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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sourton Tors Ring Cairns Alternative Name: Corn Ridge W1; Turner A33; Grinsell Bridestowe and Sourton Common 3; Butler (map 43.8.1)Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Sourton
Map Ref: SX5441888858
Latitude: 50.681119N Longitude: 4.062014W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Update December 2019: Both cairns mentioned above have separate records on Pastscape, the Devond and Dartmoor HER and Historic England. This cairn, at SX 54418 88858, is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Sourton Common Stone Ring Cairn Circle , which tells us: "(This is) ring cairn surviving as a circular bank 4m wide and 0.7m high surrounding an internal area measuring 12m in diam. Four small hollows in the ring bank suggest partial early excavation or robbing".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440528, as MDV4674 (Ring cairn 975 metres south of Sourton Tors) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1007826 (Ring cairn 975m south of Sourton Tors).
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