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Summary

Cairnfield consisting of at least eight cairns. The cairn mounds vary between 3.6 and 5.5 metres in diameter and stand between 0.4 and 0.8 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020243: Cairnfield, cairn and a length of the Taw Marsh Reave 830m ESE of Moorland House

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX69SW104
• National Monuments Record: SX69SW39
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1394706
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 444204
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/88
• Old SAM Ref: 34438
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX69SW39

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRNFIELD (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX69SW39 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV252709.

(07/02/1978) SX 6320 9275 Within an area of approximately 300m diameter there are 6 or more cairns mostly heather covered. They vary from 3m to 6m in diameter and from 0.3m to 0.6m in height. The largest has an excavation hollow in its fully exposed top of small boulders.

Fleming, A., 1980, The Cairnfields of North-West Dartmoor, 9-12 (Article in Serial). SDV251119.

The Ivy Tor Water cairnfield, SX 631927, contains 7-10 cairns including at least one oval example. Most of the cairns lie to the west of the reave which runs northward from Ivy Tor Water to Skaigh Warren (SX 68 NW 65).

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

Not visible on 1946 RAF photos.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 156886 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(17/02/1986) SX 6291 9271 Cairnfield 1250 metres south-east of Belstone. Cairns as follows:
Cairn '1'. 4 metres diameter, 0.5 metres high.
Cairn '2'. 4 metres diameter, 0.7 metres high.
Cairn '3'. 4.8 metres diameter, 0.8 metres high.
Cairn '4'. 3.6 metres diameter, 0.5 metres high.
Cairn '5'. 4 metres long by 2.6 metres wide orientated at 225 degrees. 0.8 metres high. Cut by leat.
Cairn '6'. 4 metres diameter, 0.4 metres high.
Cairn '7'. 4 metres diameter, 0.5 metres high.
Cairn '8'. 5.5 metres diameter, 0.7 metres high.
All mounds are grass, heather and gorse covered.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 207, 244, Map 40, Site 10 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Cosdon Hill N. W. '10' cairnfield at SX629927 with at least 7 cairns of 3 to 4.5 metres diameter by 0.2 to 0.3 metres high located to the west of a length of reaveand on both sides of the 'leat' to the north -west of Cosdon Hill.

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

(11/02/2002) SX 629 927. Cairnfield on the north west slope of Cosdon Hill, consisting of at least eight cairns. The cairn mounds vary between 3.6 and 5.5 metres in diameter and stand between 0.4 and 0.8 metres high.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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