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Summary

A previously unrecorded barrow on south-western slope of Penn Beacon. One of a linear group of barrows. Irregular in shape, about 11 metres diameter and 0.5 metres high. Turf covered but stones visible. A pronounced hollow in the north-west side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012810: One of several cairns on the south-west slope of Penn Beacon

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE161
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 910923
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/132
• Old SAM Ref: 10788

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Robinson, R. + Hankin, C., 1980, Cairn on south-west slope of Penn Beacon (Worksheet). SDV151761.

(April 1980) SX 5950 6265 (approximate) A previously unrecorded barrow on the south-west slope of Penn Beacon. It lies roughly 200m north of the cairn at SX 5951 6248 listed by Grinsell (1978) as Cornwood no. 3, and bears approximately south-west from Penn Beacon.
It lies on a fairly steep south-west slope near the border of the moor and is part of a linear group of barrows lying roughly along the contour which includes Cornwood nos 3 and 4, and 5 unlisted examples.
The barrow is irregular in shape, about 11m diameter and 0.5m high. Completely covered with turf and bilberry with no stones visible. A pronounced hollow in the north-west side. Feature needs expert confirmation.

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

Not recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 192-3, 213, Map 52, Figure 52.14 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Penn Beacon S. W. cairn '10' at SX59436264 of 3.0 metres diameter survives as a ring of ten small slabs with several of them overthrown. The upper edge of a narrow slab protruding through the turf near the centre is in the correct position for the end stone of a cist. The cairn itself has gone but probably contributed to the rubble of the unrecognisable ruin nearby.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1012810 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

This cairn is one of several lying along the south-west slope of Penn Beacon west of Cholwich Town contour reave. It is a somewhat irregular mound 11 metres in diameter and up to 0.5 metres in height. It is turf-covered, but some of the stones which form the mound protrude.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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