Narrator Brook Head cairn

Also known as:
Narrator Brookhead cairn
Nearest town:
Tavistock (12km WNW)
OS reference:
SX59196944
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 30' 25.88 N
Longitude:
3° 59' 9.65 W
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Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by Meic

10th September 2018

Image credit: Michael Mitchell
Meic
Meic Sep 22, 2018
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by Meic

10th September 2018

Image credit: Michael Mitchell
Meic
Meic Sep 22, 2018
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The substantial Narrator Brookhead enclosure can be seen immediately beyond. Down Tor itself is to the left.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 5, 2016
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The stone row can be seen upper centre right of image... note how it terminates below the crest ensuring visitors approaching from the west are suddenly confronted head on by the monument without warning. Wow! Surely that can only be another example of Bronze Age dramatic theatrics?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 5, 2016
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

This substantial cairn serves as an excellent prelude to the fine pair crowning Eylesbarrow... should you decide to continue. If so, take a line heading for the highest point looking across the left hand extremity of the deep gulley. The cairns can not be seen from the east. Incidentally I’m not aware of the origin of the foreground stone?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 5, 2016
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Looking WSW towards Down Tor row and cairn circle. Sheepstor is on the skyline to the left of centre – the row is in front of that to the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (12.7.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 2, 2010
Image of Narrator Brook Head cairn (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn, approaching from the nearby enclosure.

Image credit: A. Brookes (12.7.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 2, 2010

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Narrator Brook Head cairn
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 2, 2010

Large cairn on an alignment with the nearby Down Tor stone row. Description from Pastscape:

A round cairn located 770 metres north-east of Combshead Tor. The cairn mound measures 17 metres in diameter and stands up to 1.5 metres high. A hollow in the centre of the mound measures 4 metres long, 3 metres wide and 1.2 metres deep, and is probably the result of partial robbing or early excavation. The edges of the mound are steep-sided, indicating the existence of a kerb, which now survives mainly as a buried feature. A quarry ditch surrounds the mound, visible as a 1.5 metre wide band of rushes on the northern side of the mound, the result of increased moisture in the buried ditch. This cairn is in direct line with the two terminal stones at either end of a stone alignment to the south-west (SX 56 NE 29).

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