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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Birch Tor Cairn Alternative Name: Birch Tor Summit; Grinsell (North Bovey 1)
Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Moretonhampstead Nearest Village: Postbridge / Lettaford
Map Ref: SX6868681654
Latitude: 50.619767N Longitude: 3.85762W
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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4 Access:

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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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
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**Birch Tor Cairn** submitted by Bladup : Birch Tor Cairn. Showing the 2 stones on the cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The remains of a large, flat-topped cairn lie on the ridge crest 230m N of Birch Tor. The spread, heather-covered mound measures 16m N to S by 18m and a maximum of 1.8m high on the W.

The centre and S margin of this feature have apparently suffered from an unrecorded excavation with spoil dumped to the S and on the E fringe of the mound. Two large upright slabs are embedded in the unexcavated interior of the cairn.

This cairn also features on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Birch Tor Cairn, which tells us the cairn (which they record as measuring 17.0 x 2.0m) has been heavily disturbed.

The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443799 and scheduled as Historic England List ID 1021341 (Round cairn and Headland Warrant boundary stone 210m north of Birch Tor).
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

SX6881 : Old Boundary Marker north of Birch Tor, North Bovey parish by A Rosevear — by A Rosevear
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SX6881 : Birch Tor by Cathy Cox — by Cathy Cox
©2005(licence)

SX6881 : Cairn by the way by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
©2018(licence)

SX6881 : Ruin near Birch Tor by MrC — by MrC
©2008(licence)

SX6881 : The view from the crest [2] by Michael Dibb — by Michael Dibb
©2018(licence)

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