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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Marden Down East Alternative Name: Mardon Down ECountry: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Mortonhampstead
Map Ref: SX76908760
Latitude: 50.675006N Longitude: 3.743543W
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 |
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TheCaptain visited on 26th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Heading southwest up to the top of Mardon Hill, and about halfway up there is a recently cleared area by the path, with the clear remains of a ring cairn which I was not expecting to see from my quick look in Butler before heading off for the day, which basically states that there are probably other cairns on the down, but the whole hill is overgrown with gorse and bracken making everything hard to find! This pattern held for the rest of my visit, as the local commoners have taken it upon themselves to hunt down and clear the large amount of archaeology there is to be found here, from cairns and the stone circle, through reaves, right through to mortar pits, trenches and even railway making exercises carried out by the American soldiers based here before the D-Day invasions.
Information about the Mardon Down (E) Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website, where it features in their Mardon Down Stone Circle and Cairns walk. Their notes tell us this is a "circular earthwork, possibly a ring cairn, the north-west corner of which has been destroyed where it abuts a footpath. Internal diameter 13.3 metres with a bank 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres high."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 445402, which adds that "it may represent the remains of a robbed cairn or enclosure ... situated on a slight east slope below the crest of Mardon Down ... the lower interior may be the result of scrape-up for the bank since no outer ditch is visible. No entrance can be discerned ... the bank is of stone rubble overgrown with furze."
The cairn is also recorded as MDV12771 on the Devon and Dartmoor HER. This site is not a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
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