Giant's Basin Cairn
Photo taken on 09-09-2012
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Drizzlecombe Ceremonial Complex (Photos 1)
OS Map: SX 59202 66945
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX59196694
HER: MDV3372
Megalithic Portal: 538
Alternate name: Giant's Basin
Short Name: CN GiantsBasin
Butler map: 49.19.5
Grinsell: SHEEPSTOR 33
DPD page: 40
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 22.0 x 3.5
Lidar: SX 59202 66945
Guide Map: 48
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (6.2 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 59202 66945
Notes
The Giant's Basin is an impressive but heavily disturbed cairn lying adjacent to the Drizzlecombe Stone Rows. It measures approximately 22 metres in diameter, a maximum of 3 metres high and is partially turf-covered. An approximately 2.5 metre wide reed-covered slight depression around its circumference suggests a silted ditch. Much of the central part of the cairn has been removed to a depth of 1.65m and most of excavated material in the form of fist-sized stones and small boulders has been deposited around the rim of the mound. Lethbridge pp.38-42, diagram p.38.Grinsell [Folklore 1976]: This is named from the large crater in the top where it has been opened.
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.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Grinsell, Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in England, (1976)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Moorland Plym, T.P.I. Vol.10 Part 3 p.294 (1890)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 12, T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.49-52 (1890)