Scorhill N.2 Cairn
Photo taken on 06-02-2025
Database entries
OS Map: SX 65755 87754
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6211
PMD: Creaber
Alternate name: Scorhill N.2
Short Name: CN Scorhill N2
Butler map: 38.10.2
Butler Vol 5: p.249 & Fig.175
Grinsell: GIDLEIGH 5
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 12.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 65755 87754
Guide Map: 12
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (3.1 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.3 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 65755 87754
Notes
Entry added by PDW to correct/replace Butler 38.10.2 Two cairns; probably the two objects (kists?) shown by Crawford (1950). Round cairn diameter 12 metres, height 0.6 metres. A robbing pit south of centre is 2.5 metres long, 1.8 metres wide by 0.3 metres deep and is orientated at 120 degrees.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.2: The North, (1991)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)