![Hawk's Tor Rock Shelter](../resource/images/large/603B.jpg)
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 60. TDA Vol.73 1941
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55348 62514
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV2504
Megalithic Portal: 45856
PMD: Hawk's Tor - Possible Chambered Tomb
Alternate name: Hawk's Tor
Short Name: RS HawksTor
Grinsell: List A SHAUGH PRIOR 2
DPD page: 56
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Grinsell
Cairn Class: No
Barrow Report: 60
Lidar: SX 55348 62514
Nearest Bus Stop: Wotter Methodist Church (0.8 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 55348 62514
Notes
Natural feature Hawk's Tor rock shelter - resembles tomb. "At the summit stands a rock shelter, v shaped in plan with a coverstone. Rowe referred to it as a cromlech. R. N. Worth called it a natural grouping of rocks. Mr. Beckerlegge on examining the coverstone, found a similar vein of quartz in the coverstone as in the rocks of the v shaped shelter, but running in a different direction. The coverstone must have been levered or swung in an anti-clockwise direction through an angle of 90 degrees to make a shelter of what was previously an opening between two vertical walls of rock". Might be prehistoric, could be from Roman period or later. Lethbridge p.54-6 Hawk's Tor Cromlech / Rock Shelter - diagram p.55, photo p.56. See also:
The Modern Antiquarian. The following is a sketch by R.H Worth. Detailed analysis by R.H. Worth in Barrow Report 60 in which he concludes the cover has been rotated.
![](http://www.dartmoorwalks.org.uk/resource/images/small/hawkstor.jpg)
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.
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Moorland Plym, T.P.I. Vol.10 Part 3 p.294 (1890)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 60, T.D.A. Vol.73 pp.51-59 (1941)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 4, T.D.A. Vol.14 (1882)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 12, T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.49-52 (1890)