Single Barrow Cairn
Photo taken on 19-08-2017
OS Map: SX 70576 79538
OS Source: PDW
HER record: 7487
Megalithic Portal: 16631
Alternate name: Single Barrow
Short Name: CN SingleBarro
Butler map: 20.10
Butler Vol 5: p.23
Grinsell: MANATON 11
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 21.5 x c.1.0
Lidar: SX70587954
Notes: Round barrow, crowned by boundary stone dated 1854, and inscribed single burrow. Excavated 1873. Diameter 23 metres, height 1.0 metres. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.10.
Nearby sites: SX70587954
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References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER record. For some records there are very good resources on the Prehistoric Monuments of Dartmoor (PMD) website by Bill Radcliffe. Barrow reports are linked above as are references to Butler, Grinsell and Turner.
- Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.5 pp.549-58 (1872)
- Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor (Part 2), T.D.A. Vol.6 Part 1 pp.272-275 (1873)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)