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<< Our Photo Pages >> Brockhill Ford - Cairn in England in Devon

Submitted by Bladup on Monday, 07 October 2002  Page Views: 7174

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brockhill Ford Alternative Name: Turner D3; Dixon 101; Grinsell Dean Prior 2
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Buckfastleigh  Nearest Village: Didworthy / Higher Coombe
Map Ref: SX6780965702  Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.476189N  Longitude: 3.864345W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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Catrinm visited on 2nd Jul 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Cairn circle and cist quite well preserved , with view to the sea and Rame Head on a clear day. **MP can this be labeled as cairn circle and cist as it is not a cairn.

Brockhill Ford
Brockhill Ford submitted by Bladup : Brockhill Ford. It's listed above as a stone circle but it's really a cairn circle and cist (ed.: amended, thanks). This is a photo of the ruined cist [foreground] and some circle stones [background]. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn circle with cist.

Update August 2019: This cairn with cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Brockhill Ford Ring Setting Cairn and Cist. PDW tells us: "The side stones, both 1.4m long, lean inwards and the end stones north west 0.7m long, southeast 0.8m long, are firmly set. The probable coverstone, 1.2m by 0.8m, is displaced and lies to the south east of the cist. The cist is surrounded by the remains of a stone circle, long axis 8.8m, aligned with cist, short axis 7.2m."

This monument is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441411, which classifies this as a 'stone circle with cist'. The Devon & Dartmoor HER also includes an entry for this site: MDV5234 (Cist with retaining Stone Circle 200 metres north of Avon Dam Reservoir).
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Brockhill Ford
Brockhill Ford submitted by Bladup : Brockhill Ford. In this photo you can see the cist [left center] and some circle stones. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Brockhill Ford
Brockhill Ford submitted by Bladup : Brockhill Ford. In this photo you can see the stones of the circle on the left and the cist on the right. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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 109m W 268° Brockhill Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX677657)
 257m S 190° Dean Moor Enclosed Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX67766545)
 862m ESE 102° Gripper's Hill Cairn Circle* Ring Cairn (SX68656550)
 954m SSE 158° Gripper's Hill Enclosed Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX68156481)
 1.4km WSW 245° Eastern White Barrow Cairn* Cairn (SX6653865157)
 1.4km S 175° Riders Rings* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6788964294)
 1.5km ESE 116° Harbourne Head A* Ring Cairn (SX6911765034)
 1.5km ESE 116° Harbourne Head B* Ring Cairn (SX6914265001)
 1.7km S 171° Brent Moor House Cist (SX68026404)
 1.7km N 350° Inner Pupers Ring Cairn (SX67556741)
 1.8km NNW 341° Puper's Rock Ring Cairn (SX67276737)
 1.8km NW 307° Huntingdon Warren Plane Crash Memorial Cross Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SX6642266804)
 1.8km NNW 339° Outer Pupers Ring Cairn (SX672674)
 1.9km WNW 287° Huntingdon Warren Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX660663)
 2.0km ESE 107° Harbourne Head Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SX69686509)
 2.0km NW 306° Huntingdon Barrow* Long Barrow (SX6621266907)
 2.1km W 278° Buckland Ford* Stone Circle (SX65746604)
 2.2km WNW 282° Huntingdon Warren Clapper Bridge* Ancient Trackway (SX65706619)
 2.2km S 181° Black Tor SW* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6773063494)
 2.3km S 176° Black Tor (Avon)* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX67916338)
 2.4km SW 230° Knatta Barrow Ring Cairn (SX6595464218)
 2.5km W 263° Western White Barrow* Cairn (SX6535465480)
 2.6km ESE 104° Skerraton Down Round Cairn (SX703650)
 2.7km NNW 339° Snowdon Cairns (Dartmoor)* Barrow Cemetery (SX669682)
 3.3km S 186° Hickley Ridge East* Cist (SX6740262381)
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Re: Brockhill Ford by Catrinm on Sunday, 02 July 2023
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Worth visiting and accessible but MP can it be accurately labelled cairn circle and cist not cairn as there is explicitly no cairn
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    Re: Brockhill Ford by Bladup on Monday, 03 July 2023
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    Hi Catrinm, I hope your well, There isn't cairn circle or kerb cairn in the list of things to call the site on the portal, You only have cairn or cist to choose from, I thought cist was downplaying the site because of it's kerb, So i chose cairn instead, I agree that this isn't quite right, I myself would like to have called it a 'kerb cairn with cist', I'm guessing you would call it a 'cist with kerb'. I asked years ago for kerb cairn to be added to the site list (for cairns with kerbs) but i understand now how that could be problematic for like you said 'a kerb without any cairn material', I will end by saying that sometimes the cairn material is very low and under the turf at a kerb cairn with cist but it's often there nevertheless.
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