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Summary

This cairn, 200m south of Piles Gate, is 6m in diameter and 0.7m high and covered by turf and whortleberry. There are traces of a retaining kerb on the west side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013212: Cairn south-east of Higher Piles

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW100
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 901447
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/149
• Old SAM Ref: 10525

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Robinson, R., 1982, Possible cairn (Worksheet). SDV167562.

(20/04/1982) SX 649 611 A doubtful cairn on the open moor, 200 metres south of 'Piles Gate'. On sloping ground, circular mound - diameter circa 6 metres, height 0.5 metres. Turf covered with marked differential growth of bilberry. Some stone in it, and two possible kerbstones visible at north-western edge.

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

Not visible on 1946 Royal Air Force aerial photographs.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1013212 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

(1991) This cairn, 200 metres south of Piles Gate, is 6 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high and covered by turf and whortleberry. There are traces of a retaining kerb on the west side.

Sources / Further Reading

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Associated Finds: none recorded

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