Redlake Foot (Brown Heath) Cist
Photo taken on 18-09-2017
OS Map: SX 63778 66069
OS Source: Garmin
HER record: 5102
Megalithic Portal: 45760
PMD: Brown Heath
Alternate name: Brown Heath
Short Name: CT Brown Heath
Butler map: 55.7.3
Dixon Cist #: 102
Grinsell: HARFORD 1
DPD page: 73
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 60 69 71
Dimensions (m): 6.5 x 0.5 C
Lidar: SX63786607
Notes: "A fine cist at Redlake Foot measuring internally, 0.7m. by 1.0m. and 1.0m. deep single slabs form the end-stones and the southern side-stone. The northern side is a slab resting on a horizontal 'post' type stone" Cover slab partly displaced from the sides. Lethbridge p.73, diagram p.71. Butler Brown Heath (Cairn 3) - Vol. 4. Map 55.7.3 (p.76-7 diagram p.76).
Nearby sites: SX63786607
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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.
- Dixon, C.E.B., Barrow Report 71, T.D.A. Vol.85 pp.176-177 (1953)
- Newman, Phil, The Upper Erme Valley Dartmoor National Park Devon An Archaeological Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 60, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.51-59 (1941)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 69, T.D.A. Vol.82 pp.45-48 (1950)