Rippon Tor 2 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 74685 75577
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV51161
Alternate name: Rippon Tor 2
Short Name: CN:RipponTor 2
Butler map: 5.5.2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 7.2 x 0.5
Lidar: SX 74685 75577
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Haytor Vale Moorlands House (3.5 km) [Route: 193,271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (5.4 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 74685 75577
Notes
NMR C "Small cairn south of Rippon Tor cairn and immediately contiguous to scatter from it. Diam 4.0 metres, height 0.45 metres." Grid reference given here is to a small structure circa 6 metres in diameter visible in Google Earth - this might be this cairn but it is not certain.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (1991)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)