Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Nearest town:
Rattery (7km ENE)
OS reference:
SX660585
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 24' 37.61 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 9.98 W
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Image of Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb by costaexpress

Really interesting tomb with stones scattered across the mound making it difficult to assess its original construction. Is this the remains of a cist within the tomb or just a couple of random stones?

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costaexpress Jul 21, 2024
Image of Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb by costaexpress

Well, I would never have found it if it was not for this one identifying stone, easy to walk straight past

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costaexpress Jul 21, 2024
Image of Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb by thesweetcheat

The long cairn from the southeast. Difficult to fully make out shape in the vegetation.

Image credit: A. Brookes (30.8.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Sep 24, 2010
Image of Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb by Lubin

Looking at the entrance with a few stones visible.

Image credit: Peter Castle ©
Lubin
Lubin Sep 5, 2005
Image of Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb by Lubin

The chambered tomb looking from the north. SX660585

Image credit: Peter Castle ©
Lubin
Lubin Sep 5, 2005

Articles

Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 4, 2011

A summer visit (30.8.2010) is probably not the time to see the best of this long barrow. After leaving Cuckoo Ball we head north along further sheep tracks, not entirely sure that we would find this in the thick bracken. However, the low mound is still apparent and a bit of poking and prodding around in the covering vegetation reveals the presence of a number of in-situ slabs, which Jeremy Butler has suggested may represent remains of a gallery grave.

In truth this is not the most impressive of monuments, and its main attraction is the scarcity of such Neolithic relics on Dartmoor. We continue north, towards Spurrell’s Cross stone row, en route to the furthest and final Neolithic site of the day, the chambered long barrow at Corringdon Ball.

Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Lubin
Lubin Sep 4, 2005

The Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb lies around 500 metres further north along the same path as the Cuckoo Ball Tomb. It is in better condition than the previous one and as it is in the open moor. It does not appear to have been excavated. Once again it is best to visit in the early months of the year before it is taken over by the bracken.

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