<< Our Photo Pages >> Wigford Down 4 - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wigford Down 4 Alternative Name: Grinsell Meavy 7a; Turner A39; Butler (map 48.1.4)Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Yelverton Nearest Village: Lovaton / Shaugh Prior
Map Ref: SX5469364969
Latitude: 50.466495N Longitude: 4.048786W
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 this cairn comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) - see their entry for the Wigford Down Embanked Cairn Circle, which tells us this is: "(A) stone ring, diameter 10.5m, with bank 2.5m wide and 0.5m high.3m wide entrance on s side".
The cairn is also one of two recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439543 (Cairn B). It is recorded in its own right as MDV2368 (Ring cairn on Wigford Down) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1002521 (Hut circles W of Wigford Down China Clay Works), which includes details of the same two cairns as in Pastscape, one a ring cairn, the other a kerbed round cairn.
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