Upper Spanish Lake 5 Reported Cist
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5857 6449
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV12786
PMD: Lee Moor E.
Alternate name: Upper Spanish Lake 5
Short Name: CN:Upper Spa5
Butler map: 51.5.5
Grinsell: SHAUGH PRIOR 33
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 3.5 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 5857 6449
Nearby sites: SX 5857 6449
Notes
Alledged cairn found Sept 1975. Possibly natural feature. Radcliffe lists as possible cist noting comment from Butler: "The rather smaller upper cairn may also have held a cistas the edge of a narrow slab is visible near the centre" Vol 3 p.163References
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.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)