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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Aller Brook Alternative Name: Aller Brook EastCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Dartmeet
Map Ref: SX67807168
Latitude: 50.529919N Longitude: 3.866589W
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 the Aller Brook East Cist comes from Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us: "only the four sides of the cist remain (1.0 x 0.5m), orientated WNW. Around it are two or three flat slabs of the retaining circle but the cover stone has gone as have all traces of the mound."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 1100139, which adds that "Faint traces of the enclosing cairn are still visible as ground remains. However, it is difficult to confirm the interpretation of the three recumbant stones lying in an arc around the cist as the vestiges of a kerb."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV20166 dates the cist from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). Scheduled monument number 1020487, which includes "part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Ventford Reservoir."
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