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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cosdon Hill cairn 9 Alternative Name: Cosdon Hill N4; Grinsell South Tawton 10; Butler (map 40.9)
Country: England County: Devon Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Sticklepath
Map Ref: SX63419250
Latitude: 50.716034N Longitude: 3.936164W
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

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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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**Cosdon Hill cairn 9** submitted by thecaptain : The round cairn on the northwestern slopes of Cosdon Hill. Viewed here looking west over Belstone Common, some of the surrounding stones can be seen in amongst the long grass. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This cairn on the north western slopes of Cosdon Hill is marked on the DEFRA Magic Map, and it has been suggested that perhaps I had found this when I thought I had found a stone circle. So, the first thing to do is to find and identify this cairn.

After a bit of searching round by estimating my position with the map, I found nothing. So I resorted to my gps, and after a while, I found the cairn, not exactly where it has been recorded, but not far away. The cairn is exactly as it is described in its description, about 7 metres diameter, up to 0.8 metres high, with several edge set stones around its southern edge. It also seems to be surrounded by a ring of small stones.

So this rules out the cairn theory for the possible stone circle.

Update December 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Cosdon Hill Encircled Cairn.The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 1394823, as MDV13064 (Round cairn on Cosdon Hill, 1010 metres north of Cosdon Beacon), and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1020244 (Round cairn on Cosdon Hill, 1010m north of Cosdon Beacon).
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SX6392 : Foxes' Holt, Cosdon - Dartmoor by Richard Knights — by Richard Knights
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SX6392 : Foxes' Holt by Guy Wareham — by Guy Wareham
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SX6392 : Open Moorland by Tony Atkin — by Tony Atkin
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SX6392 : Moorland near Cosdon Hill by Derek Harper — by Derek Harper
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SX6392 : Boggy moorland near Cosdon Hill by Derek Harper — by Derek Harper
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