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Summary

Prehistoric cairn to the north of Cholwichtown Clay Works and west of the enclosures at Tory Brookhead. A round, turf covered cairn, diameter 6.0m. and 0.7m. high, lies on a gently south facing slope at 305m. above OD. It has been dug into on the east side; there is no trace of a cist.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012630: Cairn 800m ENE of Big Pond

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE37
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439214
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/83
• Old SAM County Ref: 577
• Old SAM Ref: 10799

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951/1977, SX56SE37 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV138907.

(15/06/1977) SX 5832 6340 A round, turf covered cairn, diameter 6.0m. and 0.7m. high, lies on a gently south facing slope at 305m. above OD. It has been dug into on the east side; there is no trace of a cist.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1978, Cairn north of Cholwichtown Clay Works (Personal Comment). SDV346417.

At SX58406337 to the west of two groups of hut circles is an isolated barrow/cairn. Perhaps threatened by clay digging.

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

Listed under round barrows, cairns and cists.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, SX56SE (Cartographic). SDV336987.

Not visible on aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 166-9, Map 51, Figure 51.9 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Tory Brookhead Cairn '2' at SX58336340 of 6.5 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high to the west of Enclosure 'A' is still in good shape despite the trench excavated into one side.

Robertson, J. G., 1994, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym Valley (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV139549.

Cairn depicted and described by Robertson.

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

(05/04/2002) SX 58336341. The cairn remains as described by the Ordnance Survey (1977).

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

Cairn shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping as a small circular feature to the east of Big Pond.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012630 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Cairn 800 metres east-north-east of Big Pond lies on the south west facing slope of Lee Moor south of Cross Dyke reave and south west of Cholwich Town contour reave. It consists of a mound 8 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres in height, with a high proportion of stone in its make up. It has a hollow in its east side. The cairn lies west of several enclosures and stone hut circles which are the subject of separate schedulings. Despite some disturbance the cairn survives well in an area containing numerous monuments relating to settlement, land use and burial in the Bronze Age period.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)

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