<< Our Photo Pages >> Sharpitor W Terminal Cairn - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sharpitor W Terminal Cairn Alternative Name: Peek Hill Cairn Circle; Grinsell Walkhampton 18Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Yelverton / Princetown Nearest Village: Walkhampton / Dousland
Map Ref: SX5505670751
Latitude: 50.518549N Longitude: 4.045919W
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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This is the terminal cairn of the Sharpitor West single stone row, details of which come from the Stone Rows of Britain website - see their entry for Sharpitor, West, which includes a plan of the row showing this cairn at its north eastern terminal and a tall pillar stone at its other end.
The cairn is also featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Sharpitor W. (Peek Hill) Cairn Circle and the Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists. PDW tells us that: "The cairn lies on a gentle SW slope NE of Horseyeatt farm, with a stone row see running SW from it. The cairn is about 7m in diameter and 0.6m height, partly turf-covered, with a central hollow. The visible set stones within the cairn suggest two or three underlying concentric stone circles".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument NO. 440234, as MDV5011 (Cairn at north-eastern end of a stone row north-east of Horseyeatt) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1019566 (Stone alignment, five cairns, two stone hut circles and a length of reave 600m north east of Horseyeatt).
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