Merrivale North Embanked Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 17-05-2019
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55340 74845
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV3757
Megalithic Portal: 10502
Alternate name: Merrivale 10
Short Name: CC Merrivale10
Butler map: 44.8.10
Turner: B8
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 9
Lidar: SX 55340 74845
Nearby sites: SX 55340 74845
Notes
"Turner describes this site as an embanked stone circle; an annular bank of earth and/or stones with an inner edge of orthostats. Internal diameter is 8.0 meters with a bank 0.8 meters wide and 0.3 meters high. Much disturbed." Turner B8.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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)