<< Our Photo Pages >> Mardon Down Cairn 3 - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mardon Down Cairn 3 Alternative Name: Grinsell Moretonhampstead 4Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Moretonhampstead
Map Ref: SX7677487432
Latitude: 50.673470N Longitude: 3.74527W
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 26th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Just south of the Giant's Grave is a smaller, but much more clear to see cairn, about 10m diameter and still with some semblance of a retaining circle of stones.
AngieLake have visited here
This cairn was a little more recognisable than its neighbour, the Giant's Grave. We were still glad of our Butlers to help identify it, and noticed that a stone was still standing in the SSW of its outer ring.
In his 'Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 5', Butler tells us:
"A few metres from the ring cairn the ridgeway track continues northwards before being deflected around a pair of large cairns on the highest point: 3 [ref. to his map, a sketch copy of which is on site page for Mardon Down S circle], (10.0 x 0.8 m), a flat-topped mound with traces of an outer ring still maintaining a good shape despite the shallow trench into the centre."
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Mardon Down S.E. of Giants Grave Cairn Circle and the Mardon Down Stone Circle & Cairns.
The cairn is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 445366 and as MDV8310 on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
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