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Summary

One of two cairns in a group on Wigford Down; these are contained within the coaxial field system. This is a round cairn which survives as a circular mound measuring 10 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. A ring cairn lies just to the south (MDV48903), while three other cairns lie to the south-east.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and walling of Bronze age parallel reave field system with hut circle settlements and cairns, plus deserted Medieval settlements with long houses and pillow mounds, on Wigford Down
• Scheduled Monument 1002522: Four round barrows on Wigford Down

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NW/10
• Old SAM County Ref: DV435
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1943, 66th Report on Barrows, 54-55, plate 10 (Article in Serial). SDV16898.

On or near the summit of Wigford Down, there are five cairns or remains of cairns. Four are shown on the Ordnance Survey 6 inch map series.
Cairn E; not marked on Ordnance Survey map. The centre lies 100 metres from centre of A on a bearing of east 3 ¾ degrees south to north of the green track leading to Brisworthy Lane.
Cairn measures 33 feet in diameter (10.0 metre), height 3 feet (0.9 metre).

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1190, 3239-40 (Aerial Photograph). SDV340833.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56NW23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV268171.

Turf-covered cairn circle adjacent to cairn.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 157 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

(Site visited 27/7/1972) Cairn measuring 12.0 metre in diameter, height 0.6 metre. Other details: 4 Wigford Down.

Price, D. G., 1978, Settlement and ancient fields on Wigford Down, 69-75 (Article in Serial). SDV220620.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Interpretation). SDV319854.

Visible and recorded on Royal Air Force 1946 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 78-9 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Depicted on map as bowl cairn 6, measuring 10.0 metre in diameter, 0.4 metre high. Other details: Map 48, 1.

Unknown, 1996, Untitled Source (Unattributed Sites and Monuments Register Entry). SDV346336.

The Ordnance Survey / National Monuments Record may have confused Grinsell's sites 4 and 4a. This record refers to Grinsell's 4, which he describes as a cairn.

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

Cairn visible on aerial photography as a circular grassy area.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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