![Cuckoo Ball Chambered Tomb](../resource/images/large/329B.jpg)
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 30. TDA Vol.43 1911
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cuckoo Ball Chambered Tomb
OS Map: SX 65963 58195
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV2885
Megalithic Portal: 31700
PMD: Cuckoo Ball Chambered Cairn
Alternate name: Cuckoo Ball chambered cairn
Short Name: NT Cuckoo Ball
Butler map: 53.15
Butler Vol 5: p.155
Grinsell: List A UGBOROUGH 1
DPD page: 80
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 30 56
Dimensions (m): c.28.0 x 12.0 x 0.8
Lidar: SX 65963 58195
Nearest Bus Stop: Ivybridge BP Garage (Stop B) (3.1 km) [Route: 38]
Nearby sites: SX 65963 58195
Notes
"The remains of a long cairn and burial chamber on a hill-slope at Cuckoo Ball. The cairn, which was probably robbed for newtake walls to the west and north, is 23 metres long by 12 metres wide, aligned north/south, and is 0.7 metre high at the north. The burial chamber is at the north end."
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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 or PMD record above.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Fletcher, M., Grinsell, L. & Quinnell, N., A long cairn on Butterdon Hill, Ugborough
, D.A.S.P. No.32 (1974)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Todd, Malcolm, The South West to AD 1000, (1987)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 30, T.D.A. Vol.43 pp.95-6 (1911)
- 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)