Photo: Royal Hill, South Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
The table below lists over 160 cists included in the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks database. For convenience of comparison with Dixon's list of cists the table is ordered by the "Dixon" number as extended by Grinsell. The numbers from 130 onwards merely represent the order that additional entries have been added. For a more detailed discussion and a listing including photos and notes see the main page on cists. Click on the table headers to get listings ordered on that column. Clicking on the Site Name will open a site page with a large photo where one is available and the location in Google Maps in satellite mode. Clicking on OS links will list nearby sites and clicking on the NMR or HER number will open the relevant record in a new window. The last column is to the relevant record on Bill Radcliffe's Prehistoric Monuments Of Dartmoor (PMD) website which includes excellent bibliography. The column MP is for coverage on the Megalithic Portal. In Vol. 5 of Butler's Atlas of Antiquities there is a table of cists which is the Butler Cist ID (BID).
This listing was extended in 2017 with the construction of a list of over 1600 records of cists and cairns for the Prehistoric Dartmoor Map. These records included the 5 Volume listings by Jeremy Butler and as a consequence it was necessary to use and extend Butler's naming which is different to the naming originally used on this website. The records below use this "Alt-name" system but the site pages retain the original naming if there was one. For example the Ter Hill N.W.1 Cist below opens to the PDW site page for the Fox Tor Newtake, North Cist. The new cairn records were given a field Cist Class, the records below are those where it has the value Yes or True. Currenly (Feb 2018) there are 167 of these records. There are a further 176 "Reported Cist" records which are dubious (Cist Class No or Maybe), the table on the following link lists all 343 reported cist records.
Please contact the author if any errors are seen.
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