<< Our Photo Pages >> Fernworthy Cairn E - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fernworthy Cairn E Alternative Name: Fernworthy Cairn 5; Grinsell Lydford 24; Turner F4; Newman Barrow DCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Chagford
Map Ref: SX65568407 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.640769N Longitude: 3.90266W
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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With all of the treestumps in the region, it is tricky to determine what is an ancient stone and what is a relatively recent treestump! Past excavations here found pottery, flint tools and other items, but no remains of any human burial.
Update October 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Fernworthy E. Encircled Cairn, which tells us that the cairn is 5.8m in diameter. "Has 3 stones spaced on the east side. A beaker, flint knife, dress fastener and a piece of bronze were discovered when the cairn was excavated in 1898. The crushed beaker. When reconstructed it became one of Dartmoor's most important Bronze Age finds and is now on display in Plymouth City Museum along with the other artifacts retrieved".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443855, which adds the cairn is "visible as a low mound measuring 6.7m by 7m with a height of 0.5m. It has various amorphous areas of disturbance, some may date to excavations of 1897".
The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record for this site; see MDV6560 (Cairn to east of Fernworthy stone circle), and is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1017984 (A stone circle, known as Fernworthy Circle, three stone alignments and five cairns 425m and 525m north west of Sandeman Bridge).
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