Down Tor Cairn Circle. OSGR SX 5868 6926

Comments
"Formerly enclosed a large kistvaen", according to Breton. Not now visible.
Butler notes two large slabs in the centre.
Bate, in originally reporting the site, mislocated the site.

References
Barrow Report 14, TDA XXIV (1892) 48.
TDA TDA IV ii (1871) 505-6.
H. Breton Beautiful Dartmoor (1912) 41-2.
Davidson & Seabrook DASP 31 (1973) 33
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) Walkhampton 31
J.R. Turner DASP 48 (1990) F6
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities III (1994) 47.12.
P. Newman The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor (2011) 45. c
HER/SMR number 3439 SX 56 NE/177
NMR number 438583 SX 56 NE 29

Plans of the site can be found in Butler III (1994) p72, & Newman (2011) p45.
Photographs of the site can be found in Falcon 1900, 61, & Newman (2011) p45.

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