Crow Tor Platform Cairn Circle and Cist

Photo taken on 30-05-2015

OS Map: SX 60531 78683
OS Source: Google
HER record: 5938
Megalithic Portal: 45775
PMD: Crow Tor
Alternate name: Crow Tor
Short Name: CT Crow Tor
Butler map: 29.18
Butler Vol 5: p.196 & Fig.139
Dixon Cist #: 115
Grinsell: LYDFORD 41
Turner: E39
DPD page: 109
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 4.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX60537868
Notes: "A kerbed cairn and cist. The cairn consists of a stony, turf-covered mound, and measures 4.5m in diameter and 0.45m in height. There are traces of a retaining kerb of leaning, granite slabs to the northeast and south. The cist is set slightly to the north of the centre of the cairn. It is trapezoidal in shape, and measures 0.65m and 0.95m in length, 0.8m in width, and 0.5m in depth. The cover-stone, which is 0.9m long, 0.5m wide and 0.2m thick, is displaced and lies just to the south east of the cist." Lethbridge diagram p.107, photo bottom p.109. Butler Vol. 2. Map 29.18 (p.63, photo on p.124, diagram Vol. 5. p.196).
Nearby sites: SX60537868

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.

• Baring-Gould, Sabine, Seventh Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.33 pp.130-138 (1901)
• Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)