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Kerbed cairn and cist on the south-west side of Crow Tor
Grid ref: SX 6052 7866
On walking routes: The Lichway
Main image: Photo: Sandy Gerrard, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1016922) describes a kerbed round cairn and cist on a south-west-facing slope above the West Dart River. The mound is 4.7 metres across and up to 0.4 metres high, ringed by edge-set stones that make a kerb. In the middle is a large cist, at most 1.04 metres long, 0.6 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. Its displaced cover slab, 1.5 metres by 1.35 metres and 0.27 metres thick, now slightly overlaps the southern corner. The Dartmoor Exploration Committee part excavated the cist in 1900 and recovered a flint scraper. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 0.8 km north-east of Lydford Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1016922, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 5, The Second Millennium BC (1997), page 196. A visitor comment by Sandy Gerrard on the Historic England page dates his photographs to 19 June 1998; I have not used them.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1016922)
- Grid reference: SX 6052 7866 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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