Penn Beacon Cairn
Photo taken on 25-08-2017
Database entries
OS Map: SX 59924 62928
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV2404
Megalithic Portal: 45853
Alternate name: Penn Beacon Summit
Short Name: CN PennBeacon
Butler map: 52.14
Butler Vol 5: p.157 & Fig.96
Grinsell: CORNWOOD 2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Barrow Report: 14
Dimensions (m): 24.0 x 2.0
Lidar: SX 59924 62928
Nearby sites: SX 59924 62928
Notes
"A round cairn, 22 metres in diameter and 1.7 metres high, lies on the summit of Penn Beacon, at 430 metres above O.D. It is of small boulders and has been much disturbed, with a central hollow, 8 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres deep, and a modern marker cairn, 1 metre high, on the south side". Lethbridge p.62-3 suggests possible ruins of chambered cairn (diagram p.59).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.
- Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.5 pp.549-58 (1872)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.5: The Second Millennium B.C., (1997)
- Fleming, A., Collis, J. & Jones, R., A late prehistoric reave system near Cholwich Town Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.31 (1973)
- 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)
- Worth, R.N., A Hut Cluster on Dartmoor [at Shell Top, Lee Moor], T.D.A. Vol.22 pp.237-239 (1890)
- Worth, R.N., Notes on Some Dartmoor Antiquities, Devon and Cornwall Notes and Gleanings Vol 3, pp. 17, 13, 59, 67, 94, 108, 125 (1890)
- Worth, R.N., Barrow Report 14, T.D.A. Vol.24 (1892)