White Tor S.S.E.4 Reported Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5432 7858
OS Source: HER
Butler OS: SX54387843
HER: MDV4144
Alternate name: White Tor S.S.E.4
Short Name: CN?White SSE4
Butler map: 31.20.4
Grinsell: PETER TAVY 23
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 4.6 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 5432 7858
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.4 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 5432 7858
Notes
HER: A disturbed round cairn on the south slopes of White Tor. Originally noted in 1899 Transactions report, but could not be positively identified by the Ordnance Survey (1950/1978) or Grinsell (1978) or Gerrard (1992). Cairn was found in 1987 and has been included in surveys of the range in the early 2000s and 2018.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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Sixth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.31 pp.146-155 (1899)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, English Heritage (2003)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)