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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Merrivale N circle Alternative Name: Merrivale cairn 10; Turner B8Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Merrivale
Map Ref: SX5532674841
Latitude: 50.555374N Longitude: 4.043701W
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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lucasn visited on 27th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
graemefield visited on 1st Jan 2008 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5
The diameter of the circle is about 8 metres. This circle is sometimes identified as a hut circle.
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Merrivale North Embanked Cairn Circle, which tells us: "Turner describes this site as an embanked stone circle; an annular bank of earth and/or stones with an inner edge of orthostats. Internal diameter is 8.0 meters with a bank 0.8 meters wide and 0.3 meters high. Much disturbed".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440038, as MDV3757 (Probable ring cairn, Merrivale) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1013431 (A ring cairn on Longash Common lying 400m south east of Merrivale Bridge).
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