Cator Common Embanked Cairn Circle
Photo taken on 18-04-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Cator Pound
OS Map: SX 67426 78001
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV5978
Megalithic Portal: 52173
Alternate name: Cator Common
Short Name: CC CatorCommon
Butler map: 18.4
Grinsell: WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR 1
Turner: B3
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 18
Lidar: SX 67426 78001
Guide Map: 28
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Bellever (2.6 km) [Route: 98]
Nearby sites: SX 67426 78001
Notes
"Cairn, to the south-west of (a) - (SX 67 NE45), 15 ft. diameter and 3 ft high; comprised of small stones overgrown with gorse and heather on unenclosed moorland."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)
- Crossing, William, Guide to Dartmoor, (2001)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)
- Turner, J.R., Ring Cairns, stone circles and related monuments on Dartmoor, D.A.S.P. No.48 pp.27-86 (1990)