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Summary

Three pillow mounds on the southern slopes of Corringdon Ball. Two are aligned with the slope and measure 12.0m long, 5.5m wide and 0.8m high, with ditches 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep. Both are bracken covered. The third mound follows the contour; it is 12.0m long, 8.0m wide and 1.0m high with a ditch on the north east side 1.5m wide and 0.2m deep. This site is on the local list of Nationally Important Dartmoor sites.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone-walls of Bronze Age parallel reaves, field system and hut circles on Corringdon Ball and Treeland Downs, Bronze Age hut circles and medieval settlement at Newland's Brakes and pillow mounds on south side of Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• Dartmoor Non-designated Heritage Asset (Evidential): NI Site
• National Monuments Record: SX66SE124
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442129
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/250

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PILLOW MOUND (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, OS 84 75, 298 (Aerial Photograph). SDV162061.

Other details: Aph=os 84 75/298..

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 2494 4076-4078 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 11th March 1948.

Robinson, R., 1978, South Brent Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV137445.

(1978) A pillow mound or rabbit bury lies north of Corringdon Farm on the open ground of Corringdon Ball, close to the field wall to the east. It is rectangular with round corners, lying up and down the slope, and is turf-covered. It measures 14.0 metres by 7.0 metres, height 1.0 metre. There is a trace of a surrounding ditch. The area is bracken covered in summer.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX66SE124 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162060.

(06/07/1979) Three pillow mounds, centred at SX 675606 on the southern slopes of Corringdon Ball. Two are aligned with the slope and measure 12.0m long, 5.5m wide and 0.8m high, with ditches 2.0m wide and 0.3m deep. Both are bracken covered. The third mound follows the contour; it is 12.0m long, 8.0m wide and 1.0m high with a ditch on the north east side 1.5m wide and 0.2m deep. If it were not for the ditch it would seem nothing more than a clearance heap, being constructed of large boulders which are to some extent turf-covered.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

National Monuments Record, 1980, SF1743, 64-71 (Aerial Photograph). SDV174615.

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

Three pillow mounds at SX67516058, SX67476054 and SX67506056 visible on Royal Air Force 1948 and National Monuments Record 1980 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 87-9, Map 56, Figure 56.5 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Two 'pillow mounds' shown to the south of 'Corringdon Ball field system' with a possible third to the north-east.

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

This site was considered for designation as a Scheduled Ancient Monument during the Monument Protection Programme. The programme ended before the entire list of sites was successfully scheduled so this is included on a local list of Nationally Important Sites.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Pillow mounds visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Two 'Pillow Mounds' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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