Rippon Tor 4 Cairn
Photo taken on 26-08-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 74724 75501
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX74757547
HER: MDV13721
Alternate name: Rippon Tor 4
Short Name: CN RipponTor 4
Butler map: 5.5.4
Grinsell: ILSINGTON 3
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 20.0 x 2.0
Lidar: SX 74724 75501
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Haytor Vale Moorlands House (3.5 km) [Route: 193,271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (5.4 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 74724 75501
Notes
HER: One of a pair of large cairns to the south-east of Rippon Tor. It is located on a reave but probably predates it. It is an amorphous and much disturbed cairn of 20 metres diameter, which, due to interference, now has an uneven profile.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.1: The East, (1991)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)