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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Drizzlecombe cairn 13 Alternative Name: Drizzlecombe 13; Grinsell Sheepstor 25; Dixon 5Country: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX5915167208 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.487707N Longitude: 3.986855W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Anne T visited on 15th May 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Drizzlecombe Cairn 13: Leaving the stone rows behind, we walked up slope and to the WNW. This is a beautiful example of a cairn with central cist. What is very noticeable about this cist is that the stones making up two of the sides projects outside the other two ends. Looking at the Butler diagram for these sites (Volume 3, page 135), cairn 13 is indeed in ine with cairns 2, 3 and 4, but about 150m further from the stone rows.
graemefield visited on 17th May 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2
SandyG AngieLake have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 2.5
The cist has side slabs about 2 m long and spaced 1 metre apart, and it is about 0.7 m deep. The large capstone is tipped off to the west, and can be seen protruding above the cairn from quite some distance away.
The large cist at Drizzlecombe which Burl claims has a row running in an Easterly direction in line with the tilted slab. I looked very carefully & found no sign of such a row. None of my references mention such a row & I have asked around those who should know - again without success. I think this is another of Burls iffy sites.
Update September 2019: This cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Drizzlecombe, North Cist and the Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1).
The cairn, with its central cist, is recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438565, which adds: "The cairn is 12.3m in diameter and on average 0.7m high (1.1m high on the downslope side). The cist measures 0.8m by 0.7m internally and is 0.85m deep; its large capstone, up-ended and partially buried, is 1.9m by 0.9m".
The cairn is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1010654 (Cairn with a cist north of Drizzlecombe Stone Alignments). The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record; see MDV3339 (Cairn and cist at Drizzlecombe).
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