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Summary

Cairn of 4.8 metres by 3.8 metres by 0.7 metres highlying 120 metres to the south-east of Cox Tor

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Walling and earthworks of a Bronze Age enclosure, hut circles and cairns, part of a dispersed group of Bronze Age monuments on Petertavy Great Common
• Scheduled Monument 1011498: Two stone hut circles and an enclosure 140m east of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW94
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439981
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/185/1
• Old SAM Ref: 22235

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57NW94 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV221748.

(27/10/1980) SX 53207612. A probable burial cairn is situated on a slight SE slope at 420m. OD. It is constructed of large stones and measures 4.8m. by 3.8m. and is 0.7m. high. There is no kerb or retaining circle. (See ground photograph and plan with SX 57 NW 40).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500.

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

Not recorded.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(11/12/1987) SX 5319 7615: An oval cairn on a slight slope SE of Cox Tor. It is as described in 1980.
A similar cairn is situated 45m to the NE (see SX 57 NW 124). Both may be connected with clearance, given the proximity of several hut circles (see SX 57 NW 40 and 141).
See RCHME Cox Tor Survey (1/2500 scale).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(1992) Clearance cairn defining south-east corner of enclosure. Diameter 5.5m, height 0.8m. May have been used as initial marking out point, or may have been built over the corner of an existing enclosure.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 84,240. Map 31, Figure 31.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Cox Tor S.E.cairn at SX 53167613 of circa 4.0 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Feature marked on modern mapping.

National Mapping Programme, post-1985, Dartmoor NMP Transcription data (Cartographic). SDV364293.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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