Cosdon Hill E. Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 643 915
OS Source: Estimated
Alternate name: Cosdon Hill E.
Short Name: CN?Cosdon E
Butler map: 40.6
Grinsell: SOUTH TAWTON 5b
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 643 915
Guide Map: 3
Nearest Bus Stop: Ramsley (2.3 km) [Route: 670,671,6A]
Nearby sites: SX 643 915
Notes
Butler: "Nothing was found in a second cairn excavated by the Committee 'on the side of Cosdon', an unhelpfully loose description considering the size of the hill, and this cairn has yet to be relocated". See p.181 Third report of DEC.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, Third Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.28 pp.174-199 (1896)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)