<< Text Pages >> Gibbett Hill - Ring Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gibbett Hill Alternative Name: Grinsell Mary Tavy 1; Turner A15Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.485 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Blackdown
Map Ref: SX49958084
Latitude: 50.607929N Longitude: 4.121962W
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| 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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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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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Catrinm visited on 1st Nov 2025 - their rating: Cond: 1 Access: 4 I’m not certain we found it! There was something that could have ( once been) a hut circle
Which may have been it. Wandering around the MP
App Location ( think way off) and the grid reference !
Information about the Gibbet Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us this is a "stone ring measuring 10.8 meters in diameter internally with bank 1.7 metres wide and 0.4 meters high."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 438145, which adds that this is "the remains of a cairn ... truncated cairn or, less probably, a ring cairn, sited on hill spur. Diameter 17.5 metres." Although the grid references are the same, the dimensions given vary between records.
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor MDV22751 (Ring Cairn on Gibbet Hill, Mary Tavy) dates the cairn from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC). They add that the cairn: "This ring cairn lies around 20 metres west of the trig point. The cairn has a disturbed ring bank and measures about 18 metres in diameter".
Note: PDW tells us: "(This site is) duplicated in HER see 3202 and MDV3202 (Ring Cairn on Gibbet Hill).
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