Langstone Moor 2 Cist
Photo taken on 25-08-2026
DEC Report (1898) Plate VI.
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Stone Row & Settlements
OS Map: SX 55732 78111
OS Source: Garmin
Butler OS: SX55737810
HER: MDV4593
Megalithic Portal: 45786
PMD: Near Langstone Moor Stone circle
Alternate name: Langstone Moor 2
Short Name: CT Langstone 2
Butler map: 30.10.2
Dixon Cist #: 129
Grinsell: PETER TAVY 39
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 5.5 x 0.3 C
Lidar: SX 55732 78111
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.0 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 55732 78111
Notes
HER: One of two round cairns aligned north-east to south-west south-east of the Langstone stone circle. Cairn measures 6 metres in diameter and stands up to 0.4 metres high. A shallow hollow in the centre of the mound is probably the result of a partial excavation carried out by the Dartmoor Barrow Committee which revealed a small cist containing charcoal and bones. Removed to Plymouth City Museum.Newman Cairn 11.
DEC Report No. 5 (1898)
No. 2. 42 feet S.W. of No. 1. Diameter 11 feet. Slight trace of surrounding circle. The barrow is l foot above ground in centre, and is made up of small stones and earth. Found a large thick stone in about the centre, and under this a large flat stone, which on removal disclosed an unviolated kistvaen. It was packed full of "calm", containing small pieces of wood charcoal and a little bone ash. No pottery or implements.
The bottom of the kistvaen was paved.
This is the smallest and the best made kistvaen yet explored by the Committee, and is yet another variation in the form of burial.
It is only 21 inches long, 13 inches wide, and 14 inches deep. (See accompanying plan, Plate VI.)
Owing to the beauty of the little kistvaen, the Committee has approached His Grace the Duke of Bedford with the request that he would allow of its removal to the Plymouth Municipal Museum.
NB. The records here for this pair of cairns (1 and 2) had formerly been inverted in terms of the grid references. This has now been rectified.
References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fifth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.30 pp.97-115 (1898)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, English Heritage (2003)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area (2018), Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)