Mis Tor Farm Embanked Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 56926 75946
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV15372
Megalithic Portal: 45609
Alternate name: Little Mis Tor S.E.
Short Name: CC:MisTor Farm
Butler map: 30.17
Butler Vol 5: p.163 & Fig.104
Grinsell: LYDFORD 37a
Turner: B13
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 22.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 56926 75946
Nearby sites: SX 56926 75946
Notes
"Base of ancient tumulus, about 20m in diameter, may have formed a bound of the ancient boundary between lydford and walkhampton (prowse)."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)
- Prowse, Arthur B., The Bounds of the Forest of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.24 pp.418-430 (1892)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)