<< Our Photo Pages >> Harrowthorn - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Harrowthorn Alternative Name: Harrowthorn (North of); Harrow Thorn; Grinsell Cornwood 15; Dixon 83Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Harford / Cornwood
Map Ref: SX6244662645
Latitude: 50.447478N Longitude: 3.938757W
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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This site, Harrowthorn (north of) Cist, is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website. Lying between Dendles Waste to the west and Stalldown Barrow to the east, the PDW notes tell us this cist is: "located 200m due east up hill of the Coome Brook enclosure, a cist lies 700 yards north of Harrowthorn Plantation and a few feet west of the track from Watercombe Moorgate to Ranny Brook. Only the two side stones and the eastern end stone remain. The structure is unusual in that the southern side stone is an earth fast boulder, an approximately vertical face of which forms a side of the cist."
More details can found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 442240, which adds that "the cist lies on a gentle, well drained south facing slops at 335m above OD. Its internal dimensions are 0.8m by 0.5m and it is aligned on a grid bearing of 121 degrees. The natural boulder, which forms the southwest side measures, 1.5m by 1.1m and 0.8m high. The surrounding cairn, 3.2m diameter and 0.8m high is built of small stones."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV4269 dates the cairn and cist from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC).
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