Database entries
OS Map: SX 638 824
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV6792
Alternate name: Lade Hill Brookhead
Short Name: CN?Lade Hill2
Butler map: 35.9
Grinsell: LYDFORD 16a
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Maybe
Dimensions (m): 5.0 x 0.2
Lidar: SX 638 824
Nearby sites: SX 638 824
Notes
A barrow 700 yards south of Grey Wethers (SX 68 SW 1) (which plots somewhere amongst the hut circles). It measures 16ft diameter and 9 ins high. Excavations in 1897/8 exposed a pit containing a little charcoal. No longer traceable.
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, Fifth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.30 pp.97-115 (1898)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)