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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ring of Bells Alternative Name: Turner A34; Grinsell Mary Tavy 2Country: England
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County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock / Okehampton Nearest Village: Lydford / Mary Tavy
Map Ref: SX5214082873
Latitude: 50.626759N Longitude: 4.091844W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ring Cairn in Devon
Information about the Ring of Bells Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes say this is a "ring cairn with entrance. Stone ring 13m internal diameter with bank 1.5m wide and 0.3m high.3m wide entrance on east-south-east side. Flag pole has been sited here."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 440699, which adds that at "SX 5214 8287 (the Ring of Bells Cairn) and SX 52148289. Two Bronze Age cairns lie on the North flank of Black Hill immediately S of the former site of Willsworthy Camp. The larger of the two, at SX 52148287, possesses an overall diameter of 18m and consists of a level platform 0.4m above the present ground level with a turf and stone rim 3.0m wide and 0.3m high. A boundary stone has been inserted near the E edge of the cairn. The symmetry and form of this feature does not suggest that it has suffered from stone robbing. Apart from the gap in the E side of the rim noted by Authority 3 there is no obvious disturbance and the monument provides a good example of an embanked flat-topped cairn. Immediately to the N of this feature, at SX 52148289, is an unbroken circular bank 10.7m in overall diameter. The bank, 2.0m wide and 0.25m high, encloses a flat area at (or slightly below) the current ground level. This too appears to be a cairn."
The cairn is also recorded as MDV3221 (Ring cairn 450 metres south of Willsworthy Camp) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1007664 (Ring cairn 450m south of Willsworthy Camp).
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