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Dartmoor Site: Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle

Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle

Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle

Photo taken on 25-07-2015

Database entries

OS Map: SX 64856 83806
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV6730
Megalithic Portal: 45619
PMD: Hemstone Rocks
Alternate name: Hemstone Rocks N.3
Short Name: PC Hemstone
Butler map: 35.7.3
Grinsell: LYDFORD 17b
Turner: E12
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 64856 83806
Nearby sites: SX 64856 83806

Notes

Next to Turner ring cairn D9. "Remains of a cairn 8.0 metres diameter and up to 0.2 metres high to the north of the hut settlement. There are two pits cut into it, probably the result of work carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1901." DNP Site 9F.

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.

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