Kings Oven. OSGR SX 6747 8130

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?
The name "King's Oven" may refer 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?
HER/SMR number 6620 or 6674 SX 68 SE/53.
NMR number 1361930 SX 68 SE 386 or 443801 SX 68 SE 19.


Maps of the area can be found in Butler II (1991) p34, and Dartmoor Magazine No 39 (1995) p7.

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