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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shell Top Cairn Circle Alternative Name: Shell Top Summit 3; Grinsell Cornwood 1a; Turner A44Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.118 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Lee Moor / Cornwood
Map Ref: SX5983063830 Landranger Map Number: 202
Latitude: 50.457509N Longitude: 3.976023W
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 |
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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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Ring cairn in Devon
Update December 2019: Information about this ring cairn comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Shell Top Stone Ring Cairn Circle, which tells us that this is: "a stone ring 20.5m overall diameter, comprising small, heather covered stones, 0.8m wide and 0.2m high. It lies on the broad level summit of shell top at 475m above sea level. There is a wide 3m wide gap on the north side and the interior is slightly domed, about 0.4m high, possibly a natural rise since it is off-centre. The term 'stone circle' is rather a mis-nomer since only half a dozen stones protrude from the turf and in appearance it is simply a low circular bank".
This cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439297, as MDV12790 (Ring cairn in the parish of Cornwood) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012696 (Ring cairn on Shell Top).
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