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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Holne Ridge North Alternative Name: Holne Ridge N3; Butler Cist 3 (V4 60.26)Country: England County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Whiteworks / Two Bridges
Map Ref: SX6664171138
Latitude: 50.524784N Longitude: 3.882739W
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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A cist within a cairn cemetery in Devon
Information about the first, the Holne Ridge North Cist, which is north west of Holne Ridge Stone Row, comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us: "(this is) a probable but unusual cist is on steep well drained, NW facing slope. It utilizes the south east side of a massive slab, 1.6m long, 0.4m thick and 0.7m high, with smaller slabs 0.6m to 0.9m long and 0.2m thick, which barely project above ground level".
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 443179, which adds that the site sits 365 metres above OD (sea level) ... a possible coverstone has fallen into the cist."
This monument is also recorded as MDV12997 (Cairn forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER. The cairn and cist are scheduled as part of Historic England List ID 1019273 (Eight cairns forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge and a stone alignment immediately west of Horn's Cross).
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