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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle Alternative Name: Hemstone Rocks N3; Grinsell Lydford 17b; Turner E12Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Frenchbeer
Map Ref: SX6485683806
Latitude: 50.638233N Longitude: 3.912514W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website includes information about the Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle. Described as the "remains of a cairn 8.0 metres diameter and up to 0.2 metres high to the north of the hut settlement. There are two pits cut into it, probably the result of work carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1901."
Further details can be found in the Pastscape Record for this site, Monument Number 443951, which tells us that this cist is part of a monument comprising seven hut circles, a possible cist, a possible ring cairn and fragments of contemporary walling 200 yards north of Hemstone Rocks.
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER, HER number MD6730 (Cairn north of Hemstone Rocks Settlement, Fernworthy) dates the site to the Bronze Age (2200 BC to 701 BC) although it tells us this cairn is 330 metres north of Hemstone Rocks Settlement, Fernworthy Plantation. Interestingly, it adds a paragraph from the 1901 report by Baring Gould, "North of hemstone rocks and about two hundred yards from the brow of the clatter. The western most cairn had been denuded of its stones but on digging into the stump a pit in the 'calm' was found 22 inches in diameter and 15 inches deep. It contained burnt bones, wood charcoal and two small pieces of fired flint. This pit was surrounded by a circle of small stones 3 feet in diameter. A small cairn hard by rendered a little wood charcoal in a hollow depression in the calm. Further east is another ruined cairn with a neat pit dug in the calm and covered with a flat stone. It contained much wood charcoal."
The site is scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1017986 (Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns and section of field system 330m north east of Hemstone Rocks).
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