Wigford Down 7 Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5495 6507
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV48903
PMD: Wigford Down 7
Alternate name: Wigford Down 7
Short Name: CN?Wigford 7
Butler map: 48.1.7
Grinsell: MEAVY 4a
Turner: A42
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 9.0 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 5495 6507
Guide Map: 46
Nearest Bus Stop: Shaugh Prior White Thorn Inn (2.7 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 5495 6507
Notes
Grinsell states maybe hut circle. Possible hut circle adjacent to a cairn near to a reave on Wigford Down. This is scheduled as a cairn, but seems more likely to have been a hut. Three more cairns lie to the south-east which are all scheduled.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.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Wigford Down Premier Archaeological Landscape, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2020)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)