Kings Oven. OSGR SX 674 812
Comments
"A kistvaen in broken and dilapidated condition, exposed to view. The side stones still stand, one upright, the other fallen inwards."
The same as the cairn near Bush Down Mine excavated in 1895?
Possibly the cairn on Water Hill (6715 8129)?
References
TDA IV (ii) (1871) 508. XXVII (1895) 88.
RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) p173.
LV Grinsell (DASP 36, 1978) Chagford 6a
Butler II (1991) 26.5?
SMR Number SX 68 SE/53
Other References
Page 1895, p172-3.
Rowe 1896, p195-6.
Dartmoor Magazine No 1 p8-9, No 39, p6-8.
A plan of the site can be found in Butler V (1997) p156.
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