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Dartmoor Site: Ball gate Cairn

Ball gate Cairn

Database entries

OS Map: SX 6690 6132
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV19901
Alternate name: Ball gate
Short Name: CT?Ball gate1
Exist: Yes
Record: Duplicate
Record Source: NMR
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Maybe
Lidar: SX 6690 6132
Nearby sites: SX 6690 6132

Notes

A cairn consisting of a turf-covered mound, diameter 7.0m. and height 0.3m. with five stones of a possible retaining circle in situ. There is a depression in the centre revealing a stone resembling the east end stone of a cist. Possible duplicate of Bre 8a / HER 13284 / NMR 901582?

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