<< Our Photo Pages >> Bellever Tor 10 - Cist in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bellever Tor 10 Alternative Name: Dunnabridge Newtake Cist; Dunnabridge Pound Farm Newtake; Grinsell Lydford 66; Dixon 87Country: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Dartmeet
Map Ref: SX64077568
Latitude: 50.565015N Longitude: 3.920646W
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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TheCaptain visited on 18th Sep 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Second cain I looked for first had the challenge of getting across the wall into the eastern area. I found the cairn in what I thought was a most unlikely place on a slope, the remains being largely a single cist sideslab, with a few other stones laying nearby.
This site, some 1.2 km north west of Dunnabridge Pound, is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website (PDW) as the Dunnabridge Pound Farm Newtake Cist and forms part of their "Lakehead Hill" walk.
More details can be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 442665, which says the "remains of cist consisting of a slab of granite standing upright to a to height of 0.75m. It is 0.8m wide and 0.2m thick and appears to be an end-stone. At its foot is a slab which is partially buried and it was impossible to take its dimensions. There are no traces of a cairn or of a retaining circle" and "remains of cist within a much robbed cairn .. on a steep south slope at 351m OD." They go onto say " is the feature published as a cist. A levelled area, 1.1m. by 0.7m. has been created by cutting into the bedded stones which seem to be a natural occurrence. There is no cairn. It is extremely doubtful if this was ever a cist though the excavator may have suspected one; and it cannot in any way be reconciled with the cist recorded by slope to expose one upright stone 0.7m. high and 0.8m. wide which could be mistaken for an end stone. This is on the west side. On the east there is a prone slab, the base of which is earthfast and on the north two horizontally Worth."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV5891 dates the cist to the Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). Their information tells us this is "cist of cairn 10 south-west of Bellever Tor."
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