Yar Tor Summit Cairn
Photo taken on 06-06-2025
Main photo shows adaptation to make shelter. This photo shows overall size of the cairn.
Database entries
OS Map: SX 67865 73943
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX67857393
HER: MDV6434
Megalithic Portal: 11065
Alternate name: Yar Tor summit
Short Name: CN:Yar Tor Sum
Butler map: 14.8
Grinsell: WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR 20
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 56
Dimensions (m): c.18.0
Lidar: SX 67865 73943
Guide Map: 36
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (1.3 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 67865 73943
Notes
"Large cairn (approximately 18.0 metres) built on the summit of Yar Tor; the stones have been rearranged to form a shelter. This cairn is aligned with a reave; part of the Dartmeet parallel reave system."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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)