Mardon Down Cairns

Nearest town:
Crediton (15km NNE)
OS reference:
SX767874
OS sheet:
191
Latitude:
50° 40' 21.27 N
Longitude:
3° 44' 42.5 W
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Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

Looks like a ring cairn to me, it lies at the main junction of footpaths on the hill. See the stone left of centre, there’s a smaller ringish cairn just behind it.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

The north end of the ring cairn, with a little bump off to one side, another little ring cairn?

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This large kerb cairn lies just a few yards south of the stone circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This large kerb cairn lies just a few yards south of the stone circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This large kerb cairn lies just a few yards south of the stone circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This large kerbed cairn lies just a few yards south of the stone circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This little cairn is close to the cairn circle, about fifty yards WSW. ( It could also just be a mortar pit dug by practicing squadies prior to WW2)

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This cairn and a smaller less visible cairn lie just a few yards north of the stone circle.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This slightly disheveled cairn is about half way between the Giants grave and the ring cairn.
( It is actually a mortar pit dug by practicing squadies prior to WW2)

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Sep 26, 2020
Image of Mardon Down Cairns (Cairn(s)) by postman

This slightly disheveled cairn is about half way between the Giants grave and the ring cairn.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Sep 26, 2020

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Mardon Down Cairns

postman
postman Oct 11, 2020

There are loads of cairns up here, some are more cairnish than others, the ring cairn type one the big stoned kerb cairn, the grassy bump type and the stone rubble with a pit in type. But, the latter is not a cairn, there is one on the circumference of the stone circle, that’s not a cairn, there is one by the Giants grave, that’s not a cairn either. They are both in fact mortar pits dug by practicing soldiers waiting for D day in WW2. Perhaps a more poignant type of monument than most cairns, or perhaps not.

Mardon Down Cairns

pure joy
pure joy Apr 4, 2004

Mardon Down Cairns – 3.4.2004

For directions to the general area, see the record for Mardon Down.

There are 4 cairns marked on the OS map. Two are apparently where the track kinks to the right half way between the stone circle and the cairn circle (SX767874). And two are supposed to be very close to the stone circle, one shown on the map as maybe 50 metres south of the stone circle, and one immediately north of the stone circle. Hmmm, well I didn’t look for the northern two because I wanted to see the cairn circle and then go.

But I did find what I thought was a kerbed cairn just a few metres south of the stone circle. However that doesn’t tally with the map. Curious.

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