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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Winter Tor Alternative Name: Butler Higher Tor S (V2 40.15); Grinsell Lydford 1; Higher Tor S1Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.436 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Cist
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Belstone
Map Ref: SX6110291335
Latitude: 50.705016N Longitude: 3.968398W
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 |
| 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 |
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Information about the location of Winter Tor Cist comes from Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW).
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 444160, which says this is "a round cairn situated on (a dip in) the ridge between Higher Tor and Oke Tor, 250 metres south east of Winter Tor. The cairn survives as a 10 metre diameter mound standing up to 0.9 metres high. A number of edge set stones on the western side of the mound may indicate the presence a kerb which survives elsewhere as a buried feature. The mound material extends 1.4 metres beyond the outer edge of the kerb. A hollow in the centre of the cairn represents the site of a partial early excavation, which recovered a few fragments of burnt bone. Two large stones sitting within the central pit may be the remnants of a broken cist coverstone. Scheduled."
This cairn is also recorded as MDV6881 (Cairn with cist 240 metres south-east of Winter Tor), and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1017873.
Note: Cairn and cist, nearby to the site of two new stone circles and a dolmen found by Alan Endacott in the area of Taw Marsh, northern Dartmoor. Full sitepages to be created when we have more information.
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