench Marks
Not Located Bench Marks
Not Visited Bench Marks