Great Nodden Cist
Photo taken on 08-07-2018
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Guide to the Cairns on Great Nodden
OS Map: SX 5388 8741
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV4625
Megalithic Portal: 45796
PMD: Great Nodden
Alternate name: Great Nodden 17
Short Name: CT Great Nod17
Butler map: 43.7.17
Grinsell: BRIDESTOWE and SOURTON COMMON 7a
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 13 21
Lidar: SX 5388 8741
Nearby sites: SX 5388 8741
Notes
Butler: "recorded on the summit in 1891". This was excavated revealing a cist. No longer traceable. This cairn and cist was around 6m away from the Great Nodden cairn. The photograph accompanying this record is of the Great Nodden Cairn in the vicinity of where this cist used to exist. Butler Vol. 2. Map 43.7.17.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.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 13, T.D.A. Vol.23 (1891)