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Cairn with a cist near Lee Moor

Grid ref: SX 5856 6433

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1012051)
  • Grid reference: SX 5856 6433 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

The full official description is in the Historic England record linked above.

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“At a hamlet near the parish of South Tawton, a small town on the borders of Dartmoor, there is an interesting story told of a ghost which assumes the form of a remarkably handsome Guernsey Cow, and appears at midnight promenading to and fro”

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Sarah Hewett. From Nummits and Crummits: Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore (1900).

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