Great Gnats Head Cairn
Photo taken on 17-07-2016
Database entries
OS Map: SX 61657 67908
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV13177
Megalithic Portal: 45861
Alternate name: Great Gnats' Head Summit 4
Short Name: CN GreatGnats4
Butler map: 50.5.4
Grinsell: SHAUGH PRIOR 2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 10.0 x 0.5
Lidar: SX 61657 67908
Nearest Bus Stop: Princetown Dartmoor Visitor Centre (6.2 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 61657 67908
Notes
"A Bronze Age summit cairn, now badly disturbed by a conical walkers cairn built in the SW quadrant. It measures 8.5m in diameter, the outer slope is 0.3m high and the interior is scooped to a depth of 0.3m -small boulders and upright slabs are visible. The conical cairn is 2.6m in diameter and 1.5m high." Butler Volume 3 Map 50.5.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.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)