White Tor S.S.E.4 Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5432 7858
OS Source: HER
Butler OS: SX54387843
HER: MDV4144
Alternate name: White Tor S.S.E.4
Short Name: CN?White SSE4
Butler map: 31.20.4
Grinsell: PETER TAVY 23
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 4.6 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 5432 7858
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.4 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 5432 7858
Notes
HER: A disturbed round cairn on the south slopes of White Tor. Originally noted in 1899 Transactions report, but could not be positively identified by the Ordnance Survey (1950/1978) or Grinsell (1978) or Gerrard (1992). Cairn was found in 1987 and has been included in surveys of the range in the early 2000s and 2018.. Butler NGR: SX 5431 7858References
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, Sixth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.31 pp.146-155 (1899)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, English Heritage (2003)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area (2018), Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)