Gidleigh Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6554 8758
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV6188
Alternate name: Gidleigh
Short Name: CC:Gidleigh
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: HER
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 6.0
Lidar: SX 6554 8758
Guide Map: 12
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (3.5 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.5 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 6554 8758
Notes
HER: Possible stone circle on Gidleigh Common, first recorded in 1925. Doubtful feature not positively identified since 1925.(Area centred SX 65548758) Stone Circle, 6 metres in diameter. Ten stones remain, three still standing. (H H Breton undated but thought to be around 1925)
Doubtful; probably a retaining circle. (R H Worth, 1948). This is probably a reference to The Heart of Dartmoor.
This might be the round house approx. 100 metres to the south at SX 6566 8742.Scorhill Down Round House
Formerly listed as a reported stone circle but stone circles are not this size. The feature, if it exists, will be a cairn circle, so this entry has been changed to reported cairn.
References
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- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)