Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb
Photo taken on 18-04-2011
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks: Dartmoor Site: Corringdon Ball Chambered Tomb & Stone Rows
OS Map: SX 66956 61300
OS Source: Garmin
HER record: 5750
Megalithic Portal: 4619
PMD: Corringdon Ball Chambered Cairn
Alternate name: Corringdon Ball chambered tomb
Short Name: NT Corringdon
Butler map: 56.10
Butler Vol 5: p.155
Grinsell: List A SOUTH BRENT 1
DPD page: 83
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 28 56 66
Dimensions (m): 42 x 18 x 2.4
Lidar: SX66966130
Notes: "An earthen long barrow with a ruined stone chamber at the south east end. Early excavation and mutilation has resulted in two distinct mounds, the larger one at the south east end separated from the smaller by a path or trackway. The smaller mound appears to mark the limit of the barrow on the northwest; beyond this it merges into the natural hill-side. There are no side ditches but these may be obscured by soil washed down from the hill. The length is 42.0 m; the maximum width is 18.0m and the maximum height of 2.4m."
Nearby sites: SX66966130
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References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER record. For some records there are very good resources on the Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (PMD) website by Bill Radcliffe. Barrow reports are linked above as are references to Butler, Grinsell and Turner.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Pearce, Susan M., Archaeology of South West Britain, (1981)
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W., The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.379-388 (1932)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Todd, Malcolm, The South West to AD 1000, (1987)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 28, T.D.A. Vol.41 pp.93-94 (1909)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Stray notes on the Teign Valley, T.D.A Vol.78 pp.161-170 (1946)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 66, T.D.A. Vol.79 pp.31-34 (1947)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.24 pp.387-417 (1892)