Ryders Hill Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 65982 69068
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX65976904
HER: MDV5223
Alternate name: Ryders Hill
Short Name: CN:Ryders Hill
Butler map: 58.13
Butler Vol 5: p.162 & Fig.101
Grinsell: HOLNE 8
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 30.0 x 1.5
Lidar: SX 65982 69068
Guide Map: 45
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (5.6 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 65982 69068
Notes
HER: Large platform cairn, 30.5 m diameter and on average 1.0 m high is turf covered and in good condition, except for the erection of Petre's Bound Stone, a modern boundary stone, and an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar upon it. It lies on the broad level summit of Ryder's Hill.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.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)