Roundy Park, Postbridge Cist
Photo taken on 14-07-2013
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 21. TDA Vol.34 1902
Database entries
OS Map: SX 63920 79669
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX63927967
HER: MDV5935
Megalithic Portal: 26041
PMD: Roundy Park
Alternate name: Roundy Park
Short Name: CT Roundy Pk 1
Butler map: 27.4
Butler Vol 5: p.22 & Fig.3
Dixon Cist #: 15
Grinsell: LYDFORD 40
DPD page: 113
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 21
Dimensions (m): 5.5 x 0.3 C
Lidar: SX 63920 79669
Guide Map: 26
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Post Office (1.4 km) [Route: 98,171]
Nearby sites: SX 63920 79669
Notes
One of the largest cists on Dartmoor. Discovered in August 1893 by Robert Burnard, who was responsible for the restoration of the grave. Lethbrdige diagram p.112, photo p.113. Butler Vol. 2. Map 27.4 (diagram of location p.41, diagram of site Vol. 5 p.22). Breton p.37References
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.
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Burnard, Robert, Dartmoor Pictorial Records, (1986)
- 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)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)