Mardon Down Platform Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 26-01-2018
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & Cairns
OS Map: SX 76759 87172
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV15158
Megalithic Portal: 22312
PMD: Mardon Down Cairn 1
Alternate name: Mardon Down Cairn 1
Short Name: PC Mardon 1
Butler Vol 5: p.149 & Fig.91
Grinsell: MORETONHAMPSTEAD 5
Turner: E9
DPD page: 149
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 8.6 / 6.2 x 0.6
Lidar: SX 76759 87172
Nearest Bus Stop: Moretonhampstead Court Street Car Park (2.0 km) [Route: 171,173]
Nearby sites: SX 76759 87172
Notes
Platform circle consisting of a ring of kerb stones, measuring 7.0 metres in internal diameter, enclosing a flat-topped cairn 0.3 metres high, with boulder incorporated into perimeter.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.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, A Stone Circle and Cairn Group on Mardon Down, Moretonhampstead, Devon An Earthwork Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2017)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)