Single Barrow Cairn
Photo taken on 19-08-2017
The "Duke" stone (1854). Photo 01/08/2026.
Database entries
OS Map: SX 70576 79538
OS Source: PDW
Butler OS: SX70577953
HER: MDV7487
Megalithic Portal: 16631
Alternate name: Single Barrow
Short Name: CN SingleBarro
Butler map: 20.10
Butler Vol 5: p.23 & Fig.106
Grinsell: MANATON 11
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 21.5 x c.1.0
Lidar: SX 70576 79538
Guide Map: 29
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (3.9 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Postbridge Bellever (5.5 km) [Route: 98]
Nearby sites: SX 70576 79538
Notes
Round barrow, crowned by boundary stone dated 1854, and inscribed single burrow. Excavated 1873. Diameter 23 metres, height 1.0 metres. Butler Volume 1 Map 20.10.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)
- Bate, C Spence, Researches into Some Antient Tumuli on Dartmoor (Part 2), T.D.A. Vol.6 Part 1 pp.272-275 (1873)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (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)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 21, T.D.A. Vol.34 pp.104- 146 (1902)