← Browse Cairns & Barrows · Browse the directory
Main image: Photo: Guy Wareham, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1020012) describes a round cairn known as King's Barrow on the summit of King Tor, on Hookney Down, with extensive views in every direction. It is a mound 21 metres across and up to 2.3 metres high. A pit in the middle is from a partial excavation in 1872 by the Rev. R. Kirwan, which found no artefacts, and the spoil thrown up round the upper edge makes the cairn look bigger than it is. A ditch 4 metres wide and 0.15 metres deep shows on the south side and survives elsewhere buried, the quarry from which the cairn was built. It lies in the parish of North Bovey, about 1 km north-east of Hameldown Tor and 2.5 km north-east of Challacombe.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1020012, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX78SW21, 1985).
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1020012)
- Grid reference: SX 7092 8143 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Contact us if you have information about this listing
Official record
Explore the area
Go deeper with Dartefacts
Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.
More Dartmoor resources
Thoughts
Be the first to share a thought about King's Barrow, King Tor.
Share a thoughtKnow another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.
Suggest a listing