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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Piles Hill Cairns Alternative Name: Grinsell Harford 12; Turner A53Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ivybridge
Map Ref: SX653609
Latitude: 50.432457N Longitude: 3.897956W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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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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Piles Hill Cairns, Piles Hill, Dartmoor.
On the top of Piles Hill are the remains of three cairns.
On the summit is a large cairn about 18 metres diameter, which has had the usual mutilations and digging in its top. Around the outside of this, about 5 metres further, is a large ring, which is perhaps the remains of a platform onto which the cairn was built.
To the north of this is a smaller, but more well defined cairn about 15m diameter, which has at some point in time been remodelled into a shelter. It has a reasonably well defined ring of stones around its perimeter.
The third cairn is no more than a small bump. Visited Sunday, 20th June 2004
Update November 2019: The Piles Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle at SX 65334 60849 is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. This bell cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441922, as MDV5763 (Ring cairn on Piles Hill) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012474 (Cairn on Piles Hill).
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206m SE 140° The Longstone (Piles Hill)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX65436074)
326m NW 309° Piles Hill W* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX65056111)
478m SSE 153° Hobajons Cross* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX65516047)
615m ENE 69° Piles Hill NE* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX65886111)
639m SE 136° Glasscombe Ball North* Stone Row / Alignment (SX6573360429)
644m SE 130° Glasscombe Ball North (North Cairn)* Cairn (SX6578360473)
651m SE 137° Glasscombe Ball North (South Cairn)* Cairn (SX65736041)
716m SSE 159° Butterdon Hill Row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX6553960225)
744m ESE 105° Glasscombe Corner Stone Row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX6601660691)
752m ESE 108° Glasscombe Corner SW Terminal Cairn* Cairn (SX6601060646)
804m E 96° Glasscombe Ball NE* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6610060802)
939m NNW 340° Sharp Tor cairn* Cairn (SX65006179)
998m SW 228° Lower Piles* Ring Cairn (SX6453660255)
1.0km S 184° Butterbrook* Stone Row / Alignment (SX652599)
1.0km WSW 244° Lower Piles Enclosed Settlement Ancient Village or Settlement (SX64376048)
1.0km S 190° Harford Moor N* Stone Row / Alignment (SX651599)
1.0km NNW 342° Sharp Tor North East* Stone Row / Alignment (SX65006188)
1.1km SE 145° Spurrell's Cross* Ancient Cross (SX65915997)
1.1km ENE 70° Upper Glazebrook* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX66366126)
1.1km S 189° Harford S.* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX651598)
1.1km SSE 150° Spurrells Cross Row* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6583759896)
1.2km SSE 150° Spurrell's Cross Row Terminal Cairn Cairn (SX6585859864)
1.2km SSE 154° Spurrells Cross Cairn Circle* Stone Circle (SX658598)
1.3km ESE 107° Lower Glasscombe* Cist (SX6650660502)
1.3km ENE 77° Corringdon Ball* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6660761169)
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