<< Our Photo Pages >> White Ridge pound - Ring Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Ridge pound Alternative Name: South Teignhead Pound; Whie Ridge; Teignhead Henge; Turner A5; Butler (map 35.18)Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Chagford
Map Ref: SX6416882656
Latitude: 50.627737N Longitude: 3.921816W
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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graemefield visited on 28th Feb 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 1
TheCaptain have visited here
This one is between 20 and 25 metred in diameter, surrounded by an embanked rubble wall up to a metre in height, and with an entrance on the western side still with a jamb in place, at which point the walls are easiest to see.
There is a large elongated slab near to the middle of the structure, which looks to me like it should once have been standing.
I tried to walk directly between the two enclosures, but do not recommend it, as I ended up knee deep in a very wet and squelchy bog.
Update December 2019: Pastscape Monument No. 443925 tells us that this enclosure has now been identified as a ring cairn. It is also included as MDV6754 (Pound 320 metres south-east of the Grey Wethers stone circles) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1018707 (Two stone circles known as The Grey Wethers, three round cairns, two ring cairns and an oval enclosure in Great Stannon Newtake).
The cairn is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW website - see their entry for the South Teignhead / White Ridge Stone Ring Cairn Circle.
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