Holne Lee 3 Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 67921 69599
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX67916959
HER: MDV5201
Alternate name: Holne Lee 3
Short Name: CN:Holne Lee 3
Butler map: 58.11.3
Grinsell: HOLNE 11
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 18.0 x 1.5
Lidar: SX 67921 69599
Guide Map: 45
Nearest Bus Stop: Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (4.7 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 67921 69599
Notes
HER: Round cairn, overall diameter 19.8m, is of similar form to A. having a central platform 8.7m diameter and 0.6m high, surrounded by a rim, 5.5m average width and 1.0m high. Gerrard: One of 5 cairns on Holne Lee situated 2 kilometres south-west of Fore Stoke. Round cairn. Diameter 21m, height 1.3m. Central pit 6m by 6m by 0.3m deep. Robbing pit is slightly east of the mound centre. Old animal burrows within the pit. Rushes in the pit, grass, gorse, bilberry and heather elsewhere.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)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil; Probert, S. A. J, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (1997)