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Summary

A round cairn, overall diameter 22.5 metres with a central platform, 7 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high, surrounded by a rim, 7.8 metres average width and 0.9 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019269: Cairn cemetery 900m north east of Hapstead Ford and 2km WSW of Fore Stoke

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE2
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441354
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/26
• Old SAM Ref: 28765.02

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 1501 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, SX66NE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146383.

(20/04/1950) Cairn 'a' diameter 24.0 metres, 1.0 metre high. A large flat topped barrow, completely turf covered but presumably like the others.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146397.

(26/06/1977) These 3 cairns lie on the crest, at the north east end of a ridge at 410m above OD. Cairn 'A' at SX 67846957. A round cairn, overall diameter 22.5 metres with a central platform, 7 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high, surrounded by a rim, 7.8 metres average width and 0.9 metres high. 1:10 000 survey on PFD correct. Section 1:100 on 495.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 141 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visited on 13th September 1973. Cairn diameter 24 metres, height 1 metre.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1457, 450 (Aerial Photograph). SDV172921.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152227 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(19/05/1999) One of five cairns on Holne Lee situated 2 kilometres south-west of Fore Stoke. Round cairn. Diameter 22.5m, height 1.1m. Central pit 11m by 9m by 0.3m deep.

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

Holne Lee '1' cairn at SX67846957 of 22.5 metres diameter by 1.2 metres high is deformed by a saucer shaped depression in the surface now turfed over and comparatively smooth, the product of some ancient excavation.

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) Group centred SX 67916960. These features are as described in 1977. The additional feature described by Grinsell is somewhat enigmatic. While from some aspects it resembles a cairn it is probably the debris from a prospecting pit allied to the nearby extensive tinworking remains.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019269 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument, which falls into three areas of protection, includes five cairns forming a cairn cemetery situated on a high ridge on Holne Lee overlooking the valley of the River Dart. Four of the mounds contain pits which indicate that they have been subjected to early undocumented investigations. This is a large cairn of 22.5 metres diameter and 1.1 metres high.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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