Dendles Waste N. Reported Cairn

Database entries

OS Map: SX 615 629
OS Source: Butler
HER: MDV132270
Alternate name: Dendles Waste N.
Short Name: CN?Dendles 2
Butler map: 52.15
Exist: No
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 10.7
Lidar: SX 615 629
Guide Map: 55
Nearest Bus Stop: Cornwood Crossways (4.5 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 615 629

Notes

Reported by Worth. Butler, Volume 3 p.194, says in relation to the cist He also recorded a second circle about 155m to the north, 10.7m in diameter with six stones standing and one displaceed. This area hopelessly encumbered with tree roots and fallen branches, is too disturbed for any recognisable structure to have survived.

There were also numerous features recorded a long way to the south in Dendles Wood but they are all to the south of the cist. The area is not so tree covered today. Is the location correct? Has it been destroyed or could traces still remain? The HER grid reference is closer to the cist but Butler's grid refence is probably more accurate. See also Dendles Waste 3 (MDV4278), Dendles Waste 4 (MDV4279), Dendles Waste 5 (MDV4280)

Butler mentions an account from Worth from 1924 but while there is a description of the Dendles Waste cist in barrow report 43 there is no mention of this feature. The HER entries refer to accounts from Worth from the late 40s but none of the published writings from that time mention Dendles. Are these references to unpublished works? There are no references given by either Butler or the HER to the source so the origin of these accounts is unclear.

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)
• Worth, R. Hansford, The Erme, Yealm and Torry part 1, T.P.I. Vol.11 part 1 pp.173-183 (1892)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 43, T.D.A. Vol.56 pp.107-8 (1924)