Easdon Hill Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 7335 8230
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV8767
Megalithic Portal: 45848
PMD: Easdon Tor
Alternate name: Easdon Hill
Short Name: RC:Easdon Hill
Butler map: 22.3
Grinsell: MANATON 1
Turner: A61
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 15.5
Lidar: SX 7335 8230
Guide Map: 30
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Manaton Bus Shelter (2.6 km) [Route: 271,671]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Batworthy Miniature Pony Centre (2.9 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 7335 8230
Notes
"A cairn with a large centrally placed rock which is possibly the capstone of a kist. Robbers have excavated around and about this giving a rock strewn central hollow to the cairn. There is no encircling ditch. The capstone is approximately square. Touching its base at the east is a triangular shaped orthostat. The cairn is situated on the very summit of a hill."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.1: The East, (1991)
- 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)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)