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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hemstone Rocks Ring Cairn and Cist Alternative Name: Hemstone Rocks N2; Grinsell Lydford 17a; Turner D9; Butler Hemstone Rocks N1Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Moretonhampstead Nearest Village: Frenchbeer
Map Ref: SX6485283850
Latitude: 50.638627N Longitude: 3.912587W
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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Cairn on Dartmoor
This cairn and cist are featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Hemstone Rocks Ring Setting Cairn and Cist, which tells us: "(there is a) central cist. Next to Turner Platform Circle E12 ... There are 3 cairns in the vicinity and they are according to Newman [2013] impossible to match up with the old reports. These cairns were excavated by Baring-Gould in 1900. A flint flake was found in the cist. There is also a rectangular pit in this cairn which could be from the 1900 excavation".
The cairn is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 443951 and as MDV6729 (Ring cairn north of Hemstone Rocks Settlement, Fernworthy) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER. The site is also scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1017986 (Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns and section of field system 330m north east of Hemstone Rocks).
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