Giant's Grave Cairn
Photo taken on 02-06-2011
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & Cairns
OS Map: SX 76768 87459
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV8309
Megalithic Portal: 22314
Alternate name: Mardon Down 4
Short Name: CN Mardon 4
Butler Vol 5: p.147 & Fig.89
Grinsell: MORETONHAMPSTEAD 3
DPD page: 149
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 20.5 x 0.6
Lidar: SX 76768 87459
Guide Map: 59
Nearest Bus Stop: Moretonhampstead Court Street Car Park (2.7 km) [Route: 171,173]
Nearby sites: SX 76768 87459
Notes
Remains of a cairn which was largely destroyed in the early 19th century when material from it was removed for road building. Now a turf-covered mound 20.5 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high.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.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Jones, J. P, Observations on the scenery and antiquities in the neighbourhood of Moretonhampstead, (1823)
- Newman, Phil, A Stone Circle and Cairn Group on Mardon Down, Moretonhampstead, Devon An Earthwork Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2017)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 4, T.D.A. Vol.14 (1882)