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<< Text Pages >> Shilstone Common (DRE 1a) Cairn Circle - Cairn in England in Devon

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shilstone Common (DRE 1a) Cairn Circle Alternative Name: Grinsell List B Dresteignton 1a; Butler (V5 p218)
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.045 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Chagford  Nearest Village: Whiddon Down
Map Ref: SX6990090800
Latitude: 50.702244N  Longitude: 3.843685W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Cairn in Devon

Information about this cairn comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Shilstone Common (DRE 1a) Cairn Circle and 'A Reappraisal of Tyler's The Stone Remains in Drewsteignton'. PDW tells us that: "(The) Site dismissed by R.H. Worth but probable cairn remains found during field excavations by Major F.C. Tyler in 1930".

Details about this site remain confused, but further details can be found at:
Pastscape Monument No 444094, and MDV7010 (Possible site of stone settings near Spinsters Rock) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, which tells us that in the 19th century stone rows and circles were recorded at this location, their records also refer to hut circles. "(The) Only signs remaining in the 1970s were a few recorded stones".

For more information about this dubious stone row, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Spinster's Rock and Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor's entry for Spinster's Rock.
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SX7090 : Higher Shilstone Farm by Roger Cornfoot
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SX7090 : Spinsters Rock by Peter Mackenzie
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SX7090 : Spinster's Rock by Derek Harper
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SX7090 : Spinsters Rock by Chris Andrews
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