<< Our Photo Pages >> Ringmoor Down Cairn 3 - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringmoor Down Cairn 3 Alternative Name: Grinsell Sheepstor 18; Turner G29; Ringmoor Down 3Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Yelverton
Map Ref: SX5615465937
Latitude: 50.475555N Longitude: 4.028586W
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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Catrinm visited on 10th Apr 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Cute cairn circle
SandyG TheCaptain have visited here
One of the remaining Cairns high on Ringmoor. Cairn 3 can be found a few hundred metres to the west of the stone row, and does not look entirely convincing to me. It consists of a circle of fairly small stones, sitting on the moor surface, many of which look recent additions to me, although one or two are earthfast. There are no obvious cairn remains within this circle.
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Ringmoor Down Cairn Circle and the Ringmoor Stone Row & Cairn Circle.
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438674, as MDV4029 (Barrow 550 metres north-west of Brisworthy Stone Circle) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012248 (Stone setting (retaining kerb of a cairn) north-east of Brisworthy Plantation).
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