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Summary

A low, spread round cairn on Ringmoor down, which is part of a group of cairns and ritual monuments. The cairn is completely covered by turf and molinia grass and survives to a height of 0.56m. The spread of the feature is approximately circular with a maximum diameter of 11.3m. The cairn is south of at two much larger cairns (MDV3992; 3993) and a large ring cairn is 133m to the SSE.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Section of the Eylesbarrow Reave, a Bronze Age boundary work across Ringmoor Down, and adjacent Bronze Age cairns
• Scheduled Monument 1012273: Cairn north-east of Brisworthy Plantation

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE164
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438962
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/296
• Old SAM Ref: 10587

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 166 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Visited on 28th July 1972 and 30th May 1977. Probable cairn, in pasture. Diameter 14.5 metres, height 0.3 metres.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56NE164 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV250806.

(09/03/1979) SX 56036604: at 300m. OD on Ringmoor Down, adjacent to the reave which follows the ridge (SX 56 NE 172) is a cairn (almost certainly sepulchral) 12.5m. in diameter and 0.4m. high, slightly irregular in outline and now heather covered.
Discovered during field investigation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on 1946 verticals.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 144-5, Map 49, Figure 49.21 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Ringmoor Down cairn '5' at SX56036605 of 13.0 metres diameter by 0.4 metres high. A flat topped cairn with its smooth surface giving the impression, probably erroneously, of being undisturbed

Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(15/02/2005) The robbed remains of a cairn lie on the crest of Ringmoor Down 20m south-east of the course of the Eylesbarrow Reave. the remains consist of a flat-topped mound 13m in diameter and a maximum of 0.4m high on the north-west side. It appears to have been heavily robbed - probably during the reconstruction of the reave in the medieval period. A slight rim, 0.15m high, runs around the crest of this feature. There is no suggestion of a cist or kerb associated with this cairn. An old slit trench lies in the western quadrant and this feature is now covered in dense molinea grass.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPRM-2 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(05/06/2019) Cairn assessed as very good condition by volunteer recorders, although feature described as very overgrown with gorse.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photographed June 2019.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012273 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn lies immediately to the south of Eylesbarrow Reave and is a grassy mound 12.5 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres in height. It has a hollow in the centre which suggests that it has been partly disturbed in the past. It lies within a few hundred metres of a stone row, other cairns and an enclosure.

Newman, P., 2022, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape Dartmoor National Park, Devon. A new survey, Table 1 (Report - Survey). SDV365490.

A flattened cairn on Ringmoor Down SX 56028 66044. A low, spread round cairn on Ringmoor down, which is part of a group of cairns and ritual monuments. The cairn is completely covered by turf and molinia grass and survives to a height of 0.56m. The spread of the feature is approximately circular with a maximum diameter of 11.3m. The cairn is south of at two much larger cairns (3992; 3993) and a large ring cairn is 133m to the SSE.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8917 - Survey of the archaeological features on Ringmoor Down

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