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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blakey Tor WestCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Two Bridges
Map Ref: SX61247355
Latitude: 50.545206N Longitude: 3.959786W
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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Information about Blakey Tor West cist comes from Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks. Their notes say: The incomplete cist is oriented NW-SE. It measures about 0.85m long, 0.4m to 0.55m wide and 0.25m deep internally. The upright W side slab is 0.9m by 0.2m by 0.25m and the surviving end slab is 0.4m by 0.2m by 0.25m. The E side is formed by a flat-sided boulder which is c. 1.1m long, at least 0.6m thick and 0.25m high. The SE side is open. The coverstone is 1.7m by 0.7m by 0.4m and leans against the W side of the cist."
Further information can be found on Pastscape, Monument Number 443262, which adds that the cist is an "open ended box ... lying within an irregularly shaped peaty mound ... possibly a peated up cairn." They record that the cairn "lies on a slight north west slope on a rounded high point to the south of Courton Tor at 372m OD and that it lies amidst a scattered spread of large natural earthfast boulders on a rather uneven peat layer covered by close cropped moorland pasture."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV6244 tell us that this is one of two cairns with cist on Blakey Tor, south of Blackbrook River and north of Royal Hill. "This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor Sites." They date the cairn and cist from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). This site is scheduled.
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