Restored cist and two cairns, west slope of Great Gnats' Head

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1016146) describes two round cairns and a cist on a west-facing slope of Great Gnats' Head, above the valley of the River Plym, part of a scattered group of burial monuments. The scheduling falls into two areas. It lies in the parish of Shaugh Prior, about 0.6 km north-east of Calveslake Tor.

The cist is a pit 0.91 metres long, 0.81 metres wide and 0.78 metres deep, marked on its north and south sides by edge-set stones, with the east end slab displaced and lying between the two side stones. A very slight mound up to 0.2 metres high surrounds it, probably made when the cist was partly restored after an excavation in 1901. That dig found a pit cut into the floor of the cist and no finds. A cairn lies 4 metres south of the cist, a mound 4 metres across and 0.2 metres high, also dug in 1901, which was found to cover a circular, carefully paved area laid on a large flat stone. The last cairn is 70 metres east-north-east, a mound 3.3 metres across and 0.5 metres high.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1016146, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1994), page 155, and Thackray, The Upper Plym Valley (1994), Archaeological Site Inventory.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1016146)
• Grid reference: SX 6120 6803 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)