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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tottiford Reservoir cairnsCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 5.16 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Bovey Tracey Nearest Village: Hennock
Map Ref: SX81138312
Latitude: 50.635616N Longitude: 3.682266W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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TheCaptain visited on 7th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2 To the east of the mound, between it and the eastern shore, can be seen several round piles of stones, which may be ancient cairns, but I am not too convinced, as they look neither big enough, and seem strangely spaced and positioned in what would have been a wet position. There seemes to be a fairly regularly spaced row of these stone piles along much of the eastern shoreline. Watching the Time Team program later and they showed that these were more likely relatively modern stone piles, possibly something to do with when the reservoir was being created.
To the east of the Tottiford Reservoir mound, between it and the eastern shore, can be seen several round piles of stones, which may be ancient cairns, but I am not too convinced, as they look neither big enough, and seem strangely spaced and positioned in what would have been a wet position.
There seemes to be a fairly regularly spaced row of these stone piles along much of the eastern shoreline. Watching the Time Team program later and they showed that these were relatively modern stone piles, possibly something to do with when the reservoir was being created.
From heritagegateway.org
Line of roughly circular dumps of stone fragments along the eastern side of the reservoir, some appearing to be associated with features in the prehistoric complex; these were initial thought to be cairns. Excavation revealed they are much more modern in date and may instead be clearance cairns related to agricultural activity or stone dumps associated with the late 19th century construction of the reservoir.
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