Wigford Down Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5469 6505
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV48904
Megalithic Portal: 3536
Alternate name: Wigford Down 9
Short Name: RC:WigfordDown
Butler map: 48.1.9
Grinsell: MEAVY 3a
Turner: A31
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 6.0 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 5469 6505
Nearest Bus Stop: Shaugh Prior White Thorn Inn (2.0 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 5469 6505
Notes
"Ring cairn, wigford down. Internal diam 2.7m, with bank 1m wide and 0.2m high. Smallest ring cairn (diam) on dartmoor. Turner suggests a link between the construction of this, small, ring cairn, with the larger cairn sx56nw/11 to its nw."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)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)