Hound Tor Ring Cairn [Grinsell Manaton 13; Turner D8; Dixon 58; Butler (V5 p179); Butler (V1 8.6)] Ring Cairn : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hound Tor Ring Cairn Alternative Name: Grinsell Manaton 13; Turner D8; Dixon 58; Butler (V5 p179); Butler (V1 8.6)
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Village: Manaton
Map Ref: SX7409778770
Latitude: 50.595038N Longitude: 3.780191W
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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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3	Ordinary
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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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markj99 visited on 12th Sep 2022 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Hound Tor Kerb Cairn is easily visited at the foot of Hound Tor. The kerb cairn has a continuous kerb from N Arc to S Arc. The central cist has been exposed. The interior of the cairn has been entirely robbed of stones except for S & W Cist Stones.

TheCaptain visited on 26th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 From the top of Hound Tor, I make my way south to look for the cairn and cist, but it is easy to find with obvious pathways leading to it. It is a splendid thing, about two thirds of a circle of contiguous surrounding stones with remains of a large cist box in the centre. I sit here for a fair while watching the sunlight fading on the Hound Tor rocks before heading back to the car.

graemefield visited on 1st Jan 2004 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.67 Access: 3.67

Hound Tor Ring Cairn, Dartmoor, Devon, is a ring cairn (Cairn Circle) 6.5 metres in diameter with an outer incomplete set of granite kerb stones. In the center of the cairn is a cist.

This site is located a few hundred metres south west of Hound Tor and 215metres east of East Lodge.

Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Houndtor Down Ring Setting Cairn and Cist, which tells us: "(This is) a ring cairn surviving as a mound 6.5 metres in diameter and 0.15 metres high. It is defined, except on the west side, by a ring of at least 19 close set granite stones. In the centre of the cairn is a north to south orientated cist, with both end stones and the western side stone remaining visible".

The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 455101, as MDV7398 (Cist in the Parish of Manaton) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1016254 (Ring cairn south west of Hound Tor, 215m east of East Lodge).
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