| Summary : Bronze Age cairn and cist. The cairn is 7m in diameter and 0.4m high with pars of a kerb remaining. The cist is 1.2m long, 0.5m wide and 0.3m deep. The Bronze Age cairn and cist, recorded by previous authorities, are visible as a structure and earthwork on 2021 Historic England orthomosaic aerial photography. The site was mapped from aerial sources in 2023 during the Historic England Dartmoor-Plym project.
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| More information : (SX 60876612) Cist (NR) (1)
A cist, lying a little over 590 yds south west of Grim's Grave
(SX 66 NW 33) at the head of a gully which runs down to the
Langcombe Brook. The two sides and the south end stone are in
place and the cover stone rests in part over the cist. The length
of the cist was probably three feet, width eigthteen inches at
the centre of its length, and a present depth of thirteen inches.
The cover stone is five feet in length, with a greatest width of
just over three feet. The cist stands in a mound of sixteen feet
diameter. (2)
A slight flat topped turf covered mound of stone and earth
measuring 5.3m in diameter and 0.2m in height, situated on a
gentle north east slope at 440m OD. There is a centrally placed
cist within the mound as planned by Worth with a coverstone.
Surveyed at 1:10000 on PFD. (3)
The Bronze Age cairn and cist, recorded by previous authorities, are visible as a structure and earthwork on 2021 Historic England orthomosaic aerial photography. The site was mapped from aerial sources in 2023 during the Historic England Dartmoor-Plym project. It is centred on SX 60863 66149. The cairn mound measures approximately 5.8m in diameter. Scheduled monument NHLE 1012286. (5)
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