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Main image: Boundary work, Ringmoor Down - 40 metres from location - image by Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1012085) describes one of a group of three cairns on a south-east-facing slope of Ringmoor Down, within 40 metres south-east of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave and 250 metres of the Ringmoor Down stone alignment. This cairn is 5 metres across and 0.4 metres high, with a possible kerb and a shallow hollow in the middle. It lies in the parish of Sheepstor, about 1.1 km north-west of Legis Tor and 1.4 km south of Sheepstor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1012085, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register SX56NE-354.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1012085)
- Grid reference: SX 5627 6625 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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