Spence Bate's Reported Cist
Database entries
OS Map: SX 553 745
OS Source: Constructed
Alternate name: Spence Bate's
Short Name: CN?Merrivale 5
Butler map: 44.8.5
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 553 745
Guide Map: 33
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (1.0 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 553 745
Notes
Butler: "Nor is there much surviving from the circle of slabs around the menhir depicted in Bray's plan and recorded by Spence Bate in 1871, or the nearby cist which he excavated"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.
- Bate, C Spence, On the Prehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.491-516 (1871)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)