Overview
Chittaford Down cist is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Who made it and when
The saved record identifies Chittaford Down cist as Ancient burial place. It does not safely name its makers or a precise construction date. The saved detailed account records: Chittaford Down cist is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
How it was made and used
Its classification points to burial or commemoration. The saved wording does not establish the full building method, ceremonies or length of use, so those details remain open.
What was found
No safe list of excavated objects, bones, carvings or dates is supplied by the short saved record. Finds are not invented from the place type or local name.
What remains
The public record still maps Chittaford Down cist as Ancient burial place. The point may mark standing remains, earthworks, a buried site or the centre of a wider area, and this first account keeps that difference visible.
Why it mattered
The place preserves physical evidence or local memory connected with ancient burial place. Its source and exact position give later research a firm starting point without turning uncertain tradition into fact.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Cairn and cist on Chittaford Down, 300m north of Archertonmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Powder Mill leat - Dartmoorbuilding0.1 miles
- Cairn 500m NNW of Archertonmonument0.2 miles
- Cist at Roundy Park Settlementmonument0.2 miles
- Cairn 190m west of Archertonmonument0.2 miles
- Roundy Park prehistoric enclosure and cairn with cist, 560m north east of Archertonmonument0.2 miles
- Broadun prehistoric enclosed settlement, 780m NNW of Archertonmonument0.3 miles
- Kistvaen 325yds (300m) S of Archertonmonument0.4 miles
- Camp 325yds (300m) SE of Archertonmonument0.4 miles
- Hartland Tormountain0.4 miles
- Prehistoric enclosed settlement known as Broadun Ring, 500m north west of Hartland Tormonument0.4 miles
- Stone hut circle 215m south east of Hartland Tormonument0.5 miles
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