<< Our Photo Pages >> Yar Tor Summit - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Yar Tor Summit Alternative Name: Grinsell Widecombe in the Moor 20Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Dartmeet
Map Ref: SX67867394
Latitude: 50.550246N Longitude: 3.866545W
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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TheCaptain visited on 11th Apr 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Such a lovely day, I decided to go up to the top of Yar Tor to take in the views, despite my legs aching a bit by now. The top of the southern part of the tor has a clear ancient cairn built on top, but this has been made into a spiral shape, I believe during wartime when it was used as a lookout shelter. While stood at the top of Yar Tor, a couple of Wokka-Wokkas flew up the Dart valley below me before heading up the valley towards Princetown and over the moor. Strange to see them from above!
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Update August 2019. For more information see:
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW): the Yar Tor Summit Cairn;
Pastscape Monument No. 442898; and
Devon & Dartmoor HER MDV6463 (Cairn on Summit of Yar Tor).
Pastscape tells us that the "(the mound has been much altered by recent interference. The cairn has a footprint of The cairn has a footprint of over 23m. The central area has been hollowed and re-modelled".
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