Hemstone Rocks N.4 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 648 838
OS Source: Grinsell
HER: MDV6728
Alternate name: Hemstone Rocks N.4
Short Name: CN:Hemstone N4
Butler map: 35.7.4
Grinsell: LYDFORD 17c
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 648 838
Guide Map: 19
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (5.1 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 648 838
Notes
Cairn, ne of hemstone rocks. Grinsell refers to a cairn at approx above ngr. Contained a pit in which were burnt bones, wood, charcoal and two burnt flints (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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Seventh Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.33 pp.130-138 (1901)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2013)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)