Cosdon Beacon East Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 12-09-2021
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cosdon Hill Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 63663 91492
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6928
Megalithic Portal: 10325
Alternate name: Cosdon Beacon 2
Short Name: RC Cosdon 2
Butler map: 40.7.2
Grinsell: SOUTH TAWTON 4
Turner: A6
DPD page: 152
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): c.25.0 x 0.6
Lidar: SX 63663 91492
Guide Map: 3
Nearest Bus Stop: Ramsley (2.7 km) [Route: 670,671,6A]
Nearby sites: SX 63663 91492
Notes
Located 25m to east of Cosdon Beacon. A near circular bank 1.6m wide of double slab construction and about 21m across. Turner A6 (diagram p.59). NMR Cairn A. Butler Cosdon Beacon 2 Vol. 2. Map 40.7.2. (diagram of Cosdon Summit cairns on p.207).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.2: The North, (1991)
- Croker, J. G., A guide to the eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, (1851)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On the Hut-Circles of the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.20 (1864)
- 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)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, British Remains on Dartmoor, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xviii. pp.22-53, 111-133. (1862)