Snowdon 2 Cairn
Photo taken on 02-10-2025
Photo 02/10/25 detail of shelter within cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 66871 68281
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX66866827
HER: MDV5220
Alternate name: Snowdon 2
Short Name: CN:Snowdon 2
Butler map: 58.10.2
Grinsell: WEST BUCKFASTLEIGH 3
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 18.0 x 1.2
Lidar: SX 66871 68281
Guide Map: 45
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (6.4 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 66871 68281
Notes
One of a line of four cairns. Visible on Google earth. HER: Round platform cairn, 16.5 m diameter and 11m high, and has been badly mutilated by the erection of a modern marker cairn, 1.5 m high and 3m diameter with a shelter upon it. This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor sites. Butler: 18 metres diameter by 1.2 metres high. This cairn has a deep central pit and is slightly smaller than its southern neighbour. It is crowned with a modern stone heap.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.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)