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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Narrator Brookhead Cairn Alternative Name: Hingston Hill Chambered Cairn; Grinsell Walkhampton 32
Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Sheepstor
Map Ref: SX5919569446
Latitude: 50.507832N Longitude: 3.98708W
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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

4 Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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4 Access:

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
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Narrator Brookhead Cairn** submitted by TheCaptain : This is a big old cairn about 20 metres in diameter, and up to 2 metres high. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This is a big old cairn which lies in line with the Down Tor stone row, about 150 metres distant from its eastern end. The cairn is about 20 metres in diameter, and up to 2 metres high. It is mostly a pile of clear granite stones, but in places it looks like there may be some structure to parts of it.

Fairly inconspicuous relative to the large cairn, are two much smaller cairns at its base on the southwest side, both only a couple of metres diameter, but both showing signs of side set slabs. These reminded me of the Giants Basin, with its smaller cairns around it.

There are other less conspicuous cairns around here.

Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Hingston Hill Chambered Cairn and the Down Tor Stone Row and Cairn Circle, which tells us this large cairn which can be found on the north-western side of Down Tor (Hingston Hill) stone row has been claimed to contain a cist; it is a large round cairn located on the flat saddle of Hingston Hill, measuring 17m in diameter.

The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 438589, as MDV3375 (Cairn 170 metres north-east of Down Tor Stone Row) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1009092 (Round cairn east of Down Tor, 770m north east of Combshead Tor).
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85m WNW 285° Narrator Brookhead Enclosure* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX5911369471)
183m WSW 251° Down Tor stone row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX59026939)
543m WSW 250° Down Tor circle* Stone Circle (SX58686927)
570m WSW 255° Down Tor cairn* Cairn (SX58646931)
804m W 277° Down Tor North East (Eastern)* Cairn (SX5839769562)
814m W 277° Down Tor North East (Northern)* Cairn (SX5838869568)
815m W 277° Down Tor North East (Western)* Cairn (SX5838669565)
910m WSW 239° Down Tor Circular Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX5840069000)
1.0km SW 223° Cuckoo Rock (Dartmoor)* Rock Art (SX5846668715)
1.2km SE 137° Eylesbarrow* Barrow Cemetery (SX59976858)
1.2km W 261° Down Tor Cist* Cist (SX58046929)
1.2km NW 318° Crazy Well Cross* Ancient Cross (SX58387039)
1.3km ENE 67° Siward's Cross* Ancient Cross (SX60456995)
1.7km SW 224° Outholme Newtake* Cist (SX57996827)
1.7km SSW 196° Leeden (Sheepstor)* Cairn (SX5869267838)
1.9km NE 55° Whiteworks Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX60767047)
2.0km S 178° Drizzlecombe cist 21* Cist (SX5922867476)
2.1km S 174° Standing Stone Near Cairn at Head of Drizzlecombe Row 4* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX5937067374)
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2.1km NW 322° Raddick Hill Cist* Cist (SX57937116)
2.2km S 176° Drizzlecombe Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX59306723)
2.2km SW 218° Yellowmead ring cairn* Ring Cairn (SX57776774)
2.2km S 180° Drizzlecombe cairn 13* Cist (SX5915167208)
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