Wigford Down 12 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55089 64982
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX55096497
HER: MDV28543
Alternate name: Wigford Down 12
Short Name: CN:Wigford 12
Butler map: 48.1.12
Grinsell: MEAVY 8
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 14.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 55089 64982
Guide Map: 53
Nearest Bus Stop: Shaugh Prior White Thorn Inn (2.7 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 55089 64982
Notes
HER: One of three scheduled round cairns that lie outside the coaxial field system on Wigford Down and survive as circular mounds. This cairn measures 14.0 metres in diameter by 0.4 metres in height. All three show evidence for either partial early excavation or robbing. A mound is visible as a cropmark on digital images derived from aerial photographs of 2007 onwards and as a subtle earthwork on visualisations derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2017References
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.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)