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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Seven Lords' Lands Alternative Name: Grinsell Widecombe in the Moor 13; Turner F1; 7 Lords LandsCountry: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Widecombe
Map Ref: SX74127623 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.572212N Longitude: 3.779005W
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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markj99 visited on 12th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 I love an unexpected cairn. On the way back from Hound Tor Medieval Village I noticed this cairn next to the road with a convenient car park. Bonus!
TheCaptain visited on 7th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 On the way back to Haytor, I stop to go and look at Seven Lords' Lands cairn with its large encircling ring of stones. Its really splendid here in the low sun, which occasionally peeps through the clouds. Now to the Rock Inn after a tiring day on the big moor, I sat quietly nursing a pint in the snug when Dave from Royle Family comes in with wife and dog, and sits next to me.
AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4
From Angie Lake:
According to Butler:
"This well-preserved cairn lies about 80m from the road near Hemsworthy Gate, next to a field wall which curves slightly to avoid it.
Perhaps the exceptional state of preservation is connected with its importance as the boundary point where seven manors are reputed to have met. A close-set kerb of stones surround the cairn, all but about six slabs still in place around the edge, though some are turf covered.
The overall diameter is 10m with the interior about 0.6m above surrounding ground level. The shallow central depression is obviously the result of an early exploration but perhaps not a very thorough one and this cairn may still preserve something of archaeological interest."
I visited about 6pm on 12th August 2006, when the brilliant evening sun was illuminating the striking colours of purple heather and yellow gorse
in which the cairn kerbstones were snuggling, like sleepy things that didn't want to be disturbed! It was impossible to see much more than three or four stones due to the close-matting of the undergrowth, but I will visit again in winter to get a better - though much less colourful -shot!
(It was described as a round barrow on a Widecombe website.)
NB: I only gave it 3 for condition, because I couldn't see it for vegetation!
Update December 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Seven Lords' Lands Encircled Cairn, which tells us: "(This is) a cairn from 0.8m. to 1.2m. high, with a minor central excavation 0.5m. deep. The kerb retaining circle extends round the west and north quadrants".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 445151, as MDV7396 (CAIRN in the Parish of Widecombe in the Moor) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 103302 (Seven Lords' Lands round barrow).
Note: Maia investigates Beltane sunrise alignments on Dartmoor, see comment
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