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Two round cairns near Langstone Moor stone circle

Grid ref: SX 5573 7810

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1018621) describes two round cairns in a line from north-east to south-west on a hill crest above the valley of the River Walkham. The northern is a mound 5.3 metres across and up to 0.3 metres high with traces of a kerb. The Dartmoor Barrow Committee dug it and found a pit cut into the subsoil but no finds. The southern is 6 metres across and up to 0.4 metres high with a shallow hollow in the middle, probably from the Committee's partial dig, which found a small cist with charcoal and bones. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 0.3 km north-west of Clay Tor and 3.1 km north of Merrivale.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1018621, which cites Worth's Dartmoor (1981 edition), page 174, the Devonshire Association Transactions (vol 30, 1898), page 112, and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57NE28.1 and 28.2).

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1018621)
  • Grid reference: SX 5573 7810 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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