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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knatta Barrow Alternative Name: KnattabarrowCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Shipley Bridge
Map Ref: SX6595464218
Latitude: 50.462429N Longitude: 3.889941W
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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Ring Cairn in Devon
Information about the Knatta Barrow Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us "this large cairn (24m diameter, 1.7m height) is composed of loose granite boulders. It is unusual among summit cairns in having a well defined outer bank about 1m wide and 0.5m high. This is partly turf covered but where eroded can be seen to be built of loose stone like the central cairn which touches it. It shows best on the north and east sides, while on the south west side it tends to merge into the body of the cairn."
The cairn is also recorded on Pastscape: Monument Number 441767, which adds that "The name "Knatta Barrow" is in current usage and is applied to an embanked cairn of two distinct parts, at approximately 450m OD. There is a central cairn 20.0m in diameter and 1.7m high which may originally have had a flat or platform top, now much disturbed by the creation of small shelters and modern cairns. Contiguous to the base is an encircling bank of stones 2.5m wide and 0.7m high on the outer face; the inner face is but 0.2m high but here it has had to retain spillage and slip from the central mound. Visually it cannot be determined whether this was a ring cairn to which a central cairn was added or if the ring was a subsequent construction."
The barrow is also recorded as MDV5717 (Knatta Barrow, Quickbeam Hill) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No.1002659 (Knatta Barrow).
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