Knatta Barrow Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 65970 64212
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV5717
Megalithic Portal: 45842
Alternate name: Knatta Barrow
Short Name: RC:Knatta Bar
Butler map: 57.29
Butler Vol 5: p.160 & Fig.102
Grinsell: SOUTH BRENT 2
Turner: A54
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 14.0 x 0.7
Lidar: SX 65970 64212
Guide Map: 52
Nearest Bus Stop: South Brent Pool Park (7.8 km) [Route: 38]
Nearby sites: SX 65970 64212
Notes
"This large cairn (24m diameter, 1.7m height) composed of loose granite boulders. It is unusual among summit cairns in having a well defined outer bank about 1m wide and 0.5m high. This is partly turf covered but where eroded can be seen to be built of loose stone like the central cairn which touches it. It shows best on the north and east sides, while on the south west side it tends to merge into the body of the cairn."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.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- 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)