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Summary

Ring cairn to the south of Brent Fore Hill and west of Corrigdon Ball chambered tomb. A stony mound, 8 metres by 7.4 metres and 0.9 metres high, with two upright stones on north-west edge and extraction pits on the top

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013039: Cairn near Ball Gate, Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE93
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442036
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/353
• Old SAM Ref: 10571

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 Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SE93 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV172160.

(28/07/1977) At SX 66906132. A cairn situated north-west of and close to the long barrow. It consists of a turf-covered mound, diameter 7.0 metres and height 0.3 metres with five stones of a possible retaining circle in situ. There is a depression in the centre revealing a stone resembling the east end stone of a cist. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on P.F.D.

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

Ball Gate. A small barrow adjacent to the long barrow. It lies 10.0 metres from the north west end of the long barrow. The hollow centre is approximately at ground level 6.0 metres diameter with several large granite stones showing in the ring. The remainder is turf covered.

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

Visible on 1985 aerial photograph. Vis=28/7/1977 (os). A cairn situated north west of and close to the long barrow consists of a turf covered mound, diameter 7m and height 0.3m with five stones of a possible retaining circle in situ. There is a depression in the centre revealing a stone resembling the east end stone of a cist (os). Vis=estimated -/-/1990 (ancient monuments). Cairn. A mound of earth and stone 6m in diameter and 0.3m high with a retaining circle of which 6 stones remain in-situ, just breaking the turf. Central hollow reveals the possible e endslab of a cist (am).

National Monuments Record, 1985, NMR SF2600, 56-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346525.

Photograph taken on 10th April 1985.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 94, 246, Map 56 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Brent Fore Hill S. cairn at SX66906133 of 6.5 metres diameter by 0.2 metres high with a possible cist.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

One of fifty cairns recorded within survey area.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

'Cairns' shown on modern mapping.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 29th April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Cairn north-east of Glasscombe Corner stone row: turf covered stony mound, 8 metres north to south, 7.4 metres east to west, 0.9 metres high, with two upright stones on north-west edge and extraction pits on top.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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