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Submitted by LordMureth on Saturday, 01 July 2017 Page Views: 1399

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: High Moor Cairns Alternative Name: Maiden Tor Cairns
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Camelford Nearest Village: Davidstow
Map Ref: SX16318116
Latitude: 50.601178N Longitude: 4.597069W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

2 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

2 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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LordMureth visited on 1st Jul 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 2

**High Moor Cairns** submitted by LordMureth : Looking at the third cairn from the opposite angle. That granite cube looks really out of place.... was it part of the original structure and has just been worked so much it's now recognisable? (Vote or comment on this photo)

Two, possibly three cairns on High Moor between Maiden Tor and Buttern Hill, marked clearly on OS map. One is small, and easily recognisable as a cairn - it can be seen from a LONG way away, if you're walking from Davidstow to Brown Willy or from the Fernacre side as we did this time, once you round the lower slopes of Roughtor.

To the east of the most distinct cairn is a much wider embankment, obviously a cairn but more dilapidated; at least twice the diameter of the first - with a large pond now in the middle.

To the west of the first cairn is a strange jumble of rocks; a pile of massive granite slabs mixed with what looked like earthfast moorstones - with one smaller stone looking more recently worked. The larger stones were big enough to have formed what *could* have been a very impressive structure... but the presence of what looks like a more modern "cube" amongst them, underneath what looks to be a much older "capstone", makes me think this perhaps *was* once some kind of burial chamber, that's been destroyed and mixed with stones from the mine working to the north?

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