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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Great Gnat's Head Cairn Alternative Name: Grinsell Shaugh Prior 2Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Sheepstor
Map Ref: SX6165767908
Latitude: 50.494596N Longitude: 3.951811W
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 website, the Great Gnat's Head Cairn is described as "a Bronze Age summit cairn, now badly disturbed by a conical walkers cairn built in the SW quadrant. It measures 8.5m in diameter, the outer slope is 0.3m high and the interior is scooped to a depth of 0.3m -small boulders and upright slabs are visible. The conical cairn is 2.6m in diameter and 1.5m high."
Further information can also be found on the Pastscape website, see Monument Number 441568, which adds that this is "a disturbed cairn set on a slight rise on a rounded highpoint at 46.9m above OD with panoramic vistas in every direction."
The Devon & Dartmoor HER MDV13177 (Round cairn on the summit of Great Gnat's Head) dates the cairn anywhere from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age (4000 BC to 701 BC). The cairn is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1015740(Round cairn on the summit of Great Gnat's Head).
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