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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1002552) describes a kerbed cairn with a cist within a coaxial field system on the south-eastern side of Wigford Down, overlooking the Plym valley. The cairn is a circular stony mound up to 8.23 metres across and 0.8 metres high. A retaining kerb shows to the south as a 0.6 metre high arc of large stones about 7 metres across inside, and disappears to the north where two prehistoric field boundaries cross over the cairn. It lies in the parish of Meavy, about 1.4 km north of Shaugh Prior.
The central cist is a stone-lined rectangle partly hidden by its displaced cover stone, up to 1.1 metres long, 0.8 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep. The cairn had been dug before, and Worth re-examined it in 1900 and recovered two fragments of late Bronze Age pottery.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1002552 (updated 9 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 3 (1994), and PastScape 439547.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1002552)
- Grid reference: SX 5442 6441 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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