Cuckoo Ball Chambered Tomb
Photo taken on 29-09-2011
Plan by RHW. Barrow Report 30. TDA Vol.43 1911
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cuckoo Ball Chambered Tomb
OS Map: SX 65963 58195
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV2885
Megalithic Portal: 31700
PMD: Cuckoo Ball Chambered Cairn
Alternate name: Cuckoo Ball chambered cairn
Short Name: NT Cuckoo Ball
Butler map: 53.15
Butler Vol 5: p.155
Grinsell: List A UGBOROUGH 1
DPD page: 80
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 30 56
Dimensions (m): c.28.0 x 12.0 x 0.8
Lidar: SX 65963 58195
Guide Map: 58
Nearest Bus Stop: Ivybridge BP Garage (Stop B) (4.0 km) [Route: 38]
Nearby sites: SX 65963 58195
Notes
"The remains of a long cairn and burial chamber on a hill-slope at Cuckoo Ball. The cairn, which was probably robbed for newtake walls to the west and north, is 23 metres long by 12 metres wide, aligned north/south, and is 0.7 metre high at the north. The burial chamber is at the north end."
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.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Fletcher, M., Grinsell, L. & Quinnell, N., A long cairn on Butterdon Hill, Ugborough , D.A.S.P. No.32 (1974)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Todd, Malcolm, The South West to AD 1000, (1987)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 30, T.D.A. Vol.43 pp.95-6 (1911)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Stray notes on the Teign Valley, T.D.A Vol.78 pp.161-170 (1946)