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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Buckland Ridge South Alternative Name: Buckland Ridge SCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Newton Abbot Nearest Village: Buckand in the Moor
Map Ref: SX73577324
Latitude: 50.545218N Longitude: 3.785752W
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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Ring Cairn in Devon
Sited immediately next to a footpath, information about the Buckland Ridge (S) Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us this is a "robbed cairn. Stone ring is 13m inside diameter bank 1.80m wide and 50cms high, much of the bank on the eastern side has been destroyed. The central area has been disturbed, modern stone wall running north to south through the eastern section of the stone ring."
There is no Pastscape record for this site, although the Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor includes information on this monument: HER number MDV30630. They date this round cairn from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000BC to 701BC) and give us the description: "a round cairn 160 metres north-north-west of Buckland Beacon. A flattened round cairn is set close by the west side of the newtake wall that defines the ridge between Buckland and Welstor Commons. Condition is declining erosion caused by footpath."
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