<< Our Photo Pages >> Grim’s Grave - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grim’s Grave Alternative Name: Langcombe Brook cairn 3; Grinsell Shaugh Prior 13; Turner D20; Dixon 14Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Princetown
Map Ref: SX61246642
Latitude: 50.481123N Longitude: 3.957133W
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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This is a 5 metre diameter cairn, surrounded by 9 large upright slabs making a full circle, some of which are over a metre in height. In the centre is a large rectangular kist, about 1.5 by 1 metre, and almost 1 metre deep, which makes it much bigger than many I have previously seen on the moor.
The kist was covered using two capstones, one of which is now broken and fallen into the kist, the other laying part buried at the southern edge of the cairn.
This cairn can be considered as one of the Langcombe Brook cairns, but having been given its own name, I have added it here in its own right too.
Update October 2019: This ring cairn and cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Grim's Grave Ring Setting Cairn and Cist and their Guide to the Langcombe Brook & Deadman's Bottom Cists.
The site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441653 and as MDV5083 (Cairn in the parish of Shaugh Prior) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
This site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1018591 (Grim's Grave cairn with a cist, Langcombe).
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