Assycombe Hill Encircled Cairn and Cist
Photo taken on 25-07-2015
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Assycombe Double Stone Row
OS Map: SX 66102 82650
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6538
Megalithic Portal: 45814
PMD: Assycombe Stone Row
Alternate name: Assycombe Hill Stone Row
Short Name: CT Assycombe
Butler map: 35.19
Butler Vol 5: p.232 & Fig.164
Dixon Cist #: 157
Grinsell: LYDFORD 26
Turner: F16
DPD page: 135
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Yes
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 8.0 x 0.4 C
Lidar: SX 66102 82650
Guide Map: 19
Nearest Bus Stop: Warren House Inn (2.9 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 66102 82650
Notes
The cairn at the E end is in line with the N of the two rows. It measures 8.4m in diameter and is 0.6m high. It contains a large quantity of stone; two stones in the centre, set at right angles to each other around a hollow, suggest the remains of a cist.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)
- 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)
- Newman, Phil, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon, 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, The Dartmoor Menhirs, T.D.A. Vol.72 pp.191-200 (1940)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Stone Rows of Dartmoor Part 1, T.D.A. Vol.78 pp.285-316 (1946)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Worth's Dartmoor, (1971)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 3, T.D.A. Vol.26 pp.296-307 (1894)