Butterdon OSGR SX 6566 5885

Comments
Serves as border of parishes of Harford and Ugborough, and marked as on a map possibly dating to 1240, or 1478. It runs from a cairn with possible cist near Butterdon Hill, through Hobajon's Cross, to a longstone on Piles Hill (which was re-erected in 1990).

References
Worth 2.
TDA IV ii (1871) 515; V (1872), 510ff; XXIV (1892) SRD I, 402; XXXVII (1905) 460-461; LXI (1929) 274; LXIX (1937) 306; LXXII (1940) 193; LXXIII (1941) 214-7, 229f; LXXVIII (1946) SRD I, p287-8.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p202-4, 205, 267.
Davidson & Seabrook DASP 31 (1973) 25
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) 140.
D.D. Emmett DASP 37 (1979) 111.
P. Pettit Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 98, 135-6.
E. Hemery High Dartmoor (1983) 254, 260-1.
Dartmoor Magazine 24 (Autumn 1991) 3.
G. Thurlow Dartmoor Companion (1993) 110.
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 53.8.
HER/SMR number 2988 SX 65 NE/6 and 5710 SX 66 SE/38
NMR number 441148 SX 65 NE 17

Photographs of the site can be found at TDA LXXIII (1941) Pl V, and Butler IV (1993) p114, V (1997) p230.
Plans of the site can be found at TDA LXXIII (1941) p230, DASP 31 (1973) Fig 2, and Butler IV (1993) p24-6.
Maps of the area can be found at DASP 49 (1991) 145, and Gerrard (1997) Fig 37, p60.

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