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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gripper's Hill Cairn CircleCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Shipley Bridge
Map Ref: SX68656550
Latitude: 50.474563N Longitude: 3.852428W
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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Information about the Gripper's Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes say this is a "ring cairn on Gripper's Hill; stone ring 14.0 metres in diameter internally, with bank 1.2 metres wide and 0.3 metres high."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 441390, which adds that there are the remains of two cairns in the near vicinity .... both of which sit on the broad summit of Gripper's Hill at 335m above OD (sea level)."
"Cairn A: A SX 68656551. A round cairn, 10.4 m diameter and 0.6 m high, is constructed of small boulders and has a flat top, the centre of which has been disturbed."
"Cairn B SX 68596551 (about 60 metres to the west of cairn A): This cairn, 16.8 m overall diameter and 0.4 m high, is constructed of small boulders and consists of a central platform 13.6 m diameter and 0.2 m high with a perimeter rim, average width 1.9 m, height 0.4 m. The rim has an east facing gap, 1.5 m wide. There is a slight central rise, about 0.1 m above the surrounding platform."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV5225 describes cairn A as "one of a pair of cairns on Gripper's Hill. This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor Sites." They date the ring cairns from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC), although they give slightly different dimensions for the cairns.
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