Trendlebere Row S. Cairn
Photo taken on 17-03-2016
Database entries
OS Map: SX 7662 7923
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV8077
Megalithic Portal: 4625
Alternate name: Trendlebere Stone Row S
Short Name: CN TrendleberS
Butler map: 2.7
Grinsell: MANATON 14
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 16.0 x 0.6
Lidar: SX 7662 7923
Guide Map: 31
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Manaton Becky Falls (1.4 km) [Route: 271,671]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Lustleigh Bishops Stone (3.0 km) [Route: 178]
Nearby sites: SX 7662 7923
Notes
"Cairn at south end of stone row on trendlebere down ne slope of black hill ... (worth) a ruined cairn some 50ft in diam but now reduced to a ring cairn... perimeter can be traced on the ground but only a grass covered crescent of stones survives in the eastern half ... (Grinsell). Cairn, truncated, from west margin of which double stone row descends. Diameter 14.5m, height 0.6m."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.1: The East, (1991)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Rowe, Samuel, A Perambulation of Dartmoor (3rd Edition), (1896)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Worth's Dartmoor, (1971)
- Worth, R.N., The Stone Rows of Dartmoor - Part 5, T.D.A. Vol.28 pp.712-13 (1896)