Devil's Elbow Platform Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 58192 72708
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX58207269
HER: MDV14310
Megalithic Portal: 36761
PMD: Devil's Bridge
Alternate name: Hart Tor N.
Short Name: PC:DevilsElbow
Butler map: 46.1
Butler Vol 5: p.168 & Fig.107
Grinsell: WALKHAMPTON 10
Turner: E5
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 8.0 x 0.4 C
Lidar: SX 58192 72708
Guide Map: 38
Nearest Bus Stop: Princetown Dartmoor Visitor Centre (1.6 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 58192 72708
Notes
Ring cairn consisting of a circle of close set stones: almost a kerb circle, interior flat and no sign of cist. Diameter 8m, height 0.3m. HER: Ring cairn to the north-east of the settlement to the north of Hart Tor recorded in the 19th century as containing a 'dilapidated kistvaen'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.
- Bate, C Spence, On the Prehistoric Antiquities of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.4 pp.491-516 (1871)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 4, T.D.A. Vol.14 (1882)