Yellowmead Fourfold Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 16-08-2009
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 41. TDA Vol.54 1922
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Yellowmead 4-fold Cairn Circle
OS Map: SX 57488 67846
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX57496784
HER: MDV3338
Megalithic Portal: 1371
PMD: Yellowmead Stone Circles
Alternate name: Yellowmead fourfold circle
Short Name: CC Fourfold
Butler map: 47.14
Grinsell: SHEEPSTOR 4
Turner: G30
DPD page: 31
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 41 56
Dimensions (m): 19.0 x 0
Lidar: SX 57488 67846
Guide Map: 42
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (4.0 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 57488 67846
Notes
"A group of four concentric stone circles of which the innermost one is considered to be a cairn circle. Three stones were standing in 1921 when all the fallen stones were raised during restoration. There also appears to have been a stone row leading away from the stone circles." See also, Legendary Dartmoor: Yellowmead Stone Circle. Breton, see Megalithic circles on Yellowmead Down, Sheepstor (Heart of Dartmoor pp.89-91).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.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, Megalithic circles on Yellowmead Down, Sheepstor, The Heart of Dartmoor (1926)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Forest of Dartmoor, (1990)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Greeves, T, The Archaeology of Dartmoor from the Air, (1985)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Robinson, Rosmary and Greeves, T. A. P., Two Unrecorded Prehistoric Multiple Stone Rings, Glasscombe, Ugborough, South Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.39 pp.33-66 (1981)
- Robinson, Rosmary and Cosford, Judith, Dartmoor multiple stone circles, D.A.S.P. No.44 pp.166-170 (1986)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 41, T.D.A. Vol.54 pp.69-72 (1922)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)