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Grid ref: SX 6099 6669
On walking routes: Abbot's Way
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1012289) describes the eastern of two cairns with cists on a west-facing slope between the Langcombe Brook and Deadman's Bottom. The mound is 5 metres across and 0.2 metres high, with a square cist 1 metre each way that keeps all its end and side slabs. A slab that may have been its cover stone lies in the cist. It lies in the parish of Shaugh Prior, about 0.9 km south of Calveslake Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1012289, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register SX66NW-038. A visitor has posted photographs on the Historic England page, giving the cist position as SX 6098 6671; I have not used them.
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