Venford Brook W.1 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6822 7154
OS Source: Butler
Butler OS: SX68227154
HER: MDV13003
Alternate name: Venford Brook W.1
Short Name: CN:Venford W1
Butler map: 60.8.1
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 3.8 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 6822 7154
Guide Map: 40
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (2.5 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 6822 7154
Notes
HER: One of four small clearance cairns within the medieval and later field system west of Venford Reservoir. The Ordnance Survey (1977) suggested these as Prehistoric cairns, but 1996 Royal Commission field survey (1996) reclassified as Medieval or later clearance mounds. It measures 4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high with a stone content, now turf and heather covered, but no particular features. It is within a reave system and 3.0m from a north to south lynchetReferences
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)
- Newman, Phil; Probert, S. A. J, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (1997)