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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ditsworthy Circle - Cairn in England in Devon

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ditsworthy Circle Alternative Name: Grinsell List B Sheepstor 36
Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth  Nearest Village: Sheepstor / Cadover Bridge
Map Ref: SX58376570
Latitude: 50.473965N  Longitude: 3.997286W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Ditsworthy Circle submitted by davep : The Ditsworthy Circle Ring Setting Cairn and Cist. Photograph taken 23rd June 2017. From Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, Site 441. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Devon

Information about the Ditsworthy Circle Ring Setting Cairn and Cist comes from Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us this site comprises the "remains of a ring cairn with three hollows visible within the circle of stones. Two of these probably represent the sites of the two cists recorded by Breton who referred to this cairn as the 'Ditsworthy Circle'. Nothing can be seen of the cists today."

The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 438980, which adds that the site is "On a slight north-west facing slope, in a relatively stone free area at 312m. OD, is a circle of stones averaging 7.0m. diameter and up to 0.7m. high (though most of the earthfast blocks and slabs are from 0.2m. to 0.4m. high). A few slabs are recumbent; other stones often just protrude from the turf particularly within the perimeter where the interior has two rectangular pits 0.2m. deep. There is no central mound and the pits do not seem to represent robbed cists, but the stones certainly indicate the remains of a cairn circle."

The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV42211 dates the cairn to the Bronze Age (2200BC to 701BC). The cairn is scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1019082 (Multi-period remains at Hentor Warren.)
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