Top Tor Cairn
Database entries
OS Map: SX 73574 76472
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV7455
Megalithic Portal: 32049
Alternate name: Top Tor 1
Short Name: CN:Top Tor
Butler map: 9.7.1
Grinsell: WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR 11
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 10.5 x 0.5
Lidar: SX 73574 76472
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (1.7 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (5.3 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 73574 76472
Notes
NMR C. "Cairns on Top Tor. Two inconspicuous cairns lie about 80 metres apart beside the track which follows the crest of the ridge on the north side of Top Tor. The cairn to the south is smaller at circa 7.5 metres diameter by 0.2 metres high and has a circle of ten slabs showing above the turf around the edge. This cairn has been reported to have a stone row running downhill to the north but the few earthfast slabs in this direction are no more numerous than elsewhere on the hillside and this seems unconvincing. Nearly 100 metres east of the southern cairn is an arc of three standing and two flat slabs representing about a quarter of a circle. The interior is quite flat except for a shallow trench but possibly the stones originally surrounded a cairn which has been completely removed. Other details: Map 9, Site 7."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)
- Davidson, C. & Seabrook, R., Stone rings on south-east Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.31 (1973)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Newman, Phil, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)