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Dartmoor Site: Houndtor Down Ring Setting Cairn and Cist

Houndtor Down Ring Setting Cairn and Cist

Houndtor Down Ring Setting Cairn and Cist

Photo taken on 19-08-2017

OS Map: SX 74106 78772
OS Source: Google
HER record: 7398
Megalithic Portal: 24187
PMD: Hound Tor
Alternate name: Houndtor Down
Short Name: CT Houndtor
Butler map: 8.6
Butler Vol 5: p.179 & Fig.121
Dixon Cist #: 58
Grinsell: MANATON 13
Turner: D8
DPD page: 151
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 53 56
Dimensions (m): 6.5 x 0.3 C
Lidar: SX74117877
Notes: "A ring cairn surviving as a mound 6.5 metres in diameter and 0.15 metres high. It is defined, except on the west side, by a ring of at least 19 close set granite stones. In the centre of the cairn is a north to south orientated cist, with both end stones and the western side stone remaining visible.". Butler Vol. 1. Map 8.6 (diagram Vol. 5. p.179).
Nearby sites: SX74117877

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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.

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