Red Barrows 2 Cairn
Photo taken on 12-08-2017
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Soussons Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 67709 79666
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX67707965
HER: MDV6006
Alternate name: Red Barrows 2
Short Name: CN RedBar 2
Butler map: 24.2.2
Grinsell: MANATON 6
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 56
Dimensions (m): 15.0 x 1.2
Lidar: SX 67709 79666
Guide Map: 27
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (1.7 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 67709 79666
Notes
HER: One of a row of four barrows on Soussons Down known as 'The Red Barrows' of 13.7 metres in diameter by 1.2 metres high. Excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1902. Fragments of burnt bone and wood charcoal found in central pit, with further bone, wood charcoal in paved area. Two indeterminate fragments of bronze also found, and a flint arrowhead.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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fifth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.30 pp.97-115 (1898)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Ninth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.35 pp.143-145 (1903)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (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)