Brake Corner 1 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 7022 7170
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV8030
Alternate name: Brake Corner 1
Short Name: CN?Brake Cor1
Butler map: 11.1.1
Turner: A17
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 13.5 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 7022 7170
Nearby sites: SX 7022 7170
Notes
Hut circle at brake corner. Bronze age. Vis=19/5/1960 (os) a circular enclosure bounded by a bank consisting of small stones. Part of the interior has been filled in with cleared field stones. No trace of entrance. No orthostats visible and construction using small stones is unusual for a hut. The exposed situation on crest of spur is more appropriate to a cairn but the walling at best about 0.4m high appears too regular for a cairn rim.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)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)