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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Stan Lake Platform Cairn CircleCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Walkhampton
Map Ref: SX56917028
Latitude: 50.514773N Longitude: 4.019603W
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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This site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Stan Lake Platform Cairn Circle which tells us this is "(a) much disturbed. Alleged cairn circle." Also see PDW's entry for the Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists.
Information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 440363, which describes this site as "a felled conifer currently obscures much of what appears to be a hut circle rather than a cairn, situated on a south-east slope near a valley bottom .....it seems to be of Type 1, with a levelled interior 3.5m. in diameter and rubble walling 1.1m. wide, with a few upright slabs on the inner face. Externally the hut measures 0.3m. high on the upper side and 0.6m. high on the lower. No entrance can be seen. The hut is probably part of a settlement, now much despoiled, of which other elements occur to the south-west and west "
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