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Summary

The remains of a Bronze Age cairn with cist. The oval cairn is 7.5m by 6.5m and 0.9m high with some kerbing. An amorphous hollow occupies the centre of the mound and a single sidestone of the cist remains in situ.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012173: Cairn with cist north of Shavercombe Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE103
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438794
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/168
• Old SAM Ref: 10655

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Tumulus' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1978, SX56NE103 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV163284.

(18/05/1950) Turf covered cairn with a cist below the surface with only the top of the eastern side stone visible. Diameter 6 metre , height 0.5 metres.
(20/12/1978) On the east side of Shavercombe Brook at approximately 395.0m OD is the remains of a cairn with cist. The oval cairn is 7.5m by 6.5m and 0.9m high with some kerbing. The cist is 1.3m by 0.6m and 0.4m deep and is aligned north north-west to south south-east. No coverstone is visible.
Revised at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 164 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Visited on 8th June 1974. Cairn, hollow towards centre, with probable remains of cist most likely placed south-south-east to north-north-west. Only top of eastern side-slab visible. Diameter 7.0 metres, height 0.7 metres.

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

Not visible 1946 RAF verticals.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 146-7, Map 49, Figure 49.22 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hen Tor N '7' cairn at SX59816587 of 5.5 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high with a cist is a prominent mound to the north of Shavercombe Brook. It seems to have been robbed in the distant past as the cist cavity has quite refilled and only the edge of one of the side slabs remains exposed in the central hollow.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(16/02/2002) SX 59816588. The cairn remains as described by the Ordnance Survey in 1978 though the crest of the mound is occupied by an amorphous hollow approximately 2.0m across and 0.3m deep. Only one sidestone of the cist is visible.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Cairn shown on survey.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012173 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn with a cist lies on a north-west facing slope south of Shavercombe Brook and south-east of Shavercombe Tor. It consists of an oval mound 7.5 metres in length by 6.5 metres in width and 0.9 metres in height with traces of a retaining kerb. It has a central cist 1.3 metres in length, 0.6 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth, the eastern side slab of which is visible, the others are hidden by the mound. There is no coverstone present. There are several other cairns in the immediate vicinity.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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