Peek Hill Summit 2 Cairn
Photo taken on 06-09-2025
Database entries
OS Map: SX 55623 69942
OS Source: Google
Butler OS: SX55626993
HER: MDV28529
Alternate name: Peek Hill Summit 2
Short Name: CN PeekHill 2
Butler map: 45.5.2
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): 17.0 x 0.4
Lidar: SX 55623 69942
Guide Map: 42
Nearest Bus Stop: Dousland Merrivale View Road (2.7 km) [Route: 55,56]
Nearby sites: SX 55623 69942
Notes
HER: Diameter 18 metres, height 0.4 metres. A 2.2 metre wide rubble bank surrounding a 13.6 metre internal area within which is a further 1.4 metre wide bank measuring up to 0.3 metres high in which there are a number of edge set stones (2000 visit). The interior is composed of a confused spread of fragmentary rock slabs and boulders that gives the impression of quarrying disturbance. There are numerous leaning slabs but how many have been artificially erected is difficult to discern as some are clearly natural strata. Perhaps a rocky outcrop was cut away when the cairn was constructed. The central rather ragged rectangular pit is heavily disturbed probably the result of an unrecorded excavation (surveyed and investigated in 2007).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)
- Fleming, Andrew, The prehistoric landscape of Dartmoor Part 1: South Dartmoor , Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 44 , pp. 97 - 12 (1978)