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Summary

Ring cairn and cist on summit ridge of Cawsand Hill. Cairn forms part of a cemetery including at least 2 round cairns, 2 ring cairns and one platform cairn. Earthwork survives as a 2m wide and 0.4m high circular rubble bank, faced with close set stones around its outer edge and surrounds an internal area measuring 18m ew by 17m ns. A mound measuring 6m in diam and 0.2m high stands in the centre of the area enclosed by the circular bank and contains a stone cist with 2 slabs surviving.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010770: Ring cairn 140m north east of Cawsand Beacon forming part of a cairn cemetery on the summit of Cawsand Hill

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/24
• Old SAM County Ref: 785C
• Old SAM Ref: 24145

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CIST (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
• RING CAIRN (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Unknown, Unknown (Migrated Record). SDV331.

Vis=17/1/1994 (gerrard) ring cairn & cist on summit ridge of cawsand hill. Cairn forms part of a cemetery including at least 2 round cairns, 2 ring cairns and one platform cairn. Earthwork survives as a 2m wide and 0.4m high circular rubble bank, faced with close set stones around its outer edge and surrounds an internal area measuring 18m ew by 17m ns. A mound measuring 6m in diam and 0.2m high stands in the centre of the area enclosed by the circular bank and contains a stone cist with 2 slabs surviving. This cist was visited and described by rowe in the first half of the 19c and at this time it included an eight feet square structure apparently exhibiting traces of an inner coffin (mpp).

Turner, J. R., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV37204.

Ring cairn. Embanked stone circle with inner bank. Internal diameter 18m e-w, 17m n-s, with bank 1.3m wide and 0.3m high. Cist in centre (turner).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222127.

Des=mpp/133335.

Weston, S., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV38857.

Vis=-/-/1983 (weston) fmw visit.

RADCLIFFE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV162303.

Radcliffe states that the dilapidated kistvaen 8 ft square on cosdon summit is the same as sx69sw/40 at ngr sx63589104 (radcliffe).

Ancient Monuments, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV222111.

Vis=18/3/1970(ancient monuments) barrow with stone kerb visible and remains of kist in centre.

RCHM APP 1985, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222114.

Visible and recorded: it is like a hut circle in appearance (rchm app 1985).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222118.

Osa=sx69sw15.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222119.

Ward-lock /guide to dartmoor/ (1961)87.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222120.

Worth, r. N. /tda/34(1902)114/21st report of the barrow committee.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222121.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/36(1978)169.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222122.

Falcon, t. A. /tda/37(1905)458-9/dartmoor: a note on graves.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222123.

Rowe, s. /perambulation of the forest of dartmoor/(1896)43.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV222124.

Aph=raf/3g/tud/uk/138 5441(11/4/1946).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222125.

Turner, j. R. /pdas/48(1990)39 71 fig 25/b14.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222126.

Butler, j. /dartmoor atlas of antiquities - the north/2(1991)206.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=9/8/1950 (os) a large cairn (diam 18.0m, height 500.0mm) which has been mutilated by stone robbers. The centre of the cairn has been removed leaving a ring-cairn effect. In the approx centre are two large flat stones which may be the remains of a cist but neither is earthfast and it is not possible to come to any definite conclusion about them. One of two cairns on cosdon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV222128.

Des=radcliffe, b. /(24/2/2000)/email/in pf.

GRINSELL + TURNER, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV237892.

Vis=30/5/1976 (grinsell + turner) remains of cairn, or ring cairn; two slabs in centre possibly of cist. Diameter 20.0m, height 0.3m.

Sources / Further Reading

• Migrated Record: RADCLIFFE.
• Report - Survey: Ancient Monuments.
• Migrated Record: RCHM APP 1985.
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• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index.
• Report - Survey: GRINSELL + TURNER.
• Migrated Record: Unknown. Unknown. Monument Protection Programme. Unknown.
• Migrated Record: Turner, J. R..
• Migrated Record: Weston, S..

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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