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| HER Number: | 30817.10 |
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| Name: | GIANTS STONE - Bronze Age chambered tomb |
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Summary
A stone which is a suitable size to have been a part of the Giant's Grave, a destroyed chambered tomb, but no other evidence found.
Protected Status: None recorded
Other References/Statuses
- OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW43NW 37.2
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 30817.10
- SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW43NW 221.1
Monument Type(s):
Full description
The OS in 1961 record from local information (b1) that the stone thought to be Giant's Stone and possibly the sole remains of a destroyed chambered tomb called Giant's Grave (30817), is that lying at SW 4020 3564. This is a large recumbent slab measuring 2.0m by 1.7m by 0.4m thick. The ground in the vicinity is hummocky but there is nothing to indicate the former existance of a barrow or cairn. Although the stone is of suitable size and shape to be part of a burial chamber there is no evidence for its use as such (h1). The OS in 1975 record that this stone, positioned on the OS 25-inch map of 1961 (b2), has now been removed and buried in a large heap of clearance stones, 20m from the site (h2).
(b1) - Mann, WHF, 1961, Pers Comm to OS, ,
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Site history:
1: 1961. PITCHER, GH / OS
2: 1975. QUINNELL, NV / OS
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<2> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.
Sources / Further Reading
| [2] | SCO4045 - Cartographic materials: Ordnance Survey. 1970s. 1:10,000 OS Map. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Related records
| 30817 | Part of: GIANTS GRAVE - Neolithic chambered tomb (Monument) |
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