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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gidleigh Chambered Cairn Alternative Name: Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn 1; Gidleigh South Chambered CairnCountry: England County: Devon Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Gidleigh
Map Ref: SX65678856
Latitude: 50.681149N Longitude: 3.902736W
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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The remains of the chamber comprise a clearly defined passage of two pairs of stones about 6' long by 3' wide with the entrance restricted by a pair of cross slabs. Beyond the entrance lies a large flat slab, partly turf-covered, and the visible tops of others almost fully buried. These may be the remains of the chamber walls.
It may be reached by about a mile walk starting off along a track leading from a minor road running south west out of Gidleigh and then turning right at the end of the field boundaries to walk north uphill on the open moor.
Update October 2019: This chambered cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Gidleigh - South Chambered Tomb. PDW notes "(this is) the remains of a Neolithic chambered cairn on Buttern Hill. The cairn survives as a mound standing up to 0.6 metres high. The chamber and associated entrance passage include seven orthostats, two of which form a portaled entrance. A leat runs to the west of the cairn".
The tomb is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443681 and as MDV6123 (Gidleigh South Chambered Tomb) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
This site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1021216 (Chambered cairn 830m south of Buttern).
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