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Summary

Inner Pupers cairn, 260 metres east of Puper's Rock, Buckfastleigh Moor. This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor sites.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Inner Pupers Cairn. Earthwork and stones of a Bronze Age ring cairn around a granite outcrop, Buckfastleigh Moor

Other References/Statuses

• Dartmoor Non-designated Heritage Asset: NI site
• National Monuments Record: SX66NE63
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441533
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/125

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Inner Puppers' cairn shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66NE63 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV150314.

The rock outcrop known as Inner Pupers is encompassed by a cairn of 13.0 meters overall diameter. It takes the shape of a platform 0.4 meters high around the rock, with a rim 1.5 meters wide and a further 0.4 meters high. Of small stones, with further 'natural' slabs protrude through.
(10/12/1977) At 455m OD, on the flattish top of Pupers Hill, there is a rock outcrop known as Inner Pupers. It is at SX 67556741 not at SX 67556746 where it is shown on the OS 6".
The rock is oriented north to south and probably about 9.0m long and 3.0m wide though the southern half is concealed, and from 1.4m to 2.5m high. Save where it obtrudes to the north the outcrop is encompassed, pincer fashion by a cairn of 13.0m overall diameter. It takes the shape of a platform, 0.4m high, around the rock, with a rim 1.5m wide and a further 0.4m high. The construction is of small stones though large 'natural' slabs protrude from the top of the cairn and around the sides.
It is a curious hybrid being neither a simple "tor cairn", with stones heaped against an outcrop, nor a proper rimmed platform cairn.
Discovered during field investigation.
Surveyed at 1:10000 on PFD and at 1:1000 (see illustration).

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

Not visible on aerial photograph.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 37 69 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Inner Pupers ring cairn encircles a large flat-topped granite outcrop. Internal diameter measures 13 meters, with 2.5 meter wide bank 0.5 meters high. Other details: A60.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 170-1, Map 58 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Inner Pupers cairn at SX67566740 of 21.5 metres diameter by 1.0 metres high. The rocks are included on the perimeter of a circular bank 21.5 metres across as well as taking up much of the interior space. The enclosed area has been artificially raised about 0.4 metres above the surrounding ground level and does not seem to have been seriously dug into.

Gerrard, S., 2004, List of Sites Remaining to be Considered for Designation on Dartmoor, 33617 (Un-published). SDV345444.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

'Inner Pupers Cairn' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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