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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe cairn 4 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe W; Turner F24; Grinsell Sheepstor 28Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5923867101
Latitude: 50.486766N Longitude: 3.985589W
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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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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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe Cairn 4: I took photographs of all three cairns in a row, then one at a time. My notes indicate this is Drizzlecombe Cairn 4. This is the most northerly of the three cairns at the head of rows 2 and 3, but this cairn does not have a row descending from it.
30 feet in diameter, with 9 small stones remaining.
Unlike its neighbours, this cairn has no row running downhill from it, although there is a small longstone at a position where a row was possibly intended to run to.
This cairn is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438616 and also features on Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks - see their entries for the Drizzlecombe (W) Encircled Cairn and the Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1).
The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record for this cairn; see MDV3329 (Cairn in the parish of Sheepstor).
Butler, in his“Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities”, volume 3, page 139, says: “Cairn 4 is in line with 2 and 3 and separated by a smaller interval to the north-west. There is no associated stone row but it has a more elaborate structure surrounded by at least two concentric rings of much smaller slabs, many of them buried. The outer ring (8.8m) stands well outside the mound, a second closely surrounds its base and there may well be others covered by the cairn. Worth suggested that a more symmetrical arrangement to the whole site may have been planned, although never completed, by erecting a row from this cairn towards the pillar obviously artificially set about 300m to the south-west. But this stone, barely a metre high and hidden in bracken during the summer, faces well to the south of the cairns, and if it had any ancient significance at all, it was probably as part of some structure now demolished, perhaps even a stone circle”.
The cairn is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1014145 (Three stone alignments, 15 cairns, a cist, a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and a small clapper bridge at Drizzle Combe).
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