Childe's Tomb Platform Cairn Circle and Cist

Photo taken on 18-05-2018

OS Map: SX 62577 70299
OS Source: Garmin
HER record: 48907
Megalithic Portal: 15211
PMD: Childe's Tomb
Alternate name: Childe's Tomb
Short Name: CT ChildesTomb
Butler map: 64.4
Dixon Cist #: 94
Grinsell: LYDFORD 96
Turner: E33
DPD page: 94
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): c.9.0 x 0.3 C
Lidar: SX62587030
Notes: "A much disturbed cairn, 9m in diameter and 0.3m high with a modern 'kerb' of blocks and slabs, 5.8m in diameter and 0.5m high, set upon the mound. At the centre is a well built cist 1.4m long, 0.5m wide and 0.6m deep. Over this is a two tier pedestal of eight well trimmed blocks, of three different lengths; a further half buried block lies S of the monument. Upon this is a replacement socket stone and cross, cut at Holne in 1885". Lethbridge diagram p.93, photo p.94. Butler Vol. 4. Map 64.4 (diagram p.220).
Nearby sites: SX62587030

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.

• Carrington, Nicholas Toms, Dartmoor, a descriptive poem, with notes by W. Burt, (1826)
• Crossing, William, The ancient stone crosses of Dartmoor and its borderland, (1902)
• Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
• Phillips, E. Masson, Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon. Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.289-342 (1937)