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Dartmoor Site: Shaugh Moor Platform Cairn Circle

Shaugh Moor Platform Cairn Circle

Shaugh Moor Platform Cairn Circle

Photo taken on 12-09-2022

Database entries

OS Map: SX 55476 63479
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV2572
Megalithic Portal: 52699
Alternate name: Saddlesborough N.W.
Short Name: PC Shaugh Moor
Butler map: 48.5
Grinsell: SHAUGH PRIOR 41b
Turner: E3
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 10.5 x 0.3
Lidar: SX 55476 63479
Nearby sites: SX 55476 63479

Notes

Ring cairn or traces of cairn with retaining circle, found by plymouth archaeological group 1959. Diameter 11.5m, height 0.3m. No.416. Vis=-/7/1959 (ancient monuments). Cairn, height 2ft, diameter 30ft, east of and close to stone row. Distinct stone kerb with low flat mound within.

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.

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