Scorhill Leat Platform Cairn Circle
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6553 8726
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV130493
Megalithic Portal: 25238
Alternate name: Scorhill S.1
Short Name: CN:Scorhill S1
Butler map: 38.8.1
Butler Vol 5: p.249 & Fig.175
Turner: E25
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): c.7.5 x 0.8
Lidar: SX 6553 8726
Guide Map: 12
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (3.8 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.5 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 6553 8726
Notes
"A platform circle; ring of kerb stones 4.5m internal diam, enclosing flat-topped cairn 0.45m high. Indication of a stone ring/ring cairn beneath cairn (turner)." Entry added by PDW to correct/replace Butler 38.4.1. This is cairn 1 in Fig. 175 (p.249 Vol 5). Formerly listed as PC:Scor LeatReferences
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.2: The North, (1991)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)