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| HER Number: | MDV80628 |
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| Name: | Possible collapsed tomb on Hickley Plain, South Brent |
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Summary
Possible remains of a chambered tomb on Hickley Plain / Brent Fore Hill, South Brent. Previously unrecorded site consisting of four collapsed granite slabs; three of which may represent upright slabs that supported a capping stone.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 666 620 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX66SE |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | South Brent |
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| District | South Hams |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | SOUTH BRENT |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- CHAMBERED TOMB? (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC (Between))
Full description
Ruffles, M., 2010, Possible chambered tomb on north-east slopes of Wacka Tor (Worksheet). SDV347773.
Four stones with a possible configuration of a capping stone and three potential upright slabs, which may be the remains of a collapsed dolmen, or chambered tomb. As none of these four stones is set into the ground, the feature is not thought likely to be a cist. There appears to be a further stone underlying one end of the feature.
None of the stones appears to have been worked, excluding the possibility that the rock/s have been trigged up preparatory to being worked.
Possible cairn or hut circle approximately 55 meters (to the south-west? PRN 13283) from the feature may be associated with it in some way.
Ruffles, M., 2010, Possible collapsed tomb on Hickley Plain, South Brent, P:\Archaeology\HER (Photograph). SDV347774.
Series of ten photographs taken of the possible tomb on 01/12/2010 (by M. Ruffles) with a 30 centimetre ruler to indicate scale of stones, some of which from the images appear to be at least 0.5-1.0 meters in length, approximately 0.4-0.6 meters wide and around 0.3-0.4 meters thick.
Radcliffe, B., 2013, feature on Hickley Plain, South Brent (Correspondence). SDV352203.
This site is not a collapsed tomb, but part of the "crude, unfinished wall" referred to in the record for MDV13283, and which consists of a line of piles of stones, obviously dumped in preparation for making a wall. In this particular pile the stones do not look weathered enough for a prehistoric monument.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV347773 | Worksheet: Ruffles, M.. 2010. Possible chambered tomb on north-east slopes of Wacka Tor. Worksheet. A4 Single Sheet. [Mapped feature: #48967 ] |
| SDV347774 | Photograph: Ruffles, M.. 2010. Possible collapsed tomb on Hickley Plain, South Brent. Digital. P:\Archaeology\HER. |
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| SDV352203 | Correspondence: Radcliffe, B.. 2013. feature on Hickley Plain, South Brent. Email to A. Richards. Digital. |
Associated Monuments
| MDV13283 | Related to: Cist on Hickley Plain (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Sep 13 2013 2:25PM |
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