Calveslake Tor. OSGR SX 6089 6757

Comments
A very perfect and well constructed kistvaen. Excavation produced a flint arrowhead and some flakes, plus a piece of quartz.
All four sides and displaced capstone.

References
Barrow Report 12, TPI XXII (1890) 51. 19, TDA XXXII (1900) 51.
TPI X (1900) 289-310.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p172.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) Shaugh Prior 3.
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities III (1994) 50.4.
HER/SMR number 5085 SX 66 NW/9.
NMR number 441597 SX 66 NW 12.

Plans of the site can be found in TDA XXXII (1900) Pl XI, Butler III (1994) p154.
A map of the area can be found in DASP 36 (1978) Fig 3
A photograph of the site can be found in TDA XXXII (1900) Pl XI.
A drawing of a flint arrowhead found in the cist is in BR19, Plate I, and RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) p199.

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