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Summary

One of two cairns of probable Bronze Age date on Holne Lee. Cairn has an overall diameter of 18.5m and is constructed of small boulders and comprises a central mound, 12.8m diameter, 0.9m high, which has been extensively disturbed. It is immediately surrounded by a ring, 2.9m thick and 0.5m high resulting in a cairn of embankment bowl type. See also MDV5199.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019268: Four cairns on Holne Lee 1140m north west of Greatcombe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE1
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441351
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/24
• Old SAM Ref: 28764.03

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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

'Tumuli' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66NE1 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV152905.

(20/04/1950) Cairn 'A' One of two cairns on Holne Lee is a large cairn very mutilated.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE1 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV152924.

(28/06/1977) Two cairns lie on the crest, at the north east end of a ridge at 370m above OD.
A. SX 68496980 This round cairn, overall diameter 18.5m is constructed of small boulders and comprises a central mound, 12.8m diameter, 0.9m high, which has been extensively disturbed. It is immediately surrounded by a ring, 2.9m thick and 0.5m high resulting in a cairn of embankment bowl type. Section at 1:200 on 495.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 142 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 13th September 1973. Mutilated cairn. Diameter 19.5 metres, height 1 metre.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152222 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(19/05/1999) One of 4 cairns on Holne Lee situated 1220 metres south-west of Fore Stoke. Round cairn. Diameter 19m, height 1.3m. The mound has been extensively disturbed with at least 4 trenches up to 0.6m deep. There is much loose stone on the n and s sides and on the northern side one has been fashioned into a shelter. Grass, bilberry gorse and bracken.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 171-2, Map 58, Figure 58.7 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Holne Lee '5' cairn of SX68496980 of 18.0 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high is clearly visible half a kilometre downhill may have been dug into at a more recent date as the disturbed stones at the centre are yet uncovered by vegetation.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(06/01/1997) These features are as described in 1977. Two further cairns (SX 66 NE 72 and 78) occupy the same ridge crest.

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

Cairn shown on survey.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019268 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument, which falls into four areas of protection, includes four cairns situated on a gentle east facing slope on Holne Lee overlooking the valley of the River Dart. The southernmost cairn survives as a 19 metres diameter and 1.3 metres high mound.

National Monuments Record, unknown, SX6869, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV152907.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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