Fourfold Circle (near) Reported Cist
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6595 8599
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV6160
PMD: S of Fourfold Circle
Alternate name: Fourfold Circle (near)
Short Name: CT?FourFoldNr
Butler map: 36.7
Grinsell: GIDLEIGH 3a
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 4.0
Lidar: SX 6595 8599
Guide Map: 13
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (5.1 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.4 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 6595 8599
Notes
Worth mentions a small barrow 65 ft from the centre of 'Fourfold' cairn on the alignment of a double stone row. Radcliffe writes: Ormerod (1976) says a row "commences about 25 yds to the SW of the triple circle, and extends 110 yds to the ruins of a kistvaen".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)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Archaeological memoirs relating to the East of Dartmoor, (1876)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, The Rock-basins of Dartmoor, and some British Remains in England, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xvi. pp.101-132. (1860)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Monuments of Scorhill, Buttern Hill, and Shuggledown (Shoveldown), T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.280-287 (1932)