Merrivale row 3 Cairn
Photo taken on 24-06-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55399 74770
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV5000
PMD: Merrivale Short Stone Row
Alternate name: Merrivale row 3
Short Name: CN Merrivale 3
Butler map: 44.8.3
Grinsell: WALKHAMPTON 2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 3.4-3.9 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 55399 74770
Guide Map: 33
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (0.9 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 55399 74770
Notes
Cairn located at the north-eastern end of the short single stone row, immediately south of the southern double stone row. It is of small stone construction, and is now turf-covered. "A small cairn that coontianed a ruined kistvaen" (Baring-Gould DEC Report No.2 1895)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, Second Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.81-92 (1895)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.24 pp.387-417 (1892)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 4, T.D.A. Vol.27 pp.437-442 (1895)