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Summary

Eastern of two cairns above the south-west bank of the East Glaze Brook. Stony mound of 6.5 metres by 7.5 metres and 0.7 metres high with an extraction pit on the west side

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013027: Cairn above the south-west bank of the East Glaze Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE137
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442154
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/496
• Old SAM Ref: 10567

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 171 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited in June 1976. At SX 66456132 Cairn found on hill slope measuring 6.5 metres diameter, height 0.5 metres.

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

Not recorded on aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 93, Map 56 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Cairn at SX66496130 of 6.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high is a chracterless ragged-topped mound in the East Glaze valley.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 12, 7.1.7 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

Cairn recorded during survey.

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

Not shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1013027 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn lies on a spur above the south-west bank of the East Glaze Brook. It consists of a grassy mound 0.5 metres in height with traces of a retaining kerb giving a total diameter of 8.5 metres. It lies circa 100 metres from another cairn on the same flattish area on the 330 metres contour and a few hundred metres from the stone alignments and cairns near Glasscombe Upper Plantation.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 20th March 2021, surveyed and photographed. Small cairn east of East Glaze Brook: rather irregular stony mound, 6.5 metres north to south, 7.5 metres east to west, 0.7 metres high; extraction pit on west side.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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