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This walk: 2007-10-29 - Scout Hut car park - track towards Eylebarrow - Plym Steps - previously unseen "Cist-8" and Cists-11 & 12 - Plym Steps blowing house - double mortar stone - ponies - other ruins. This walk was planned to see cists that were not seen on a previous walk.
Walk details below - Information about the route etc.
Isolated rock at SX 61014 66720 � 5 m that appears a little "cairn-like", a few meters uphill from .....
Cist-7 at SX 60983 66714 � 5 m (GPS 'fix') that appears on the walk from the first attempt to locate these cists, here. Photographed looking down Langcombe Brook towards the Plym valley with Sheepstor at top left.
Previously, on that page, this was GPS-fixed at SX 60983 66715 - not bad, eh, Dave?
Then came the search for the missing "Cist-8" from the first walk .....
The previously unfound "Cist-8" at SX 60950 66737 � 5 m, in the right foreground. No wonder it was hard to find, approximately 46-50 m from the other cist but almost below ground level in tall grass. This is a large, very fine oblong stone box, with no cover stone, 319-320� magnetic from the original, easy-to-spot cist. The height of the grass can be judged from the appearance of the rucksack (fairly large, 50 L).
Cist-11 at SX 60375 66921 � 4 m GPS-fix, looking towards Plym Steps with Langcombe Brook on the right
Cist-12 at SX 60426 67112 � 5 m (GPS-fix), the tilted cap stone is easily seen from the path used, just 190-200 m from the river crossing
.... and a closer view of the same cist
A view along a possible leat bed above the blowing house that is close to Plym Steps. The ruins of the house are in the centre of the picture with the River Plym on the right
Looking up the Plym valley with the blowing house ruins in the foreground and Lower Hartor Tor at top left. Note the 'mound' at near left because the double mortar stone is leaning against its left face, out of sight here. The GPS-fix here in the middle of the ruins was SX 60352 67237 � 4 m.
Looking at the blowing house from above, on the possible leat
Mortar stone with two depressions - this stereo image really shows the stone in 3D and illustrates the value of this technique
Looking eastwards, up the Plym, from beside the blowing house
Ponies at Plym Steps
Feature at SX 59200 67698 that resembles a cairn(?) but inside a 'modern' enclosure
Similar to previous, with the Plym behind and Shavercombe Tor near the skyline, right
Unusual long 'barrow-like' construction, almost like a leat covered with flat stones ..... I am now told it is a flue from the mine workings
..... and again
Another view of the nearby ruins
Looking back, south-eastwards from a wall corner (at left) of these ruins
