Hemstone Rocks Platform Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 25-07-2015
Database entries
OS Map: SX 64856 83806
OS Source: Garmin
Butler OS: SX64808380
HER: MDV6730
Megalithic Portal: 45619
PMD: Hemstone Rocks
Alternate name: Hemstone Rocks N.3
Short Name: PC Hemstone N3
Butler map: 35.7.3
Grinsell: LYDFORD 17b
Turner: E12
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 64856 83806
Guide Map: 19
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Warren House Inn (4.9 km) [Route: 171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Postbridge Post Office (4.9 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 64856 83806
Notes
Next to Turner ring cairn D9. "Remains of a cairn 8.0 metres diameter and up to 0.2 metres high to the north of the hut settlement. There are two pits cut into it, probably the result of work carried out by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1901." DNP Site 9F.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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Seventh Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.33 pp.130-138 (1901)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2013)
- 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 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)