Shaugh Moor Platform Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 12-09-2022
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55476 63479
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV2572
Megalithic Portal: 52699
Alternate name: Saddlesborough N.W.
Short Name: PC Shaugh Moor
Butler map: 48.5
Grinsell: SHAUGH PRIOR 41b
Turner: E3
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 10.5 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 55476 63479
Nearest Bus Stop: Shaugh Prior White Thorn Inn (1.3 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 55476 63479
Notes
Ring cairn or traces of cairn with retaining circle, found by plymouth archaeological group 1959. Diameter 11.5m, height 0.3m. No.416. Vis=-/7/1959 (ancient monuments). Cairn, height 2ft, diameter 30ft, east of and close to stone row. Distinct stone kerb with low flat mound within.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)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
- Wainwright G. J. , Fleming A. and Smith K., The Shaugh Moor Project: First Report, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 45 , December 1979 , pp. 1 - 33 (1979)