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Small stone cairn with a cist, Lee Moor

Grid ref: SX 5856 6433

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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1012051) describes a cairn with a cist on a west-facing slope at the west end of Lee Moor, close to another cairn and one of several in this part of the moor. It is built of a few large stones with little earth or turf over them, 3 metres across and 0.3 metres high, in ground with many surface boulders, which makes it hard to find. The cist has end and side slabs set rather irregularly, about 0.8 metres long, 0.6 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep, and the cover stone is missing. It lies in the parish of Shaugh Prior, about 0.6 km east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1012051, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register SX56SE-22.

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