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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: White Hill South Alternative Name: Grinsell Peter Tavy 1; Butler (map 32.22.1); Turner A8Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Beardon
Map Ref: SX5294283680
Latitude: 50.634214N Longitude: 4.080833W
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 the White Hill South Cairn Alignment Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes say this is a "ring cairn 460 metres south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery. This monument includes a ring cairn situated on a gentle west-facing slope overlooking Willsworthy Army Camp. The earthwork appears as a raised internal platform measuring 15m in diameter surrounded by a circular bank 3.5m wide and 0.5m high. A shallow hollow in the centre of the internal area suggests robbing or partial early excavation. This cairn forms part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery .... cairn is part of an alignment of cairns (see photo)."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 440672, which adds that this is one of "a group of seven damaged Bronze Age cairns located on the west-facing slope of White Hill." For the cairn at this grid reference they give the description: "A: SX 52948368. A complete ring, 22.0m in external diameter, formed by a bank of earth and small stones 3.8m wide, 0.3m high externally and 0.15m high internally. The slightly raised interior is level except in the north west, where a pit has been dug 4.0m long, 2.0m wide and 0.5m deep; the upcast forms a mound 0.3m high on the west side. This and a small pit in the bank are almost certainly military works. There is no evidence of robbing and while the pit could have coincided with an original off-centre mound it seems more likely that this a simple ring cairn." The Pastscape record gives the grid references of all seven cairns in the group, which they describe as all being turf and heather covered.
The cairn is also recorded as MDV21078 (RING CAIRN in the Parish of Peter Tavy) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, which describes this as the 'westernmost cairn of the group' and dates it from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). It is also scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1011449 (Ring cairn 460m south-west of White Hill summit, forming part of the White Hill round cairn cemetery).
Note: Butler tells us there are six cairns in this group, grid references SX52948369, SX53008367, SX53058366, SX53098365, SX53148365 and SX53158366
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