Rook Tor Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6023 6153
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV132245
Megalithic Portal: 3445
Alternate name: Rook Tor 2
Short Name: CC:Rook Tor 2
Butler map: 52.8
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 7.5
Lidar: SX 6023 6153
Guide Map: 55
Nearest Bus Stop: Cornwood Crossways (2.6 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 6023 6153
Notes
Butler refers to a possible cairn at SX 6023 6153 a semi-circle of slabs amongst the rocks of Rook Tor are obviously artificially set - remains suggest the site of a cairn, entirely demolished but for the retaining circle. (Butler Vol. 3. p.182).Turner lists a Rook Tor site (G21) 1km away at SX 6127 6148: 10 stones standing, one a boulder. Are there two seprate features or does one auth have the wrong grid reference? See also: Rook Tor 1
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)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)