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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Langcombe South Alternative Name: Butler Langcombe Brook 6 (Cairn 6 V3 50.3); Turner E23; Langcombe Brook 6Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Whiteworks
Map Ref: SX61256630
Latitude: 50.480047N Longitude: 3.956948W
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 with cist in Devon
Featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website as the Langcombe (S) Platform Cairn Circle and Cist, PDW tells us this is: "a cist, lying a little over 590 yds south west of Grim's Grave, within a flat topped cairn. Cist has two sides and the south end stone are in place and the cover stone rests in part over the cist". Also see their webpage for the Guide to the Langcombe Brook & Deadman's Bottom Cists.
Further information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 441664, which describes this as a cairn and cist dating to the Bronze Age. They add that the cairn sits at the head of a gully which runs down to the Langcombe Brook, on a gentle north east slope at 440m OD.
This site is also recorded as MDV5128 (Cairn with a cist near the head of a southern tributary of Langcombe Brook) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012286 (Cairn with a cist near the head of a southern tributary of Langcombe Brook).
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