<< Our Photo Pages >> Ringmoor Down Cairn 1 - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ringmoor Down Cairn 1 Alternative Name: Legis Lake Cairn; Grinsell Sheepstor 21; Turner F15Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX56566549
Latitude: 50.471637N Longitude: 4.022696W
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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Not much is to be seen these days, except 4 or 5 stones of its surrounding kerb seemingly laying in the grass.
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Legis Lake Encircled Cairn and the Ringmoor Stone Row & Cairn Circle.
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438680, as MDV3360 (Cairn west of Legis Lake) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012421 (Cairn west of Legis Lake).
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