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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: High Willhays North Alternative Name: Grinsell Okehampton Hamlets 5; Turner A64Country: England County: Devon Type: Ring Cairn
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Sourton / Meldon
Map Ref: SX58028944
Latitude: 50.687240N Longitude: 4.011287W
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 2nd Aug 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 Now heading north across the indistinct top of High Willhays towards Yes Tor, I keep an eye open for what we have marked as a ring cairn, which I find positioned adjacent to one of the rock outcrops at the northern top of High Willhays. It seems to be a sort of ring cairn combined with a tor top cairn like that on Showery Tor on Bodmin Moor. It looks a bit like a semi circular retaining bank for a pool.
Silkscream visited on 6th Mar 2021 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 2
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 2
Information about the High Willhays (N) Stone Ring Cairn Circle comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website.
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 440500, which tells us this is "a revetted mound (which) adjoins the south side of one of the granite outcrops at High Willhays. Measuring 19m east to west by 18m overall it stands around 0.8m high. The sides of the mound are formed by coursed granite slabs and boulders and the top is largely flat though a hollow has formed in the southern half .... this feature must be regarded as a tor cairn though its construction is somewhat uncharacteristic of similar features. There is no evidence to suggest the presence of a cist or more conventional kerb."
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 965852, as MDV20152 (Tor cairn 180 metres north of High Willhays summit), and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1010593 (Tor cairn 180m north of High Willhays summit).
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