Cosdon Beacon Platform Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 01-09-2013
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cosdon Hill Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 63717 91719
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6924
Megalithic Portal: 10325
Alternate name: Cosdon Beacon 5
Short Name: PC Cosdon 5
Butler map: 40.7.5
Grinsell: SOUTH TAWTON 1
Turner: E1
DPD page: 153
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 16.0 x 1.5
Lidar: SX 63717 91719
Guide Map: 3
Nearest Bus Stop: Ramsley (2.5 km) [Route: 670,671,6A]
Nearby sites: SX 63717 91719
Notes
Cairn 13.5m diameter with signs of retaining circle. Crowned by modern stone heap. HER MDV6894. See also: NMR 444167. Lethbridge diagram p.152, photo bottom right p.153. Turner E1 (diagram p.59). Butler Cosdon Beacon 5 Vol. 2. Map 40.7.5. (diagram of Cosdon Summit cairns on p.207).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)
- Croker, J. G., A guide to the eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, (1851)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On the Hut-Circles of the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.20 (1864)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)