<< Text Pages >> Whitchurch Common - Ring Cairn in England in Devon
Submitted by Tom_Bullock on Sunday, 14 July 2002 Page Views: 4932
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Whitchurch Common Alternative Name: Turner A41; Whitchurch Common 1Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock
Map Ref: SX5301674995 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.556181N Longitude: 4.076349W
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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Ring cairn in Devon
Circle diameter: 10 feet, Number of stones: 5 or 6
Nothing is shown on the OS Map, but an embankment is visible at these coordinates, and several stones are embedded in it. Burl provides OS coordiates of SX530749. Butler, on the other hand, provides coordinates of SX54147488, but what is at that location does not correspond to his description. I can imagine a mutilated cairn at the site, but there is such a plethora of stones at the site, that I am unable to verify it as a cairn.
Update December 2019: This site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Whitchurch Common (N) Stone Ring Cairn Circle. The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1362094, and as MDV4115 (Ring cairn in the parish of Whitchurch) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, which adds: "This feature visible on (aerial photographs) more resembles a hut circle with entrance in west."
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