What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records One of a number of cairns with cists south of Shavercombe Brook as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
A Neolithic cairn with cists; part of a broader funerary landscape. Its grouping with other similar monuments suggests communal burial practices in the early agricultural period.
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Places near here
Cairn with a cist south-east of Shavercombe TorScheduled monument · 115 yd
Shavercombe cistAncient burial place · 122 yd
Shavercombe WaterfallWaterfall · 308 yd
Shavercombe TorMountain / peak · 510 yd
Hen TorMountain / peak · 631 yd
Ditsworthy Warren HouseListed building · 1444 yd
Cottage WallRuins · 1.3 mi
Waterfall on the PlymWaterfall · 1.5 mi
Entrance to potato caveCave or cavern · 1.7 mi
Potato caveCave or cavern · 1.8 mi
William Crossing MemorialMemorial · 2.3 mi
Roughtor PlantationForest · 2.3 mi