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; XXVIII (1896) 45.
J.Ll.W. Page An Exploration of Dartmoor (1895) p172-3.
S. Rowe A Perambulation of Dartmoor (1896) p195-6.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p173.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36, (1978) 135, Chagford 6a
Dartmoor Magazine No 1 (Winter 1985) 8-9; No 39 (Summer 1995) 6-8.
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities II (1991) 34-36, 26.5?
SMR Number SX 68 SE/53


Plans of the site can be found in Dartmoor Magazine No 39 (1995) p7 & Butler V (1997) p156.

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