Cist and associated mound in Langridge Wood, 410m north west of Treborough Lodge

The Langridge Wood stone cist stands in a quiet Somerset wood, just south of the Coleridge Way and 400 m north-west of Treborough Lodge. It lies among oak and beech trees on the edge of Exmoor National Park, near the villages of Roadwater and Withycombe. This small Bronze-Age grave is one of seven recorded on Exmoor, and one of only two still visible today. The site was found in 1820 when labourers took stones from the covering mound to mend roads. Beneath the slabs they found a skeleton, later reburied in Treborough churchyard. The square capstone, about two metres across, still rests where it was placed centuries ago. Visitors walk a short woodland path to reach the cist. The surrounding trees frame the stone box, and the air is still except for birdsong. The place feels older than the centuries that have passed since the skeleton was laid inside.