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Summary

Cairn to the north of the prehistoric settlement on Lee Moor and to the north of a larger cairn. The cairn is 6.0 metres diameter by 0.7 metres high with a hollow centre

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013423: Four round cairns 1060m south east of Great Trowlesworthy Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE147
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439528
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/256

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, Devon County Council RAF/CPE/UK/1890 2293 10-DEC-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

A mound is visible as an earthwork.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 164 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(07/05/1976) SX 58676353 Cairn of 5.5 metres diameter by 0.4 metres high with a hollow centre.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX56SE147 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV162750.

(18/08/1980) At SX 58666353 there is a turf-covered cairn as measured and described by Grinsell. Ground photograph.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD.

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

Not recorded.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133470. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 18th May 1994. Round cairn lies 16.9 metres north of a large broadly contemporary cairn and survives as a 6.0 metres diameter mound standing up to 0.7 metres high. A number of edge set stones denote the circumference of the cairn and represent a kerb which survives partly as a buried feature. A central hollow, 1.7 metres by 1.3 metres by 0.5 metres deep, indicates that the cairn has been robbed or partially excavated. The Mercer survey shows this cairn lying 4 metres to the west of the large cairn, there is however no trace of a cairn at this point.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 166-9, Map 51, Figure 51.9 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Tory Brookhead Cairn '4' at SX58676353 of 5.5 metres diameter by 0.3 metres high surrounded by a few stones in an outer ring.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5863 01-JUN-2002 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

A mound is visible as an earthwork.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Cairn shown on survey.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: South Devon to Dartmoor, LIDAR SX5863 Tellus DTM 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV361514.

A mound is visible as an earthwork.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

An oval mound is visible as an earthwork approximately 6m across on aerial photographs of 1946, digital images derived from aerial photographs of 2002 and visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013 on the south-west facing slopes of Lee Moor, at approximately 330m OD.
The mound is probably the remains of a cairn of Bronze Age date.
An oval hollow circa 2.5m across cut in the surface of the mound might be evidence of historic robbing.

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

Northern of two 'Cairns' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1013423 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This cairn lies 16.9 metres north of the largest mound and survives as a 6 metre diameter mound standing up to 0.7 metres high. A number of edge set stones denote the circumference of the cairn and represent a kerb which survives partly as a buried feature. A hollow in the centre of the mound, measuring 1.7 metres long, 1.3 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep, indicates that the cairn has been robbed or partially excavated.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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