Cold Cross East Reported Cairn
Photo taken on 26-08-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 73999 74292
OS Source: Garmin
Butler OS: SX73997427
HER: MDV30642
Alternate name: Cold Cross East
Short Name: CN Cold Cross
Butler map: 10.
Butler Vol 5: p.54 & Fig.32
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 22.0
Lidar: SX 73999 74292
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (4.3 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (4.1 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 73999 74292
Notes
HER: One of several Prehistoric cairns running south from Blackslade Ford surmounted by a stone marking the boundary between Buckland in the Moor and Ashburton parishes. A low earthwork, the outline of which is a near perfect circle with a base diameter of 21 metres, though the interior comprises only irregular hummocks and pits. A parish boundary stone stands upright just west of centre.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)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)