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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Eastern White Barrow Cairn Alternative Name: The Submarine Cairn; Eastern Whittabarrow; Eastern Whittaburrow; Grinsell South Brent 1Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Shipley Bridge
Map Ref: SX6653865157
Latitude: 50.471003N Longitude: 3.882052W
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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Cairn in Devon
Featuring on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website, the Eastern White Barrow or Submarine Cairn is described as "A large, round, flat topped cairn measuring 26m in diameter and 3.5m high. It is surmounted by a modern, drum-shaped, marker cairn of 4.5m diameter and 2m high. Known as The Submarine due to its appearance in profile on the horizon."
The Pastscape Record for this monument (number 441441) also tells us that this barrow sits on a prominent summit, at the east end of a broad ridge at 472m above OD ..... the original profile of the cairn is uncertain."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor says that the monument (number MDV5184) is in good condition and that "this is a large cairn composed of granite boulders with no signs of a central depression and no grassing over. The top has been rebuilt in a cylindrical shape about 2m in diameter within the last few years. Apart from some surface mine workings nearby there are no traces of surrounding banks or ditches (1984)."
The barrow is scheduled as Historic England List ID 1002660 (Eastern White Barrow).
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