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Summary

A Bronze Age cairn situated within the Dartmeet coaxial field system south east of Venford Reservoir. It has a flat topped and turf covered stoney mound.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020092: Prehistoric fields, settlements and cairn south east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE36
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442959
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/82
• Old SAM Ref: 22370

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE36 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV139996.

(07/07/1977) SX 6884 7031: This small round cairn 9 metres diameter and 0.6 metres high is constructed of small boulders now turf covered and lies near the summit at the north east end of a small ridge at 335 metres above OD. There is a disturbance 2.3 metres square and 0.7 metres deep at its centre. There is no trace of a surrounding circle of stones.
1:10 000 survey revised on PFD.

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

Site visited on 13th September 1973. Cairn, large hollow centre. Diameter 9.0 metrse, height 0.9 metres.

National Monuments Record, 1979, SF 1457, 462-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDV140197.

Photograph taken on 1st March 1979.

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

Looks similar to the trial pits in the area since it has a hole in the top. Visible on 1979 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 176-7, Map 59, Figure 59.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Holne Lee N cairn at SX68847032 of 8.5 metres diameter by 0.8 metres high. Cairn shown to the south of the field system at 'Venford Reservoir East'.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1996, Holne Moor Survey, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV154079.

(18/04/1996) SX 6886 7032: This cairn is generally as described in 1977 though its shape is more ovoid measuring 10 metres north to south by 9.5 metres.

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

'Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1020092 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

A cairn situated within the field system at SX68847032 survives as a 9.7 metre diameter flat-topped mound standing up to 0.8 metres high. A small hollow in the centre of the cairn suggests that it has been partially excavated or robbed.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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