Harbourne Head A Stone Ring Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 25-03-2016
Database entries
OS Map: SX 69119 65039
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV5802
Megalithic Portal: 42628
Alternate name: Parnell's Hill 1
Short Name: RC Harbourne A
Butler map: 57.31.6
Grinsell: DEAN PRIOR 8
Turner: A55
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 24.0 x 1.2
Lidar: SX 69119 65039
Guide Map: 52
Nearest Bus Stop: Buckfast Higher Mill Lane (6.8 km) [Route: 88]
Nearby sites: SX 69119 65039
Notes
"One of a pair of cairns on Gripper's Hill." " A ring cairn, Harbourne Head consisting of a stone ring 17.0 metres in diameter internally, with bank 1.8 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. Cairn contains a central mound, 12.0 metres in diameter, 0.8 metres high. This type of cairn is referred to as a Dartmoor version of the Wessex bell barrows."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.4: The South-East, (1993)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)