Merrivale double row B (centre) Encircled Cairn and Cist

Photo taken on 25-07-2010

Database entries

PDW coverage: Dartmoor Walk: Merrivale Complex
OS Map: SX 55442 74779
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV14796
Megalithic Portal: 3389
PMD: Merrivale S row
Alternate name: Merrivale double row 2 centre
Short Name: CT Merrivale 2
Butler map: 44.8.2
Dixon Cist #: 142
Grinsell: WALKHAMPTON 4
Turner: F20
DPD page: 17
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 3.3 x 0.3 C
Lidar: SX 55442 74779
Guide Map: 33
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (0.9 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 55442 74779

Notes

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.

• Bray, Anna Eliza, The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, vol.1, (1836)
• Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
• Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
• Kempe, Account of some Monuments conjectured to be British, still existing upon Dartmoor, Archaeologia 22 pp.429-35 (1829)
• Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
• Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities, with some account of its borders, (1889)
• Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
• Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
• Worth, R. Hansford, Retaining circles associated with stone rows Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.227-38 (1941)
• Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)