Venford Brook S.2 Clearance Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6764 7046
OS Source: Butler
Butler OS: SX67647046
HER: MDV128837
Alternate name: Venford Brook S.2
Short Name: CN?Venford S2
Butler map: 60.8.4
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 5.0 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 6764 7046
Guide Map: 40
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (3.6 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 6764 7046
Notes
HER: Two cairns or disturbed hut circles overlain by later clearance material lie at the foot of a steep north-facing slope above the right bank of the western tributary of the Venford Brook. These features have been Scheduled as cairns. The huts are largely infilled with small boulders and rocks and measure 6.5m and 5.5m in external diameter respectively. Both possess off-centre hollows roughly 0.5m deep and neither displays evidence of a former entrance. The fact that these features appear to be terraced into the slope would preclude their interpretation as burial cairns as suggested by ButlerReferences
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)