Scheduled MonumentsEnglandCist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford

England
List entry 1019568
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019568
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.03 hectares
Grid reference
SX 65176 70750
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. The site comprises a stone cist, a rectangular burial chamber constructed from stone slabs, surrounded by a cairn of heaped stone. This arrangement is characteristic of funerary practices during the Bronze Age, when such monuments served as repositories for cremated or inhumed remains. The monument survives as a physical record of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns in Devon during the second millennium BC.

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019568. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford?

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019568.

Who is responsible for protecting Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford?

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019568.

What other scheduled monuments are near Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn on Piles Hill (9.9 km), Cairn east of the northern end of the stone alignment south-west of Glasscombe Corner (10 km), Agglomerated enclosure with hut circles on Corringdon Ball (10 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Historical Maps
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford

Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

The wider landscape

Around Cist and cairn 590m SSE of Skir Ford

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