<< Our Photo Pages >> Down Tor cairn - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Down Tor cairn Alternative Name: Hingston Hill Summit 1; Grinsell Walkhampton 30Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown
Map Ref: SX58646931
Latitude: 50.506475N Longitude: 3.99485W
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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graemefield visited on 21st Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 2.5
All around here the moor surface is cratered by tinners pits, but they seem to have left the cairn completely alone, and not disturbed it.
Update September 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Down Tor Cairn, which includes a description, a photograph, plus links to other sources of information.
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monment No. 438580, which adds there is an area of disturbance in the centre top of the cairn, and some post-medieval tin pits on its south-western side. The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes a record; see MDV3440 (Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615 metres east-south-east of Down Tor).
The cairn is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1009089 (Round cairn and later tin prospecting pits 615m ESE of Down Tor), which tells us: "(the cairn is) situated on a saddle between the north west flank of Eylesbarrow and Down Tor. The cairn mound measures 15.5m in diameter and stands up to 1.5m high. A `T'-shaped trench cutting into the centre of the mound suggests partial early excavation, although the results of the investigation are not known".
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