Erme Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 19-03-2011
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Upper Erme Stone Row & Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 63517 64442
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV4310
Megalithic Portal: 533
Alternate name: Upper Erme stone row
Short Name: CC The Dancers
Butler map: 55.7.1
Grinsell: CORNWOOD 10
Turner: G16
DPD page: 71
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 15.8 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 63517 64442
Guide Map: 51
Nearest Bus Stop: Cornwood Crossways (7.4 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 63517 64442
Notes
An impressive cairn circle (often referred to as a stone circle) on Stall Moor which is also known as The Dancers, Kiss in the Ring or Stall Moor Circle. "Round barrow with retaining circle at south end of longest Dartmoor stone row. Diameter 16m, height of mound 0.3m." Lethbridge pp.70-71, diagram p.71References
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.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Davidson, C. & Seabrook, R., Stone rings on south-east Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.31 (1973)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Kelly, John, Celtic Remains on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.1 Pt.5 pp.45-48 (1866)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Newman, Phil, The Upper Erme Valley Dartmoor National Park Devon An Archaeological Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)
- 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 Erme, Yealm and Torry part 1, T.P.I. Vol.11 part 1 pp.173-183 (1892)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)