Emmets Post Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 56786 63196
OS Source: HER2
HER: MDV2439
Alternate name: Emmets Post
Short Name: CN:Emmets Po1
Butler map: 48.3
Grinsell: SHAUGH PRIOR 42
Exist: No
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 12
Dimensions (m): 9.0 x 1.2
Lidar: SX 56786 63196
Nearby sites: SX 56786 63196
Notes
"Oxford Archaeology carried out an excavation of an early Bronze Age barrow at Emmets Post, Dartmoor in advance of its destruction by quarrying. The investigation elucidated the sequence of construction of the monument, which comprised a primary turf mound and a central cairn that were subsequently buried beneath a larger secondary turf mound with a stone kerb. No human remains were found, although this is not unusual on Dartmoor, where unburnt bone does not survive due to acidity of the soil."See also Historic England: Emmets Post.
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.
- Bayer, Olaf + Simmonds, Andrew + Welsh, Ken, Excavation of an early Bronze Age Round Barrow at Emmets Post, Shaugh Prior, Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.75 pp.51-95 (2017)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)
- Worth, R.H., Worth's Dartmoor, (1971)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 12, T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.49-52 (1890)