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Notes on Dartmoor Kistvaens
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Robert Burnard
Trans. Devon. Assoc. 1890, Vol. XXII, plan, pp. 200-207.
Prepared by Michael Steer
The paper was presented at the Association’s July 1890 Barnstaple meeting and provides the genealogist with a treasury of names associated with the earliest research into our county’s unique prehistory and archaeology. The term ‘Kistvaen" from the Cornu-Celtic Cist-veyn or Cist-vyin, refers to a stone box. These boxes are generally oblong square in shape and constructed of four stone slabs for sides and end, with a fifth as the cover. The resultant chamber was covered by a barrow (or mound) and surrounded with a circle of vertically set stones. In cases of inhumation the body was placed in the kist in a contracted position; or if cremated, the ashes were deposited in an urn. The author was a contributing member of the Dartmoor Preservation Association. His obituary including a portrait is available here. The article, from a copy of a rare journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.
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Surnames | |
Bate, Mr. Spence | 201-2 |
Bray, Mr. | 201 |
Bray, Mrs. | 201 |
Edward II | 200 |
Greenwell, Canon | 202 |
Narrich, Mr. | 201 |
Pengelly, Mr. William | 202 |
Shortt, Mr. | 201 |
Slade, Mr. S.H. | 202 |
Worth, Mr. R. Hansford | 207 |
Place Names | |
Archerton | 207 |
Archerton House | 207 |
Beardown House | 201 |
Bellaford Newtake | 204, 206 |
Bellaford Tor | 203 |
Blackabrook | 203 |
Black Newtake | 204 |
Cherrybrook | 204 |
Childes Tomb | 207 |
Chittaford Down | 207 |
Corndon Tor | 204 |
Crock of Gold | 204-5 |
Dartmoor | 200-3, 206 |
Devonshire | 200 |
Ephraim’s Pinch | 206 |
Fox Tor Mire | 205 |
Grimsgrave | 207 |
Hameldon | 201 |
Hexworthy | 200 |
Higher White Tor | 207 |
Lakehead Newtake | 206 |
Moreton | 201 |
Powder Mills | 201, 207 |
Round Hill | 203 |
Royal Hill | 205 |
Sherill | 204 |
Sheviock | 202 |
Soussons Warren | 206 |
Stannon Hill | 201 |
Swincombe | 204-5 |
Thornworthy | 202 |
Tor Royal Newtake | 204-5 |
Trethil | 202 |
Whiten Tor | 201 |
Yar Tor | 204 |
Yorkshire Wolds | 202-3 |