Rook Tor Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6023 6153
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV49463
Megalithic Portal: 3445
Alternate name: Rook Tor
Short Name: CC:Rook Tor
Butler map: 52.8
Turner: G21
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 7.5
Lidar: SX 6023 6153
Nearby sites: SX 6023 6153
Notes
"10 stones standing, one a boulder" (Turner). The closest possible NMR entry that could fit refers to natural boulders. Butler refers to a possible cairn at SX60236153 "a semi-circle of slabs amongst the rocks of Rook Tor are obviously artificially set - remains suggest the site of a cairn, entirely demolished but for the retaining circle." (Butler Vol. 3. p.182). An alternative NMR entry refers to a hut circle at SX60866173, see: SX 66 SW 119. NB. Turner gives NGR SX61276148 - from satellite imagery this is way to the east away from outcrops and seems likely incorrect. This record sticks with Butler's grid reference.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)