Cosdon Beacon Cairn
Photo taken on 01-09-2013
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cosdon Hill Triple Stone Row
OS Map: SX 63611 91502
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6885
Megalithic Portal: 10325
Alternate name: Cosdon Beacon 1
Short Name: CN Cosdon 1
Butler map: 40.7.1
Grinsell: SOUTH TAWTON 3
DPD page: 153
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 27.0 x 3.0
Lidar: SX 63611 91502
Nearby sites: SX 63611 91502
Notes
Cairn 27m diameter, height 1.8m, crowned by modern stone heap and OS trig pillar. Large hollows in the top, from robbing, would have protected beacon fires. Butler Cosdon Beacon 1 Vol. 2. Map 40.7.1. (diagram of Cosdon Summit cairns on p.207).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.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.2: The North, (1991)
- Croker, J. G., A guide to the eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, (1851)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On the Hut-Circles of the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.20 (1864)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Wilkinson J. Gardner, British Remains on Dartmoor, Journal Brit. Arch. Assoc. xviii. pp.22-53, 111-133. (1862)