<< Our Photo Pages >> Lakehead Cairn Circle 1 - Ring Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lakehead Cairn Circle 1 Alternative Name: Grinsell Lydford 53; Turner E16Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Postbridge
Map Ref: SX6435677766 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.583830N Longitude: 3.917372W
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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 18th Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Heading back northeast, and after disturbing something fairly large within the forest edge, I proceed to what is marked as "Cairn Circle". I find a ring of 13 small pale stones, about 6 m in diameter. Nothing much to be found within the circle except for one other flat slab.
graemefield visited on 8th Sep 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3
SandyG visited on 6th Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3
graemefield visited on 3rd Aug 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2
AngieLake cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.25 Ambience: 4 Access: 2.75
Located on the northern slope of the hill, all that remains now is the outer retaining circle, most of the central mound having been removed centuries ago. The interior of the cairn only rises a few centimeters above the present ground level. A single set stone within the centre is all that is visible of a probable central cist (kist).
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Lakehead Hill Platform Cairn Circle and the Lakehead Hill Cairn Circles, Cists and Settlements.
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 442596, as MDV5869 (Ring cairn in Bellever Forest) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1018510 (Five cairns, two stone alignments and three cists, forming part of a ritual complex on Lakehead Hill).
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