<< Our Photo Pages >> Brockhill Ford - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brockhill Ford Alternative Name: Turner D3; Dixon 101; Grinsell Dean Prior 2Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Buckfastleigh Nearest Village: Didworthy / Higher Coombe
Map Ref: SX6780965702 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.476189N Longitude: 3.864345W
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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Catrinm visited on 2nd Jul 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Cairn circle and cist quite well preserved , with view to the sea and Rame Head on a clear day.
**MP can this be labeled as cairn circle and cist as it is not a cairn.
Update August 2019: This cairn with cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Brockhill Ford Ring Setting Cairn and Cist. PDW tells us: "The side stones, both 1.4m long, lean inwards and the end stones north west 0.7m long, southeast 0.8m long, are firmly set. The probable coverstone, 1.2m by 0.8m, is displaced and lies to the south east of the cist. The cist is surrounded by the remains of a stone circle, long axis 8.8m, aligned with cist, short axis 7.2m."
This monument is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441411, which classifies this as a 'stone circle with cist'. The Devon & Dartmoor HER also includes an entry for this site: MDV5234 (Cist with retaining Stone Circle 200 metres north of Avon Dam Reservoir).
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