Mardon Down Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 26-01-2018
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Mardon Down Stone Circle & Cairns
OS Map: SX 76729 87264
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV19003
Megalithic Portal: 22313
PMD: Mardon Down Cairn 1
Alternate name: Mardon Down Ring Cairn 2
Short Name: RC Mardon 2
Turner: A36
DPD page: 149
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 12
Lidar: SX 76729 87264
Nearest Bus Stop: Moretonhampstead Court Street Car Park (2.0 km) [Route: 171,173]
Nearby sites: SX 76729 87264
Notes
"Stone ring with central cairn. Outer ring measures 12.0 metres in diameter with bank 1.5 metres wide and 0.3 metres high. Central cairn 5.0 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high with disturbance on its western side. Outer ring has 2.5 metre wide entrance on the east."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.
- Newman, Phil, A Stone Circle and Cairn Group on Mardon Down, Moretonhampstead, Devon An Earthwork Survey, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2017)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)