Gidleigh - North Chambered Tomb
Photo taken on 29-05-2021
Database entries
OS Map: SX 65867 88956
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV6212
Megalithic Portal: 45581
PMD: Gidleigh North Chambered Cairn
Alternate name: Buttern Hill Chambered Cairn 2
Short Name: NT Gidleigh N
Butler map: 38.7.2
Butler Vol 5: p.157
Grinsell: List A GIDLEIGH 1
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 65867 88956
Guide Map: 8
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (2.1 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Ramsley (4.4 km) [Route: 670,671,6A]
Nearby sites: SX 65867 88956
Notes
"A chambered cairn located on an east facing slope of Buttern Hill. The cairn mound measures 26 metres long and 9 metres wide and stands up to 1 metre high. Several set stones at the western end of the mound represent the remains of a passage leading towards a chamber."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.2: The North, (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)
- Turner, J.R., Chambered Cairns, Gidleigh, D.A.S.P. No.38 pp.117-19 (1980)