Hookney Tor Cairn
Photo taken on 21-06-2024
Database entries
OS Map: SX 69905 81314
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6611
Megalithic Portal: 34982
Alternate name: Hookney Tor summit
Short Name: CN HookneyTor
Butler map: 20.7
Grinsell: NORTH BOVEY 2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 69905 81314
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (2.5 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 69905 81314
Notes
Tor cairn north of Hookney Tor and resembling a barrow in shape. Enough of the topsoil has been removed to show that the mound is a natural outcrop feature covered with turf and heather, enclosed on three sides by a broken turf and stone bank. A footpath approaching the west side has probably effaced the remainder of the circuit.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.
- Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.5 pp.549-58 (1872)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Headland Warren and the Birchtor and Vitifer Mines: An Archaeological Survey, English Heritage (2002)
- Page, John Lloyd Warden, An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities, with some account of its borders, (1889)