<< Our Photo Pages >> Fox Tor Newtake South - Cairn in England in Devon
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fox Tor Newtake South Alternative Name: Butler Ter Hill NW 2; Dixon 20; Grinsell Lydford 98Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Whiteworks
Map Ref: SX62867097
Latitude: 50.522400N Longitude: 3.935986W
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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Sitting 200 metres from Fox Tor Newtake North, this site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website as the Fox Tor Newtake, South Cist . It is described as "the turf-covered cairn is, at maximum, 3.9m in diameter and 0.3m in height. The cist, oriented NW/SE, is approximately 1.3m by 0.55m, and 0.75m deep, and now almost hidden by the SW side stone which has fallen inwards. The NE end stone is not evident but an 0.7m high upright granite post retains part of the mound on this NE side. There is no trace of the coverstone."
Further information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 443325, which tells us that "Investigations by Mr Burnard in 1905 were abandoned when a broken beer bottle was found at the base of a side stone."
The Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV6279, dates the cairn with cist to the Bronze Age (2200 BC to 701 BC). The scheduling information (Historic England List ID 1002592 (Two cairns with cists E of Whiteworks tin mine buildings)) also covers its neighbour, Fox Tor Newtake North Cist.
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