<< Our Photo Pages >> Glasscombe Ball North (South Cairn) - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Glasscombe Ball North (South Cairn) Alternative Name: Grinsell Ugborough 5; Glasscomb 5; Butler (map 56.13)Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Harford / Didworthy
Map Ref: SX65736041
Latitude: 50.428151N Longitude: 3.891729W
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 cairn is located at the southern end of the Glasscombe Ball North stone row. It is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Glasscombe Ball N.W. Cairn.
The cairn is also recorded as part of Pastscape Monument No. 441946, as part of MDV5660 (Cairn on Ugborough Moor) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1017610 (Stone alignment and two cairns to the north-west of Glasscombe Ball). Pastscape tells us: "The south-west cairn, 4.0m. in diameter and 0.8m. high is of close-packed stones and turf-covered. It may not be associated with the row since it is off the alignment. Although Worth classifies the row as a single one a number of stones are missing or recumbent and probably mis-placed and it could have been a double row in its original state".
For more information about the stone row, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Glasscombe Ball, North.
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