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MONUMENT NO. 440050

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A very fine Bronze Age cist which measures internally 2.2 metres long by 0.9 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres deep. The triangular-shaped slab which forms the massive cover stone is up to 2.1metres wide and averages 0.4 metres thick; a central part has been removed by stone cutters revealing the water-filled cist and a broken fragment of the coverslab. A low, spread curvilinear turf-covered mound up to 0.5 metres high and 3.0 metres across on the west side is probably the remains of a cairn. Scheduled.

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(SX 55487476) Cist (NR). (1)

A cist, 7 ft x 2 ft 9 ins, with the remains of a mutilated
coverstone. A flint scraper, a flint flake and a polishing stone
were found in the cist in 1895. (2)

Cist. Slight trace of mound. (3)

A massive cist, 2.0m. long, 0.8m. wide and 0.8m. deep within which, resting at an angle, is a slab 0.9m. long, 0.6m. wide and 0.1m. thick. This may be part of the cist, although the sides and ends seem complete, or a subsequent insertion. The coverstone was 2.8m. long, from 0.6m. to 2.0m. wide and 0.4m. thick has been drill split and a section removed (see photograph). There are traces of an earth mound on the west side, but if a cairn ever existed over the cist it has been entirely removed.

Sureyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:100 (see illustration). (4)

The cairn once covering the cist, at 2.2m long one of the largest on the moor, is now reduced to a slight bank around its western side. The cist was already exposed and no doubt emptied by the time of Bray's visit in 1802 but otherwise seems to have been intact until 1870, when the huge cover slab was split across the centre to make a pair of gateposts, 'by the occupants of the neighbouring public house' according to Baring-Gould, and another was cut from the western side slab. The latter was returned to its position and the separated halves of the cover slab replaced over the cavity by the Exploration Committee in 1895, the excavators recovering two flints and a 'polishing stone' from the interior during the reconstruction. (5

A very fine cist which measures internally 2.2m long by 0.9m wide and up to 0.8m deep. The triangular-shaped slab which forms the massive coverstone is up to 2.1m wide and averages 0.4m thick, a central part has been removed by stone cutters revealing a water-filled cist and a fragment of the coverslab.

A low, spread curvilinear turf-covered mound up to 0.5m high and 3.0m across on the west side is probably the remains of a cairn; elsewhere there is evidence of disturbance to the moorland peat layer. Surveyed at 1:200 scale (6).

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2) Devonshire Association reports and transactions

plan 7, 1895 Page(s)85-6

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (A Fox 1953)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NVQ 10-JAN-80

( 5) General reference

Butler J 1994 The Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities 3 The South-West map 44 3 Page(s)30

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

Fletcher M 30-OCT-1999 English Heritage Field Investigation

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