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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Langcombe South Alternative Name: Butler Langcombe Brook 6 (Cairn 6 V3 50.3); Turner E23; Langcombe Brook 6Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Whiteworks
Map Ref: SX6086666155
Latitude: 50.478653N Longitude: 3.962303W
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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Featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website as the Langcombe (S) Platform Cairn Circle and Cist, PDW tells us this is: "a cist, lying a little over 590 yds south west of Grim's Grave, within a flat topped cairn. Cist has two sides and the south end stone are in place and the cover stone rests in part over the cist". Also see their webpage for the Guide to the Langcombe Brook & Deadman's Bottom Cists.
Further information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 441664, which describes this as a cairn and cist dating to the Bronze Age. They add that the cairn sits at the head of a gully which runs down to the Langcombe Brook, on a gentle north east slope at 440m OD.
This site is also recorded as MDV5128 (Cairn with a cist near the head of a southern tributary of Langcombe Brook) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1012286 (Cairn with a cist near the head of a southern tributary of Langcombe Brook).
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257m N 0° Langcombe Brook 5* Cairn (SX6087566412)
415m ENE 66° Langcombe Brook 4* Cairn (SX6125166313)
457m NE 53° Grim’s Grave* Cairn (SX61246642)
571m N 10° Deadman's Bottom E* Cairn (SX6098466714)
582m N 8° Deadman's Bottom D* Cairn (SX60966673)
757m NNW 337° Langcombe Brook Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX60596686)
885m NNW 348° Deadman's Bottom Cists* Cairn (SX6071167027)
888m NNW 348° Deadman's Bottom Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX60716703)
890m NNE 20° Deadman's Bottom F* Cairn (SX61206698)
905m NW 326° Langcombe Brook 7* Cist (SX60386692)
1.0km NNW 333° Plym Steps* Cairn (SX60426710)
1.1km WSW 254° Hentor 7* Cist (SX59816588)
1.2km WSW 247° Hentor A* Cairn (SX59706570)
1.3km WSW 251° Hentor Warren* Cairn (SX5963265777)
1.3km WSW 256° Hentor C.* Cairn (SX5960065874)
1.3km NNW 328° Lower Hartor tor settlement.* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX602673)
1.3km WSW 253° Hentor B* Cairn (SX5956765806)
1.4km WNW 292° Giant's Hill East* Cist (SX5958766717)
1.4km N 359° Calveslake* Cairn (SX60886756)
1.4km WNW 298° Giant's Hill North Cairn* Cairn (SX59626687)
1.5km W 274° Shavercombe Pound Ancient Village or Settlement (SX59366629)
1.5km WSW 255° Hentor Cairn Circle* Cairn (SX5937265801)
1.5km WNW 291° Giant's Hill West* Cist (SX59446675)
1.6km WNW 288° Giant's hill cairn* Cairn (SX59316670)
1.7km WSW 253° Hentor 1* Cist (SX59256572)
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