Shoveldown N.W Cairnfield Master
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6435 8610
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV28132
Alternate name: Shoveldown N.W
Short Name: CN:ShovelNW M
Exist: Yes
Record: Duplicate
Record Source: HER
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 6435 8610
Guide Map: 13
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (6.0 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (5.9 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 6435 8610
Notes
Cairn cemetery on Long Ridge between Stonetor Brook and th North Teign River with eight cairns, one with a cist.HER: The monument, which falls into five areas, includes eight round cairns and a cist situated on Long Ridge, locally known as Langridge, overlooking the valley of the River North Teign. These mounds form a cairn cemetery situated between two broadly contemporary stone hut circle settlements. Six of the mounds are circular in shape, vary in diameter between 4.1 metres and 6 metres and stand between 0.5 metres and 0.7 metres high. The remaining two mounds are oval and the largest of these measures 6 metres long by 4 metres wide and stands up 0.7 metres high. One cairn contains a cist which measures 0.83 metres square by up to 0.47 metres deep. The capstone, which once covered the cist, now lies 0.7 metres north-north-west of the cist. At least three of the cairns are partly surrounded by edge set stones indicating the presence of kerbs.