<< Our Photo Pages >> Great Links Tor Cairn - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Great Links Tor CairnCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Sourton / Lydford
Map Ref: SX5491686496
Latitude: 50.660017N Longitude: 4.054043W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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There is a large depression in its middle, with some fairly large stones laying randomly around, perhaps the remains of a chamber or kist.
Update October 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Great Links Tor Cairn, which tells us there is variation in the sizing of the cairn from various sources: "(this is a) cairn with a hollow in centre. Diameter 17.5m, height 1.6m. ... (Grinsell) 18.0m diameter, 1.4m high. Siting - hillspur. ... (Gerrard) cairn mound measures 19m in diameter and stands up to 1.5m high. An irregular shaped hollow in the centre of the mound, measuring 4m long, 3m wide and up to 1.3m deep, suggests partial early excavation or robbing".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440566 and on the Devon and Dartmoor HER as MDV4653 (Round cairn 310 metres south-south-west of Great Links Tor).
The cairn is also scheduled as Historic England List UD 1007628 (Round cairn 310m SSW of Great Links Tor).
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