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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Whitehorse Hill cist Alternative Name: White Horse Hill cistCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Village: Chagford
Map Ref: SX6172485476
Latitude: 50.652507N Longitude: 3.957402W
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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The monument includes a cist situated near the summit of Whitehorse Hill. The cist was, until 2001, visible in the edge of an irregularly shaped island of peat standing above its surroundings. Only the western edge of the cist was exposed, the remainder, including the cist's original contents, being sealed beneath peat deposits. The cist measures 0.3 meters deep by 0.4 meters wide and its capstone remains in its original position. Early in 2001 a protective drystone wall measuring 3.0 meters long by 0.9 meters high was built in front of the western edge of the cist, which as a result is no longer visible.
The drystone wall is included in the scheduling. This cist stands at a considerable height above sea level and, perhaps as a consequence, no broadly contemporary settlements are known to survive within its vicinity. (Department for Culture, Media and Sport 2003)
The stone cist is 0.6 meters long internally. The eastern end stone, the southern side stones and the capstone appear to be in situ but the northern side stone leans inward and the west end stone has collapsed. (Turner, J. R. 2000)
It is thought to be likely that this cist has not been disturbed due to its remote location. Excavation of the cist in order to save it from severe peat erosion started in August 2011. (Richards, A. F. 2011)
Source: Dartmoor HER
Update December 2019: This cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Whitehorse Hill Cist, which includes a photograph of the cist. The cist is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1376648, as MDV66367 (Whitehorse Hill Cist) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1020871 (Cist on Whitehorse Hill, 910m south east of Taw Head).
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