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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 →
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.
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.
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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