Childes Tomb Platform Cairn Circle and Cist
Photo taken on 18-05-2018
Database entries
OS Map: SX 62577 70299
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV48907
Megalithic Portal: 15211
PMD: Childe's Tomb
Alternate name: Childes 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: SX 62577 70299
Nearby sites: SX 62577 70299
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).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.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.4: The South-East, (1993)
- 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)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Phillips, E. Masson, Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon. Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.289-342 (1937)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)