<< Our Photo Pages >> Cosdon Hill Cairn Circle - Stone Circle in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cosdon Hill Cairn Circle Alternative Name: Cosdon Beacon; Grinsell South Tawton 5; Turner E15Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: South Zeal
Map Ref: SX64339159 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.708071N Longitude: 3.922805W
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 |
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| 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 |
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markj99 visited on 31st Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 It is quite a steep walk up Cosdon Hill to this outstanding triple stone row. The stones are not very tall but this impressive monument is well worth a visit. The cairn at the W end is ruined but there are remains of a double cist in the centre.
SandyG visited on 1st Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2
TheCaptain cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 5 Access: 2
The remains of the cairn at the uphill end of the rows is approx 8 metres in diameter, and has been substantially messed about with. Despite this, there are the clear remains of a double cist in the centre of the cairn, the downhill one of which still has its capstone largely in place. Several stones also remain in place of an outer ring, which is possibly what is often referred to as a stone circle.
Update September 2019: This platform cairn and cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Cosdon (stone row) Platform Cairn Circle and Cist. PDW tells us: "The cairn associated with the Cosdon Hill triple stone row is 26 feet in diameter and contains the remains of two cists; the retaining circle is very irregular. Of the two cists, one is intact, the other has been robbed of the cover-stone and two side-stones".
The cairn is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 444168 and the Devon and Dartmoor HER entry for MDV48906 (Cairn with cists associated with triple stone row east of Cawsand Beacon). The cairn is also scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1013426 (Triple stone alignment and cairn 780m east of Cawsand Beacon).
The cairn also features as part of the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for the Cosdon stone row, which includes photographs of the cairn showing its relationship to the alignment, plus a plan of the row and its associated cairn.
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