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<< Text Pages >> Gibbett Hill - Ring Cairn in England in Devon

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gibbett Hill Alternative Name: Grinsell Mary Tavy 1; Turner A15
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.223 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock  Nearest Village: Blackdown
Map Ref: SX49958084
Latitude: 50.607929N  Longitude: 4.121962W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5
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Ring Cairn in Devon

Information about the Gibbet Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us this is a "stone ring measuring 10.8 meters in diameter internally with bank 1.7 metres wide and 0.4 meters high."

The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 438145, which adds that this is "the remains of a cairn ... truncated cairn or, less probably, a ring cairn, sited on hill spur. Diameter 17.5 metres." Although the grid references are the same, the dimensions given vary between records.

The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor MDV22751 (Ring Cairn on Gibbet Hill, Mary Tavy) dates the cairn from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). They add that the cairn: "This ring cairn lies around 20 metres west of the trig point. The cairn has a disturbed ring bank and measures about 18 metres in diameter".

Note: PDW tells us: "(This site is) duplicated in HER see 3202 and MDV3202 (Ring Cairn on Gibbet Hill).

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SX5080 : Mining spoil on Gibbet Hill by Guy Wareham
by Guy Wareham
©2010(licence)
SX5081 : Pond, on top of Gibbet Hill by Roger Cornfoot
by Roger Cornfoot
©2009(licence)
SX5081 : The summit of Gibbet Hill by David Purchase
by David Purchase
©2019(licence)
SX5081 : Gibbet Hill by Guy Wareham
by Guy Wareham
©2010(licence)
SX5081 : Trig Point, on Gibbet Hill by Roger Cornfoot
by Roger Cornfoot
©2009(licence)

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