Database entries
OS Map: SX 74750 75479
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV7433
Alternate name: Rippon Tor 5
Short Name: CN Rippon To5
Butler map: 5.5.5
Grinsell: ILSINGTON 4
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 20.0 x 2.0
Lidar: SX 74750 75479
Nearby sites: SX 74750 75479
Notes
NMR A? "One of a pair of large cairns south-east of Rippon Tor. It is located on a reave but probably predates it. A much spread and turf-covered cairn of up to 25 metres diameter, 87 metres south-east of Rippon Tor outcrop".
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)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)