Grim's Grave

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Grim's Grave, Dartmoor
The stone box in the center

Grim's Grave (also called Langcombe Brook cairn 3 - not to be confused with Grimes Graves ) is a well-preserved example of a Bronze Age burial at the end of the Langcombe Valley in South Dartmoor in Cornwall , England . The nine stones made of Dartmoor granite , which appear to form a stone circle , are the curbs of a broken stone mound , which was built over a stone box (locally called Kistvaen) 1.5 × 1.0 m and about 1.0 m deep.

The name Grim goes back to the Anglo-Saxons or Normans . He is a synonym for the Norse god Odin .

Grim's Grave

See also Graemsay Island in Orkney , Grimsay Island in the Hebrides, Grimsby Place in Lincolnshire , Grimsbury Castle Hillfort in Oxfordshire , Grim's Ditch an earthwork , Grim's Dyke (name for the Antonine Wall ), Grimes Graves flint mines , Grimshader Place on Lewis and Harris , Grims Lake Mire (a stone box in Grims Lake), Grim's Mound a round hill in Lincolnshire, Grimspound in Devon , Grimsetter (Grims Seat) basement on Shetland , Grimsthorpe (Grims Village), and places called Grimston or Grimstone in Dorset , Leicestershire , Norfolk and Yorkshire (also Grimston-Lyles Hill Ware ). Grim's Cross (no. 126) a cross slab ( German  "Kreuzplatte" ) on the Isle of Man where the artist Grim calls himself.

Nearby is the Langcombe Brook 7 stone box .

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  1. Old English "toon", New English "town", derived from Germanic "do"; see Tunanlegg

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 51.9 "  N , 3 ° 57 ′ 25.6"  W.