Buckland Beacon Cairn
Photo taken on 26-08-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 73510 73118
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV7977
Alternate name: Buckland Beacon
Short Name: CN BuckBeacon
Butler map: 10.
Grinsell: List B BUCKLAND IN THE MOOR 1
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 73510 73118
Guide Map: 41
Nearest Bus Stop: Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (4.2 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 73510 73118
Notes
HER referring to Newman: Buckland Beacon, probable tor cairn. The tor outcrop is surrounded by small, turf-covered stones indicating a possible tor cairn. Condition is mostly stable but subject to visitor erosion. SX73500 73100.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)
- 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)
- Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities, with some account of its borders, (1889)