Great Trowlesworthy Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5839 6459
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV28533
Alternate name: Great Trowlesworthy
Short Name: CC:Trowles
Butler map: 51.5
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: HER
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 5839 6459
Guide Map: 53
Nearest Bus Stop: Lee Moor Clearview (3.8 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 5839 6459
Notes
"An incomplete circle of largely recumbent granite boulders on the gently sloping W flank of Lee Moor. The ring measures 9.9m north-south by 9.4m with a gap in the eastern side. The interior lies at the same level as the surrounding ground surface." See Butler Volume 3 pp.162-3, Map 51, Figure 51.6 'Ring of stones' shown to the west of Settlement 'B' at 'Upper Spanish Lake'. Not listed in Butler's cairn listing.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)