Burford Down cairn and cist

Nearest town:
Rattery (9km ENE)
OS reference:
SX63776015
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 25' 29.1 N
Longitude:
3° 55' 5.07 W
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Image of Burford Down cairn and cist (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Largest visible kerb stones of Burford Down cairn.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 4, 2020
Image of Burford Down cairn and cist (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

The cist – or what remains of it – can be seen approx centre.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 27, 2016
Image of Burford Down cairn and cist (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

That’s Tristis Rock to the right, the weather deteriorating even further..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 27, 2016
Image of Burford Down cairn and cist (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Set between the cairn-circle and Tristis Rock, I reckoned this to be a fine little monument. Looking approx south.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Mar 27, 2016
Image of Burford Down cairn and cist (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn, with the central cist. The Tristis Rock is on the left of the picture.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 11, 2010

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Burford Down cairn and cist
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 11, 2010

Description of the cairn and cist from Pastscape:

“On Burford Down, near Tristis Rock, is a retaining circle of a barrow, internal diameter between 16 and 17 feet and consisting of
twelve stones which enclose the remaining south side stone of a cist. The overall length of the side stone is 4 feet 6 inches, the internal length of the cist would not have been more than 3 feet.

SX 63776015 A circular cairn, 5 to 5.3m diameter and 0.6m high, on the summit of a small ridge of 260m above OD. It has a central cist, surrounded by an apparently complete retaining circle or peristalith of 12 regularly spaced stones up to 0.9m by 0.2m and 0.8m high. Only the south side stone of the cist remains within a central hollow.

It is aligned on the terminal cairn of the nearby stone row (SX 66 SW 57), grid bearing 282o.”

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