Marsh Hill Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 62150 82427
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV6776
PMD: Statt's House
Alternate name: Marsh Hill
Short Name: CT?Marsh Hill
Butler map: 34.2
Grinsell: LYDFORD 34
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): c.10.0
Lidar: SX 62150 82427
Guide Map: 18
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Post Office (5.7 km) [Route: 98,171]
Nearby sites: SX 62150 82427
Notes
Possible cairn but thought to have been the remains of a collapsed house similar to Stat's House a few metres to the north. The mound has been much disturbed by the construction of a shelter in its centre. This is a trapezoidal structure, 1.2m wide at its northwestern end, 1.7m wide at its northeastern end and 3.1m long. The coursed walls are 1.1m wide and 0.6m high. The slab inside the shelter represents tumble from this structure rather than part of a cist as suggested by Grinsell.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.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)