Top Tor 3 Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 73657 76472
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV7456
Alternate name: Top Tor 3
Short Name: CN:Top Tor 3
Butler map: 9.7.3
Butler Vol 5: p.46 & Fig.25
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 53
Dimensions (m): 9.5 m
Lidar: SX 73657 76472
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (2.3 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (5.4 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 73657 76472
Notes
NMR B "One of a group of three, recognisable mainly by four large in situ boulders which represent the remains of a substantial retaining circle. However, much of the fabric has been removed leaving only a faint, roughly circular earthwork of 9.5 metres diameter."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)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 53, T.D.A. Vol.66 pp.39-42 (1934)