Ringmoor Down Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 05-06-2016
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 63. TDA Vol.76 1944
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Guide to the Monuments on Ringmoor Down
OS Map: SX 56157 65947
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV4029
Megalithic Portal: 22947
Alternate name: Ringmoor Down 3
Short Name: CC Ringmoor 3
Butler map: 49.21.3
Grinsell: SHEEPSTOR 18
Turner: G29
DPD page: 36
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Maybe
Barrow Report: 63
Dimensions (m): 3.5
Lidar: SX 56157 65947
Guide Map: 47
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (2.7 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 56157 65947
Notes
Located about 230m NW of the cairn circle that terminates the Ringmoor Down stone row. "An 11ft 2ins diameter cairn circle composed of fourteen stones of which four have fallen over. Stones of quartz-schorl, not granite." "This feature has the semblance of having been recently created. The stones are mostly loose and irregularly spaced. As a monument type it appears to be unique on Dartmoor. It should not be considered of great antiquity." For a photo, see: Stone-Circles.org.uk: Ringmoor Cairn. Lethbridge kerb circle p.34-36. Diagram 34 site 4.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.
- Breton, Henry Hugh, Beautiful Dartmoor And Its Interesting Antiquities, (1990)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape - A new survey , Southwest Landscape Investigations (2022)
- 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, Barrow Report 63, T.D.A. Vol.76 pp.39-40 (1944)