Cholake Head Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 61460 73070
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX61457307
HER: MDV6307
Alternate name: Cholake Head
Short Name: CN:Cholake
Butler map: 65.2
Grinsell: LYDFORD 87
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 27
Dimensions (m): 4.7 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 61460 73070
Guide Map: 39
Nearest Bus Stop: Two Bridges Hotel (2.6 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 61460 73070
Notes
HER: Turf-covered cairn lies on a broad slopping shelf on the E slopes of Royal Hill at 387m OD. Its diameter is approximately 5.2m by 4.9m and it has a maximum height of 0.5m a central pit is 2.5m across and 0.2m deep. Some stones and small orthostats protrude through the turf but there is no trace of a kerb or cist. Its relationship to a prehistoric wall (SX 67 SW 68), which extends from both the W and E sides of the cairn, is uncertain.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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 27, T.D.A. Vol.40 pp.84-85 (1908)