<< Our Photo Pages >> Leeden (Sheepstor) - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Leeden (Sheepstor) Alternative Name: Eyelsburrow W; Dixon 45; Grinsell Sheepstor 7; Butler Eylesbarrow SW (V3 47.11)Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Sheepstor
Map Ref: SX5869267838
Latitude: 50.493258N Longitude: 3.99356W
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 and cist in Devon
This cist in the parish of Sheepstor is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website- see tneir entry for the Leeden Cist.
Further information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 438574. Their field notes from 1995 tell us "A disturbed cairn and cist lie on a NW-facing hillslope at SX58696784. The turf-covered and spread stony mound is 5.9m in diameter and about 0.4m high with some kerb slabs and boulders in situ. The apparently off-centre cist measures 1.8m by 0.9m internally and 0.4m deep; one large, leaning slab, probably the displaced coverstone measures 1.1m by 0.8m. Spoil from the disturbances lies on and about the mound."
The notes continue: "The cairn is not difficult to find 200m south of Eylesbarrow Reave, its upended capstone propped to one side of the cist prominent on the bare hillside ... An attempt was made to restore the cist shortly before 1929 ... Stone cutters were responsible for at least part of the damage as one of the loose slabs bears the marks of the masons' tools, but one end slab remains in position and the south side, made up of two stones on edge, is also possibly an original feature ... The structure may be one of those rare burial cairns covering two cists. Around the base of the mound a few stones remain of an outer ring."
This site is also recorded as MDV3341 (Cairn with a cist north of Whittenknowles Rocks) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1010657 (Cairn with a cist north of Whittenknowles Rocks).
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