Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Nearest town:
Rattery (8km ENE)
OS reference:
SX65635881
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 24' 47.34 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 29.12 W
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Image of Butterdon Hill cairn circle by thesweetcheat

Looking back to the nearby summit cairn. The remains of the cairn circle’s mound are in the centre of the picture, but difficult to see.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2010
Image of Butterdon Hill cairn circle by thesweetcheat

The fallen cairn circle, lost even in low grass. Hangershell Rock can be seen in the middle distance.

Image credit: A. Brookes (10.6.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 6, 2010

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Butterdon Hill cairn circle

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 23, 2010

But the main draw for me is a cairn circle, which marks the southern terminal of the second-longest stone row on Dartmoor. It takes me a while to find the circle, even in low grass. Burl mentions that one of the stones is upright, but in fact all are fallen (although a couple are still – just about – leaning). There is the merest hint of the cairn mound in the centre and the stones are quite nice shapes, several tapering at what I assume was the top when they were originally erected.

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Butterdon Hill cairn circle
Cairn circle
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 5, 2010

Site added as “stone circle” due to appearance in Burl’s “Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany” (Yale 1995, 2nd ed 2005) and also description on Pastscape:

“(SX 65635881) Stone Circle (NR)(1)

A low cairn within a retaining circle of stones is situated at SX
65635881, at the south end of the Butterdon stone row (SX 65 NE 17),
with which it is associated.
The circle is 11 metres in diameter, and consists of twelve stones,
all now recumbent, although when Worth wrote in 1941, one was erect
and three were leaning. Some of the stones are unusually large.
The cairn is 9 metres in diameter by 0.3 metre high, with a hollow
in the centre.”

pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=441240

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